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I remember SQLWindows of Gupta Technologies (later renamed to Team Developer of Centura Technologies IIRC) which had an outline IDE. Quoting from https://yagnipedia.com/wiki/sqlwin…

And corporate UX/Design teams are eager to modernize those cards; yes they're already flat, but canary yellow is so last century and some glass effects or abolishing the rounded co…

Do you have a real-world example where we would like to preserve `$?` after the `if` (which `if` specifically branches on the result code of the command it tests)? Where we want to…

I believe you missed a semicolon after `exit 1` and before `}`. `}` closes the opening `{` only at the start of a command (POSIX rules; don't remember now if bash recognizes it whe…

Commodore 64 was quite popular in Europe too, but I believe more successful was the Sinclair Spectrum (and some copycats behind the iron curtain). In my case, too, it was the Specc…

Exactly. In cases where I expect long-running parallel connections from separate processes to the same sqlite file, I make sure that all read transactions do `BEGIN DEFERRED` so `C…

> I once had to clean up a project where some code had accidentally been writing the strings '1' and '0' to a column which was intended to store booleans (1 and 0). That was not a …

I would use HTTP/1.0 without a need for Connection: close. Unless 1.0 is not generally supported anymore, but this is not the case in my experience.

The debate is if 2000 is the first year of the 21st century or the last year of the 20th century. (btw I agree with the latter)

You say all wrong and then go on about explaining I'm half wrong. I feel there's a pattern (or maybe another joke that whooshed over my head) here but it is obvious to me that I am…

I see that and I raise Elastic Tabstops! https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

> > If I were to make my own programming language, it would look an awful lot like Python. > I agree, Python allows anyone to write bad code, but makes up for it by running the cod…

I blame font keming for that.

Oh, yeah! And I believe there are not many games which have Linux, Windows and MacOS versions allowing interplay. Several years ago we had one or two LAN parties with hardware runn…

I tried this variant of JetBrains Mono and it had the perfect glyph width (reportedly -6%) for my screen and window sizes: NRK Mono Condensed from https://github.com/N-R-K/NRK-Mono…

Well, we can use memoryview for the dict generation avoiding creation of string objects until the time for the output: import re, operator def count_words(filename): with open(file…

For the most simple case of a single job, I use the job number (`[1]` in the example) with %-notation for the background jobs in kill (which is typically a shell builtin): $ cat ^Z…

On scripts that might handle filenames with spaces, I include: IFS=' '' ' Hint: the spaces between the first two apostrophes are actually one . This does not affect the already wri…

> # f2 is ^[OQ; to double check, run `xargs` and then press f2 I remember using `cat -v` before learning that `xargs` exists… or maybe before `xargs` actually existed on systems I …

Maybe you understood image as in photo-image instead of image as in memory-image (like disk-image); a glorified memory dump, more-or-less.

I had this issue too, so I remapped Ctrl-W/Shift-Ctrl-W to Ctrl-\/Shift-Ctrl-\ . (Also git operations became two-key sequences, starting with Ctrl-G and that damn Ctrl-K stopped be…

An implementation from zero of a Python 3.12 VM using x86-64 assembly.

I always have been using em-dashes with specific spacing: 1. replacing parentheses —given that the em-dash in pairs for me mark more-relevant-to-the-main content than a parenthesiz…

And some time later, someone shouts “72!” Everyone chuckles except from the one in the corner cell, who laughs so loud and for so long people think he'll have a heart attack. When …