post-ideas.md

Post ideas

• Exact behaviours of GitHub action triggers; are they AND or OR?
• Git mailmap post
• Write about experience in Stack Overflow user research for Collectives
• Summary of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" (requires Pages feature)
• Review of "Where Wizards Stay Up Late"
• Review of "The Idea Factory"
• Review of "No Rules Rules"
• Review of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications"
• Book reading plans for 2023

Up next

Fleshed out

The origins of IMDb

Resources:

• alt.rec.movies on Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/alt.rec.movies
• posts by or mentioning Cal Needham: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.arts.movies/cal$20needham%7Csort:date
• Movie database scripts v1.5: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.arts.movies/the$20list$20script$20needham%7Csort:date/rec.arts.movies/76OAGleQOvQ/SFYP2GaOEOsJ
• "Is there a program?" thread with what probably is the first script: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.arts.movies/the$20list$20script$20needham|sort:date/rec.arts.movies/AjlyJPK2PU4/bX9k-EYpPwkJ
• Wiki entry for shar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar
• Man page for shar: https://linux.die.net/man/1/shar

Just topics

• From for loop with cat/grep to just grep, and on to

  printf | xargs grep
  find | xargs
  find -exec
  find -exec {}
  find | xargs -P
  parallel

  and -print0 versions, too

• Why story points shouldn't take into account experience of the person working: it normalizes by team capacity

• That beautiful Git alias to delete stale local branches

• Dotfiles setup

• Passive aggressive Slack message about specific incident, compare to fly open and say "hey everybody, check your flies" (Radical Candor)

• Solarizing everything

• An annotated CLI reading list

• Underdocumented Bash features

• A Git aware prompt

• Watching all of Star Trek (in production order)

• Bash loadable builtins

• What's new in Bash 5.1