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BS/MS

6am Wake-up Call: Day 3

DSL

:tada: Announcing the release of plink! :tada:
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles

accessibility

Please do not post images of text

acm

Developer Experience, Redux

advent of code

Advent of Code 2019 : Day 5
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 4
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 3
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 2
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 1

advice

A Strategy to Change Core Data Structures in Programs
Re: Coding the Impossible: Palindrome Detector with a Regular Expressions
CS Students Must Learn Computation Fundamentals
Getting Help Dos and Don'ts
Effective Study Habits
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Advice for College Students

awk

A terminal case of mysteries
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 1
The Fields Extracter You Always Wanted

blog

Feedburner burned
Comments, Subscriptions, and Feeds, Oh my!
Lady Book Dragon
Site Inauguration

books

Sapling Cage
Lady Book Dragon

boyscouts

Eagle Project—Community Care Packages
Site Inauguration

breaks

Solving a logic puzzle the right way™
Build-a-Octocat
Feature—Taking a Break

builds

Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Day 15—Fresh Start
Day 11—Third Time's (Not) Always the Charm
Day 8, Context and Computers
Day 7, Asking Questions
Week 2—Refactoring++
Reading, Refactoring, and RPatterns

call of cthulhu

Bag of Holding (Everything)

capital one

Solving a logic puzzle the right way™

cat

Build-a-Octocat

ci

Ruby, where are you (in GitHub workflows)?

clojure

CS Students Must Learn Computation Fundamentals

college

Re: Coding the Impossible: Palindrome Detector with a Regular Expressions
CS Students Must Learn Computation Fundamentals
6am Wake-up Call: Day 4/5
6am Wake-up Call: Day 3
6am Wake-up Call: Day 2
5am Wake-up Call: Day 1
Effective Study Habits
Secrets from a Freshman—Survival Skills, Chapter 2
Survival Skills, University Edition
Quiver
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Advice for College Students

critic

Ready, Player Two ?
Lady Book Dragon

d&d-5e

The Alignment Axes of Type Systems
Kaves and Kobolds
Bag of Holding (Everything)
Skill Checks in D&D 5e
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Advice for College Students

design

Please *do* generate man-pages
:tada: Announcing the release of plink! :tada:
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles

developer experience

Developer Experience, Redux

docs

Please *do* generate man-pages

dotfiles

Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Programs invoked by Git have libexec/git-core on $PATH
Efficient Shell—Git Commit Statistics
Ruby, where are you (in GitHub workflows)?
:tada: Announcing the release of plink! :tada:
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles

early-bird

6am Wake-up Call: Day 4/5
6am Wake-up Call: Day 3
6am Wake-up Call: Day 2
5am Wake-up Call: Day 1

ebnf

:tada: Announcing the release of loner! :tada:

equal rights

The State of Dis-union
I am an ally

exam

Effective Study Habits
Build-a-Octocat

family

Chrismtas Cutout Cookies

feature

6am Wake-up Call: Day 4/5
6am Wake-up Call: Day 3
6am Wake-up Call: Day 2
5am Wake-up Call: Day 1
Time Stops for No Mouse
Feature—Round and Round Again
Feature—Flexibility and Engagement
Feature—Taking a Break

film

Ready, Player Two ?

food

Life Lessons

fp

Re: The Functional Programming Hiring Problem
Re: Beautiful Python Monsters

friends

Life Lessons

frosthaven-manager

Churn and Weight
A Strategy to Change Core Data Structures in Programs

git

Tip: use symmetric differences with git-range-diff
Perspective on software development models
Copying a git-range-diff to GitHub
Churn and Weight
The case against squashing to merge via GitHub
What everyone should know about git commit
Extracting Ourselves from GitHub = Git
Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Programs invoked by Git have libexec/git-core on $PATH
Re: Dumpster Diving through Dotfiles
Efficient Shell—Git Commit Statistics
Ruby, where are you (in GitHub workflows)?
Day 15—Fresh Start
Day 01010—Everything Runs on Cycles
Git Branch Cheat

github

Extracting Ourselves from GitHub = Git
Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Ruby, where are you (in GitHub workflows)?
Open-source Transparency
:tada: Announcing the release of tmplr! :tada:
:tada: Announcing the release of loner! :tada:
Build-a-Octocat
Day 01010—Everything Runs on Cycles

github-workflow

Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Ruby, where are you (in GitHub workflows)?

