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If you work with docker containers, you would have noticed the quirky names that docker generates for your containers. Ever wondered how they are generated?

Sounds familiar? A friend encountered it recently.

Mutating table problem from within a row level trigger on running a SELECT on the same table.

A friend introduced me to scratch today. I wrote a trivial program with it - A plane falling down on an unassuming unaware kitty, with sound effects of course.

Read an article on Haaretz last year. Sadly can’t find the link online anymore. Thankfully, I had the gist copied elsewhere.

If you are a programmer, it would’nt be an exaggeration to say that at least half of your life is spent within an editor. You are in your element within the editor. It’s the programmer’s domain where he/she creates something out of nothing, in a manner of speaking. Given this, it is really really important for a programmer to be the master of the editor he/she works with on a daily basis.

The JS1K winner has been announced. The entry is described in detail in a post by the programmer here.

Crude yet working one-liner; Add to your favorite .rc file and Enjoy!

Strawberries and Cream.

Oh yeah, that was what I felt like having today; that very english summer delicacy. But alas, neither do we have strawberries lying around nor cream. Driven by my desire to sample this delectable delicacy (and not finding it close at hand), I ended up searching (yes, yes – google search – the bane of this generation and others to come) for it; and voila, stumbled upon some prose – the kind of which we don’t come across anymore.

Reprinted from a veritable Perl/Tcl vs Scheme flame war of yore; of course without permission

In Thud, the dwarf Bashfullsson says “I need no axe to be a dwarf, Nor do I need to hate trolls. What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?”.