Pointless code, dictatorships, 'auth' is overloaded, and Dust
10 Jun 2024Useful pointless code
Read on to realize that the expression False if x is False else x is actually brillant and not from somebody who missed their morning cup of coffee. It’s a very short read!
Article: https://www.tonymottaz.com/blog/code-for-computers-and-humans/
Guidelines for dictators
The author is the (BDFL) Benevolent Dictator for Life for the cURL project. These are his guidelines, which I think are applicable to all BDFL’s but the author makes a point of saying that this is just his list.
Article: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/27/my-bdfl-guiding-principles/
Stop saying “auth”
An argument to break “auth” into “login” and “permissions”.
Article: https://ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-instead-of-auth/
Dust
A du replacement which visualizes disk utilization. In my experience it’s much faster than du and outputs a nice CLI graphic showing a bar chart of directory and file sizes. Sidenote: I learned of this tool from my friend dustin…