Social network spoiler prevention
A feature proposal for avoiding spoilers on social networks.
EPERM vs EACCESS and how that helps debug file manipulation scripts.
Shallow and Pedantic
A person/tech/code blog of a coder/techie/person. Like calculus in a kiddie pool, the author of this blog is known to be quite shallow and pedantic.
Weird permission issues with tvnamer
Distinguishing
Startup times
Starting new java processes in your scripts considered harmful. Let’s compare “hello world” startup times for different languages.
Asserting string equality
When comparing long strings in unit tests, make sure your assertion failures give you useful output.
Test-driven procrastination
How being lazy and procrastinating led me to adopt test-driven development before I realized it.
Multiple library versions
Working with vendor code in C can get very tricky, especially when you except breaking changes to occur. Especially when you have multiple binaries depending on that vendor code, updating at different times, necessitating different live versions. Let’s explore.
Introduction Assume you’re working with an external vendor, who is providing you with code for a wonderful function getFoo:
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