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Discover thought-provoking, funny, and insightful content by Filip Roséen — articles that make you say TIL, WTF, or LOL (sometimes all at once). A blend of programming, creativity, and humor for the curious mind.
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A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy.
Event designators have been hiding in not-so-plain-sight since the late 1970s - so powerful that forgetting might be part of a massive conspiracy to wear out developer keyboards faster than otherwise.
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A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway.
I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit. Latest thing that blew my head clean off? The shell colon.
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Why I stopped proofreading and started to listen
Proofreading is annoying and error-prone. Listening to your writing catches those mistakes which your brain and eyes are trying their very best to keep hidden.
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Once upon a time this blog was powered by make
Nostalgia meets wisdom. This article explores the freedom perhaps lost due to accumulated experience while discussing one of my many forgotten projects; a static site generator powered by a Makefile.
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The psychological cost of having an RSS feed
Implementing an RSS feed for your blog is an easy task for any developer, but have you ever thought about the dangers in doing so? In this article I will try to explain what broke my creative side, and why this blog (for now) does not have neither an atom
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