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nickcox··on Greppability is an underrated code metric
ast-grep supports regex [1] or pattern based [2] matching and replacement.

[1] https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/rule-config/atomic-rule.htm... [2] https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/rule-config/atomic-rule.htm...

nickcox··on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
> This is wild, apparently this stuff is in the Debian repos now?

It's been there for several years now, hasn't it?

nickcox··on Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
In what ways?
nickcox··on My spiciest take on tech hiring
Why didn't they tell you this at the start?
nickcox··on I should have loved biology (2020)
Teachers in the US are famously poorly remunerated compared to other developed countries.
nickcox··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)
And you didn't carry it with you everywhere.

It blows my mind that my kids will never know what it's like to wait for a bus with nothing else to do.

nickcox··on I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
There was bitbucket.
nickcox··on Hiroshima and the Myths of Military Targets and Unconditional Surrender (2020)
Yeah, that is pretty much Ethics 101. I think it's time to bring back ethics lessons in schools.
nickcox··on Pure Bash Bible (2018)
And several others: https://github.com/dodie/testing-in-bash
nickcox··on My First Impressions of Nix
> Is it a package manager? A build system? An operating system? A container platform? A sandbox? An automation tool?

Yes

nickcox··on Zig is hard but worth it
That's not the workflow your GP is describing.
nickcox··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
Just tried to test it out and I'm now seeing correct results when I set the region to 'US' and an empty list of results when using my own region. This is not at all what I was seeing earlier.

Perhaps they're A/B testing or something?

nickcox··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
How is it supposed to work? I expect to see only those results that contain an exact match on the entire phrase between the quotes but perhaps I've misunderstood?
nickcox··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
Doesn't work for me. Like the GP, I get results unrelated to Lowes, bedding or even pets.
nickcox··on Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison
> I don't think anything will happen to $TSLA's CEO unless except through malice aimed at his peers that affects their wealth.

He needs to watch out for the Saudis, for sure.

nickcox··on Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news
Windows Terminal?
nickcox··on Docker is sunsetting Free Team organizations [pdf]
Rancher Desktop has been rock solid for my use cases for at least the last year or so.
nickcox··on Emptying the dishwasher with systems theory
But then you have to laboriously unflip half of them to put them away. Unless you are cutlery pointing in both directions like a Philistine?
nickcox··on Emptying the dishwasher with systems theory
I have literally never once worried about whether my family are secretly peeing into mugs, emptying them and planting them into an empty dishwasher.

I guess now I will.

nickcox··on Show HN: Docker rollout – Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker-compose
FWIW ECS supports rolling updated for docker compose deployments: https://docs.docker.com/cloud/ecs-integration/#rolling-updat...
nickcox··on Why So Many Tech Companies Are Laying People Off Right Now
Anecdotally, it's not just the lowest performers who are being laid off.
nickcox··on Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file
There's also Adam Tornhill's [0] Codescene. [1]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Books-Adam-Tornhill/s?rh=n%3A283155%2... [1] https://codescene.com/

nickcox··on Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages
Have you tried JetBrains Rider? I've found it pretty great on Mac and Linux.
nickcox··on On the Gnome project and “my way or the highway”
Surely more people use Windows, iOS, Marcos and Android though.
nickcox··on Lnav – An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
Structured logs. Probably json.
nickcox··on I Migrated from a Postgres Cluster to Distributed SQLite with LiteFS
Even reading from disk ought to be way faster than the typical Postgres use case of going over the network, shouldn't it?
nickcox··on On the Gnome project and “my way or the highway”
> GNOME is the most used desktop environment

I find that pretty hard to believe without a citation.

nickcox··on English as She Is Spoke (1884) [pdf]
Also from north Wilts and I'm pretty sure I've heard (and used) both forms.
nickcox··on Show HN: Beesy – Record Google Meets for free, download locally
The point here is that laws vary by jurisdiction.
nickcox··on Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says
You can solve this by not giving police guns in the first place.
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