jashkenas

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

jedy

// https://blogs.oracle.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works
package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"golang.org/x/crypto/ssh"
)

const privateKey = `content of id_rsa`

doitian

namespace :deploy do
  task :setup_solr_data_dir do
    run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/solr/data"
  end
end

namespace :solr do
  desc "start solr"
  task :start, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do 
    run "cd #{current_path} && RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} bundle exec sunspot-solr start --port=8983 --data-directory=#{shared_path}/solr/data --pid-dir=#{shared_path}/pids"

friggeri

haiku = ->
  adjs = [
    "autumn", "hidden", "bitter", "misty", "silent", "empty", "dry", "dark",
    "summer", "icy", "delicate", "quiet", "white", "cool", "spring", "winter",
    "patient", "twilight", "dawn", "crimson", "wispy", "weathered", "blue",
    "billowing", "broken", "cold", "damp", "falling", "frosty", "green",
    "long", "late", "lingering", "bold", "little", "morning", "muddy", "old",
    "red", "rough", "still", "small", "sparkling", "throbbing", "shy",
    "wandering", "withered", "wild", "black", "young", "holy", "solitary",
    "fragrant", "aged", "snowy", "proud", "floral", "restless", "divine",