Alexandr Kurilin

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

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 […]

Pretty good advice, PG-approved. 57 startup lessons

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

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 […]

How HTTPS Secures Connections: What Every Web Dev Should Know

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 […]

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