lyda

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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!)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just because you can do something…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
js console: document.querySelector(‘.pointers’).hidden=true
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Browse and Discover Manpages⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 use man -k or appropos 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!)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.