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I'm doing my small part by paying for websites that respect me in the way TFA describes. I have annual subscriptions to Defector, Brand New, and DIELINE, and I'll add more as other…

I also like Protodata [1]. It's complementary as an exploration and transformation tool when working with binary data formats. [1]: https://github.com/evincarofautumn/protodata

Check out PERFUME AREA[1] while you're at it. It's a collab perfume review project between artists Sydney Shen and Laurel Schwulst. [1]: https://perfume-area.com/

The divergence between users and programmers became more pronounced over time. When command line interfaces were dominant they naturally made programmers out of users, even if they…

Stamp collecting is a good outlet for research as leisure. If you're the type of person who falls into wiki holes and likes talking about what you learn with other people, it might…

Check out Backchannel[0] if you're interested in an implementation of a petname system for globally-unique symmetric cryptographic keys. [0]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/backchann…

Nice work with the guide, the bevy of examples makes it easy to digest. The colon being used in multiple contexts is tricky. As I was scanning the examples I found postfix `:` doin…

Reminds me of pjax [1], except pjax works over XHR instead of an iframe and uses pushState by default to keep the back button working. [1]: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

This post hints toward vim's history: the ed family of editors. http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/actually-using-ed/ http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/using-more-of-ex/ A big use case for them…

I wouldn't consider the industry backing of Heroku and a collective 4,500+ GitHub stars between the tools particularly niche or obscure. Crank it up to ~20k stars if you want to co…

The example isn't a makefile, it's a procfile.

I like the ideas here, but for long-running processes like file watching, dev servers, hot reloading, etc. a better format is Procfile ( https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procf…

ffmpeg can utilize streams, in both input and output. The trouble comes from different codecs and containers, especially on output. Some formats aren't append-only—the prime exampl…

That's the intuition behind systems like Flake ( https://github.com/boundary/flake ) and its predecessors. In systems like Flake you are able to get a useful roughly-ordered proper…

As others have noted, there is a semantic difference between Markdown and roff. But if you really want to write them in Markdown, you can with ronn: http://rtomayko.github.io/ronn/…

I wouldn't use make for file watching and live reloading. I would express the Sass and CSS dependencies in a Makefile, and then describe the dev server, file watching[1], and live …

> Make is for executing shell commands on file patterns with dependency rules. Yep absolutely. Make is a system for generating files from other files, it is that simple. Compiling …

The "horrific syntax and semantics" claim seems pretty drive-by, the variables and some function names might be arcane, but newer releases have nicer aliases for those who care for…

This is the best writeup I've seen so far on getting comfortable with ed: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/actually-using-ed/

I think these languages for generating data are really useful. There is one called Protodata ( https://github.com/evincarofautumn/protodata ) for generating binary data. From the R…

The latest release of my jarg[0] utility supports the HTML JSON form syntax. Writing out JSON at the command line is tedious, this makes it a little nicer. The examples from the dr…

This is pretty similar to Sparkey[0] and bam[1]. Sparkey also comes from growing out of cdb's limitations. It supports block-level compression like Riffle does, and is optimized fo…