Archive: 2014-08

• 2014-08-29

  Scottish banknotes

  Million-pound banknotes exist, as do hundred-million-pound ones. They’re used to back the notes issued by commercial banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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• 2014-08-29

  Adding to the default Rake task

  You have a Rails app with a Rakefile. When you type rake, it runs all the tests (or specs if you prefer). You want it to do something else as well: let’s say you want to run RuboCop on your codebase.

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• 2014-08-26

  Keep Ruby Weird

  My talk proposal for Keep Ruby Weird was accepted, so I’ll be in Austin, Texas at the end of October, speaking about (human language) writing systems.

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• 2014-08-26

  First they came for our vacuum cleaners …

  The evil, domineering, nanny-state EU wants to BAN powerful vacuum cleaners! Cue shock, horror, xenophobic outrage etc.

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• 2014-08-19

  A proposal for renaming Greenland pier

  Greenland pier is confusingly named, but I think there’s a reasonable alternative with historical provenance.

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