lyda
@lyda@programming.dev
Software developer in the West of Ireland. Can also be found at mastodon.ie/@lyda
- Comment on The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) 1 year ago:
Just because you can do something…
- Comment on The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) 1 year ago:
js console:
document.querySelector(‘.pointers’).hidden=true
- Comment on Browse and Discover Manpages 1 year ago:
ls /usr/share/man/man?/*
will show you all the man pages on your system. I used to pick ones at random.Originally there were a number of manuals. Manual 1 had user commands. Manual 2 had system calls. Etc. You can type
man NUMBER intro
to read about that manual. You can also useman -k
orappropos
but I’ve also just used grep. These days they’re compressed so zgrep. - Comment on The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) 1 year ago:
The mouse pointer background is kinda a dick move. Good article. but the background is annoying for tired old eyes - which I assume are a target demographic for that article.
- Comment on Dotfiles matter 1 year ago:
I use vcsh to manage my home directory - including but not limited to dot files. Written a number of posts on it over the years: phrye.com/tags/vcsh/
- Comment on What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? 1 year ago:
Projects like that make me want to create a uucp network and so I can email a bang path address to get my patch.