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How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT – K²R –I finally managed to hook up IFTTT to Mastodon to auto-post from another site! I use IFTTT as glue for linking several services together including sharing interesting links from Pocket when I’m offline: I can add a tag in the app on my tablet, and then when it syncs that tag up to the cloud, […]
GraphViz Examples and Tutorial –I hope you know GraphViz. It’s a wonderful simple tool for creating diagrams. An interface as well as documentation to the GraphViz program and DSL
Shell Script Best Practices — The Sharat’s –This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated….
Modern Alternatives to Some of the Classic Linux Commands – It’s FOSS –Here are some faster, better and feature rich alternative command line tools to replace the decades old legacy Linux commands.
Google Sheets – 🟧Heystack –Discover the best public Google docs
Reinvent the Wheel –About the virtue of building things, even if you can get them iff the shelf. By building, and maybe only by building, do you really learn and understand how it works. AWM #97: There’s really no other option 🛞
Rosetta Code –Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how…
GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick –Very interesting review of github copilot, open source and the law.
Home – Meet Edgar –Social Media automatic posting tool. Seems popular with the cognizenti
Heroku Alternatives for Python-based Applications –In this article, you’ll learn what the best Heroku alternatives (and their pros and cons) are.
Building a Rails CI pipeline with GitHub Actions –GitHub Actions is an automation platform that you run directly from inside a repository. We can use it as a testing CI/CD pipeline and keep everything close to the code.
Learn SQL: Aggregate Functions –Aggregate functions are a very powerful tool in databases. They serve the same purpose as their equivalents in MS Excel
Learn SQL: How to Write a Complex SELECT Query –Do you need to write a complex SELECT query? In this article, we’ve tried to create a recipe for you.
A Nibble of Content-Defined Chunking –A great explanation of a really cool algorithm. “How de-duplicated, incremental file transfer works “
Testing Rails Apps with FactoryBot and MiniTest –This blog post looks at testing rails apps with FactoryBot and MiniTest – the default test framework which ships with Rails….
The Growth Hacking Playbook: Your Ultimate List of Growth Hack Resources –Growth hacking is a popular buzzword, but do you know what it means? Learn about the best growth hacking resources with this playbook.
5 Python Libraries That Make Everyday Coding Simpler –A bunch of really handy little python libraries: lThese modules bring a bit more elegance and functionality to Python
Markdown in Ruby on Rails with RedCarpet – Mitch Craver –A pretty detailed explanation and example of how to use Markdown in Rails
Try These 8 Modern Alternatives to Common Unix Commands –I may already have covered this. But there are one or two new ones on this list: “If you have used any Unix-like operating systems like GNU/Linux or terminal in the macOS, you will be familiar with cd, ls, grep, find and…”