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  1. How to Skim a Pull Request

    A list of keywords that give us pause.

    Mike Burns
    February 13, 2017
    • Code
    • Ruby
  2. Solve Problems, not Strawmen

    Avoid applying solutions in a vacuum.

    Mike Burns
    December 19, 2016
    • Playbook
  3. Fuck Bullshit

    We cut through the nonsense of the daily world.

    Mike Burns
    May 12, 2016
    • Business
  4. Announcing pick

    Fuzzy select anything.

    Calle Erlandsson and Mike Burns
    March 10, 2015
    • News
    • Open Source
    • Unix
    • C
  5. You Could Invent Object-Oriented Programming

    In which we recreate OO using lambdas and closures.

    Mike Burns
    December 18, 2014
    • Closure
    • Lisp
    • OOP
  6. Meditations on a Class Method

    I keep a file of code I like. When looking for inspiration, I read through...

    Mike Burns
    July 31, 2014
    • Web
    • Good Code
    • Ruby
  7. An Explained psqlrc

    Let’s walk through my short psqlrc(5) to see what I’ve set, and to inspire...

    Mike Burns
    July 24, 2014
    • Web
    • PostgreSQL
  8. rcm, an rc file manager

    Announcing a new open source library, rcm, for managing dotfiles.

    Mike Burns
    February 6, 2014
    • Unix
    • Open Source
  9. Anti-Pattern: Iteratively Building a Collection

    How Ruby’s Enumerable module can turn lengthy, verbose iterations into clear abstractions.

    Mike Burns
    November 25, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
  10. No Newline at End of File

    Have you ever seen “No newline at end of file” in your git diffs? Us, too....

    Mike Burns
    November 15, 2013
    • Unix
    • Vim
    • Git
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