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One Thing Well: zmv

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:49:09 +0100

zmv is a zsh function for renaming files.

You can do simple stuff, like changing the suffix on a bunch of .txt files to .markdown
zmv -W '*.txt' '*.markdown'
or make file and directory names lowercase
zmv '(*)' '${(L)1}'
or more complex operations, like replacing underscores and…

Collections Blog: Don't solve the solved problems

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:41:48 +0000

Collections Blog: Don't solve the solved problems:

collectionsapp:

Discuss on Hacker News

Collections at the moment is a fairly general product. Not to fall in the trap of ‘doing 1,001 things and none of them well’, our current roadmap is to go usecase by usecase and majorly deepen the experience. Big portion of the last week was devoted to improve the…

python sweetness: Fast PyPy-compatible ordered map in 89 lines of Python

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:28:49 +0000

python sweetness: Fast PyPy-compatible ordered map in 89 lines of Python:

pythonsweetness:

Skip lists are a freaking awesome data structure you should go and read about today. Despite a full implementation fitting comfortably on a single A4 page they still manage to provide performance comparable to significantly more complex tree structures. That aside, who doesn’t want to use a data…

Egor Homakov: Commit that changed my life.

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:17:03 +0000

Egor Homakov: Commit that changed my life.:

homakov:

Originally it was a prank intended to prove insecureness of the default Rails configuration. It was a dirty “dick move”, the most scriptkidd-ish and silliest attack I ever did. There are many reasons to blame me and this action, but the story is out of date - year has passed.

Some apologies…

Slant Blog: Tired of being told you aren't constructive? Our approach to subjective programming questions.

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:50:55 +0000

Slant Blog: Tired of being told you aren't constructive? Our approach to subjective programming questions. :

slantblog:

It’s not hard to guess why a question like “What is the best CSS preprocessor?” would be closed on StackOverflow. The answer is dependent on your requirements, goals, experience and personal preference, so trying to definitively answer it is difficult.

But where do you go if you’re trying…

Badass JavaScript: asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:44:41 +0000

Badass JavaScript: asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers:

badassjs:

David Herman, Luke Wagner, and Alon Zakai (also the developer of Emscripten) of Mozilla have been working on the asm.js spec, which aims to be a subset of the JavaScript language that can be highly optimized after you have opted in. It is designed mostly for compilers like Emscripten to target,…

Internet Hugbox: Massive Google Play Privacy Issue

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:39:04 +0000

Internet Hugbox: Massive Google Play Privacy Issue:

phetdreams:

About a month ago I put my money where my mouth was and built a version of the Paul Keating insult generator for Android (after the iOS version hit number 1 in the Australian App Store [tell your friends]). We sold a few hundred copies on Android in the last month, so that’s all good. Today I…

jordan orelli: Function Types in Go (golang)

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:44:54 +0000

jordan orelli: Function Types in Go (golang):

jordanorelli:

Most developers that are familiar with dynamic scripting language like Ruby, JavaScript, or Python have been exposed to higher-order functions. Coming from a scripting background, it can be hard to translate that knowledge into Go, since the type system seems to get in the way. On the other…

Conrad Kramer: Enhancing Git on OS X

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:53:02 +0000

Conrad Kramer: Enhancing Git on OS X:

conradev:

Git is a distributed version control system that has grown to be wildly popular among developers. It was created for use in managing the Linux kernel, and has since expanded to all walks of software development. It has become standard in iOS and OS X development, for use as dependency management,…

Max Rudberg: ✎ Flat UI is not the only way forward

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:48:00 +0000

Max Rudberg: ✎ Flat UI is not the only way forward:

It’s curious how Apple’s hardware and software have taken such divergent paths. Looking at iOS hardware and software separately, one might think they were produced by different companies. The drop-shadows and textures of iOS stand in sharp contrast to the clean lines and invisible seams of…

JavaScript Quiz Set

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:06:20 +0000

bolshchikov:

JavaScript quiz is the good instrument to distinguish between JS ninjas, JS developers, and JS experts. Here is a set of JS tests, sorted by difficulty.

