On the early metaphors that drove the original development of Unix: https://zge.us.to/txt/unix-harmful.html
(Lots of typewriter influence, and amazingly the first versions did not have a notion of pipes!)
miniblog.
gcc 9.1: better diagnostics, better optimisations (faster to optimise and faster at runtime), a new D frontend, and more!
A neat demo of the importance of good tracebacks in asynchronous code: https://vorpus.org/blog/beautiful-tracebacks-in-trio-v070/
BitBlox, an alternative to breadboards that uses colour to help students understand the connections:
Command line code review of git pull requests: an elegant approach that considers the dependency tree and a heatmap of which files are changed the most often!
An excellent overview of the different gradient descent algorithms, and a nice example of content that is available as both a responsive website and a PDF on arXiv:
JavaScript libraries have fabulous opportunities to include demos in their documentation. Here's a machine learning library that has a demo of agents exploring the home page!
"the emoji for 🤦 Person Facepalming - if sent from iOS to Android at present, it would change from what appears to be a Man (on iOS) to a Woman (on Android)" https://blog.emojipedia.org/googles-three-gender-emoji-future/
A really fun read of the YouTube team quietly rebelling against supporting IE6 in 2009: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
Purchasing expired domains that are linked from well known sites, then redirecting to your content: https://detailed.com/expired-domain-seo/
(I don't condone the technique, but the cat and mouse dynamic of SEO is interesting.)
Purchasing expired domains that are linked from well known sites, then redirecting to your content: https://detailed.com/expired-domain-seo/
(I don't condone the technique, but the cat and mouse dynamic of SEO is interesting.)
Patrons, newsletters, and building relationships with your followers: https://nadiaeghbal.com/perks
One crucial skill in programming is knowing how to get answers to small, well defined questions.
When I started writing code I'd sometimes get completely stuck with syntax. These days I'd hop on IRC or Stack Overflow.
When I've been a mentor, I try to show where I get answers.
Single line comments nicely avoid the nesting problem. I can write:
# # foo
without any issues, enabling me to comment out a region that contains a comment.
Multiline comments are much more awkward, as many languages don't support nesting:
/* /* foo */ */
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