jashkenas

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

darkhelmet

package main

import (
    "flag"
    "io"
    "log"
    "net"
    "strings"
)

NV

stopBefore.js

2min screencast

Examples

stopBefore(document, 'getElementById')
stopBefore('document.getElementById') // the same as the previous
stopBefore(Element.prototype, 'removeChild')

yomotsu

// http://docs.unity3d.com/ja/current/ScriptReference/Mathf.DeltaAngle.html

var getDeltaAngle = function () {

  var TAU = 2 * Math.PI;
  var mod = function ( a, n ) { return ( a % n + n ) % n; }

  return function ( current, target ) {

  var a = mod( ( current - target ), TAU );

cvrebert

Currently considering https://github.com/webdriverio/webdrivercss

---

Core Goals:

• Can test in up-to-date versions of all major browsers
• Can test on up-to-date versions of all major OSes
• Can test in IE9 (because Bootstrap v4 will support IE9+)
• Don't want to have to setup/maintain our own cluster of VMs running all the necessary OSes (and all the versions of Windows)
• Workflow for management of reference/baseline/norm screenshots

morganrallen

JankyBrowser

The only cross-platform browser that fits in a Gist!

One line install. Works on Linux, MacOSX and Windows.

Local Install

$> npm install http://gist.github.com/morganrallen/f07f59802884bcdcad4a/download

neilj

function WindowController () {
    this.id = Math.random();
    this.isMaster = false;
    this.others = {};

    window.addEventListener( 'storage', this, false );
    window.addEventListener( 'unload', this, false );

    this.broadcast( 'hello' );

chengyin

// 1. Go to page https://www.linkedin.com/settings/email-frequency
// 2. You may need to login 
// 3. Open JS console
//    ([How to?](http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/8525/how-to-open-the-javascript-console-in-different-browsers))
// 4. Copy the following code in and execute
// 5. No more emails
//
// Bookmarklet version: 
// http://chengyin.github.io/linkedin-unsubscribed/

eh-dub

// in $PROJECT_ROOT/typings/@sapper
declare module '@sapper/app' {
  // from sapper/runtime/src/app/types.ts
  // sapper doesn't export its types yet
  interface Redirect {
      statusCode: number
      location: string
  }
  // end

bradfitz

#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                                                               

set -e
set -x

cd $HOME
rm -rf netstack.bare netstack
git clone --bare $HOME/gvisor netstack.bare
cd netstack.bare