Move fast and migrate things: how we automated migrations in Postgres
How Benchling manage their Postgres migrations.
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BADA55.io - CSS hex color words for web developers
Amusing, and not always sfw, resource for colours with "interesting" names.
Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML - DEV Community
Short article about some handy DOM manipulation methods and idioms in JavaScript.
Loopy
Neat site that can be used to investigate and demonstrate the relationship of things in a sort of feedback loop approach.
A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations – Musing Mortoray
Blog post that does a good job of outlining some of the issues I have too with type checking in Python.
See the following for some correction of what's said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20159153
www.pythonanywhere.com
This could be useful for hosting of personal apps, or at least for experimenting with Python Web applications.
vim/neovim security vulnerability
Write-up of the rather amazing vulnerability in vim/neovim.
Use __main__.py in Python | shaneoneill.io
For some reason I'd not picked up on this since getting back into Python. Could be seriously handy.
Benchling API
Documentation for the Benchling API.
The reduce ({...spread}) anti-pattern - RichSnapp.com
Interesting article about the potential pitfalls of using reduce and spread for cool JavaScript one-liners. I don't think I'm in the habit of using this particular pattern, but I should probably keep an eye out for it.
What happens when software developers are (un)happy | Elsevier Enhanced Reader
The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding happiness and unhappiness in all its components – positive and negative emotions and moods – is an attractive and important endeavor. Scholars in industrial and organizational psychology have suggested that understanding happiness and unhappiness could lead to cost-effective ways of enhancing working conditions, job performance, and to limiting the occurrence of psychological disorders. Our comprehension of the consequences of (un)happiness among developers is still too shallow, being mainly expressed in terms of development productivity and software quality. In this paper, we study what happens when developers are happy and unhappy while developing software. Qualitative data analysis of responses given by 317 questionnaire participants identified 42 consequences of unhappiness and 32 of happiness. We found consequences of happiness and unhappiness that are beneficial and detrimental for developers’ mental well-being, the software development process, and the produced artifacts. Our classification scheme, available as open data enables new happiness research opportunities of cause-effect type, and it can act as a guideline for practitioners for identifying damaging effects of unhappiness and for fostering happiness on the job.
Mezzano
Operating system written in Common Lisp. Even runs DooM and Quake!
Towards a Cleaner Emacs Build – Random Thoughts
Blog post about the cleaning up of lots of warnings in the compilation of Elisp code in Emacs itself.
Palindromic Sequence
Description of palindromic sequences in DNA.
Rate Limiting
The API rate limits for Benchling.
No Ageism In Tech
Website dedicated to fighting agism in the tech industry, and to promoting companies and positions that are open to older developers.
Emacs officially named in November 1976
Little tweet thread of emails that record the naming of Emacs.
A Byte of Vim
Book that provides an introduction to vim. Comes in free electronic version and commercial hard copy version.
Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer
Blog post about a newly-released project that aims to make it easier to build and deploy standalone Python applications.
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
Interesting site/paper detailing instances of "dark patterns" in online retail. Instances of website design that seek to manipulate the customer into doing things they may not have wanted or intended.
Switching back to Emacs causes the warning "recentf mode: Non-character input-event". · Issue #5554 · syl20bnr/spacemacs
While I don't use Spacemacs myself (this isn't actually a Spacemacs issue), I'm getting this a lot on my iMac and Macbook; especially when I've woken them from sleep.
BTrDB: Berkeley Tree Database
Berkeley Tree DataBase provides very fast storage of scalar-valued timeseries data.
G Suite + ChromeOS: Account Blocked notification & Gmail App Not Syncing *SOLUTION*
This has been a problem for me recently, plus I've have a related issue with WearOS. I think this actually solves both issues.
What happened to Evernote
Article that investigates where and how Evernote lost its way
Destroyer of worlds
Some background on how 8chan got started.
The Pitfalls of Boolean Trap
Good little article about the pitfalls of using boolean values as parameters for a function. Not the first time I've seen this sort of thing (I'm sure I read a similar article years before, and a similar thing in a coding book even earlier).
Still good advice.
At least it's a little better in languages with keyword arguments.
davep - itch.io
My itch profile
Can a biologist fix a radio?
"Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis"
Amusing paper talking about how biologists approach problems, or something.
User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment
Really rather funny exploration of some of the worst design elements you can find on the Web.
Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python | Toby Driscoll
Nice article comparing Matlab, Python and Julia. Not sure I 100% agree with it all, but it made for interesting reading.