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The nice thing about boringness (so constrained) is that the capabilities of these things are well understood. But more importantly, their failure modes are well understood. — Choose Boring Technology
Hot off the kitchen!
♪ Siouxsie And The Banshees · Arabian Knights
If there is ONE THING the Unix world needs, it is for bash/ksh/sh to stop diverging further by permitting STUPID INPUT that cannot plausibly work in all other shells. We are in a post-Postel world. — OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts
♪ Romain Dubois · Ardoise
Accept multiple ways that users can ask for help and respond in kind. — Shell Script Best Practices
One of my favorite post-punk band from the 80’s. Big Ups: Bauhaus’ Kevin Haskins Dompe and David J Haskins Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites.
Python’s multiprocessing performance problem. Lot of interesting tips and tricks for those using the multiprocessing module. #python
Plotting data in the terminal with gnuplot. Still one of the most underated plotting tool for quick one-liner.
Some Stata tutorials on survival analysis that are worth a read. #stata