Dave Jacoby

Long time computer user. Long time programmer.

Indiana, US Joined on Feb 22, 2017

Education

BS CS, Purdue

Work

Developer

Dave Jacoby

May 22

#discussWhat Do Front-End Devs Think About Safari?

#safari #discuss #webdev

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Recent Comments

re: When things are back to normal, will you be working from home or in an office? Jun 30

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

re: How long does it typically take to be productive in a new job? Jun 29

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

re: What bad habit do you have because you learned an approach *before* a better idea came along? Jun 29

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

re: ✨Awesome fonts to code 💻 Jun 22

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

re: What do you call your folder where you keep your code? Jun 22

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

re: Should programming be taught in schools? Jun 22

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

re: What are some misconceptions about web development? Jun 22

Just dropping into add that you can solve FizzBuzz with just ...

re: Should programming be taught in schools? Jun 19

In the abstract, yes, teach programming in school. It's an ap...

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

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Sep 13 '19

Scaled Vector Graphics on the Web for Fun and ?

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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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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

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Mar 25 '19

More fun with Javascript Arrays: reimplementing Uniq

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Mar 18 '19

Javascript Array(): WAT?

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Mar 15 '19

Reminding Myself and Others about DST with Perl

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Feb 7 '19

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

#javascript #namespaces

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Oct 27 '18

Javascript and JSON.stringify: It Almost Comes Correct

#json

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Oct 27 '18

Semiconductors - the Bottom-most Turtle

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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

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Aug 30 '18

Fighting the Bus Factor with Log::Log4Perl

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Jun 26 '18

Is This Snowflake Code?

#identation #formatting

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Jun 21 '18

What The Perl Conference 2018 Made Me Do

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Jun 9 '18

Since that last one was severely without Higher Order code…

#perl

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Jun 9 '18

Quick Hacks and Higher Order Programming

#perl

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Apr 26 '18

HTTP_DNT: ‘1’ - What To Do?

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Apr 19 '18

Travelling Salesman Portrait - A Variation

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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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Jan 8 '18

Seeking an In-Depth Linux-To-Windows Translation

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Jan 2 '18

Drawing Grids with Perl and SVG

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Dec 13 '17

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

#linux #windows

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Nov 7 '17

No Stupid Questions: Just One Programming Language?

#nostupidquestion

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Aug 1 '17

"No Stupid Questions: Ones and Zeroes"

#nostupidquestion

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