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flynt – string formatting converter. #python
Even though Usenet has changed it’s face over the last, say ten years, the simple idea of exchanging ideas and having discussions among a large number of people by posting articles on a global message-board has pertained. — Usenet is still a strange place
Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools. I bookmarked this a while ago. I’ve tried them all, yet I only find added value in exa and ripgrep.
People had created blogs (many with great content), run them for a while, let them lapse, and eventually they were swallowed by time and entropy. — Blog with Markdown + Git, and degrade gracefully through time
What if Github went down? Better to use your own server and backup your plain text files in a secure place.
Note to blog writers: Could you please (1) check your GUIDs and (2) allow RSS readers to download all feeds and not only the last 10 or 20 entries? With many thanks.
There are plenty of books on how to become a better programmer out there. Books like this tend to have checklists and other advice that the author deems important enough for you to do in order to become a better programmer. They tend to focus on specific improvements like choosing a better editor, writing better test cases, or drinking lots of water. Those books have lots of useful advice, but they read like a laundry list of things that you must do all at once in order to succeed. This book will try not to saddle you with more work (you likely have enough as it is). Rather, we’ll discuss what it feels like to be a programmer. — What is The Mediocre Programmer?