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Last week Ben Thompson of Stratechery wrote Open Source Apps , where he explained the “inevitable” shift from paid-up-front to free apps monetized through other means. From his article: Permalink.
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Show frequently what you’ve done to someone who cares” Are you working in the way you are because it’s a good idea, or just because someone told you to do it? I increasingly hear experienced professionals at Agile conference bemoan the blind adherence to the techniques of Scrum without understanding the principles and values that make it work. I also encounter many software professionals who are overwhelmed by the amount of things that they..
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The Better Figures & Images Pelican plugin now supports Figure Numbering
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duncanlock.net
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12 years ago
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Figure 1. This figure has automatic figure numbering. I had a feature request for automatic figure numbering, like latex. I was revamping this plugin for Pelican 3.3 anyway - and this didn’t seem too hard - so I decided to add it. So, the Better Figures & Images plugin now supports automatic figure numbering. To enable this for all posts, just add this to your config file: FIGURE_NUMBERS = True If you want to enable this pe....
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There are quite a few changes in Pelican 3.3 - most of them minor, but a few which might mean making some changes to your site in order to upgrade. This is what I did to move my site from Pelican 3.2 to 3.3. The change that had the biggest impact and took the most work was around image linking - caused by a combination of things. I think I was doing it wrong before and things changed in a way that meant this no longer worked. I also h....
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A personal blog about mundane observations on reading, programming, and gaming, with occasional updates and vain attempts to drive traffic to the blog.
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A personal blog about mundane observations on reading, programming, and gaming, with occasional updates and vain attempts to drive traffic to the blog.
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AdRoll is going gangbuster when it comes to hiring engineers. We’re adding headcount in a very competitive market on an ongoing basis, and we continue to differentiate ourselves with the depth and complexity of our engineering problems. We take a very collaborative approach to engineering but give individuals a high degree of project ownership. While we bounce ideas off one another and learn together, each engineer is tackling large problem....
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Desktop Notifications for Irssi in Screen through SSH in Gnome Terminal
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purpleidea.com
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12 years ago
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I’m usually on IRC , but I don’t often notice incoming pings until after the fact. I had to both write, and modify various scripts to get what I wanted, but now it’s all done, and you can benefit from my hacking by following along… The Setup Laptop -> Gnome-Terminal -> SSH -> Screen -> Irssi This way, I’m connected to IRC, even when my laptop isn’t. I run irssi in a screen session on an SSH server that I manage, and I use ..
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Desktop Notifications for Irssi in Screen through SSH in Gnome Terminal
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purpleidea.com
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12 years ago
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I’m usually on IRC , but I don’t often notice incoming pings until after the fact. I had to both write, and modify various scripts to get what I wanted, but now it’s all done, and you can benefit from my hacking by following along… The Setup Laptop -> Gnome-Terminal -> SSH -> Screen -> Irssi This way, I’m connected to IRC, even when my laptop isn’t. I run irssi in a screen session on an SSH server that I manage, and I use ..
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Here's a few quick links that I found really helpful setting up an nginx web site to use a TLS certificate. Server Side TLS on the Mozilla wiki Qualys SSL Labs SSL Deployment Best Practices Qualys's SSL Server Test . If you follow the Mozilla guidelines, you should score an "A" on this test. nginx library has a few useful sample nginx configuration files. It's stale and only has a few posts, but it was a nice idea in theory if not ....
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Shawn Blanc on Nick Heer’s predictions for Apple’s event next week: “From my armchair, I say Nick is probably pretty close to the money here.” I really hope so: I have been holding out for a new MacBook Pro since before Apple unveiled the new Airs; it would be a huge disappointment if I had to continue waiting until January. On the tablet front, I may also consider purchasing a new iPad along with a MacBook Pro and a new iPhone. Widely ru..
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I was testing new functionality on a program that is already running in production when suddenly the code behaved very badly. What I saw shocked me and then it became obvious why it happened. I also have a race condition just waiting to be a problem. I have tried to provide a simplified version of the code and the two bugs. package main import ( "fmt" "os" "os/signal" "time" ) var Shutdown ....
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Tail-call optimization is a trick many languages and compilers use to avoid creating excess stack frames when dealing with recursive code like this:...
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Tail-call optimization is a trick many languages and compilers use to avoid creating excess stack frames when dealing with recursive code like this:...
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This October 12th to 14th Montreal hosted the GNOME boston summit. Many thanks to Canonical for sponsoring breakfast, Savoir Faire Linux for hosting a great 6 à 10 with fancy snacks, and RedHat for sponsoring a pool night. What follows is some technical commentary about stuff that went on. JHBuild JHBuild is a tool to make it easy to download/clone (from git) and compile all the GNOME modules and applications. It was..
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This October 12th to 14th Montreal hosted the GNOME boston summit. Many thanks to Canonical for sponsoring breakfast, Savoir Faire Linux for hosting a great 6 à 10 with fancy snacks, and RedHat for sponsoring a pool night. What follows is some technical commentary about stuff that went on. JHBuild JHBuild is a tool to make it easy to download/clone (from git) and compile all the GNOME modules and applications. It was..
