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  • History of Emacs & vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design)

    History of Emacs & vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design)

    Alex

    August 27, 2013
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  • nREPL

    Want to be able to connect to your clojure Ring-based web-app as it’s running and read/edit its code in real time? No problemo. Add the clojure.tools.nrepl dependency, and defonce the server somewhere in your handler with a port of your choice. Now you can just ssh into the web app’s box and use your repl […]

    Alex

    August 25, 2013
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  • 57 startup lessons

    Pretty good advice, PG-approved. 57 startup lessons

    Alex

    August 14, 2013
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  • You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex.

    Lol. You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex.

    Alex

    August 14, 2013
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  • Fueled by coffee

    Got a chance to finish converting the rest of the site to CoffeeScript. A bit easier now that 90% of the really nasty math was moved closer to the data into our API code. http://js2coffee.org/ is a great tool for quick conversions, I haven’t had any trouble with it except for the occasional “arguments” variable […]

    Alex

    August 14, 2013
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  • List of all regex implementations? – Stack Overflow

    I always wondered if it there was something wrong with my memory since I always have to lookup regex syntax between different languages. Turns out this is very much to be expected. Vim, java, JavaScript, ruby, objectivec etc each have their own quirks and idiosyncrasies for the less common switches and keyword and so you’re […]

    Alex

    July 28, 2013
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  • How HTTPS Secures Connections: What Every Web Dev Should Know

    How HTTPS Secures Connections: What Every Web Dev Should Know

    Alex

    July 26, 2013
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  • Need lightweight Configuration Management? Pick Ansible.

    Got a few machines in the cloud you got to manage predictably? Want to make sure they are all configured securely exactly to the spec you need? Don’t have much time to waste? Having spent a few weeks doing configuration management with shell scripts and Puppet, I learned the hard way that that former are […]

    Alex

    July 5, 2013
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  • Basics of the Unix Philosophy

    Very interesting read about the fundamentals of the UNIX philosophy. Make enough mistakes and you’ll eventually identify with all of the precepts in there. It’s actually great to see that the UNIX philosophy is completely parallel to the functional paradigm in programming languages. Basics of the Unix Philosophy

    Alex

    July 4, 2013
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  • A couple of fantastic bash learning resources

    These were shamelessly stolen from the #bash channel on Freenode, but they’re simply too good not to share. Bash FAQ Bash Guide GNU Bash reference And the fantastic Bash Hackers Kudos to the peeps maintaining those sites, great job.

    Alex

    July 4, 2013
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