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Ordered by year and discovery date.

2018

Smart Caps Lock: Remap to Control AND Escape (Linux, Mac, Windows)

把 Caps Lock 變成智慧的 Control 以及 Escape ：

單獨輕按一下就是 Escape 。
若按下時同時按著其他鍵，就會是 Control 。

這應該是 Vim 和 Emacs 的最佳解了！(Emacs? Bash 的快捷鍵就是 Emacs 系列的)

Send Escape if you tap Caps Lock alone.

NOTE: a more up-to-date version of this can be found on my blog

nix-shell and Shebang Lines

A few days ago, version 1.9 of the Nix package manager was released. From the release notes:

nix-shell can now be used as a #!-interpreter. This allows you to write scripts that dynamically fetch their own dependencies.

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

This blog post series has moved here.

You might also be interested in the 2016 version.

Haskell Style Guide for Elm

Goal: a consistent style throughout all Elm projects that is easy to read and produces clean diffs to make debugging easier. This means valuing regularity and simplicity over cleverness.

Line Length

Keep it under 80 characters. Going over is not the end of the world, but consider refactoring before you decide a line really must be longer.

	{-# language PackageImports #-}
	import Control.Monad
	import "ghcjs-dom" GHCJS.DOM.Document (getBody)
	import GHCJS.DOM.EventM (on, preventDefault)
	import GHCJS.DOM.GlobalEventHandlers (keyDown)
	import Reflex.Dom hiding (preventDefault)
	import Web.KeyCode

	main :: IO ()
	main = mainWidget $ do

	--------------------------
	-- CORE LIBRARY IMPORTS --
	--------------------------
	import Task exposing (Task, ThreadID, andThen, sequence, succeed, spawn)
	import Json.Decode exposing (Decoder, list, int, string, (:=), map, object2)
	import Signal exposing (Signal, Mailbox, mailbox, send)
	import List

	---------------------------------
	-- THIRD PARTY LIBRARY IMPORTS --

	data Query = Query
	data SomeObj = SomeObj
	data IoOnlyObj = IoOnlyObj
	data Err = Err

	-- There's a decoder function that makes some object from String
	decodeFn :: String -> Either Err SomeObj
	decodeFn = undefined

	-- There's a query, that runs against DB and returns array of strings

	:set prompt "> "
	:set -isrc
	:load Main