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After 35 years of playing SimCity, I still could not say what makes a "Perfect" city.

Measuring terminal Unicode width has always been a difficult problem.

This is a follow-up to my previous article, Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition!

This is not financial or political advice HAMURABI.BAS The Sumerian Game was featured in David H.

Ultima IV This past year, I restored an Apple ][e computer.

It turns out that Unicode support in Terminals is a lot more difficult than it first appears.

Note Support for UNICODE_VERSION environment variable will likely be removed, please disregard this article.

From a single tox.ini file, all stages of software development may be defined and easily shared.

Good technical writing for a suitably complex python project, technical guide, or even a book, will require a supporting structure to sufficiently abstract the commands needed to check and compile it.

Terminal Programming with Python series 2: Terminal Output Sequences Introduction A student new to Systems Programming will eventually stumble upon a strange method for printing color in a terminal.

Terminal Programming with Python series 1: Automation and pty(4) Introduction Any command-line UNIX interface may be automated.

blessings Most of my time was spent working towards merging my fork of blessings upstream.

It has been a bit of a while since I last updated the OSS contributions I've made, nearly two months.

It's been a long year of contributions to my Open Source project, x/84, with well over 1,000 commits since last release.

Not much this week, just a suggestion to paramiko to remove the error channel 0: rcvd big packet 32704, maxpack 16384 written to stderr from openssh client when connecting to a paramiko server.

I saw an anonymous user login to my telnet host 1984.ws which is an open source Python Telnet BBS Server that I author and host.

As mentioned in another blog post about abusing the Hover API, I am using joyent.com to provision a Solaris build server agent.

My integration scheme usually works somewhat like this, though it changes in complexity per project: README.rst that suggests a Developing section, specifying that virtualenv and pip are required and instructs the developer to use prepare an existing virt…

I recently switched from DirecNIC to Hover as my DNS provider for two reasons. (1) DirectNIC was once a mom-and-pop shop in the late 90's from New Orleans when I first signed up, which astonishingly survived Hurricane Katrina .

Quite a lot of activity lately.