Date Parsing and Arithmetic on macOS
I recently wrote a shell script that required both date parsing and date arithmetic. The pertinent bits for this post are that the script: Seemed simple enough. A little googling and some experimentation gave...
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Installing Go 1.12 on MacOS High Sierra
Go 1.12 was released three days ago (Feb 25, 2019). I upgraded my personal MacBook Pro, which runs Mojave, with: The upgrade failed with the error: The upgrade ran fine. Then, I tried to...
The Internet Is Too Small to Be Snarky
Last week, I was frustrated with Oracle SQL Developer (on Mac OS X) for two reasons: When a connection times out (after being left idle too long), the application hangs and I have to...
The Imperfect Craft | Bitsplitting.org
The Imperfect Craft | Bitsplitting.org: “I’ve seen what happens to people who cling to outdated standards of craftsmanship: they become self-righteous, bitter, and delusional. Guided only by the hallowed rules of yesteryear’s geniuses, they...
Validation Errors in Eclipse and Alpha-Bits
Cartoons owned Saturday mornings, back when I was young enough to care. The commercials that wedged their way in and between The RoadRunner and The Justice League seemed to hawk either toys or breakfast...
Software Inventory — Feature backlogs
Software Inventory: Every product attracts new feature ideas, and you can’t implement ideas as fast as you can think them up, so you write them down, and this list is called the feature backlog....
If there’s any doubt that developers have moved to Mac OS X . . . .
A Kickstarter project that caused buzz amongst developers is Light Table, a development IDE that aims to fundamentally shift how we build software. As of right now, it has 5,726 backers (including me) and...