Terminal support for emoji
Terminals and emoji don't play nicely together.
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emoji | terminals | unicode | python
Unicode & emoji 🚀
An example-rich introduction to Unicode and how emoji are represented using codepoints.
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emoji | unicode | python
Conditionally Creating Terraform Resources
You can conditionally create a Terraform resource using the 'count' meta-argument and the ternary operator.
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til | terraform | cloud
AWS Scaling - The ELB Surge Queue
During large surges in traffic Elastic Load Balancers take time to spin up new compute in order to handle the sudden increase in load.
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til | aws | elb | scaling | cloud
Learning to Create Video Games
A visual dive into the things I've built, and what I've learnt in my first couple of weeks of working with Unity.
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gamedev | unity | beginners | learning
Power Up Your Command Line IV
A showcase of 5 command line tools you can use to speed up your workflows.
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command line | productivity | tips
The Piece Table
When you open a file in your text editor, the contents are read from disk and into a data structure in memory. If you were to write a text editor, how would you store an open file in memory?
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datastructures | beginners | tutorial
8 Productivity Tips for Github
A collection of tips and tricks that'll improve your GitHub productivity.
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git | github | productivity | tips
Power Up Your Command Line III
This is part three of the Power Up Your Command Line series. In this article I’ll showcase five utilities that will make common problems a little easier to solve using the command line.
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command line | productivity | tips
Power Up Your Command Line II
Showcasing more of my favourite lesser-known command line tools.
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productivity | command line | tips
Power Up Your Command Line
A showcase of some of the best non-standard command line tools I've discovered in recent years. If you use the command line, you'll probably find at least one item on this page that will make your life easier.
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productivity | command line | tips
Improving The Readability Of Pytest Output (With Colour!)
Exploring how we can use a lesser known part of the Python standard library and the pytest plugin system to output colourful diffs similar to those seen in testing frameworks for languages such as Elixir and JavaScript.
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testing | python | pytest | projects
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