Stage `git status` output in one go.

Here is a nice little command to stage multiple modified files in a Git project in one go. git add $(git status -s | cut -c 4-) The  -s flag tells the status sub-command to output the results in short-format giving us a letter or "??" to indicate the file status followed…

Everything Isn't Good Enough

I recently had the pleasure of using a popular cloud base password database service as part of a migration. Upon sign-up, the website directed me to a page to either install their app or an extension. I was not interested in either but the page did not seem to provide…

We Are Not A Trophy

These days, it seems like everyone wants to have their say on the affairs of black people, perhaps not realizing the harm their uninformed opinions cause. No other continent in modern history has been treated like a helpless child unable to speak for itself or manage its affairs like Africa…

Mass Ignorance In The Age Of Cheap Knowledge

As a child in the 1990s, the World Book Encyclopedia and Childcraft series provided me with an escape. In one volume, I could learn about the moon and planets of our solar system, in another, the fate of the Dodo, and other victims of humanity. One book talked about various…

Use Cases For JavaScript Bitwise Operators

This article [https://blog.logrocket.com/interesting-use-cases-for-javascript-bitwise-operators/] by Glad Chinda [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gladchinda] came up while I was doing some research into ECMAScript numbers and bitwise operations for Potoo 3. It's quite helpful so I'm posting it here lest I forget it. Potoo 3 will be using…

Some Unicode Notes

Update: I added another useful post about Unicode thanks to this [https://twitter.com/iStarr/status/1195698464623079424] tweet. Every now and again I find myself reading up on character sets, usually when I'm doing some kind of heavy text processing. When I first started out programming I used to tell…