fish: Documentation
Manual for the fish shell. I'm very tempted to give this a try out with a view to changing from zsh.
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Migrate zsh history to fish
Handy little tool to help migrate a zsh history to fish.
Copy to clipboard pure JavaScript - JSFiddle
Example code for copying rich text to the clipboard from JavaScript.
Org-mode Hidden Gems: Document Structure
Nice post about some "hidden gems" in org mode.
Let's Get Going With Org mode - beorg
A very gentle introduction to org mode.
What The @#$%&! (Heck) is this #! (Hash-Bang) Thingy In My Bash Script | Linux Journal
Handy article to help explain shebang to people.
Evaluation of location encoding systems
Good overview of various location encoding systems.
Brew Dog accused of stealing marketing ideas
Interesting twitter thread about how Brew Dog are accused of taking people's marketing ideas without paying anything for them. One of a long line of negative stories I've read about this company.
Sarah Carey on Twitter: "Today I keep trying to type "fasta" and end up typing "pasta". So, I made a pasta.fasta… "
Rather silly but enjoyable twitter thread where someone makes fasta files of pasta.
Trans-inclusive Design – A List Apart
Informative article about designing software with transgender people in mind.
Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Incident report on the "git ransom" attack from earlier on this month.
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
Free book that should be a good introduction to Common Lisp for many people.
Uberon
An anatomical ontology that represents body parts, organs and tissues in a variety of animal species, with a focus on vertebrates
Beautiful Racket by Matthew Butterick
Book that uses Racket.
Read Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon | Leanpub
Book that introduces Common Lisp.
Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation's take on various software licences, both Free and non-Free.
ghub-use-workaround-for-emacs-bug will break in emacs 25 for gitlab · Issue #89 · magit/ghub
Issue relating to a TLS problem with Emacs and forge, at the moment. Contains details of a useful workaround.
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
And advanced guide to bash scripting.
Home – the Common Lisp Cookbook
A cookbook of Common Lisp code.
The lingua franca of LaTeX – Increment: Open Source
History of TeX (and in part LaTeX).
Dave Pearson on Twitter: "Playing around with twitter while watching Tony Blair finally leave us alone."
My first ever tweet.
How to record screencast videos with Mac OSX
Tutorial on recording screencast videos on a Mac.
Software companies in Edinburgh
Handy list of IT (and software development) companies in the Edinburgh area.
Surely you're a creep, Mr Feynman
Article about the common whitewashed portrayal of Feynman, and other men in science who have been terribly sexist, or worse.
Interview with Wayne Huusey
CSS Grid Generator
Handy-looking CSS grid generation tool.
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
Book that acts as a tutorial on both Haskell and Scheme.
Gridrunner++ by llamasoft_ox
Windows version of the classic Vic20 and CBM64 game.
Various intersphinx mappings for Python libraries.
Handy list of intersphinx mappings for various popular Python libraries.
if-let, when-let, thread-first and thread-last
Good little introduction to flow control macros that were introduced in Emacs 25.1.