subfuzion

There are certain files created by particular editors, IDEs, operating systems, etc., that do not belong in a repository. But adding system-specific files to the repo's .gitignore is considered a poor practice. This file should only exclude files and directories that are a part of the package that should not be versioned (such as the node_modules directory) as well as files that are generated (and regenerated) as artifacts of a build process.

All other files should be in your own global gitignore file:

• Create a file called .gitignore in your home directory and add any filepath patterns you want to ignore.
• Tell git where your global gitignore file is.

Note: The specific name and path you choose aren't important as long as you configure git to find it, as shown below. You could substitute .config/git/ignore for .gitignore in your home directory, if you prefer.

dperini

//
// Regular Expression for URL validation
//
// Author: Diego Perini
// Created: 2010/12/05
// Updated: 2018/09/12
// License: MIT
//
// Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Diego Perini (http://www.iport.it)
//

evancz

A vision for data interchange in Elm

How do you send information between clients and servers? What format should that information be in? What happens when the server changes the format, but the client has not been updated yet? What happens when the server changes the format, but the database cannot be updated?

These are difficult questions. It is not just about picking a format, but rather picking a format that can evolve as your application evolves.

Literature Review

By now there are many approaches to communicating between client and server. These approaches tend to be known within specific companies and language communities, but the techniques do not cross borders. I will outline JSON, ProtoBuf, and GraphQL here so we can learn from them all.

dhh

ruby '2.7.1'

gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'tzinfo-data', '>= 1.2016.7'  # Don't rely on OSX/Linux timezone data

# Action Text
gem 'actiontext', github: 'basecamp/actiontext', ref: 'okra'
gem 'okra', github: 'basecamp/okra'

# Drivers

irony

const outside = {weather: FRIGHTFUL}
const inside = {fire: DELIGHTFUL}
const go = places => places.some(p=>p>outside.weather)))

const snow = () => (outside.weather < inside.fire && !go(places)) {
  let it = snow()
}

let it = snow()

arvearve

Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

by Yasha Berchenko-Kogan

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

mjbradford89

/**
 * Copyright (c) 2000-present Liferay, Inc. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 * the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
 * Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
 * any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS

arsduo

Hi $recruiter_name,

Thanks for the email!

$your_positive_impact(optional)

Facebook, in that same time period, has built an impressive (and well-reported) track record of its own, with accomplishments ranging from real name policies that made life dangerous for trans people, to the use of WhatsApp to spread dangerous viral rumors in places with histories of mob violence, to actively strategizing with political disinformation campaigns in order to maximize advertising revenue, to allowing popular conservative sites and personalities to violate Facebook's terms of service because conspiracy theories get more clicks.

All of which is to say, as fantastic as an opportunity to be paid in Facebook's still-upcoming cryptocurrency would be, I’m afraid I must regretfully decline.

tenderlove

# Not Great PNG class.  This is a very simple example of writing a PNG.  It
# only supports colors from the color palette stored in `@palette`.  This is
# meant to be example code, but I am using it in a program for visualizing
# heap dumps from Ruby.
#
# This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
#
# Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
# distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
# binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any

kofigumbs

# Initially based on https://github.com/sonnym/jekyll_elm
#
# USAGE:
#  Copy/paste this file into the `_plugins` directory of your Jekyll project.
#  For every .elm file in your project, it will generate a .js file in your site
#  using the same name and relative path.
#
#  As-is, the converter expects the following directory structure:
#
#      your-jekyll-project/