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Dave Gauer

Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!), boardgames, and watching small creatures in the back yard.

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Finishing Things

ratfactor · 6d

I can't believe how long this page ended up. But if you want to know the state-of-the-art for Ratfactor project completion "tips" and "tricks" and haunted crypts, this has got...

My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf

ratfactor · 1mo

Another OpenBSD article. There's at least two more coming, so brace yourselves. This one is about setting up OpenBSD as a router and controlling traffic with pf (Packet Filter)...

OpenBSD Blog #13: Moving ratfactor.com to OpenBSD.amsterdam

ratfactor · 1mo

This website has moved to a new OS and web server and host! You shouldn't really notice anything different, but there are probably more broken links than usual...

Fitted sheet update: Unfolding a professionally folded fitted sheet!

ratfactor · 1mo

SECRETS REVEALED!!! I know a lot of you have been waiting for this update. The unfolding of a brand-new fitted sheet set. What will we discover? Let's find out...

Dave's book review for The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

ratfactor · 1mo

My rather long book review and/or collection of notes from reading Richard W. Hamming's opus.

A programmer's loss of identity

ratfactor · 2mo

A year later, another piece of text I had to get off my chest. I trust I won't have to do this again in another year? I did not enjoy writing it, but I had to write it...

LibreWolf

ratfactor · 6mo

I've hit the last straw with Mozilla's antics in Firefox. I've been a Firefox champion for years and years. But every danged upgrade has some new insane junk I don't want or...

Dave's Paper Notes: A Tutorial for the Sam Command Language

ratfactor · 6mo

I slowly read this paper while brushing my teeth at night. I really enjoyed what it demonstrates about language design...

Make a Web Font Subset

ratfactor · 7mo

Related to the Faceclick Emoji picker two entries ago, I've learned how to make custom subsets of fonts and package them as Web Fonts (and how to use and debug them).

Why I Read Technical Books

ratfactor · 8mo

A relatively quick and much more "blog-like" entry today...

Faceclick: A lightweight Emoji picker with keyword search

ratfactor · 8mo

It's done! A side-quest that turned into a project of its own: An Emoji-picking popup library with 130Kb of Emoji data into 70Kb (un-minified, un-gzipped, with comments and...

Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets

ratfactor · 8mo

Hey, want to learn something new? And now for something completely different...

Super Easy* 2-Stage Git Deployment

ratfactor · 9mo

The asterisk after "Easy" is explained. This is how I'm pushing Web software changes for my little PHP projects these days...

Stack Display (cardboard desk toy for small paper notes)

ratfactor · 9mo

A real quick cardboard project to go with that paper "project stack" post in June...

Store as HTML, Edit as LML

ratfactor · 10mo

From the ashes of WYSIWYG rises a lightweight markup language "interface" to the HTML pages in the wiki, and I think this is going to work...