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Something I've long appreciated is a little Perl script to compute statistics on piped in numbers, I find it great for getting quick summaries from report CSVs. #!/usr/bin/perl # h…

I've been using it for what must be over ten years and I cannot recommend it enough, especially given how poor searching for anything on Windows is now.

I, for one, am thrilled for a bar code to "take you on an experience that the brand wants you to have"

I built a system for distributing and collecting homework assignments, and the assignments themselves were distributed with automated tests. Students would have instant feedback on…

He records while sitting on a yoga ball, I never really noticed before someone pointed it out.

I did a playthrough of the Ocarina of Time randomizer with friends and it was a lot of fun. I can't imagine the amount of work it took to get online multiplayer working as well as …

I'm curious what keeps "first party" analytics/ads just phoning home and doing the third-party transaction server-side.

I'm so mad I missed the window where you were supposedly able to merge email accounts. If I want to merge existing separate accounts now I have to terminate the old account, wait l…

By simply being in the same room the machine is in, you have agreed to the EULA and you can take it up with MS in forced arbitration.

I have a 6S from the original batch with the bad batteries. I never had it replaced because it worked fine (a coworker's most certainly did not), and it made a good excuse for a fr…

I had disk utility telling me that my unlock password both did and did not work, and I didn't want to move forward like that. Disk utility's password prompt would do the 'ya done f…

I waited for 13.1 to upgrade and login was such a mess I just didn't trust it to not be terrible elsewhere. I had to spend a whole day downgrading back to Sierra and waiting for ba…