The Ruby Wizardry book translation into Ukrainian is published!

Quite often I end up with the need to quickly visualize information in a terminal as a histogram or a chart of some sort. Here are three methods I use most often.

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Problem: trying to connect to a remote server with mosh you see error messages like:

mosh-client needs a UTF-8 native locale to run.
mosh-server needs a UTF-8 native locale to run.
The locale requested by LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 isn't available here.
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

OR when connecting with ssh from iTerm2 you get the error message

-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory

Google Photos on iOS does not have a slideshow function! 😱 They did however roll out a new designed and killed off For You feature.

This is just a quick note for how to make Home and End keys behave sensibly, i.e. take you to the beginning or end of a line:

Wonderful Burns’ epigram in Marshak’s translation:

Today I’ve stumbled upon an amusing post “Software disenchantment” by Nikita Tonski which resonated with me quite a bit. The following fragment in particular:

This is Glibov’s Pike poem in Ukrainian

Interesting information on ideological placement of various news outlets by Washington Post:

For the Nth time have found myself referring back to an exceptionally vivid infographics on how many Ukrainians have ever been abroad:

I was a big fan of standard linux terminal colour palette. Initially, the default was a saturated version and later it shifted to pastel colours. I still enjoy the way it looks – bright and clear; it also works great if you are giving a demo over a beamer, opposed to dark backgrounds.

While everybody on the internet seem to be concerned with how to turn off emoji auto-substitution in Messages, I’m quite fond of it. Here is the list of working shortcuts for emojis:

Just a quick thought on multitasking in SA (or DevOps, if you prefer). There is a common knowledge that multitasking is bad, it hurts your performance, quality, and whatnot.

He [Galton] even measured the life spans of sovereigns and clergymen, which, being similar to the lifespans of people in other professions, led him to conclude that prayer brought no benefit.
– Leonard Mlodinov

Mlodinov’s “The Drunkard’s Walk…” is a fantastically good book. I couldn’t pull myself away of it, I’d read it in the morning before the work starts and right after I wrap it up for a day. A captivating overview of mathematics of chance, randomness, and statistics put in a very comprehensible form and language, intertwined with amusing digressions into history of mathematical thought, it connects randomness with our everyday life. Scientific American’s comment reflect my feelings: “Delightfully entertaining”.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Writing is nature’s way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is.

My, when would they finally invent a direct connection interface from a brain to computer? Can’t wait, really.

Putting my favourite vim cheat sheet here, so that I don’t have to plough through google results next time I need to recall how to use named registers.

No links today. The only thoughts are with those on the Maindan who gave their lives to the future of Ukraine.

Acronyms are new words formed from the initial letters (or parts) of a series of words, such as RAM from random access memory, and radar from radio detecting and ranging. Initialisms are a similar sort of abbreviation but are pronounced by saying each letter separately, for example BBC, VHS, and the FYI of this post’s title. The distinction, BTW, is not always strictly observed – initialisms are often loosely called acronyms. This imprecision is rarely problematic, but it’s good to know the difference. HTH.

This week: technology links and some other interesting articles.

This week: technology links and a chart with sunlight hours.

This week: technology links and Stephen Fry’s open letter.

This week: technology links and some English titbits.

This week: technology links, algorithm courses, bootstrap goodies, and Ukrainian IT.

This week: technology links and AmE vs BrE talk.

Всім привіт!

Викладаю презентацію до лекції “По дорозі з хмарками”, якою я читав у Львівській Політехніці 14-го березня. Нажаль, через технічні проблеми з проектором мені не вдалося показати все, що я планував. Однак я сподіваюся, що зможу включити цю частину у іншу свою лекцію про системне адміністрування.

Привіт!

Презентація з лекції “Ruby on Rails”, яку читала Іра Заяць у Львівський Політехніці в середу, 22 лютого.

Всім привіт!

Викладаю презентацію до лекції “Роздуми про критичне мислення”, якою ми відкривали цикл наших лекцій у Львівській Політехніці 1-го лютого.

Привіт!

Презентація з лекції “Магія SQL”, яку читала Леся Гой у Львівський Політехніці в середу, 15 лютого.

Всім привіт!

Викладаю презентацію до лекції “За лаштунками співбесіди”, яку я читав у Львівській Політехніці.

Після моєї лекції у Львівській політехніці на EJF 2011 я отримав багато відгуків і тому викладую деякі матеріали, які, на мою думку, будуть корисні тим, кого зачепила та розповідь.

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