Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Incident report on the "git ransom" attack from earlier on this month.
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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.
Rust Your Own Lisp
A translation of Build Your Own Lisp into Rust. Should be a handy read to get to know some Rust concepts.
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.
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.