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20 Nov

“Task Failed Successfully”

“Task failed successfully.” It’s a fake* prompt, which inspired a meme, which inspired a widespread descriptive term. It’s a joke, and an absurd joke, but like many absurd jokes it exists and persists because it reflects something real. The mimetic...
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23 Mar

Burning Diffuse from Both Ends

Part one of an unknown length series If you stumbled onto this article and expect to learn something of AI in a traditional fashion, you might spend your time better elsewhere (even if that’s another article on this blog). Usually...
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27 Sep

There are two kinds of “coder’s block”…

…the code kind and the logic kind. Let me briefly explain: coder’s block is a lot like writer’s block, except for programmers. You sit there staring at your screen, your hands hovering over the keys, mind ready to...
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31 Aug

5 Dev Tricks I Learned This Week

1. Searching and replacing in vi I hate vi. It’s my least favorite editor, except for maybe something like Ed, but I don’t know anyone who solely uses Ed and loves to talk about how great it is. Yet...
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21 Aug

Tidbits: Copying in Tmux & Ruby Method Internals

A couple of small but interesting items (to me, at any rate), may they come in handy (a little, at least) to your daily work: 1. Copy-paste in tmux. I only just started using tmux, for some reason, and...
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18 Aug

Today’s Little Git Adventure

Today’s lesson: pull before you make changes, and what do you when you forget that. The task started off well enough — branched off of master, made my changes, committed them. Ready to send my content upstream as a...
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12 Aug

More Ruby Miscellanea

I like to chronicle the little discoveries and revelations in my day’s work. It helps keep me clearheaded, gives me a reference for later, and lets me share my knowledge with the world. Granted, in large part, these “discoveries” have...
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8 Aug

Web Coding Speedrun

Tools, frameworks, and libraries are a web coder’s best friend. For nearly any existing application in nearly any language, there’s code out there to get the job done. Whether building an ecommerce site in PHP or designing a site layout...
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22 Jul

The Cycle of Javascript Animations

Javascript Animation (from http://www.pshkvsky.com/gif2code/sine-animation-tutorial-three-js)

1996: Javascript animations are awesome! 2006: Javascript animations are terrible, don’t use them. 2016: Javascript animations are awesome! When people first started discovering Javascript, it opened up new vistas. It seemed like the perfect way to add some excitement...
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6 Jul

A Few More Git Tips & Tricks

In a recent post I briefly covered a few of the more common tasks you encounter in a typical Git workflow. Today I’d like to highlight a few more tidbits of Git, perhaps a bit less straightforward but essential...
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