A fun article on Hacker News today with the maxim: if you’re stuck for over an hour, seek help.
Category Archives: Chatter
How are zlib, gzip and zip related?
Via r/programming today: How are zlib, gzip and zip related? What do they have in common and how are they different?
Blank/empty sessions in the schedule with random times
I added a bug over on github, something I rarely do: Blank/empty sessions in the schedule with random times.
France Grossly Underestimated Radioactive Fallout From Atom Bomb Tests
Guidelines for Freelance Developers
Today I happened upon Guidelines for Freelance Developers Working with Me. They seemed like fairly reasonable guidelines.
How the New York Times A/B tests their headlines
This on Hacker News today: How the New York Times A/B tests their headlines.
The documentation system
Today I discovered The documentation system (over here). The four quadrants on two axes are:
- Tutorials
- How-to guides
- Reference
- Explanation
Git Code
Today I read Boost Your Programming Skills by Reading Git’s Code and played along with baby-git. I noticed a rundown on the makefile, Learn Git – Baby Git Makefile, but I didn’t have time to read it.
VSCode explorer tree indent size
So I was poking about in my VSCode settings, File -> Preferences -> Settings. And I found the Workbench > Tree: Indent options which controls the tree indentation in pixels. The default settings was 8 pixels, which is too small for my liking, so I cranked it up a notch to 37 pixels! Yay woo!
Book Review: Fussell On Class
This was fun: Book Review: Fussell On Class. It’s about the class system in America and its signals.