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RailsCasts helped me so much in getting started with Rails in the late 2000s. It opened my eyes to how one can effectively structure a web application in general, from caching to a…

Maybe Plumbum: https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This release is particularly interesting because it includes the sidebar patch, which has existed in various forms for about 10 years [1]. Mutt has generally been quite conservativ…

I use LaunchBar and didn't know about this; cool! For those who also didn't know about it: it's the 'Instant Send' feature under 'Shortcuts' in the preferences. It doesn't seem to …

Dash [1] is an OS X app for browsing documentation of many different APIs. [1]: https://kapeli.com/dash

Thanks for clarifying. You're right that I was too broad, and it's certainly true that many physicists don't share my opinion (I'm working on that). Speed is always a concern, but …

I am a particle physicist, and used to use ROOT every working day. It is still used daily by thousands of other particle physicists, though, and is a core part of many high-energy …

Hey author, it'd be cool if you gave me a mention, as you did comment on my post about it [1]! [1] https://alexpearce.me/2012/04/simple-jekyll-searching/#disqu...

Sure, but what if you have more than another section that should be styled differently? Classes can help differentiate same-name elements with different contexts, so you don't need…

As it says in the article, this is the discovery of parity, P, violation in a system where it's not been seen before. In a "nice" universe, one might expect mirror images to behave…