TL;DR: gci -r -fi <filename-pattern> My favorite use of find in bash is to find files whose name matches a pattern. For instance, find all the jar files under this directory: bash# find . -name ‘*.jar’ In PowerShell, there’s a program called “find” but it ain’t the same program. Short Answer Instead, use Get-ChildItem. The …
TL;DR: install docker and X410; docker run jessitron/alloy:5.1 The essential work in software development is forming a model in our heads of the system we want. The code is one expression of this model. The code can’t be stronger than this model. So I want a strong model: consistent, complete enough, and expressive. I decided …
When outcomes are hard to measure, we can measure activity toward those outcomes which gets us more activity which is a negative, really, for any given outcome. We’d like to have the same outcome for less effort. but when you measure and reward effort, instead we get maximum effort. What’s the alternative? If we want …
In software and in business, we don’t build up from specific subtasks. We build up from broader capabilities.
You can’t make Software. There is no “software”–there is only “software that…” or “software for…”. That’s like having a business around “writing.” Writing what?? Your writers are going to have to learn every topic they’re asked to write about. That’s either going to take a long time, involve very close collaboration with someone who does …
I have a principle now: no installing languages or tools or any project-specific stuff on my laptop. Only Docker. Every project can happily have its own version of Ruby or Python and their dependency managers. When my laptop gets lost again, I won’t spend (as many) weeks being surprised by what I need to install …
I don’t want to make my programs simpler. I want to them make them complicated instead of complex.
TL;DR – Remove-Item -Recurse -Force <path> On linuxy systems, rm -rf <path> means “remove this path and everything under it, dammit.” If the files aren’t writeable, but you own the files, it deletes them anyway. In PowerShell, rm is aliased to Remove-Item, but it doesn’t accept -rf. Windows Terminal> rm -rf fooRemove-Item : A parameter …
Here are 6 roles in collaborative decisionmaking. Which one are you? Who are you gonna fight with? What does this say about pull requests vs pair programming?
