22 Feb 2019
These are programming blogs I think are great! I’ve chosen some to avoid overlap with other similar compilations[1-4]
so hopefully there’ll be something new for everyone. There’s a few non-programming blogs at the bottom that might tangentially interest programmers too.
Ben Cox (benjojo)
Ben has the coolest homepage ever no contest. As the background, it loads an old operating system at random that you can interact with! His posts are often very hands-on with a focus on networking. Check out his post about “Tealemetry”.
ACM Queue (Association for Computing Machinery)
ACM is a huge society divided up into many SIGs (Special Interest Groups) and Queue is a publication they release online regularly. It looks like a journal but it reads closer to a blog. Most topics in Software Engineering are covered, by a range of authors.
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27 Jan 2019
Python
A while ago some friends and I brainstormed some dumb functionality we would include in an
over-engineered esoteric programming language. I’ve had a go at implementing
some of them as a Python module (esoterrible) and
I can confidently say it’s the worst code I’ve ever written. When you import it, it messes
with your builtins to achieve the following “features”
UTC? What’s UTC?
Don’t even need to set timezones on your datetimes! Esoterrible will analyse whether your
source code contains more British or American English (anglocentric, I know) and use that to enforce timezones
on datetime objects. Also it complains if you try to use both British and American English.
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13 Jan 2019
Python
Magic Playlists has been a side project I’ve been working on sporadically since early 2017 and I’m
overjoyed to finally be able to release it today for anyone to use. It integrates with a Spotify
account to provide two awesome features:
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05 Jan 2019
Aws
Welcome to Unicorn Rentals! AWS GameDay
invites you to try your hand at managing
the infrastructure of the biggest player in the Legendary Animal Rental Market (LARM).
This fictional company that AWS made for people to play as on GameDay is an excellent parody of all the worst practices you’ve
heard of and lived through, believing in security through obscurity and firing their engineering team
every few weeks. Unicorn Rentals needs YOUR HELP to deal with a swathe of mission-critical issues throughout the day.
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23 Sep 2018
Shell
Linux
You’re setting up your bash profile. You go to the Bash man page. Damn… you just
wanted to know where to stick your config and aliases and this page is written in legalese!
This is an overview of the different kinds of Bash terminal and how they find their config, written in less detail but
more to the point.
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