shlomifish.orgShlomi Fish’s Homepage

Go to main content Go to the navigation Hide NavBar ⬈ About this Site Hi all, and welcome to the personal website of Shlomi Fish . I am an Israeli writer of stories, articles, essays, and presentations and a professional software developer (which I find is a necessary means to the end of writing, blogging and online and offline entertainment). You can explore the site using the navigation bar to the left. Alternatively, you can traverse it page-by-page using the arrows at the top . There’s also a news feed for what is new on the site, which is updated periodically. Here are some of the things you can find here: Humour You can read many shorter bits I have written, a collection of original aphorisms and quotes, factoids about people and things (Chuck Norris/etc.), and a large collection of quotes by myself and others. If you do not lack the patience for reading longer texts, you can read large-scope humorous stories (novellas) and screenplays , which I have written. Articles and Essays You can read various essays and articles I wrote about politics, software development, and software management, the Internet, psychology, and ideology. Open Source Software Links to software I wrote, and some resources with links to other software. Knock yourself out! Presentations You can find several technical presentations I have written or maintain here. Puzzles and Riddles Some pages with Mathematical problems , with Logic puzzles and with other riddles. Computer Art You can find my lame attempts for art which I prepared, in the art section which includes graphic designs, photographs, and one piece of music. Links There are many links on the site, but I also concentrated many of them in one place. Who doesn’t like links? More about me I maintain a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about me, this site, and my interests. I have a a bio , an TL;DRy "I'm a rockstar software developer" and one as a writer / entertainer / amateur philosopher . I have comprehensive a contact information page , a page about my “Rindolf” nickname , and some old snapshots of this site. Enjoy! I hope you enjoy my web-site. If you do, please link here or share a link on social media, recommend it to your friends, and drop me a line . News 17-Nov-2019: Taylor Swift Factoids; Relicensing Works Offer; New Essays Here are the recent updates for . Terminator: Liberation is a new work-in-progress fanfic/crossover screenplay: A self-referential parody of the Terminator franchise , with Emma Watson as herself and as the evil terminator Hanna, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as himself and as the good terminator, that takes place in Tel Aviv during Passover (when Olamot Con takes place). There are new questions and answers in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List : Why does the site looks old? Well, the site's old fashioned look may be part of its charm, and kinda lets it stands out from every Bootstrap Website ever . That put aside, feel free to submit pull-requests, patches, or CSS fragments if you think they will improve matters. I am offering to relicense all the cultural works I created and placed on my site under CC-by if I get 10 million Euro. There is a new essay titled Putting Cards on the Table (2019-2020) which aims to provide a snapshot of Rindolfism, my personal philosophy: The Israeli military was small and as there was a lot of work to do to properly secure the Israeli civilians it coined the terms Rosh gadol ("big minded") and Rosh qatan ("small minded") to encourage the soldiers to take initiative and try to perform their jobs as well as possible, regardless of the fact they were paid little. This extends to non-military work, government work, and voluntary work or hobbies and endeavours: if you care about something, do it as well as possible and give it enough time as needed. It will get easier and faster in time. For instance, a vendor on a candy store or an icecream parlour, should try to greet the customers, be friendly to them, offer recommendations to them if they ask, accept business cards with their personal web sites or social media presence and visit them, and generally treat every customer like royalty. If you do this, you'll likely get more returning customers, bigger tips, bigger bonuses and raises, and you may be able to land a better job based on a warm recommendation from your superiors and coworkers. The opposite is just following orders blindly, "I just work here" attitude, which is no different from the Nazis' Superior orders - "I was only following orders" which leads to laziness, stagnation, vandalism and sadism, just like the German Nazis in World War II, or the Knights Templar in Saladin's time. There is a new collection of factoids about Taylor Swift as well as new Chuck Norris factoids and new Emma Watson factoids : If Apple ever tried to sue Taylor Swift for trademark violations of Apple Swift, they will spend all their money on litigation, and still lose. This will make many lawyers richer, and the world a better place. Chuck Norris’s roundhouse kicks are licensed under the public domain because no one besides him can duplicate them. Emma Watson played Hermione in the Harry Potter films, but she doesn’t need a wand to kick your ass and wipe it on the floor. "Why I will continue to write my real person fan fiction (fanfic)" is an essay about why real person fiction appears to hurt Hollywood actors and why it cannot hurt singers or YouTubers. "Why Openly Bipolar People Should Not Be Medicated" is a new essay. The site's pages have been converted from Website Meta Language which is slow and errorprone to Template Toolkit which is faster and more predictable. Hope you enjoy all that! See comments and comment on this. 18-Apr-2019: Conversion to (X)HTML5, Mobile-friendlier style, cleanups and new content Here are the recent updates for . Most of the site's pages have been converted to XHTML5 , which is the newest standard. The site's style has been made more mobile-friendly (so-called responsive web design ). There may be some issues left. The site is now hosted with an https:// URL, for pleasing some browsers which prefer TLS / HTTPS . An announcement of version 4 of Python was published on 1 April 2019. There is a new list of sites I maintain. I've mirrored the essay “Your Programming Language Must Suck” . Hope you enjoy all that! See comments and comment on this. 27-Feb-2018: New Guides, fortune-mod maintenance, Project Euler, and Humour Here are the recent updates for . On 1 April 2017, I published a feature: “The Atom Text Editor has been Able To Edit a 2,000,001 Bytes-Long File” . I recently resumed maintenance of fortune-mod , an implementation of the Unix fortune program for Linux and other systems. Versions 2.0.0 and 2.2.1 were released with many improvements, and we welcome further contributions. “How to share code online for getting help with it” is a new guide I am maintaining under the CC-by licence. “Validate Your HTML” aims to educate the world about the importance of having valid web markup. It is also under CC-by. I now have a page about my Project Euler solutions and progress . Project Euler is a site for mathematical problems which are allowed to be solved by programming. There are new factoids , aphorisms and quotes in fortune format : Take your schedule estimates and multiply them by Pi . Take your expected profits and divide them by Pi. (My father’s mentor’s advice.) Hope you enjoy all that! See comments and comment on this. 20-Aug-2016: D&D Cartoon and New Humour Resources Here are the recent updates for . A new D&D-themed cartoon of comparing horse lances is now available in the art section. There is a new humour bit called “The song ‘Wide Awake’ by Katy Perry is Evil. A new collection of factoids, about Windows Update is now available: Windows Update doesn’t. Aesop originally wanted to write his fable as “The Hare and Windows Update” instead of “The Hare and the Tortoise” but could not figure out how the hare will ever lose ...