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Derek Swingley

Notes to future me.

Rot1 to punish readers using an ad blocker

Trying to breaking the doomscrolling cycle, I figured I'd read something not about COVID, BLM, or the atrocities our government is committing in response to those »

Re-visiting splitting a large .csv

Follow-up on a years-old post titled Options for splitting a large .csv into smaller files: awk, technically gawk, is the best way to do this. I »

Put statements in positive form

How often have you seen code where the absence of something is negated? Sounds confusing, because it is. Here's an example, assuming a config object with »

Being right all the time

A week or so ago I watched Rhea Butcher's talk from this year's XOXO. The whole thing is worth your time but the piece that prompted »

How many sold in the last how many hours?

Before today, I'd never heard of pawramp.com. I ended up there because I was considering buying one of their products as gift. When I ended »