You’ve probably got a bunch of directories and subdirectories in your home folder that are organized logically, rather than a mess of top-level directories scattered all over the place. Although the former is cleaner and better organized, it also takes more time to get to where you’d like to be. Luckily, linux comes with /usr/bin/locate […]
I was on MDN when I noticed that Chrome’s V8 (at least) was little-endian, meaning that a hexadecimal number you’d write as 0xCAFEBABE is actually stored as BE BA FE CA if you read the bytes off memory. It made me wonder how you could most easily determine if your system is little or big […]
At the Daily Cal, we maintain a ton of CSS code for our website’s WordPress theme. But instead of using a single enormous stylesheet, we check in SASS files to version control which are recompiled on deployment (or for development testing). In one directory, we have a bunch of scss-type files like so: ./ ../ […]