Today I happened upon Guidelines for Freelance Developers Working with Me. They seemed like fairly reasonable guidelines.
Category Archives: Programming
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!
Wrap setting for Vim mode for VSCode
Over on the VSCodeVim chatroom a bloke called Chris pointed me to the ‘Whichwrap’ setting for Vim mode in VSCode. In VSCode click File -> Preferences -> Settings; then in the Extensions / Vim settings search for ‘Whichwrap’ and enter: l,h
Coding Constructs Daniel Markham Now Avoids
Understanding Kerberos
Today on r/programming: Understanding how Kerberos works, but also WHY it works the way it does. (PDF)
AWS SDK for PHP
Today I learned about AWS SDK for PHP. Haven’t actually used it.
Elegant bash conditionals
Some discussion concerning Elegant bash conditionals. Personally I use both forms, variously.
Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You
An article about the practical limits of SemVer: Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You. It references Hyrum’s Law:
With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.