The Living Internet.

TIL I learned about croc (kind of scp but with passcode) (via Eric Ma).

CMake Part 2 – Release and Debug builds.

I stopped using Fish shell in favor of vanilla Zsh again, but this article is probably the best intro I’ve read in a while (except the ones published by Brett Terpstra last year, IIRC).

Chunking it up in pandas. #python

Apple used to spend a lot of time courting developers to their OS some 15 years ago, but now they only seem to care about macOS and iOS devs. They rarely update the Unix tools that ship with macOS, they still haven’t created a package manager (everyone’s basically using homebrew), etc. — Back to Linux

Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep. #rust

Google Mail was cool. Free mail! Huge storage! Excellent spam filtering! — Gmail slowly disappearing from my life

Same move for me. See also Hasta la Vista Gmail.

Mathematics has no side effects.
Math cannot modify the value of a variable–either global or local. It cannot mutate an element in an array. And, a mathematical function always returns the same value for the same input.
The literal rendering of mathematics into code cannot contain side effects.
Mathematics is a purely functional language. — Translating math into code

The web is a continuum. It’s like my old analog TV. It’s not exactly like DTV. Nor can it match it in some areas of functionality. It does, however, have other strengths. When digital TV fails, it fails completely. Analog TV, to use parlance of the web, degrades gracefully. The web could be similar, if we choose to make it so. It could be “the analog” web in contrast to “the digital” platforms. Perhaps in our hurry to replicate and mirror native platforms, we’re forgetting the killer strength of the web: universal accessibility. — The Analog Web