miniblog.

Today I learnt that a continually blinking caps lock on Linux signifies a kernel panic: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3840/the-caps-lock-and-scroll-lock-lights-are-flashing-and-everything-is-frozen (On the plus side, it's the first time I've encountered this despite using Linux for years.)

A remarkable number of developers continually undo changes or copy-paste code so they can refer to the previous implementation! https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/yestercode.html I definitely use the GitHub web UI as a reference for the current code sometimes.

"a[..] system must be continually adapted or it becomes progressively less satisfactory" -- Lehman's 1st law http://t.co/ruWaSdzojo