“Changing the world is a fine guiding principle, but without any further parameters, this can be pretty confusing. The best engineers I know have adopted a fluid, but essential framework: Don’t be constrained by what your product can do now; do be constrained to dealing with current problems and current realities.”
“I am a bot. I will help you migrate your codebase to node v0.8!”
“…what if I told you there were a way to determine whether or not an email is valid without resorting to regular expressions at all? It’s surprisingly easy, and you’re probably already doing it anyway.”
“…people want to know if [their] work fits a label invented over a decade ago by a PhD candidate in his dissertation. Almost everytime the answer is the same: ‘NO.’”
“In the middle of the annual Hugo Awards event at Worldcon, which thousands of people tuned into via video streaming service Ustream, the feed cut off — just as Neil Gaiman was giving an acceptance speech for his Doctor Who script, ‘The Doctor’s Wife.’ Where Gaiman’s face had been were the words, ‘Worldcon banned due to copyright infringement.’ What the hell?”
“The default VCS for a Microsoft shop is, of course, TFS, so deciding to use GitHub might be seen as somewhat curious. This post describes why we came to the decision, how we integrate GitHub into our development process, and our experience so far.”
“One Thing Well… aims to showcase the applications, tools and utilities that—-you guessed it—-do one thing well, with or without a graphical user interface, on any platform, be they commercial, free or open source.”
“Many hackers moved to OSX. It was a good looking Unix, with working audio, PDF viewers, working video drivers, codecs for watching movies and at the end of the day, a very pleasant system to use. Many exchanged absolute configurability of their system for a stable system.”
“Live HTTP and WebSocket packet capture and protocol decoding.”
“While it’s easy and popular to poke at Internet Explorer, in reality, we wouldn’t have the web as we know it today if not for its contributions.”
