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And conversely, `/dev/stdout` (resp. `/dev/stderr`) is a convenient way to "redirect" output to stdout (resp stderr) instead of a file

Or you can use `/dev/stdin`, which has the upside of not needing tool support. I somewhat regularly use this on Linux. I think it also works on OS X

Amusingly, in French, "desed" sounds like "décéde", which means die / decease. That's quite a fitting name for a tool one would use in "I need to debug a sed script" situations!

The first link [1] in section "4. Code and test improvements" leads to a patch series with a cover letter which reads There are a number of tests that still follow an old conventio…

Beware that the trailing slash in the string after `gitdir` is significant! This string is a globbing pattern (it is not obvious at first sight, and seldom mentioned), and the trai…

> LineageOS is not the answer Could you expand on that? I am curious because I have been using LineageOS on Pixel 2 / Pixel 2 XL phones for a while (and it works very well, I might…

Sadly I can't remember this part; I'm pretty sure there were comical bits to it. This makes me want to dig out the gitlab issue, and turn it into a better write-up! This'll have to…

Your mouse story makes me think of the day the CI system at work turned out not to be robust to vibrations. One day we started having flaky tests, seemingly out of nowhere. We quic…

This enables the C-r / M-c / C-t key bindings, but there's also a completion.bash file. This enables the "**" completion trigger, which can contextually complete paths, envvar name…

I am now reading The Grug Brained Developer for the first time, and thoroughly enjoying every minute of my time. Thank you for writing this!

> If you're a paying user it's 5GB per repository. TFA says 10 GB (and so does my experience). > A namespace is basically a user or project I believe you meant to write "a user or …

"Reproducible environments" sounds like a strong argument to me. If you don't have a reproducible environment, you have no guarantee that your code will work at any point in time. …