What's the opposite of 'technology agnostic'? 'Technology fundamentalist'?
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You can't prove the absence of bugs, but 91% test coverage on an important system does help me sleep at night.
Some test runners, such as MiniTest, randomise the order of tests to ensure tests are isolated. Neat idea, but I worry about repeatability.
Comparing contributors between different git projects: http://t.co/fHlu0F3VTR -- an effective way of seeing a project's bus factor!
#emacs tip: when using vc-annotate to see when a line last changed (i.e. git blame), press v to toggle the verbose details.
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
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:
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
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