miniblog.

"Running a script that greps for a class in our CSS to see if it exists in our views." Clever! http://t.co/hnYZRI4QTw
There's something slightly creepy about 'you have visited this page 6 times'. It's not a useful metric.
The past couple of Jenkins releases have included small CSS improvements. It's great to see Jenkins improving in this area.
nmap has a cute feature where hitting enter ('did it hang?') gives you a progress update. A proper progress bar would be better though.
One thing that needs care with Docker is keeping on top of security updates. It's nice to use apt-get to update everything on a server.
Had an interview question once "define OOP". After learning Java, JS and Smalltalk it has become quite hard to do so. ≈Encapsulating state.
The Art of Picking Intel Registers http://t.co/J4jNbJTnoP
It's amazing how well frecency https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/Places/Frecency_algorithm works in Firefox's address bar. It often helps me find what I want.
Just by adding a good module/package system, Rust will be a significant step in system programming.
I'm amused that googling for Linux kernel commit hashes actually works.
It's remarkably hard to criticise cons cells. I enjoy lisp programming so much that I feel rather guilty.
Blogged: Trifle: Lists and CONSequences http://t.co/L4uVUNpe0j
Arch Linux is wonderful, slick and up-to-the-minute most of the time, then every once in a while you burn an afternoon fixing an upgrade.
Superb discussion of the tradeoffs with TCO: http://t.co/VvtPPg7laS
"GNU emacs is at least as powerful as commercial versions of emacs which sell for 1000s of dollars." Times change! https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!topic/net.micro/no78f9cb5HE
Saw a bash script today that started with eval `perl -e ... and decided not to read the rest. Yikes!
Fixing 'error messages that amount to "you did something wrong, you ignorant buffoon"' http://t.co/A9zGeShLUY
Step debugging with Rust online! http://t.co/8XsHYyNsnb Impresive.
Stop major modes clobbering your favourite key bindings: http://t.co/0xC3xbiV2W
Some remarkable C macros: http://t.co/7OUYeHXBdt and http://t.co/wDmRned0Kg . Imagine what C would be like with a real macro system!
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