Tag: miscellany
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Tech Links – May 29
Three open-source Python shells. Don’t catch Exceptions. I must have known why I always do rescue => boom to catch exceptions. The reason is that Ruby makes that shorthand for rescue StandardError => boom. Nifty. libgrader: find quality gems for your next project. It knows about two of my favorites gems: pericope and titleize. (Unlike […]
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Tech Links
LinuxUser (UK): Create a NAS box from spare parts. Ars: Intel’s Broadwell mini-PC. I love the form factor. But then, I’ve owned three Mac Minis. I keep thinking I should learn the R language. Of course, I used to think that about GnuPlot. HowToForge: InstallingĂ‚Â Git and Using GitHub on Ubuntu. GSoC: SciRuby. There’s a program […]
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Tab Sweep
I’ve always found CSS all but impossible to debug, so I use as little of it as possible. Here’s a tool that can help: csscss. I’m so out of touch with media formats, I was still using ffmpeg instead of avconv. If you’re a clueless n00b like me, there are tools that just do it […]