M-<sacred chao>

おはよう。

March 2015

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Worst software today: Grunt. You may blame it on my failure to understand how the plugins get default arguments and how to debug them.

[rant javascript]

November 2014

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Why on earth would Grunt try to open a broken symlink (a temporary one from Emacs)? Oh I know, it's probably a JavaScript phenomenon.

[rant]

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Seriously, if your documentation and/or the corresponding search isn't usable without JavaScript on, you're doing it wrong.

[rant]

October 2014

Monday, October 6, 2014

The next time someone mentions PEP8 it'll be a paddling.

[python rant]

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Reading Hacker News comments now feels a lot like reddit and/or YouTube. So much hype, so much ignorance.

[rant]

September 2014

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Don't just use a icon symbol for a function, add a tooltop/hover/whatever as well to explain that action.

[rant]

August 2014

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Lesson today: Don't (only) use glob if you want repeatable results; basically anywhere you don't sort files by some criteria.

[rant]

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The idea that content formats (not implementations) are intentionally designed to be permissive and accommodating to errors is, simply said, offputting. Fix the goddamn content instead.

[rant]