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What Font Do You Program With?

A review of default programming fonts, including Menlo, Consolas, and Monospace – with an overview of monospacing, character distinction, licensing, & more.

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Are You Smarter Than the Compiler?

Is it worth using your cognitive processing to worry about optimization when your compiler is so good?

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Parallelize Development Using Git Worktrees

Gits worktrees give you an extra working copy of your repository, and setting one up is almost as easy as creating a new branch.

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Exploring UIStackView Distribution Types

Exploring the five UIStackView distribution types: Fill, Fill Equally, Fill Proportionally, Equal Spacing, and Equal Centering.

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Take Your Emacs to the Next Level by Writing Custom Packages

How to write an Emacs package with Emacs Lisp, then publish it to MELPA, using the example of a Mocha test runner.

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Parallelizing Ember Tests Across CI Workers

CircleCI's parallel testing is great, but it was a little tricky to get it working with Ember tests. Here's how we did it.

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Fill and Space Content Evenly in a UIStackView

How to set the content inside a UIStackView to fill equally and have proper spacing in between your controls.

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Up Your Logging Game with Improved Log Management Tools

There is no reason for most projects to use plain text logs. So which log management tool is best for you – Graylog or Loggly?

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Everyday Vim – A Basic Vim Commands Cheat Sheet

Vim can still be super helpful if all you know is a few commands. So I’ve compiled a few of the Vim commands that I use every day.

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Rigging up Sublime Text for Clojure Development

My Sublime Text 3 setup for Clojure, tuned to conquer the oh-so-many parens and the build-and-test workflow provided via Leiningen.

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How to Pass Data to an iOS Container View

Learn how to pass data from your parent view controller to a child view controller using container views.

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Reduce Cognitive Overhead by Automating with GNU Make

Make is boring, and omnipresent. Because it integrates with whatever shell you're using, it's easy to write a thin wrapper around an existing toolchain.

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