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I wonder how this sort of thing compares with asking claude to read a ctags file. I have git hooks set up to keep my tags up to date automatically, so that data is already lying ar…

Don't the 12 Days of Christmas start on the 25th though?

I saw an interesting video on the same topic last week. By Brian Haidet (AlphaPhoenix) on reversing the GOL - it turns out that NP hard is hard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8p…

I had a run-in with the BOFH in real life many years ago as a university student where he was working. I'd messed up something network-related on a lab PC, and noticed that the NIC…

Damian Conway's https://metacpan.org/pod/PPR module defines a regex (in the commonly used sense) that can match perl source code - including perl regexes! Edit: "The PPR module pro…

That version is missing some of the text. At least the paragraph starting "Perhaps I should explain to you here that although John Landy has". A bunch of other copies I found were …

I use a Glove80 keyboard, and even after 4 months I'm not back to my normal typing speed! This has cost me a fair bit of productivity, and was stressful at times. Almost feeling li…

I found a post mentioning "SuperBallistic Common Lisp" from 2015, perhaps that's where you remember it from. > SBCL goes SuperBallistic! I have hacked together an SBCL port for the…

# Sort list by most common terms alias sorn='sort | uniq -c | sort -n' # Most common IP addresses: $ cat access_log | awk '{ print $2 }' | sorn # Last 30 modified files. function n…

I've been using mosh since it was announced, but I periodically try Eternal Terminal. However I havent ever managed to get ET running on Amazon Linux which all my AWS EC2 instances…

LAMP. Linux, AWS, MySQL, Perl HTML still works it turns out!

Before I used a password manager, I used three random word phrases, but with the first word lowercase, the second upper case, and the third (chosen to contain at least one of "aeio…

That looks neat, cheers dankco! I think there is a lot of room for these lightweight text-first systems. I use a simple homebrewed system for my notes too, https://github.com/d5ve/…

I figure that most humans alive today are the round-faced, more sociable, less aggressive strains. We've domesticated outselves because those more sociable and able to get along wi…

I've worked remotely (with a 12-hour time difference!) from a home office for 3.5 years. Initially my wife and daughter were home much of the time, but for the past 1.5 years it's …

I used the Ian Knot for a while, but then went back to one of the standard methods. The difficulty I had with the Ian Knot was when I wanted the laces to be tight. With the standar…

I'm working for a perl-based UK startup. It's the second perl startup I've worked at. Both have been very successful. The current one is about ten years old, and just starting to e…

I think of online advertising in the same way as I now do smoking in a workplace, pub or restaurant - I can't believe people used to live like this. Using someone else's browser an…

I defined the following function to convert my bash aliases to fish functions, which eased my switchover a bit. I saved it as ~/.config/fish/functions/import_bash_aliases.fish func…

I read somewhere recently about companies buying up this MAC address data from individual shops and using it as an additional profiling source. If you walk into a store and end up …

One thing I've found useful on linux is the following: $ tail -qFn0 /log/dir/* This will (q)uietly tail all matching files, initially printing 0 lines (n) from each, and (F)ollow a…

promobay.org resolves to 108.59.2.74 for me, and www.promobay.org resolves to 108.59.2.75. The first is blocked for me on Virgin, but the second works fine. This does look like a D…

Even shorter, as -l appends \n to all prints: $ perl -MLWP::UserAgent -le 'print $LWP::UserAgent::VERSION'

One thing I've noticed with Agile projects at $work is that the processes better suit a "contractor" mindset, than a "fulltime employee" one. NOTE: I'm a fulltime employee, so view…