When I teach beginners to program and present them with code challenges, one of my favorite follow-up challenges is: Now solve the same problem without using if-statements (or ternary operators, or switch statements).
Source: Coding Tip: Try to Code Without If-statements, an article by Samer Buna.
iPads, which is to say any iPad made in the last three years (yes, even the base models) has more than enough power to run development tools and compile most codebases you would care to. The more recent iPad Pro models even give modern Core i9 laptops a run for their money in some metrics.
Why then do we not see development tools on the iPad? Or at least, why do we not see more of the development tools we’re used to seeing on the platform. The reason, unfortunately, is iPadOS.
Source: No, The iPad Pro is not a development machine. But it so easily could be, an article by Jay Rodgers.
cgit is very bare bones. It is cgi web interface interface to git, and nothing more. You may browse repositories, view diffs, commit logs and even clone via http. If you are looking to replace Github with cgit, keep in mind that cgit does not handle issues or pull/merge requests. If people wish to contribute to your work, they would have to send you a patch via email.
Source: Self-hosting Git, an article by Akshay Oppiliappan.
In the evening I finally released an updated version of tumblelog; a
static blog generator that comes in two versions: a version written in
Perl and a version written in Python. I use mostly the Perl version to
generate Plurrrr but now and then run the Python version to verify
it generates the same output given the same input.
This version fixes a bug I found using Ahrefs Webmaster
Tools. I also used
pylint version 2.6.1-dev1 to improve the Python
code. The score went from 8.57 to 8.85. Some of the issues found where
also in the Perl code, so I corrected the Perl version as well.
Next I used perlcritic version
1.138
to critique the Perl version of tumblelog. Several of the issues
found were fixed.
Last, but not least, I factored out the font stacks of all styles
into a separate _fonts.scss file and used stylelint version
13.7.2 with a custom .stylelintrc.json to
clean up the styles for tumblelog.
Version 4.1.0 of tumblelog is available on
GitHub. As always feedback
is very welcome.