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At work, I love being organized. I feel completely in my element with Kanban boards, Scrum sprints, and using Jira every single day. In a professional setting, making everything fit together perfectly is natural, it’s essential. But when...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 163-165: FOR NOW, DE LONG had to focus on establishing a workable shipboard economy. A daily …...
Last week I announced Port, a small prepl client for Emacs. That post focused on Port itself, but writing it left me with the itch to do a follow-up on the bigger picture, because the socket REPL / prepl story is one I’ve been meaning to...
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Overall, airlines are a lossmaking business. Yet there’s plenty of money to be made. Why doesn’t the industry work? CC-licensed photo by Can Pac Swire on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. … Continue...
I remember the moment Swift announced async/await. I was genuinely relieved. Finally, there was going to be a way out of completion handler pyramids, delegate chains, and the special kind of cognitive overhead that comes from reading...
I think I’ll take my REPL neat My parens black and bed at three CIDER’s too sweet for me… – Bozier Last week I announced Port, a small prepl client for Emacs. Today I’m following it up with another small Emacs package. Meet neat, a tiny,...
Fun fact: I have been in four car accidents, including one where the car ended in a ditch, yet have never had surgery. That will change on Friday…but not because of a car accident. In fact, the source of the surgery is one of those...
Placa de l'Àngel, on my way yesterday to a union training about compensation and payslips structure #ciutatvella #valència