This Week’s Program: Oct 19 - Oct 23

Greetings from Philadelphia! I’m here celebrating a momentous family occasion. This is my first time testing the waters of keeping the streak going whilst traveling. It’s been a pretty low-key week for code, and that’s fine! I count blogging as coding for the purposes of the streak. I write my blog posts in Markdown in Emacs so it at least looks like I’m writing code. That should count! Also, when I’m not feeling programming it’s nice to escape into prose, where only jerks yell about my syntax and I can get away with not writing tests.

mwunsch.github.io: 2f2be91bbef3f601670fac26dbe1c32219eef4e1

Some SCSS and Liquid markup to support displaying tags in my tumblelog post.

mwunsch.github.io: 996d6e4597a5a29f0a73b7142c6a60422f04203a

When you write code, stuff like this can be thrilling. Publishing post tags to Tumblr through POSSE is a one-line addition. 💥

mwunsch.github.io: a5dcc66b4a9ecde6151f340d3bf1a46e8e340d17

I published a blog post about my migration to Emacs.

flaggrocrag: 5c7e09be0ecd3c1d790037acc2e00ddaaf8307ee

This week I also Open Sourced a small project I built at my job. Flaggrocrag is a git-aware feature flagging system. We’ve had a lot of problems with our Feature Toggle system. In our last hack week, I took a few days to sketch out Flaggrocrag. I think my approach is pretty clever. Basically, I use GitHub Flavored Markdown documents and parse feature flags out from a Git Blame. A git repository is a handy little graph database, you know. The project is in RFC-mode internally, but I figured why not release this to the world. The Apache license is just fine but I’m Not a Lawyer.

Hey let me know what you think about all this code and this TinyLetter.

TTFN
- Mark