My CSS skills are gradually improving, but I'm glad I'm not working in the CSS backwaters of HTML email: http://t.co/qNZ1LgV1So
miniblog.
HTML 5 forms support type="number", which isn't as handy as you'd think. Chrome forbids spaces, so it's a poor match for phone or CC numbers
$ grep -v "'s" < /usr/share/dict/words | sort -R | head -n 4 #xkcd936
Git koans: http://t.co/70PBNFypmC demonstrating that much good humour has some truth in it.
Argh. Firefox 26 has a bug that makes it much harder to detect history.state support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949471
Jinja2 has a concept of 'recursive loops', a neat concept that I haven't seen before. Handy for threaded comments.
https://crate.io/ has moved! It was a great way to search for packages on PyPI. https://preview-pypi.python.org/ is new, but currently 500ing.
"-snoc: This is like cons, but operates on the end of list."-- Amazing name. Obvious when you know, but not readable at first glance! #emacs
Deployments at Yammer: http://t.co/T3nVKZdorr -- clear, no fear of breaking prod, logs of who did what when. Very cool.
Good tooling is a huge force multiplier: http://t.co/jrV1dQX9X3
No Internet connection at home during the weekend. As a result, my pet lisp interpreter gained anonymous functions, closures and macros!
An oldie, but a goodie: an Asteroids clone that figures out which domains you've visited: http://t.co/5ceqUllNEg
I really enjoy using Linux, but it's not impressive to others around you when you pop a DVD in your PC and VLC segfaults.
I highly recommend writing an interpreter if you get the opportunity. It's a lot of fun and deeply educational.
It's always dangerous to say "I've used this X years / written Y lines of code and never needed Z". No-one has experienced every use case.
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