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"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.

"There are few things more galvanizing than an unrealized idea."

There's nothing like a non-deterministic bug to keep you on your toes. Still, I learnt a little more about multi-threading.

Brushing up on MVC, SQL and HTTP, also known as learning #django

Just discovered trash-cli, a safer rm for day-to-day activities. "To err is human, but to really mess things up you need a computer."

Recursive debugging: IBM debugged its VM in an older version of VM. Nifty.

A clever programmer writes clever code -- after exhausting all other options.

The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key. So help me Codd.