Dave Jacoby

Long time computer user. Long time programmer.

Indiana, US Joined on Feb 22, 2017 https://jacoby.github.io/

Education

BS CS, Purdue

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Dave Jacoby

Nov 17 '21

I Met A Var That Wasn’t There: Return of the Spectre of Unicode in Perl

3 min read

Yet Another Perl Switch Statement

I was going to say that you can't get fall-through with /matc...

Mar 23

13 reasons why you should not use Perl

Getting things from experimental to in and from deprecated to...

Oct 25 '21

When things are back to normal, will you be working from home or in an office?

The office is half a continent away, and of the devs, I think...

Jun 30 '20

How long does it typically take to be productive in a new job?

I've been in the new position for six months. The first three...

Jun 29 '20

What bad habit do you have because you learned an approach before a better idea came along?

I dunno if "habit" is the correct term, but I'm a dyed-in-the...

Jun 29 '20

✨Awesome fonts to code 💻

I'll throw in that Cascadia Code comes with Cascadia Mono, if...

Jun 22 '20

What do you call your folder where you keep your code?

In general, ~/dev, because I'm not generally inclined to use ...

Jun 22 '20

Should programming be taught in schools?

I think I'm maybe 80% with you. I don't think that high-schoo...

Jun 22 '20

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Dave Jacoby

Nov 17 '21

“Won’t SOMEBODY Think Of The Children?!?!?”: The Spectre of Unicode in Perl

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

May 22 '20

What Do Front-End Devs Think About Safari?

#discuss #safari #webdev

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Dave Jacoby

Oct 24 '19

Transitioning from Ubuntu/Windows+WSL to Mac?

#tools #dev #transition

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Oct 8 '19

MAC and Me: How Many MAC Addresses Are On Me Right Now?

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Sep 19 '19

Scripting the Dropbox API

3 min read

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Sep 13 '19

Scaled Vector Graphics on the Web for Fun and ?

2 min read

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Jul 24 '19

Playing with Windows Terminal

#windowsterminal #windows

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Jul 20 '19

My Shame

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Jun 27 '19

I did an xargs!

#xargs #unix #commandline

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Dave Jacoby

Jun 23 '19

"Perl Out Loud", or another way to handle RSI

#rsi #voice #ergonomics #video

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May 30 '19

Stable Sort and Ways Around It

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Mar 25 '19

More fun with Javascript Arrays: reimplementing Uniq

4 min read

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Mar 18 '19

Javascript Array(): WAT?

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Mar 15 '19

Reminding Myself and Others about DST with Perl

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Feb 7 '19

Namespaces and Javascript: I Don’t Know What I’m Doing

#javascript #namespaces

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Dave Jacoby

Oct 27 '18

Javascript and JSON.stringify: It Almost Comes Correct

#json

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Oct 27 '18

Semiconductors - the Bottom-most Turtle

2 min read

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Sep 19 '18

The Ethics of Maintenance Code?

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Sep 12 '18

Is using vim an antipattern?

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Sep 4 '18

Networking, Netmask and Why My Phone Could Not Connect

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Aug 30 '18

Fighting the Bus Factor with Log::Log4Perl

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jun 26 '18

Is This Snowflake Code?

#identation #formatting

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Dave Jacoby

Jun 21 '18

What The Perl Conference 2018 Made Me Do

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jun 9 '18

Since that last one was severely without Higher Order code…

#perl

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Dave Jacoby

Jun 9 '18

Quick Hacks and Higher Order Programming

#perl

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Apr 26 '18

HTTP_DNT: ‘1’ - What To Do?

3 min read

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Apr 19 '18

Travelling Salesman Portrait - A Variation

3 min read

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Mar 26 '18

How and Why I Track Coffee

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Jan 29 '18

On Non-Zero Offsets

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Dave Jacoby

Jan 8 '18

Seeking an In-Depth Linux-To-Windows Translation

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jan 2 '18

Drawing Grids with Perl and SVG

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Dec 13 '17

“Do I Want To Use Windows Subsystem For Linux?”

#linux #windows

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Dave Jacoby

Nov 7 '17

No Stupid Questions: Just One Programming Language?

#nostupidquestion

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Dave Jacoby

Aug 1 '17

"No Stupid Questions: Ones and Zeroes"

#nostupidquestion

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Yet Another Perl Switch Statement

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How long does it typically take to be productive in a new job?

What bad habit do you have because you learned an approach *before* a better idea came along?

✨Awesome fonts to code 💻

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Should programming be taught in schools?

What bad habit do you have because you learned an approach before a better idea came along?