Micah on December 23rd, 2008

I’m pretty picky when it comes to how I look at my code.  My tastes might even be a bit unique — I like things really small, colorful (earth-toned rainbow), and highly differentiated.  There are so many things that I value in a scheme that I decided to try and collect them here.  I use [...]

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Micah on December 22nd, 2008

It’s amazing how many different purposes there are for code comments.  Most comments are treated the same by compilers/interpreters — ignored.  But humans have their own semantics based on some established conventions.  And “meta-processors” also do a lot with these; e.g., generating documentation, running tests, executing debug statements, locating tickets, assigning to variables, syntax highlighting [...]

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Micah on December 19th, 2008

I’ve been spending way too much time trying out WordPress themes. Most have needed some tweaking, and very few meet my needs. I expect that my needs are not unique, but a lot of themes are really lacking in some important areas. This list tries to capture the accommodations my ideal theme would satisfy. Picture [...]

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