Perception of a technology's reliability
It doesn't take much for software to go from being considered "reliable" to "flaky garbage".
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Find a needle in a haystack with git bisect
A story about using `git bisect`, my favorite tool for finding the source of regression bugs.
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The most common words in song titles
Ever wonder what words show up most often in song titles? Anyone? Well, I did. And Discogs has a database of over 156 million song, so I put together a couple Node.js scripts in search of some answers!
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Amazing illustrations from La Vie Électrique
There are some awesome illustrations in the 1890 sci-fi novel "Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique ("The Twentieth Century. The Electric Life") by Albert Robida.
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Safe hostnames and IP addresses for examples
Scenario: you’re writing up some documentation for your HTTP library. You’ve been working on it for hours, and it is getting mind-numbingly boring. You need to provide some examples of fetching by hostname and IP address. No problem:
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