Monthly Archives: January 2021

Reasoning about code is a scam

Posted on 2021-01-30 [Saturday] by jj5

Today I read Reasoning about code is a scam, itself a rather contrarian piece. But I enjoyed it.

How to use CSS

Posted on 2021-01-28 [Thursday] by jj5

Articles I ran into today:

• CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns”
• About HTML semantics and front-end architecture

D3.js

Posted on 2021-01-28 [Thursday] by jj5

Today I learned about D3.js which looks pretty interesting. A JavaScript library for “data-driven documents”.

apt-rdepends

Posted on 2021-01-28 [Thursday] by jj5

Today I learned about apt-rdepends which can show what dependencies an apt package has… handy!

Parsing HTML on the command line

Posted on 2021-01-26 [Tuesday] by jj5

Check out pup for parsing HTML on the command line. Does pretty printing too.

Generating unique, random-looking voucher codes

Posted on 2021-01-26 [Tuesday] by jj5

Today I discovered Generating unique, random-looking voucher codes.

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

Posted on 2021-01-25 [Monday] by jj5

Today I discovered Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS.

ZFS performance tuning

Posted on 2021-01-22 [Friday] by jj5

I read The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let’s Encrypt which mentioned how they tuned ZFS.

My traceroute

Posted on 2021-01-19 [Tuesday] by jj5

So today I learned about the `mtr` command. Handy!

A megacorp is not your dream job

Posted on 2021-01-15 [Friday] by jj5

Something I already knew very well from experience but which I was happy to hear again: A megacorp is not your dream job.