Tag: technology
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The Greatly Exaggerated Death of Perl
Perl is great. I would not say I am an expert at it, but I have been working with this fascinating programming language for a number of years that it’s become something close to a reflex.So it’s not exactly neutral territory when someone tells me Perl is dying; it gets under my skin every time…
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One Narrow Patch: Staying Ready in the Comfort of Your Niche?
Specializing in a niche software field offers job security and develops strong interpersonal skills through direct user interaction. However, deep expertise in a narrow area can lead to career vulnerability if market demands shift. Specialized professionals risk finding their experience disconnected from broader technological trends and current hiring needs.
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Reclaim Your Terminal: How Lazygit Supercharges Your Git Workflow
Finding the right tools for your development workflow is a constant struggle, and Git tooling is no exception. Despite the plethora of Git clients available, none of them ever felt quite right. For a while, I settled on GitFiend. It worked well enough, but my workflow was still not quite right: I’d use the GUI…
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PCL – Centering Variable-width Text (Still Stuck with PCL? Read On.)
If you’ve ever had to deal with PCL (Printer Command Language), you’ll know the pain: there’s no command to center text. Some printers support HPGL commands embedded in a PCL file, but not all. If you’re printing predefined text, you can work out measurements and use absolute positioning. Easy enough. But when your text is…
