2012-09-27 (Thursday)
Links
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Chrome Web Store - Postman - REST Client
No idea if there are other/better options, but this has been very useful for making POST requests etc.
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Learnable Programming
Beautifully done and lovely essay on programming languages, programming environments and how programming should be taught. “Typing in the code to draw a static shape is not programming! It’s merely a very cumbersome form of illustration.” (via many tweets)
Tweets
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WasThatIdeaOnTEDOrKickstarter,com
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What’s the German compound noun for “The feeling of knowing that specific old coding decisions will eventually come back to bite you”?
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@GuyP Go for it! It’s not like they’re my pics in the first place. Thanks for asking, and the credit/link.
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@alicebartlett @abscond Need pic of the Pod Crew posing with gang signs and detox boxes.
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“If your company had a one-word mission statement, it would be” “What is the last name of your company’s first accountant?” This is broken.
Liked tweets
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Worried about talk of LibDems opting for Plan B to fix the ecomony. It's like the time the UN took Steps to resolve the Bosnian conflict.
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Inner city life. instagr.am/p/QE5qttE9h2/