miniblog.

Tools that treat the paths /foo/bar and /foo/bar/ differently violate the principle of least surprise.

I was confused by company-mode for some time. Turns out it's not about company coding conventions, but completion. Should be comp-any-mode.

C is nice on Travis. No external package servers to break your builds at inopportune moments.

Seems weird installing .deb files on an Arch box, but that's the fun of Docker.

htop to show processes and trees, top to show IO wait, iotop to show IO per process. I wish there was a single app that did everything.

Elegant Pharo Code: https://medium.com/@svenvc/elegant-pharo-code-bb590f0856d0 -- I was once asked to work out decimal digit lengths of factorials in an interview.

SVN seems weird as a git user. I can commit 123 before doing 'svn up' to grab commit 122, if no files collide.

Turns out that Python's list of built-in functions: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html doesn't include everything! For example, intern.

In addition to whoami and which, I've written a simple 'what' script, for 'what server am I on now'? Inevitable if you use SSH heavily.

PowerShell, Bash and OS/400: http://t.co/IYE5cjWdSo

Producing shell scripts with a coloured, readable output:

IDEs increasingly parse and execute code to offer good autocompletion. Taken to its logical conclusion, you end up with Smalltalk.

The most extraordinary Emacs configuration I've ever seen -- beautiful! http://t.co/BeQJSTMKCR

@SimonHughesMP I'm told you're the person to speak to in order to visit Elizabeth Tower / Big Ben. What do we need to do?

Now that's what I call a Python list comprehension! http://t.co/EtTYm3Rx9A