grammar

Re: Coding the Impossible: Palindrome Detector with a Regular Expressions
CS Students Must Learn Computation Fundamentals
:tada: Announcing the release of loner! :tada:

in nomine

Life Lessons

infra

Week 7—Code and Communication
Adventures with Python unittest
Life Lessons
Openings & Closings
Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Day 16—The Three Pieces of Software
Day 15—Fresh Start
Bag of Holding (Everything)
Day 11—Third Time's (Not) Always the Charm
Day 01010—Everything Runs on Cycles
Day match [0-9]—Regex
Day 8, Context and Computers
Day 7, Asking Questions
Week 2—Refactoring++
Reading, Refactoring, and RPatterns
Day Four, My Two Cents
Day Three—Slacking
Second Day
First Day

intcode

Advent of Code 2019 : Day 2

intern

Solving a logic puzzle the right way™
Week 7—Code and Communication
Adventures with Python unittest
Life Lessons
Openings & Closings
Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Day 16—The Three Pieces of Software
Day 15—Fresh Start
Bag of Holding (Everything)
Feature—Round and Round Again
Day 11—Third Time's (Not) Always the Charm
Day 01010—Everything Runs on Cycles
Feature—Flexibility and Engagement
Day match [0-9]—Regex
Day 8, Context and Computers
Day 7, Asking Questions
Week 2—Refactoring++
Feature—Taking a Break
Reading, Refactoring, and RPatterns
Day Four, My Two Cents
Day Three—Slacking
Second Day
First Day

internet

Please do not post images of text

ixia

Second Day
First Day

json

Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Day 15—Fresh Start

kamb

Kaves and Kobolds

learning

Learning is not (usually) time wasted
The State of Dis-union
Re: Coding the Impossible: Palindrome Detector with a Regular Expressions
CS Students Must Learn Computation Fundamentals
Getting Help Dos and Don'ts

lgbtq

I am an ally

literate-programming

Solving Boggle

ll-one

:tada: Announcing the release of loner! :tada:

make

:tada: Announcing the release of plink! :tada:
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles
Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Day 15—Fresh Start
Bag of Holding (Everything)
Day Three—Slacking

management

Feature—Flexibility and Engagement

ms-excel

Excel for Mac cannot simultaneously edit files with the same basename

mystery

A terminal case of mysteries

octocat

Build-a-Octocat

office-hours

I/O Funnels

open-source

Extracting Ourselves from GitHub = Git
Please *do* generate man-pages
Open-source Transparency

performance

Performance of Racket Pict Comparison, Part 2
Performance of Racket Pict Comparison
Re: Dumpster Diving through Dotfiles
Efficient Shell—Git Commit Statistics

perl

Re: How Did Perl Lose Ground to Bash?
:tada: Announcing the release of plink! :tada:
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles

pip

:tada: Announcing the release of tmplr! :tada:

posix

Stop, sed i!
:tada: Announcing the release of plink! :tada:
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles
Day match [0-9]—Regex

posts

Please do not post images of text

productivity

Please *do* generate man-pages
Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Why I finally switched to zsh
6am Wake-up Call: Day 4/5
6am Wake-up Call: Day 3
6am Wake-up Call: Day 2
5am Wake-up Call: Day 1

prog-langs

Solving Boggle
Solving a logic puzzle the right way™
Why I finally switched to zsh
Re: How Did Perl Lose Ground to Bash?
The Alignment Axes of Type Systems

project-management

Churn and Weight
Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Open-source Transparency
Status Badges

prolog

Solving Boggle
Solving a logic puzzle the right way™

puzzle

Solving a logic puzzle the right way™

python

Re: Beautiful Python Monsters
:tada: Announcing the release of tmplr! :tada:
Day 15—Fresh Start
Bag of Holding (Everything)

