If Slalom
One of my most hated code antipatterns. Whenever I see this, I want to yell at the person who wrote it to either flatten their code and/or break it up into separate functions.
Latest inklings
The Weave
Details of a fictional metaphysical construct binding all of creation together that I developed for a series of stories I intended to write (and still might), until I heard about Moorcock’s Eternal Champion in College, a device too close to the idea behind the Weft for my comfort.
Zawinski's saw on lazy thinking applied to economics
Jamie Zawinski once said,
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.
But lazy thinking like this doesn’t just happen in software development. Consider economics:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, Let’s let the market decide.’ Now they have two problems.
Lazy thinking is everywhere. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
[DS-10] Endless Stroll
Excellent live performance with a KORG DS-10 game card as the synth.
How to modify a Korg Monotron
The article has yet more information, so take a read of that too.
gerrit
Gerrit is a web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects using the Git version control system.
Gerrit makes reviews easier by showing changes in a side-by-side display, and allowing inline comments to be added by any reviewer.
Gerrit simplifies Git based project maintainership by permitting any authorized user to submit changes to the master Git repository, rather than requiring all approved changes to be merged in by hand by the project maintainer. This functionality enables a more centralized usage of Git.
Using Git with a central repository
This tutorial explains how to share a Git repository among developers. It is meant for small teams who are adopting Git for the first time, and want to get started quickly with a familiar setup before exploring Git’s many new possibilities.
If you follow this route, you will end up with a single centrally-hosted repository that everyone in your group can use to publish their own work and fetch whatever others have published. People used to a centralised VCS will find this model easy to adjust to, but of course, each user’s “working copy” will itself be a fully-fledged Git repository, and many new workflows are available to users as they learn more.
Green Unicorn - Welcome
Gunicorn ‘Green Unicorn’ is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It’s a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby’s Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.
What Happened to Yahoo - Paul Graham
In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery.
How very, very true.
The League of Moveable Type
We’re done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
Noticed this appearing in FreeBSD ports earlier today. Some of the typefaces are fantastic! Must take a more detailed look at this.
Your Code Sucks - Girl Developer
Hell is your code, hell is my code five minutes from now, wisdom is knowing both you and I had good reasons for writing that code that way.
Why vector clocks are easy
The truth, though, is that vector clocks are actually very simple, and a couple of quick rules will get you all the power you need to use them effectively.
The simple rule is: assign each of your actors an ID, then make sure you include that ID and the last vector clock you saw for a given value whenever to store a modification.
A free book on probability and statistics with R
I’ve been looking for a decent book on R for a while. I might not do an awful lot of data wrangling, but I’d like to have a sharp tool in reserve for when I do. This looks quite accessible for somebody with a tiny brain like myself.