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Comparing compression tools 🔗

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 🔗

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 🔗

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 🔗

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 🔗

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 🔗

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 🔗

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 🔗

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 [...]

Downsides of working remotely 🔗

I love remote work, and I’ve been working remotely for the last five years, but I think there are some serious downsides too. In spite what all the “r [...]

Bitmasks for nicer APIs 🔗

Bitmasks is one of those things where the basic idea is simple to understand: it’s just 0s and 1s being toggled on and off. But actually “having it cl [...]