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I just found out about xonsh. I will just paste a bit from the project’s homepage: Xonsh is a Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt. The language is a superset of Python 3.4+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux,…

Was just reading an article at heise.de about the release of the $16 Chip Pro from the same company who make the $9 Chip computer.

.^$*+?()[{|\ This is a really good set of symbols to memorize because if you are writing a Perl-compatible regular expression (PCRE) then these are the symbols which if they occur as literals within expressions (and outside of character classes), they need to be escaped. [Sorry WordPress is messing up the backslash character in the title]…

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As I was reading one of my computer science textbooks on my laptop something made me think about languages in general and alphabets. The whole idea of an alphabet – symbols to represent phonetic sounds which can be re-used and combined to form words – all began with Phoenician. Phoenician is where it all began.…

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Love this video. It shows many if not most of their major stunts and formations. While this video is good its nothing compared to seeing them in real life, to things like seeing 5 or 6 fighter aircraft whip past the roof of your apartment only a stone’s throw away, or whip over your head…

If you have multiple lines of code that you want to comment out, here is an easy and fast way to do it in Vim: From command mode, with the cursor placed on the first line of the block that you want to comment, type Ctrl-v to enter visual-block mode. Move the cursor down to…

Ubuntu’s next releast 16.10 “Yakkety” is coming closer. That’s a great thing, but I always like to wait a while after any Ubuntu release before installing it. It is likely that in the first weeks or even months after an official release there will still be a significant amount of updates. I like to play…