Beginner:

http://madebyknight.com/javascript-scope/

Intermediate:

https://github.com/nathansmith/javascript-quiz

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/02/16/my-javascript-quiz/

Expert:

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/the-quiz/

http://perfectionkills.com/javascript-quiz/

Braindump: The Twitter stack

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:28:40 +0000

Braindump: The Twitter stack:

johanoskarsson:

For various reasons, including performance and cost, Twitter has poured significant engineering effort into breaking down the site backend into smaller JVM based services. As a nice side effect we’ve been able to open source several of the libraries and other useful tools that came out of this…

Robust Software: Logging

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:18:45 +0000

Robust Software: Logging:

gshutler:

If there was one thing that I learnt in 2012 that I would want to convey to all the developers I know, it would be this:

Logging is about so much more than failures

I don’t know if it was just my experience but little to no emphasis was put on logging aside from handling exceptions. In the…

Detectify: How I got a $3,500 USD Facebook Bug Bounty

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:37:14 +0000

Detectify: How I got a $3,500 USD Facebook Bug Bounty:

detectify:

I recently found a Stored XSS on Facebook, which resulted in a Bug Bounty Reward. If you want to know how an XSS could be exploited, you can read my colleague Mathias’ blog post about it. Anyway, here’s how it went down.

I was actually working on finding flaws on Dropbox to begin with. I…

Computer Overlord: Using jQuery with Greasemonkey (and including javascript files from javascript)

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:15:14 +0000

Computer Overlord: Using jQuery with Greasemonkey (and including javascript files from javascript):

Since my recent, torrid love affair with all things jQuery, I decided to go back to Greasemonkey and see if I could integrate it with jQuery to make selection and manipulation jsut THAT much easier.. and guess what? …it is!

If you use the following script.. jQuery will be registered from Google’s…

adam brault: I quit Twitter for a month and it completely changed my thinking about mostly everything.

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:04:31 +0000

adam brault: I quit Twitter for a month and it completely changed my thinking about mostly everything.:

adambrault:

I surprised some people when I said I was taking November off Twitter.

I’ve been using Twitter since July 2006 (user #1568!) with almost completely unbroken usage since late 2007, so that reaction is understandable—most especially from those in my life who consider me addicted to my iPhone.

…

devbug: Why C++ is back.

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:38:00 +0000

devbug: Why C++ is back.:

devbug:

I love C++, too. It’s an amazing tool.

Six years ago I began my never-ending learning experience, programming. It started with an arcane toolkit called Jamagic (which was unfortunately discontinued). Jamagic’s scripting language, JamagicScript is an amalgamation of C++, Java, and multimedia…

The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog: Introducing MongoClient

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:25:52 +0000

The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog: Introducing MongoClient:

mongodb:

Today we are releasing updated versions of most of the officially supported MongoDB drivers with new error checking and reporting defaults. See below for more information on these changes, and check your driver docs for specifics.

Over the past several years, it’s become evident that MongoDB’s…

Cosmo: A free Metro-inspired theme for Bootstrap

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:38:41 +0000

bootswatch:

I’m pleased to announce Cosmo, a brand new Bootstrap theme inspired by Metro. Cosmo features bright colors and no-frill components reminiscent of Windows 8.

You can jump right in and use it exactly like you would use standard Bootstrap. To really get the Metro look though, try using Font Awesome, sizing up your glyphicons, and combining them with the new .btn-block class.

Check out Cosmo here.

Redux: 12 Steps to Better Code

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:24:41 +0000

layervault:

Timehop reminded me today that exactly one year ago I somewhat pretentiously wrote a post called 12 Steps to Writing Better Web Code. Quite a bit has changed since then. LayerVault, technically, had zero employees. (Both Allan and I still had full time jobs!) Now we are three.

As an exercise, I figured now would be a good time to review these steps and do an audit of ourselves.

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