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There's nothing worse than subtle bugs. Awkward bugs that are obvious are ultimately much easier to fix.

I'm seriously impressed with Smalltalk. You can ask it: what method do I need to turn 'foo bar' into 'FOO BAR' -- amazing.

web2py has a web-based IDE. Cute! http://t.co/ZHk2GD3ICi

After months of writing HTML, Markdown &c using a WYSIWYG word processor is rather unpleasant. Invisible format characters everywhere.

Torvalds style backups: Put your content on other's hard drive, and vice versa: http://t.co/r86bNovTMl . Great idea, obvious with hindsight.

My favourite robots.txt so far is this one: https://www.hackthissite.org/robots.txt

Analysing a load of robots.txt files for a side-project. It's probably not a good idea to put your admin URLs in there.

To clarify previous tweet: I'm not criticising the sysadmins at GitHub, I'm saying I'd choose a softer target to DDos if I were malicious.

The more code I write, the more I see the importance of clear prose.

I'm utterly mystified as to why GitHub gets such persistent DDoS attacks. It's such an inoffensive site and has admins capable of mitigating

f.el https://github.com/rejeep/f.el looks like a brilliant file API for #emacs. /cc @rejeep

It's surprisingly tricky to update the primary key on a Django model:

Also, github/username.keys lets you download anyone's public SSH keys. E.g. http://t.co/JAwgJJhyJK [3/3]

For example, you can press 'y' when viewing a GitHub page showing a project's source to get a canonical URL. [2/3]

Several worthwhile git tips here: http://t.co/HBEijKOn4H [1/3]