Robin Sloan robinsloan

In other ways too the day was a revelation to Neel. He had never witnessed a battle before and was profoundly affected by what he saw. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: years and years of preparation, decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future and even, in a sense, changing the past, or at least the general understanding of it. It astonished him that he had not recognized before the terrible power that was contained within these wrinkles in time -- a power that could mould the lives of those who came afterwards for generation after generation. He remembered how, when reading of long-ago battles like Panipat and Plassey, he had thought of them as immeasurably distant from his own life, a matter of quaint uniforms and old-fashioned weaponry. Only now did it occur to him that it was on battlefields such as those that his own pl

	# http://batsov.com/articles/2013/08/30/using-gsub-with-a-block/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email

	# num will be passed the string '12'

	"Apollo 12".gsub(/\d+/) { \|num\| num.to_i.next }
	# => "Apollo 13"

	# string yielded to block is always entire match; can't do matched groups at \|m1, m2\| etc.

	Believe It



	Hard to believe that, after all of it,

	in bed for good now, knowing you haven’t done

	one thing of any lasting benefit

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<title>~crm</title>
	<style>
	body {
	max-width: 600px;
	margin: 0 auto;

	require "rubygems"
	require "google_calendar"

	require "date"
	require "prime"

	# Create an instance of the calendar.
	cal = Google::Calendar.new(:client_id => "foo"
	:client_secret => "bar",
	:calendar => "blee",

	=begin README

	Here's what this script does:

	1. checks a Gmail inbox
	2. finds attachments (which it expects to be WAV files)
	3. pipes them through Google's voice transcription service
	4. emails you the results

	I use it with the Instacorder iPhone app for a super-fast, push-to-talk

	def doctorize(string)
	string.gsub(/M(iste)?r/, 'Mister' => 'Doctor', 'Mr' => 'Dr')
	end

	// for functions.php

	function em_dash_filter($content) {
	# add to css: .nobr { whitespace: nowrap; }
	return preg_replace('/(\w+)(—\|—\|—)/', '<span class="nobr">$1$2</span><wbr>', $content);
	}

	add_filter( "the_content", "em_dash_filter" );