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I can’t let it go. So, let’s make an exploit! #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use...

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Having lived through the 1980s, I’m not a big fan of Moral Panics, where there’s a whole lot of “What...

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I'm mostly a back-end guy, and have by and large worked with Firefox and Chrome being the browsers of...

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I have accepted a new position, starting next month, and will be issued a MacBook. I have worked from...

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This is an idle thought that I didn’t finish, but accidentally posted instead of another post yester...

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I am a big fan of Dropbox and have been for some time. One of my things is to have bin and lib direct...

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This is an image. I enjoy playing with clocks, and this is from that tool. This is done with Scal...

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I have been a WSL user for some time, and also someone keen on hacking my Bash prompt, which has lead...

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I tweeted this, saying “my shame”. In the beginning there was format_all_that_data. It was an inte...

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Programming with Voice not Keyboard

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There’s a service called Last.fm which allows you to store what tracks you listen to. I have started...

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Let us start with the Unix command uniq, which, given a sorted list of numbers, gives us the unique v...

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This start with me trying to get something like a range() function in Javascript. Perl, my language o...

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Daylight Saving Time. The reaction to DST in my Twitter feed ranges from “meh” to “Damn it!”, but it...

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Here’s a simple JS library I wrote today: let rr = {}; rr.data = {}; rr.code = {}; rr.code.listen...

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JavaScript has JSON, a built-in that allows you do good and wonderful things with objects. Assume we...

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I should be thinking and writing about databases right now, but my brain will not go there. So, I’m g...

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I am still reading and rereading a tweetstorm from Ed Barnard, an old-school dev from the days of C...

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This line of thinking started with a Dev.To post entitled “Vim won’t make you a more productive dev...

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This was long ago, but not that long ago. I had an early Android phone and would use it to connect to...

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[By Littletung - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big\_Blue\_Bus)https://commons...

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This started with clicking a link in the IRC channel for yapc, which is all about Perl, but I don’t t...

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David Golden gave a talk on Higher Order Perl. Higher Order programming is writing functions that ret...

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I pulled my copy of Higher Order Perl by Mark-Jason Dominus off the shelf and looked around in it. (I...

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I am speaking on User Groups at The Perl Conference in Salt Lake City. Or, leading a panel and somew...

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HTTP_DNT: "1" navigator.doNotTrack: true I always say I do “Web but Not Web”. I use common technolo...

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This starts when I saw that Randy Olson found an interesting thing and built upon it. Traveling sale...

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You may have seen this on Twitter. It shows my last few years as a coffee drinker. Every cup of co...

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This is a topic I feel compelled to write but know this is not a thing I expect anyone to read. Blog...