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Film School Rejects’ Inkoo Kang has been posting fantastic reviews of each new Homeland episode shortly after their premiere. Now at three articles, one whole review for each of the three episodes out to date, I have been thoroughly enjoying her examination of the plot lines, undertones, direction, and parallels present in this show almost as much as I enjoy watching each episode. Permalink.
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Ive come to a point in my life where I can afford nice computers, good scotch and a great view of the leaves changing colors across the hills and bluffs of Southeastern Minnesota. My wife and I can afford to take good care of our pets, and I can afford to take better care of myself. I honestly never would have guessed Id get to this point.” This article by Brett Terpstra has already made its rounds on many of the popular blogs, and for go..
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Mac Terminal WIFI Commands I'm seeing over a thousand people a day show up here looking for the mac terminal WiFi commands. The OSX terminal has several command line tools that allow you to manage your WiFi settings. Connecting, disconnecting and scanning for available WiFi networks is easy once you know which command does what. Hopefully this list of command line wifi tools is helpful... #1. Turn off wifi on your macbook from the Mac OSX t..
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The last few years have seen a great proliferation of linkblogs, by far and away the most popular topic of which is technology and, specifically, Apple. Nevertheless the likes of John Gruber — who did not, despite many erroneous beliefs, invent either the format or topic — and Shawn Blanc have made their mark as entrants to a space established long before their arrival. This not only happens in the blogging space, but the podcasting industr..
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This is how one should leave a podcast, respectful of both his listeners and co-hosts alike. Not that I’m pointing any fingers . “This isn’t the end of the road for me on the podcasting front; I’ll still appear as a guest on various shows, and have ideas on what might make sense for stratechery in both the near and short term. In the meantime, though, I’ll simply be a listener and a learner of Cubed, not a host. “My thanks to bot..
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So, this is the all-new UP version. It is more based on my own blog in some way, which is some kind of branch of the theme.
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Emails are one of my favorite methods of communicating with users. Its works as a quick test for product validation. It works well at one->some->many-> all. Its still highly effective even as much noise as we receive in our inboxes. Over the years I’ve tried a lot of email tools from custom built solutions, to newer entrants that help around drip actions ( intercom.io and customer.io ), to more “enterprise” tools such as Marketo. While I ....
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Emails are one of my favorite methods of communicating with users. Its works as a quick test for product validation. It works well at one->some->many-> all. Its still highly effective even as much noise as we receive in our inboxes. Over the years I’ve tried a lot of email tools from custom built solutions, to newer entrants that help around drip actions ( intercom.io and customer.io ), to more “enterprise” tools such as Marketo. While I ....
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The question of whether Clark Kent as Superman should or should not kill is an extremely interesting one, and one I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about since seeing Man of Steel a few weeks ago. For the uninitiated, the controversy sprang up when Superman killed General Zod to save a family after destroying the whole of Metropolis throughout the course of their battle. Permalink.
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Hi All, I’m looking for some volunteers with a variety of devices to test out ‘molapse’, all will need front facing cameras. “Capture your brilliant bushy beard as it mogresses through movember with molapse. It’s a timelapse app focused on those who’ll be taking part in Movember. http://ex.movember.com/ If you want to help out then drop me an email at info[at]grippers.co.uk and include your liveid, I’ll send out a beta once I’ve got a f..
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I haven’t posted here in a while because I’ve been lazy and there hasn’t really been enough happening to warrant a full post. A quick recap.
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tl;dr The timetable system sucks, so I made one that works Getting your timetable sorted at Uni has never been fun. In years 1 and 2 of my study the department posted a timetable for each year showing all modules and students were expected to remove the classes they did not take, which while not the...
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tl;dr The timetable system sucks, so I made one that works Getting your timetable sorted at Uni has never been fun. In years 1 and 2 of my study the department posted a timetable for each year showing all modules and students were expected to remove the classes they did not take, which while not the...
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"New Game!!!": Great email exchange from my flatshare
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www.databasesandlife.com
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12 years ago
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I am writing this blog post in October 2012; this will get published automatically in one year, like government secrets published 50 years after the event. But this just cannot not be shared. One of my flatmates has just written an email to all: Subject: New Game!!! It’s time for a little Game called… … … “Clean your dishes and live in peace” !! Few assertions: Human being has to live in an hygenic place Everyone is respec..
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Short post, long command… I’ve decided to start showing the current git branch in my PS1 . However, since I don’t want to know when I’m on master , I had to write a new PS1 that I haven’t yet seen anywhere. Add the following to your .bashrc : PS1 = '${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' if [ -e /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh ] ; then . /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-p..
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Short post, long command… I’ve decided to start showing the current git branch in my PS1 . However, since I don’t want to know when I’m on master , I had to write a new PS1 that I haven’t yet seen anywhere. Add the following to your .bashrc : PS1 = '${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' if [ -e /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh ] ; then . /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-p..
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