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• Initial Thoughts on Data Engineering

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• On the way to conciliator 3.0

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• What’s Worse?

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• True Empowerment

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• One-liners

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• Lumen: A port of Blacklight to Scala and the Play framework

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• Announcing conciliator

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• The Myth of Artisanal Programming

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• Data Streams in Ruby

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• Getting OpenVPN to Add DNS Servers

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• Upgrading the Touchpad on a Thinkpad x240

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• “Proxy mode” added in refine_viaf 1.4

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• Algorithms II: An Aside in Week 2 on Learning to Code

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• Functional Languages

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• Algorithms I: Notes in Week 5

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• Algorithms I on Coursera

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• A Major Update to refine_viaf

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• A Year of Stats for refine.codefork.com

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• Taking A Fresh Look at PHP

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• On Magic

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• Adventures in Docker

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• Software Old and New

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• Variable assignment quirks in Ruby

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• Managing Dependencies in Python vs Ruby

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• Installing all the Software from an Old System

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• Demystifying Ruby functions

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• A VIAF Reconciliation Service for OpenRefine

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• Arriving Late to the Party

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• Buffer Menu Sorting in Emacs 24

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• Where To Find Info When Packages Break in Debian Testing

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• What Django Can (and Can’t) Do for You

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• Goodbye Ubuntu, Hello Debian Testing

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• Goodbye, Sublime Text?

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• Disabling the Open Sans font in the Twentytwelve wordpress theme

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• On Reading Blogs and News Sites About Coding

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• An SICP exercise in implementing cons, car, and cdr

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