What’s the solution to the «git checkout master && git pull && git checkout branch && git merge master» dance?
From reading the C source, the valid component separators for #Ruby’s Date.parse() are “/”, “-”, and “.”. Nice if that was actually documented.
You have got to be kidding me. #Ruby’s date parsing has time zone names hard coded in C (ext/date/date_parse.c) and they include the ambiguous ones. Do they update this when a new Olsen database release happens?
Today’s #Ruby fun: porting an app from v1.8 to v1.9 and Date.parse() changed such that it can’t deal with U.S. dates (m/d/y), only ISO and little-endian.
End of next week is the 10th anniversary of the peak of Daley hubris: the overnight, “stealth” bulldozing of Meigs Field: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meig… #chicago #history
Hacked #Rails log colors in gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/log_subscriber.rb, in sql():
if odd? name = color(name, BLUE, false) else name = color(name, GREEN, false) end sql = color(sql, YELLOW, false)
Twitter Android app now requires access to your personal contact card? [beep] that.
Hey #Perl people: if you get into a disagreement with a #Ruby bigot about sigils, ask them what they think of #Haml.
Really appreciating https://github.com/tpope/vim-characterize today.
Hah! Now there’s a /really/ free software license for you, the WTFPL. The “Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License”. http://www.wtfpl.net/
#ruby #vim #vimrc:
«autocmd FileType ruby inoreabbrev
Useful because it won’t interfere with normal output/piping.
Hooray for the death of Google Reader! Now we will hopefully get some feed readers on iOS instead of Google Reader readers.
TIL about the GNU ls(1) –full-time option.
Tried Fleksy. You can’t even select text‽ Say what‽ And punctuation was impossible.
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OH: “‘Tres leches’ is Spanish for ‘soggy cake’.”
Tried and failed to come up with a metaphor to explain what Linux is to someone who isn’t close to understanding the difference between OS X and Windows.
Left Lookingglass’s “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” at intermission last night; couldn’t deal with the blood.
♫ And the chorus goes ♫ And the chorus goes ♫ Buh-buh-buh-buh-bang! ♫ #wire
I’m wondering at the new 50 user token requirement for the #DIP. If an app doesn’t have users, it’s not going to get votes, so why is the requirement necessary?
Engaging in DDBF: “Documentation-Driven Bug Finding”.