January 2010
8 posts
Jan 28th
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I’m feeling pretty good about the debugability of what I’m working on at work right now. A combo of python. code.interact and pdb for the win. no frontend server state. er, excessive memcachery. some quality abstractions. back pat, back pat. means I can just hop on a prod box and just debug away in python.
Jan 28th
Awesome concise explanation of CSS positioning →
(via codeshal)
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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ranting at 30k feet
I hate code cruft. The remnants of code that might have been used at some point but are no longer in operation. It’s not just some weird OCD thing, the maintenance pain is quite real. As are the effects on development time. For many languages you can use static analysis tools to detect and remove unused code, but not for you Mr CSS. Maintaining CSS is the opposite of awesome. For any random...
Jan 9th
Jan 5th
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