Chesterton's middle finger đź”—
The Chesterton’s fence analogy says that you need to be careful to change things if you don’t understand why things are the way they are, because ther [...]
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Dependencies should be fetched directly from VCS đź”—
I’ve been writing Ruby at my new $dayjob in the last month. After spending most of the last decade writing Go it’s been a fun change of scenery. I did [...]
Comparing compression tools đź”—
I’d like to know what the “best” compression tool is for storing archives (backups, data files). So I wrote a tool to compare them: cmp-compress. My t [...]
Against best practices đź”—
I have come to believe that by and large “best practices” are doing more harm than good. Not necessarily because they’re bad advice as such, but becau [...]
Jia Tanning Go code đź”—
The Go compiler skips files ending with _test.go during normal compilation. They are compiled with go test command (together will all other .go files) [...]
Safe terminal escape codes đź”—
th { text-align:left; } tbody >tr >td:nth-child(1), tbody >tr >td:nth-child(2) { font-family:monospace; white-space:pre; } A [...]
s/bash/zsh/g đź”—
You would expect this to work, no? bash% echo $(( .1 + .2 )) bash: .1 + .2 : syntax error: operand expected (error token is ".1 + .2 ") Well, bash sa [...]
Getting started with RimWorld modding on Linux đź”—
This describes how to create RimWorld mods on Linux; this is an introduction to both RimWorld modding and developing C♯ with Mono; it’s essentially th [...]
Stallman isn't great, but not the devil đź”—
So Richard Stallman is back at the FSF, on the board of directors this time rather than as President. I’m not sure how significant this position is in [...]
Go is not an easy language đź”—
Go is not an easy programming language. It is simple in many ways: the syntax is simple, most of the semantics are simple. But a language is more than [...]