/ Recent content in Home on mwq's tech notes Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2018/08/30/markdown-guide-modified/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2018/08/30/markdown-guide-modified/ An h1 header Paragraphs are separated by a blank line. 2nd paragraph. Italic, bold, and monospace. Itemized lists look like: this one that one the other one Note that — not considering the asterisk — the actual text content starts at 4-columns in. Block quotes are written like so. They can span multiple paragraphs, if you like. Use 3 dashes for an em-dash. Use 2 dashes for ranges (ex. /post/2012/04/23/hacker-with-horn/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2012/04/23/hacker-with-horn/ Hacker with bullhorn: “Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!” Prospective station wagon buyer: “I know what you say is true…but…er…I don’t know how to maintain a tank!” Bullhorn: “You don’t know how to maintain a station wagon either!” Buyer: “But this dealership has mechanics on staff. /post/2012/03/12/command-line-awesomeness/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2012/03/12/command-line-awesomeness/ This crud is called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and it is basically a very simple programming language instructing your web browser how to draw a page on a screen. Anyone can learn HTML and many people do. The important thing is that no matter what splendid multimedia web pages they might represent, HTML files are just telegrams. When Ronald Reagan was a radio announcer, he used to call baseball games by reading the terse descriptions that trickled in over the telegraph wire and were printed out on a paper tape. /post/2012/01/23/juicy-code/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2012/01/23/juicy-code/ Check out this JUICY! code: def with_value_from_database(value) self.class.from_database(name, value, type) end def with_cast_value(value) self.class.with_cast_value(name, value, type) end def with_type(type) if changed_in_place? with_value_from_user(value).with_type(type) else self.class.new(name, value_before_type_cast, type, original_attribute) end end