Spencer Mathews spencermathews

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

This gist lets you keep IPython notebooks in git repositories. It tells git to ignore prompt numbers and program outputs when checking that a file has changed.

To use the script, follow the instructions given in the script's docstring.

For further details, read this blogpost.

The procedure outlined here is inspired by this answer on Stack Overflow.

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# Expand save panel by default
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true

Did you know...

...that git lets you move and rename whole directories while preserving the git history of those files?

If you run

git read-tree --prefix=$NEW_PATH -u master:$OLD_PATH
rm -rf $OLD_PATH
# ...you probably want to change some imports...
git commit -m $MESSAGE

Please petition Github to support HTTPS on github pages: https://github.com/contact

Here's what I wrote:

Obviously, a lot of people want HTTPS for github pages:

isaacs/github#156

Until recently, that would be difficult to implement but, as it turns out, the implementation is pretty much complete:

https://letsencrypt.org >* https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview

	/*
	* Easing.pde - brings Robert Penner's easing functions into Processing
	* (c) 2015 cocopon.
	*
	* See the following to learn more about these famous functions:
	* http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/
	*
	* License:
	* http://www.robertpenner.com/easing_terms_of_use.html
	*/

	<!doctype html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">

	<title>
	{% if page.title %}
	{{ page.title }} \| {{ site.title }}
	{% else %}
	{{ site.title }}

	import requests

	doarama_api_url = "https://www.doarama.com/api/0.2"
	doarama_params = {'api-name': 'MY_API_NAME', 'api-key': 'MY_API_KEY', 'Accept': 'application/JSON'}

	# Query Activity Types
	r = requests.get(doarama_api_url+"/activityType", headers=doarama_params)
	print("Doarama Activity Types: {}".format(r.text))

	# Test Upload Activity

	# This borrows heavily from:
	# http://jsfiddle.net/Rebug/5uLr7s6o/
	#
	# Resulting gif:
	# http://dailydrawbot.tumblr.com/post/134989689114/an-archimedean-spherical-spiral

	import math
	import colorsys

	def circle(pt, radius):

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Libraries for a modern geospatial workflow

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