I just installed the JetBrains Mono font. We programmers need monospaced fonts, and this is a very nice one. It comes installed with recent versions of JetBrains’s IDEs. My copy of IntelliJ was not recent, it turned out. Anyway, the most interesting thing is ligatures for programmers. Take a look …
Yesterday I kind of wilfully skipped a day. At some point in the evening I realised I wasn’t going to write a post, so I just said, “Fine: that’s allowed.” Today I started by going for a swim. After my new regime of exercise last summer, I got out of …
Something I forgot to mention yesterday was that I thought the “bitface” term was useful not just to refer to people who manipulate bits for a living (or hobby) — programmers, like myself. It can also work to discuss anyone who makes digital content: websites, blogs, podcasts, videos, photos, and …
Before the job interview that I mentioned the other day, the company asked me to answer some questions in writing. I didn’t get the job, but I was pleased with my written answers (and they presumably helped me to get the interview, at least). So I thought I’d reuse them …
The One Correct Way to do Dependency Injection | Schauderhaft In the end, "Dependency Injection" just means "passing parameters"; which was always the right way to do things anyway. From my Pinboard
If you’re using the excellent Pandoc to convert between different document formats, and you: want your final output to be in HTML; want the HTML to be styled with CSS; and want the HTML document to be truly standalone; then read on. The most common approach with Pandoc is, I …
Recursively finding the latest modified file in a directory. From the mighty Stack Overflow, some useful tips on using find with dates.
This has been kicking around, nearly finished, for months. It’s not going to get any better, or shorter, so it’s long past time I put it out there. It’s also just long; and technical. So feel free to ignore. I won’t be offended. I rarely write about programming or other …
It occurs to me that software companies, like the one I work for, are probably considered part of the ‘service sector’, in the kind of statistics that you hear on the news from time to time. Like most such companies, we do provide services. But at our core, we make …