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Emacs-fu: some handy key bindings
Emacs offers many handy key bindings; every now and then I come across a new one, which has been hiding there somewhere for a decade or...
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How grep got its name
How did grep get its name? This all starts back with ed, the original unix...
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Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong
A couple weeks ago, I took the plunge and switched to vim (MacVIM, to be precise). It wasn't the first time I tried to make the switch, and I had pretty much written it off entirely. Why? Because the past few times I tried switching to vim, I took
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The CRAPL: An academic-strength open source license
Generally, academic software is stapled together on a tight deadline; an expert user has to coerce it into running; and it's not pretty code. Academic code is about "proof of concept." These rough edges make academics reluctant to release their software. But, that doesn't mean they shouldn't.
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Experimenting with Node.js
Using Node.js and a bit of jQuery to annoy you.
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I just released F.lux for Ubuntu (fades your screens at night)
F.lux for Ubuntu is an indicator applet (like the new Messaging Menu), so it works very nicely on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10
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Desperate Perl Hacker
I owe a whole lot to Perl. So does the practice of computing in general, and the construction of the Web in particular. Perl’s situation is not terribly happy; I wouldn’t go so far as to say “desperate”, but certainly these are not its glory days.
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Dammit, MySQL
Update May 2018: This is more rant-ish than I would write now, but it’s my only post to hit the front page of HackerNews (it got to the number 2 spot back in 2010; I saved screenshots), so has a soft-place in my heart.
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Me vs Backspace: my war against a rogue character
A while ago, I began receiving reports from various people in IRC that I was prepending a garbage ascii character to some of my messages. I found this very odd. The complaints didn’t stop. It became a running joke. Eventually, playful mockery. It is a bit demeaning to hang out in programmer corners and not have any…
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Abandoned open source projects
About some problems I'm having with old open source projects and a Github feature request to try and fix them.
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Veracity: The next step in DVCS
One week from today, at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention , SourceGear will be making a big announcement. Today I'm giving you an early preview. We've been building something new. :-)
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