Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
stevenf:
This terminal command will turn every file in the current directory into a zip file of itself (removing the original file):
for item in *; do zip -m “${item}.zip” “${item}”; done
I recently used it to shave 20Â GB off a collection of uncompr…
“The more code I write, the more code I get wrong. Therefore, it behooves me to write as little code as possible.†– by ??? (albeit via Alex Payne)
It has been a while since I played around much with launchd, but I ran across a problem recently that it seemed perfectly suited to solve. The challenge was as follows: there is a particular application that I need to run as root. When that application persists files, those files get written with root as […]
When I wrote 10 things I love about Sass, I included mixins on that list; and though I mentioned that they can be written to take arguments, I did not fully explore that. Combined with Sass’ functions and directives, parameterized mixins can really cut down on the repetitive CSS you need to write–especially when it […]
CSS. Verbose, repetitive, rife with bizarre quirks. Can’t say that I’m a fan. On the web, you’re using it out of necessity. Even the CSS masters out there must admit, there has got to be something better. Fortunately, there’s Sass. A super-set of CSS, it helps to eliminate some of CSS’s most obnoxious aspects during […]
In preparation for an up-coming post 1, I did a bit of extra legwork on syntax highlighting plugins for WordPress and wound up switching from Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress (GSHW) 2 to SyntaxHighlighterPro. Both of them are backed by Alex Gorbatchev’s Syntax Highlighter library. But more on that in a moment. What prompted the […]
A couple of quick ones:
// Date -> Number:
var d = +(new Date());
// 1281743590756
typeof d;
// number
// almost anything -> String
d += “”;
// “1281743590756”
typeof d;
// string
// anything -> Boolean
d = !!d;
// true
typeof d;
// boolean
What are…
Following up on the Google JavaScript Style Guide that made the rounds recently: I did a couple of passes through the document and absorbed as much of it as I could 1. After discussing the style guide with a few peers, I thought that it might make sense to provide some annotations–in part for personal […]
more on JavaScript type quirks: A good companion piece to “why you should basically never use the Number constructorâ€, arriving at many of the same conclusions by many of the same methods.  However, I would disagree that the issue is with the equa…
In the realm of technical, programming-related, computer science-type books, The Joy of Clojure is a bit of an oddity. And this is a very good thing. WHAT THE BOOK IS NOT: The Joy of Clojure is not a beginner’s introduction to the language. The Joy of Clojure is not a glorified appendix of methods and […]