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(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

Posted on April 16, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

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How to recover lost files added to Git but not committed

Posted on April 16, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

How to recover lost files added to Git but not committed If you lose something [in Git], don’t panic. There’s a good chance that you can find someone who will be able to hunt it down again. So said MJD’s previous blog. This is a write-up of how he recovered some files that he accidentally […]

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Installing Swift on Ubuntu

Posted on April 12, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Downloads for recent Ubuntus (14.04 LTS and 15.10 at the time of writing) are available from the Swift homepage as compressed tar archives. Installation goes as follows (untested): # download, then… tar xfz swift-2.2-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz ~ ln -s ~/swift-2.2-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04/usr/ ~ export PATH=~/usr/bin:”$PATH” # better in .bashrc

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Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Starter – A new way to start using Dist::Zilla

Posted on April 11, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Starter – A new way to start using Dist::Zilla Dist::Zilla is an extremely powerful and versatile CPAN authoring tool, with the ability to automate your entire distribution building, testing, and releasing process, customisable to almost any workflow. This ability does not come without cost, however. One of the biggest difficulties newcomers face is sorting out […]

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The Perl Toolchain [meta]

Posted on April 3, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

This series of blog posts is about the Perl toolchain and the collection of tools and modules around it that are central to the CPAN we have today. PAUSE and CPAN Developing your module Dependency phases in CPAN distribution metadata Specifying the type of your CPAN dependencies Specifying dependencies for your CPAN distribution

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A Concrete Introduction to Probability (using Python)

Posted on March 21, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

A Concrete Introduction to Probability In this notebook, we cover the basics of probability theory, and show how to implement the theory in Python 3.

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The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository

Posted on February 17, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository Recently I read about this amazing technique in an Hacker News thread on people’s solutions to store their dotfiles. User StreakyCobra showed his elegant setup and … It made so much sense! I am in the process of switching my own system to the […]

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Starting the Learn Python Tutorial Project : Django Tutorial

Posted on February 1, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Starting the Learn Python Tutorial Project : Django Tutorial

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Define context-aware keys in Emacs

Posted on February 1, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

What do you do if you want to override a key only in a certain context? Take this Quotation Marks post as an example. We want to change the ” key in general, but retain the regular behaviour if we’re inside a code-block. Define context-aware keys in Emacs

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Exploring Perl 6

Posted on January 4, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

A series of articles on Perl 6 Up and Running Installing Rakudo Star

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