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> "Sketch a bike" is almost like a test of "can you invent the diamond-shaped frame off the top your head?" Because of our mental model we don't even notice that part. Dist…

Or the excellent progress¹ which can show progress state for already running commands, great for when a process has been running for longer than you expected. Comes with a bunch of filtering options,…

One of the zsh options which changes this behaviour is called CSH_NULLCMD, which seems to suggest it is possible to be csh compatible in zsh. $ setopt cshnullcmd $ < task >task2 zs…

> Most of them were specific to Windows, which casts a lot of doubt on its cross-platform promise. Oh. That really surprised me, as I had assumed the bugbears I have as an occasional nim user we…

Just a heads up: Your "download source" link is for a .tar.bz2, but the file is compressed with xz and not bzip2.

Don't let the URL fool you too much. The episodes are a dive in to historic political thoughts, and are a nice break from the real world in a "plus ça change" manner.

Which instantly reminds me of another weird mash up, the Amstrad Mega PC¹. A literal Japanese game console stuffed in to a DOS PC. I've never seen one in real life, but I find the idea intriguin…

In the real London it is not entirely uncommon to find yourself in a conversation with American tourists where they're asking/complaining about "military time" on train timetable…

> In my own personal perfect world, all logs would be printed in the first column of log files using the epoch time in seconds, and we'd have a command which would convert from the epoch time …

The paragraph mentions that it is talking about Linux. Further down in the article it digs in to the speed problems on Windows, and links to a quick run down of the speed comparisons¹. 1. https:/…

For an unrelated product demo some years ago I modded Orbital Eunuchs Sniper¹ to play on the environment outside the site we were demoing in using a few images from Google Maps. The split on whether …

Like the article's author, I've been very pleased overall with meson. Almost to the point where I half expect to find the thing that makes it unusable, as surely it can't be Goldiloc…

I'm one of those people, and the thing that worries me is the huge amount of code that I'm not interested in that is hovering around my keys. If it was a collection of smaller tools I dou…

I get that this is new and in development, but I'd really like to see a more in-depth comparison to keybase than: > This project borrows many ideas from Keybase, including sigchains and user (…

I love zsh, but it isn't without its own strange quirks that make compatibility exciting at times. In a thread from a fortnight ago¹, RANDOM is handled very differently for example. Try `ec…

CDPATH doesn't require the export as it is local to the shell session. Simply setting it will work as you'd want and won't pollute the environment for subshells and scripts. And zsh us…

> zsh globbing is on another level. I agree. That said I'll freely admit that liberal use of glob modifiers and qualifiers can lead to the appearance of line noise. Because of that I'll…

As zsh is mentioned at various points throughout the article I'll add that zargs¹ is often a great alternative to xargs. Combined with zsh's awesome globbing and filtering functionality it …

Both custom diff and merge drivers are described at a high-level in gitattributes(5)¹. They're pretty useful even in really basic ways such as adding a textconv with "jq -S ." or "…

> GNU Bash has a magic variable RANDOM that produces random numbers. Assignments to it appear to be ignored. Assignments are used to seed¹ the random number generator². This isn't limited to…

And perhaps ditz¹ [+ pyditz²], BugsEverywhere³, git-issue⁴. As someone who -- I guess obviously -- cares about distributed issue tracking, I really like the direction and implementation of git-bug. T…

When thinking about this I always assume it is the same reason countries tended not to reach for national security provisions¹ despite how attractive they are, it just isn't clear how to put the …

Is there an endgame beyond empathy for "normal" users? I'm curious about whether you're doing this to learn more or perhaps with the intent on spotting opportunities to make thing…

Love that description. In many ways watching people describe and choose their spot in the "grab package" <-> "herd goats" spectrum is my favourite part of AoC each year¹. Th…