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I’m not going to write a giant spiel on the current LKML kerfuffle. Instead, I’m just going to contrast a few (made-up) examples, none of which are “nice” per se. The weak a…| Coding Killed the Cat
I’m not going to write a giant spiel on the current LKML kerfuffle. Instead, I’m just going to contrast a few (made-up) examples, none of which are “nice” per se. The weak a…| Coding Killed the Cat
In the past couple of years the number of web startups aiming to help other web startups with various tasks has grown immensely. That’s probably a good thing; more innovation for the web is a…| Coding Killed the Cat
There were a couple of articles posted on Hacker News recently about “women in tech” – each taking a different stance on various aspects of what is a rather complex matter. I̵…| Coding Killed the Cat
The most valuable skill for the average software engineer doesn’t get taught in the typical CS curriculum. It’s also almost impossible to teach it to yourself. Nearly every major progra…| Coding Killed the Cat
The Vim-related portion of this post is actually very small. In fact, it can be summed up in a single sentence: you can take the output of a pipe and place it into Vim for editing, without needing …| Coding Killed the Cat
Facebook. Google+. Tumblr. Pinterest. Any of the other myriad social content services now thoroughly entrenched in the web – they’re all going after the same kind of interaction, if in …| Coding Killed the Cat
I tried googling this question, and was surprised by how infrequently it’s actually addressed. Most of the results are for one-off jokes. The only significant post I found that was actually t…| Coding Killed the Cat
Documentation is important. It’s how all the collective knowledge about a piece of software (or many pieces of software) is recorded and organized for use by those who maintain it. Once you g…| Coding Killed the Cat
The other day I posted on Google+ about a somewhat disturbing aspect of Pandora’s account settings (the issue has since been at least partly patched). That generated a fair amount of interest…| Coding Killed the Cat
I’ve used Vim as my primary editor for years now after having mostly picked it up in college as a convenient editor for working on school servers. Having a lightweight editor that I was prett…| Coding Killed the Cat
