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This appears to use the theoretical schedule, rather than real-time information. I live next to a busy tram line, and what I see through the window does not match what the site sho…

I created a register-based VM named RCPU, for educational purposes. You can find it at https://github.com/ddfreyne/rcpu . It has most of what you’d expect from a register-based VM,…

In case you couldn’t tell from the old-school theme, this web page hasn’t been updated since late 2008 (2008.11.28).

I have been using sublime-markdown-extended ( https://github.com/jonschlinkert/sublime-markdown-extended ), which has the nice feature of recognising and highlighting frontmatter b…

The analogy given in the article is pretty accurate. The Smalltalk environment is unique in that it allows very easy access to the libraries, the IDE and the language’s internals (…

There is a typo: foo2.ord in the first class Foo(T) example should be foo2.value.ord.

I admit I did fall into that trap once, long ago. I’m very aware of the consequences now. The reason for writing the article, however, is because I have seen the same mindless beha…

I believe it boils down to a matter of discipline. If you say that you never randomly modify code in order to make it work (according to the tests), then that is great, and that is…

I (sadly) average 1 article written per 3 years, so there wouldn’t be much of a point in creating page views.

I have occasionally been tempted into the mindless code modifying that I described. That is in the past though! More importantly, I have also seen this happen in professional envir…

I was using iTunes playlists as an example that switching to different parts of the UI does not interrupt playback.

I admit that the behavior is quite odd at first, but once you get used to it, it is really useful. It is the behavior you would expect in a desktop app — for example, you wouldn’t …

On FOSDEM a couple of years back, that question came up during a talk as well. IIRC, FreeBSD needs a VCS where they can delete changesets permanently, for legal reasons.

For distraction-free writing, I prefer vim in a fullscreen terminal.

A small mistake: “In Ruby, these functions are map, filter” — is incorrect; filter in Ruby is called select .

Seems to be inactive. It hasn’t been worked on since June 2010.

That app does not seem to be working correctly ATM, but you can use the commandline tools for converting: https://github.com/sickill/coloration

Another tutorial about pointers that I found quite nicely written is http://boredzo.org/pointers/ .

I do not know the situation in the US, but there is a legal maximum of 12 minutes of advertising per 60 minutes in Europe, which boils down to a legal max of 20%. 50% seems unreali…

Telling the browser to reload changed pages is a nice idea. I might steal that one for my static site compiler. :)

The same happened to TPB in Belgium: a list of domain names were blocked, but in response, depiraatbaai.be was created, which wasn't blocked. Elisa blocks depiraatbaai.be, but crea…

If I were implementing this, I would go for an implementation where my Criteria objects are immutable. To me, it seems that code like crit1 = Criteria.new.where(:name => 'Jeff') cr…

Hi, author of nanoc here. This morning I’ve been playing around with Stasis and it does look like a nice tool for building and maintaining simple sites. I like the controller-based…

There are a few more Ruby ones around. I have a list at [0] but even that one is outdated, as it does not include Ace or Stasis yet… and I’m not familiar enough with Python/Perl/Ja…