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It's on the front page, but at the bottom. DAS is a small one-man business, so I did the design myself (and I'm not a good designer). Sorry about that. :)

It's a joke. Relax.

I like the sliced screencasts because they're so repeatable. I practice my talks a lot, and I can get the timing down perfectly because it's always the same. Highly recommended. :)…

No, it's more subtle than that. By wrapping in parenthesis, you're making it an expression. When you just say "{}+[]" in e.g. Chrome, the first {} is parsed as a block. So what you…

There's no laugh track; that's the audience.

It's Keynote. I recorded those sessions as screencasts, then sliced them into tiny pieces so I can advance them perfectly with my talking. There are 37 slides in that four-minute t…

I could port it to Python if you want? ;) I probably wouldn't have done this when Python was my main language, though. That community has a much harder time laughing at itself than…

Done: https://github.com/garybernhardt/base/commit/65e8ca5d432be72...

I was tempted to leave the disclaimer off, both in the README and the blog post. But I think there's a strong enough chance of someone actually using it as it is... ;)

You can just create a new branch before you start the rebase, which achieves exactly the effect you ask for. Rebase is how you "create a new branch with only the clean commits". Bu…

I don't rebase everything. Merges still have their place. An early draft of this post talked about the relationship between rebase and bisect, but I cut it out to focus on one topi…

This is my personal list of RSS feeds, which I've been curating for many years, so I knew exactly what data was coming. It was a one-time hack: it got my RSS feed list into the dat…

JSON syntax is Python/Ruby primitive syntax for lists and strings (although the reverse isn't quite true). Why add a library import and additional code on each side just to emit an…

I considered using Vim at the time. The nice thing about doing it all on the command line is that it's repeatable and persistent. I have a huge shell history, and that command will…

I don't think that Google Reader can export as JSON... ?

Also, MQ's "qdel" command is the one that led to the data loss mentioned in the original blog post. So it doesn't really answer my concerns. :)

I often do it multiple times per minute. That wouldn't fly if each required a clone. :) (See another post I made in this thread for what I'm doing that involves so much history mut…

Yep – and I did it all, using those tools, for a couple of years. :) Now, when I go back to Mercurial (which I know better than Git, mind you), I get frustrated. Those tools are mu…

Git gives me everything I needed MQ for, but with the complete safety of the reflog. There is no such thing as a change I can't undo. The fact that patch management is "special" in…

Did you read the end? ;) """ I'm sorry for recommending software with a confusing interface. But you'll be spending a lot of time with it; it's worth getting over the initial hurdl…

The command that lost data was hg qdel. Strip won't lose data; it dumps bundles (although they're a pain in the ass to restore from). Like I said, I used Mercurial for three years.…

Augie, I understand what you're saying, and I don't buy it. Git, when taken as a full DVCS capable of rewriting history, is safer than Mercurial, when taken as a full DVCS capable …

I'll think about it. With the awful response from Reddit [1], I'm not sure that I want to make another go at it. :) We'll see. To respond to your example, I'd almost certainly go w…

This post was aimed at the person who is interested in TDD, but hasn't had their first big insight into how it works. It's about "do the simplest thing", not about a full TDD proce…