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existentialmutt··on Bridgetown - progressive site generator and framework, powered by Ruby
As a veteran Rails developer, Bridgetown is my go-to choice for static sites. Combining familiar ERB templating with cutting-edge asset tooling that just works out of the box makes for a fantastic developer experience.

I'm also intrigued by its ability to serve dynamic routes via Roda. This project is definitely putting some interesting concepts together.

existentialmutt··on RuboCop 0.80: Ruby static code analyzer and code formatter
This has been my experience too. Fortunately rubocop makes it easy to distribute alternate settings as gems. I use https://github.com/sider/meowcop as a reasonable base setting. It's more relaxed about style and makes rubocop more of a linter, which is what I want.
existentialmutt··on Show HN: Ts3d: Ncurses-Based First-Person Shooter
Just tried this out- very cool!
existentialmutt··on Apple’s declining software quality
I bought an album on iTunes last week and it downloaded everything except for tracks 1 and 5.
existentialmutt··on Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#hackernewsproblems
existentialmutt··on Git Integration
Article lost me at the first phrase:

'Have you ever used Atom...'

Thanks for asking but no I haven't because I'm still waiting for a $%#$#%ing invitation!

existentialmutt··on Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It
"So Amazon says it may box and ship products it expects customers in a specific area will want – based on previous orders and other factors — but haven’t yet ordered. According to the patent, the packages could wait at the shippers’ hubs or on trucks until an order arrives."

Here's an idea. Pre-ship merchandise to local independent retail locations, waive the shipping fee but let the retailer mark it up a bit, and offer in-store pickup.

It's a proven business model, since that's how people bought stuff before catalogs and the internet.

existentialmutt··on Light Table is now open source
That's exactly what I'm doing here:

https://github.com/existentialmutt/lt-ruby.git

existentialmutt··on Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM
http://www.wuphf.com/
existentialmutt··on Unicorn
This strikes me as intentionally misleading. They're using the github angry unicorn pic.

GH is a noted proponent of Unicorn the ruby app server. https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn

existentialmutt··on Future of Firefox DevTools
Very excited to see the network panel, as that is what makes me go back to Chrome or Firebug most often.

In the network panel, being able to sorting/filter requests by content-type, request verb, and response code makes it much more usable for me. I didn't see that in the video-- do you plan to include it?

existentialmutt··on Don't find out about Ruby vulnerabilities through Hacker News and Twitter
Where do you guys find out about security vulnerabilities?
existentialmutt··on Build the "USS Enterprise" in 20 years, for 1 trillion USD
What, no kickstarter page?
existentialmutt··on Show HN: shortcutFoo is an effective way to learn shortcuts (Vim, TextMate, etc)
I'm not too impressed by this product's teaching method.

I mentally store keyboard shortcuts as an association between key combinations and behavior I see in my editor. The name for the behavior is secondary.

This product provides you with the name of a behavior and asks you to type the keyboard shortcut that performs it. So it's building associations between keys and names of behaviors, not the behaviors themselves. That's a big difference for me.

I imagine this product's method could work for some learning styles. For me, I prefer to practice and apply keyboard shortcuts in an environment where I can see their results (like the actual editor!)