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It’s the one whitespace character between the </div> and the next <div!

Because of that whitespace, and because our boxes are displayed as inline-block, the browser renders an actual whitespace in the current font and size between them, and so the smaller box once again breaks to the next "line".

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echo "Please pick up the following from the store: $groceries[0]";

This isn't going to work by the way: inserting a variable's value into a string "like $x this" only works with a simple variable such as $x – for array elements you have two other options:

1. String concatenation:

   echo "buy ".$groceries[0]." at the store";
   

2. save in a variable beforehand:

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function steamroller(arr) {  

  for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {    
    if(Array.isArray(arr[i])) {
      // recurse: replace this array with all its elements
      // for instance, if arr is [1, [2, 3], 4]
      // then we want to return  [1,  2, 3,  4]
      var left  = arr.slice(0, i);
      var right = arr.slice(i + 1);
      return steamroller(

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#!/bin/bash

# Run `rake -D` and format the task descriptions as a
# GitHub-Markdown table (for our Wiki)
# Write the output to tasks.md

touch tasks.md
echo '<dl>' >  tasks.md

bundle exec rake -D |

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# for each git alias of the form XX, create fish abbreviation gXX
function git_alias --desc "Add a git abbreviation"
  abbr -a g$argv[1] git $argv[2]
end
for _alias in (git config --global --get-regexp '^alias\.*' | sed s/alias.//)
  git_alias (string split -m1 ' ' "$_alias")
end

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# this script converts all PDFs and images selected in Finder
# to the TIFF format and appends .tif to the file name

set t to (time of (current date))
tell application "Finder" to set sel to selection
set errors to {}
tell application "Image Events"
	repeat with img_file in sel
		try
			set img_file to img_file as text

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(*
* Example of a simple string-to-date parser.
* Uses AppleScript's text item delimiters to split the input string
*)

set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"-", "T", ":", "Z"}

set dateString to "2011-12-23T08:00:00Z" -- what's Z for?

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📻 My Favourite Podcasts

developer podcasts I’ve listened to

Some of these I still subscribe to, others are no longer in my subsctiption list to make time for non-dev related podcasts

• Ruby Book Club [RSS] [discontinued] – Nadia Odunayo and Saron Yitbarek read an hour of a Ruby book each week, then summarise and discuss what they learned

• Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots by thoughtbot [RSS]

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VIM Link dump

All these resources have actually helped me.

1. Learning VIM in 2014 – excellent blog post series, still not outdated. But, of course, you can google "learn VIM in 2019" instead.
2. VIM articles on the Giant Robots blog – super helpful tips and tricks, especially around the integration of VIM with TMUX and working with Ruby files in VIM
3. VIM Awesome – the catalogue of VIM plugins
4. Tim Pope – this guy is the Pope of VIM; he’s written a shit ton of plugins, most of which are pure gold.
5. VIM Casts – archived video series, a little old, but fantastic for learning the fundamental principles of VIM (and even ancient history behind its predecessor VI) – for instance, you can learn nice trivia such as why grep is called grep (this will make you the center