@pigshell

unix philosophy for the web

 Pune, India
pigshell.com
Joined August 2012
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@pigshell running a `ls -alR` in my Google Drive was astoundingly valuable. Enormous thanks for making this happen.
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New Radar post: do one thing and do it well. About the demise of the Unix tools philosophy in the web world. oreil.ly/1Ndzayn
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Some people, when confronted with an HTML parsing problem, think, "I know, I'll use hgrep!" Now they have -1 problems.
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hgrep - search HTML with CSS selectors. e.g. curl -s news.ycombinator.com | hgrep -a href ".athing .title > a" github.com/pigshell/hgrep
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Into his face had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which meant @pigshell had been HNed again news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Hacked up a Qt VNC plugin which lets any Qt app run headless, accessible remotely via VNC. github.com/pigshell/qtbase

GitHub - pigshell/qtbase: VNC platform plugin for Qt 5

VNC platform plugin for Qt 5. Contribute to pigshell/qtbase development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com
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This is spectacular deadpan snark. Pay attention to fine print annotations. welcometobusinesstown.tumblr…
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My Chrome UNIXy pipes extension: github.com/cantino/chrome_pi…
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pigshell retweeted
deech@deech1 Feb 2015
I'm a 10x engineer, where x is my original estimate.
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Paul Ford@ftrain18 Jul 2014
When I am knee-deep in project mess this is what everything I read looks like:
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.@sciencecomic: never start a project expecting it to be your magnum opus; you'll never be satisfied, never launch it #passproj #sciwri14
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Don't Gollum your projects. They are not "your precious" you need to share them to make them successful @sciencecomic #sciwri14 #passproj
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Nice, data plumbing. ht @britt ... cc @pigshell @tubelite @dchudz dat-data.com/
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Re "Perfection achieved when nothing left to take away": Perfect = shark. Awesome = Shark with frickin' laser beam attached to head.
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Creates opening for more laissez-faire Montessori UX and products and devolve decisions to oppressed users subject to arbitrary authoritah.
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Designers: authoritarian by default. Want to fully control UX for idealized "adult citizen" and K-12 type "new user schooling" for adoption.
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New post: Introducing MakeDrive, an offline-first, syncing filesystem for the web blog.humphd.org/introducing-… cc @brackets
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Map of Indian voter sex ratio using 2014 election data. Sharp, shocking regional variation. bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/6f29…
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Hand-crafted IP packets with Form RFC 791: "Print legibly and press hard. You are making up to 255 copies."
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Less is always more. Fantastic old lego ad by Blattner Brunner.
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