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"Make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast."

"It is easy to shoot your foot off with git, but also easy to revert to a previous foot and merge it with your current leg."

I've come to the conclusion that a degree in Computer Science is merely a breadth-first search of the field.

http://github.com/inky/see -- a pretty-print alternative to #Python's dir()

Picked up a copy of Programming #Clojure this weekend to have a proper play with Lisp.

Delighted to be joining the fine folks at @potatolondon

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."

Python learners beware: One minute you're learning #Python with list comprehensions, the next you are grokking map, reduce and filter.

My third geekiest university experience: being the victim of a meatspace a capella rickroll.

Experimenting with Emacs with StickyKeys. It feels comfortable but rather like modal editing...

Fixing some bugs on an older PHP project I built before I discovered frameworks and templates. Like duct tape, it works but it isn't pretty.

Ubuntu, [...] is an ancient African word meaning “can’t install Debian”. -- Mark Pilgrim

Really impressed with Fish: tab completion of command names /with description/, argument completion based on history (a la Ctrl-C in bash)

It's wonderful when software just works™ with Unicode. Sadly you still can't always take it for granted with a new app.