Software engineer, writer
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Several Ada alumns and I are playing Advent of Code, which is like an advent calendar for coding challenges. A new level is release each day during December 1st - Dec 25th. As you progress through the levels, you unlock more of the storyline. This is my third participating, and
My first exposure to 2600 was several years ago, when I visited Ada's Technical Books at its old location near Roy Street Coffee on Capitol Hill. They had several backcopies for sale, and I picked up an issue. This was before I started working in tech, and most of the
Recently, I was playing around with the split command-line tool on Mac OS X, and I decided to chop a 4000-line file into 4000 separate single-line files. However, when I attempted to run split -l1, I ran into a funny error: split: too many files Curious to see if any
I saw dozens of these "me at the start of 2017" memes floating around at the close of 2017, and I couldn't help but share in some collective sense of exhaustion after a year marked by alarming US / world news, a very dynamic — sometimes dizzying — work life at
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how I can improve my bash productivity and understand when / why things have gone wrong sooner. Luckily, I stumbled upon this golden blog post by Jake McCrary. Put the last command's run time in your Bash prompt via @climagic