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'Don't break the build!' or 'The dangers of approximating version numbers in dependencies'

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Mark Bahnman on July 11th, 2014

One of the first rules of collaborative code work my teachers taught to me was, "Don't break the buld!" which is something developers have likely heard at one point or another during their careers. It's a good piece of advice, albeit a little vague: is...

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Embedding Soundcloud's HTML5 widget

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Mark Bahnman on July 1st, 2014

This isn't very well documented, but Soundcloud's HTML5 widget works as well with normal URLs - like the use in their flash widget - as it does with their preferred API URLs. One of the suggested routes to get the API URL is to use...

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Reimplementing Markdown in Arc Lisp

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Mark Bahnman on February 12th, 2014

Markdown is a double edged sword in online commenting. It is so ubiquititous in popular community sites that it is expected to be used but it can be fragmented in what is used from the spec and how it is implemented. At hubski we use...

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Javascript, jQuery, and Modules: Refactoring the Hubski Enhancement Suite userscript

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Mark Bahnman on February 13th, 2013

Having not done much with javascript other than some simple hacks, I was inspired by this post to do a major refactor of the Hubski Enhancement Suite userscript. You can look at the full refactored userscript here. It has the exact same functionality as the...