race

The State of Dis-union

racket

Scraping XML sitemaps with Racket
Server-sent events with Racket
Performance of Racket Pict Comparison, Part 2
Churn and Weight
Re: Beautiful Python Monsters
Performance of Racket Pict Comparison
A Strategy to Change Core Data Structures in Programs
Solving Boggle

racklog

Solving Boggle

rants

The case against squashing to merge via GitHub
Em-dashes are not spaced hyphens
Extracting Ourselves from GitHub = Git
Learning is not (usually) time wasted
Please *do* generate man-pages
Excel for Mac cannot simultaneously edit files with the same basename
Stop, sed i!
Re: Coding the Impossible: Palindrome Detector with a Regular Expressions
CS Students Must Learn Computation Fundamentals
Please do not post images of text
Open-source Transparency
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles

refactor

A Strategy to Change Core Data Structures in Programs
Efficient Shell—Git Commit Statistics
Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Week 2—Refactoring++
Reading, Refactoring, and RPatterns

regex

Day match [0-9]—Regex

rpg

Life Lessons
Kaves and Kobolds
Bag of Holding (Everything)

ruby

Ruby, where are you (in GitHub workflows)?

safety

The State of Dis-union

scala

:tada: Announcing the release of loner! :tada:

sed

Stop, sed i!

shell

Little utilities
Please *do* generate man-pages
Stop, sed i!
Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Programs invoked by Git have libexec/git-core on $PATH
Why I finally switched to zsh
A terminal case of mysteries
Re: Dumpster Diving through Dotfiles
Re: How Did Perl Lose Ground to Bash?
The Fields Extracter You Always Wanted
I/O Funnels
Efficient Shell—Git Commit Statistics
:tada: Announcing the release of plink! :tada:
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles
:tada: Announcing the release of tmplr! :tada:
Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Day 15—Fresh Start
Day 8, Context and Computers
Week 2—Refactoring++
Reading, Refactoring, and RPatterns
Second Day
Git Branch Cheat

sml/nj

Advent of Code 2019 : Day 5
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 4
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 3
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 2
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 1

sotdl

Life Lessons

ssh

Day 01010—Everything Runs on Cycles

statistics

Performance of Racket Pict Comparison, Part 2

study

6am Wake-up Call: Day 4/5
6am Wake-up Call: Day 3
6am Wake-up Call: Day 2
5am Wake-up Call: Day 1
Effective Study Habits

tcl

Day match [0-9]—Regex

tdd

:tada: Announcing the release of loner! :tada:
Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Day 15—Fresh Start

teaching

Getting Help Dos and Don'ts
Please do not post images of text
I/O Funnels

templates

:tada: Announcing the release of tmplr! :tada:

til

Re: Dumpster Diving through Dotfiles
Week 7—Code and Communication
Adventures with Python unittest
Life Lessons
Openings & Closings
Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Day 16—The Three Pieces of Software
Day 15—Fresh Start
Bag of Holding (Everything)
Day 11—Third Time's (Not) Always the Charm
Day 01010—Everything Runs on Cycles
Day match [0-9]—Regex
Day 8, Context and Computers
Day 7, Asking Questions
Week 2—Refactoring++
Reading, Refactoring, and RPatterns
Day Four, My Two Cents
Day Three—Slacking
Second Day
First Day

time

Learning is not (usually) time wasted
6am Wake-up Call: Day 4/5
6am Wake-up Call: Day 3
6am Wake-up Call: Day 2
5am Wake-up Call: Day 1
Time Stops for No Mouse

tmux

Open-source Transparency

types

The Alignment Axes of Type Systems

typography

Em-dashes are not spaced hyphens

vim

Programs invoked by Git have libexec/git-core on $PATH

vm

Day 01010—Everything Runs on Cycles

web

Server-sent events with Racket

xmas

Chrismtas Cutout Cookies

zelda

Skill Checks in D&D 5e

zsh

Why I finally switched to zsh