Category Archives: programming

Programming howto’s, tutorials, informative posts about my open source (and closed source) projects, software engineering and design discussions and rants about the industry as a whole.

Every time you touch the UI you break someone’s workflow

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Luke Maciak   tein.co/17698

Let’s assume your app is currently in production, and has a non-trivial number of users. By non-trivial I mean a number that makes it impractical for you to write a personalized apology email to each and every single one of … Continue reading →

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LaTex: Continous Background Compilation

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Luke Maciak   tein.co/17224

What I’m about to propose here is a bit unconventional, but it really works for me. I’ve been doing a lot of front and back end web stuff lately and as a result every machine I own or work with … Continue reading →

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Scraping Reddit’s Json for Cool Pics

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Luke Maciak   tein.co/17172

Did you know that you can add /.json to any Reddit URL to get a machine readable JSON document you can screw around with? You can test it yourself. For example, go to /r/vim/.json. It works for pretty much any … Continue reading →

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