Category: programming-featured
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09-May-2022 I can never remember the name of GitPrime which is now Pluralsight FlowI worked for a startup a few years ago and one of the tools that company used to measure developer productivity was GitPrime. The tool tied into the primary code repository in GitHub and made reports on the work done. It measured commits by size and pattern. It was fairly intelligent about attempting to create…
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17-Feb-2022 Hard Drive Cleaning: C++ Programming ’04In 2004 I took a course at City College in C++ Programming. As I wait for my new job to start next week I’ve been doing a bunch of maintenance. I found an old backup hard drive and found a folder called cpp from an old Windows machine I had. I think it was running…
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13-Jan-2022 Spielberg’s Films by year of release vs year setThe other day, over on twitter, Todd Vaziri sent a lazyweb request that piqued my interest: free cinema chart idea chart the films of steven spielberg and graph the release date minus the year the film takes place you know, for fun How does one do timelines these days anyway? I had a vague memory…
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10-Jan-2022 Finding earworms in last.fm data with PHPOver the weekend I was prompted to think about the idea of an “earworm” — a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your mind. Some people find such “earworms” to be highly irritating. The idiom implies an actual worm in your actual ear which sounds positively *horrifying* to me. For me, an…
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22-Dec-2021 phpStorm: URI is not registered (Settings | Languages & Frameworks | Schemas and DTDs)So I was looking through ancient HTML files last night, as one does, and noted this peculiar error in phpStorm around the DTD of one of the files: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd”> phpStorm did not like this DOCTYPE. It reported to me: URI is not registered (Settings | Languages & Frameworks…
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08-Dec-2021 Extract #Hashtags from Titles and Content for WordPressI’ve been using IFTTT since 2013 and use it to import posts from my Instagram account into artlung.com for safekeeping. One aspect of that is hashtags, which mostly I’ve imported manually and in batches over the years. Based on WordPress HashTags by Matthias Pfefferle I was able to build a small plugin to popular the…
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18-Nov-2021 Migrating my old static pages into my WordPress themeFor one, I updated the Colophon. For another, I updated a jillion pages under the “Words” section. These had been static pages for, uh, 20 years. And finally I’ve imported those pages into the blog. It was relatively painless to do the import, but the old static pages were pretty quixotic, so customizing their unique…
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18-Aug-2021 Small shoutout; Perl and 1994 Yahoo!Earlier this year I did a bit of research that contributed to this article about how the very first versions of Yahoo! were built: 1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo on the excellent webdevelopmenthistory.com
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16-Aug-2020 Instalooter to WordPressI’ve been importing my Instagram posts for my @artlung account using IFTTT for 7 years with good results. But there was a set of several hundred posts from 2011 and 2012 that I never bothered with. To be honest looking back at the posts, and thinking of that time, those were the two years after…
