VirtualTam's bookmarks
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2016-03-29 -
2016-03-23 In the run-up to 2011 Spinal Tap fans created a movement to make 11/11/11 "Nigel Tufnel Day." The movement was organised by The Nigel Tufnel Day Appreciation Society and Quilting Bee in Favor of Declaring & Observing November 11, 2011 as Nigel Tufnel Day (in Recognition of Its Maximum Elevenness). The theme of Nigel Tufnel Day was to take whatever you are doing on that day and "turn it up to 11".
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What makes a package useful? What is it about certain packages that makes them must-haves for any project?
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1for i in $(find /usr/lib -type f -name '*.so.*'); do 2 nm -D $i | grep MY_SYMBOL; 3 [[ $? -eq 0 ]] && echo $i; 4doneadapted from http://narkive.com/a1rT9Efg.8
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2015-09-17 Make continuous deployment safe by comparing before and after webpage screenshots for each release.
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2015-08-17 "Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion."
"Electric Wizard are the product of a hundred cliches. Everything about them is a trope, but despite that, they are stupidly heavy and even though they often sink into kitsch to the detriment of their songwriting, they're sort of a unique band in that they're the best at amplifier massage."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/2re6wz/shreddits_album_of_the_week_electric_wizard/cnfdrio
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A hands-on introduction to Git and GitHub, and how to make them work together! More Git resources for beginners here: http://www.dataschool.io/tag/git/
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2015-03-18 -
2015-02-13 Python's built-in unittest module is quite cool, but a bit limited and way too verbose (read: it's quite not easy to incite developers to write unit tests)
I'm currently looking for more dev-friendly solutions, the key points being:
- writing test code should be easy and straight-forward -keep the focus on "what to test" instead of "how to transcribe a process to a test"
- parallelization! -we, spoiled developers, should make good use of our way-too-many-cores build machines...
- complete feature set!
- we don't want to just run tests...
- coverage reports (find dead/weak/untested code sections)
- output formatting (JUnit-XML seems to be quite a common format out there)
There seem to be 3 solutions in Python:
- stock unittest + project-dependent customizations / test helpers
- nosetests
- py.test
And 2 ways of gettings things done:
- keeping things stock: no external dependency, project-specific implementation...
- using a test framework: one more module in your (test) virtualenv, more concise tests, more features (// run, code coverage, etc.)
Some links:
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electric-indent has been activated by default in emacs 24
to disable it for Python: (add-hook 'python-mode-hook (lambda () (set (make-local-variable 'electric-indent-functions) (list (lambda (arg) 'no-indent)))))
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...and she's a Debian addict, too!
http://blog.halon.org.uk/2014/11/barbie-the-debian-developer/
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2013-09-06 "Touring makes you crazy"
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Basic concepts of acoustics and electronics and how they can applied to understand musical sound and make music with electronic instruments. Topics include: sound waves, musical sound, basic electronics, and applications of these basic principles in amplifiers and speaker design.
