robmil

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by robmil 2y ago
I wrote one years ago, but I suspect the schema has drifted quite far out of sync: https://github.com/robmiller/ruby-wpdb
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by robmil 11y ago
Rory Stewart, the speaker here, is a slightly unconventional politician, having in 2002 walked across Afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart
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by robmil 11y ago
Vim ships with a command called `view` that will start it in read-only mode, and makes it very much a viewer — not just an editor.
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by robmil 12y ago
…and Ruby has the PTY module which includes an `expect` method, which is in the same ballpark: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.0/libdoc/pty/rdoc/PTY.html
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Crowd-fund your way to a UK visa(immigrationbarrister.co.uk)
1 points by robmil 12y ago|0 comments
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Cleanmachine – from fresh install to usable OS X web dev machine(github.com)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|1 comments
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by robmil 13y ago
mailto: is the same principle and has been around since the 90s.
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by robmil 13y ago
If you don't want to appear rich or a good robbery target, why buy a Ferrari in the first place? Plenty of other rich people somehow manage to get by without such extravagant displays of wealth.
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Using Nokogiri to screen-scrape from the command line(robm.me.uk)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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UK to introduce preferential visas for "tech experts"(immigrationbarrister.co.uk)
1 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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Ruby's -e, -n, and -p switches(robm.me.uk)
1 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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Asahi develops robotic beer pourer(gizmag.com)
1 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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Accessing WordPress from Ruby #3: GravityForms(robm.me.uk)
1 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 13y ago
I'm using MailMate[1], which is a brilliant client developed by the Danish coder Benny Kjaer Nielsen. It has too many neat features to name, but the one I absolutely couldn't live without is the ability to write emails in Markdown
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by robmil 13y ago
It's at such a fragile point, though. Monetising a previously entirely free service is risky at any time, but there's lots more risk than usual here (fickleness of audience, existence of competitors, fundamental simplicity of offe
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Winter Olympics journalists harassed by Russian police(hrw.org)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 13y ago
Isn't the problem that, while the house may cost $30,000, the land on which it would have to reside will inevitably cost far more than that?
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Accessing WordPress from Ruby(robm.me.uk)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 13y ago
Did pg really invent backend web development?
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Ruby-wpdb: a Ruby object mapping for WordPress(github.com)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 13y ago
Mean, surely?
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by robmil 13y ago
Ruby is gradually adding the ability to monkey patch without polluting the global scope via Refinements: http://timelessrepo.com/refinements-in-ruby
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by robmil 13y ago
You don't need to take the brain-space — use a password manager like 1Password or LastPass, plus a YubiKey for two-factor auth, and you can use unique passwords everywhere.
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Cutcsv: Unix cut for CSV files(github.com)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|1 comments
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Patrick Toomey is a GitHubber(github.com)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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Varnisher, a Varnish purging tool(github.com)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 13y ago
Such as doctors who are further on in their careers — it's actually rather a nice system, where those who have been lucky enough to be successful can help out those who need it, and all benefit.
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Useful Git aliases(gist.github.com)
2 points by robmil 13y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 13y ago
Personal, with Hyperoptic. It's £60/month, but that includes a phone service.
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by robmil 13y ago
Youth Defence are, in case anyone doesn't know and given that the defacement is now gone, a fairly unpleasant, far-right, anti-abortion group in Ireland: http://www.conorfarrell.com/wordpress/social-issues/the

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