In case you don’t know it, Slitherlink is a puzzle in which you must divine the path of a line around a grid based only on numbers within that grid. The numbers tell you how many edges of their square are occupied by a segment of that line. The only other rules are that there is one single line, which connects to itself, and cannot intersect itself at any point. Read more

There’s a lot of FUD1 regarding rebasing in git. People have very strong opinions against using it because they fear that it will completely ruin their codebase. And in fairness to them, this used to be the case. Rebasing code in git used to be a great way to stomp all over your history and lose changes. What is rebasing? So why the FUD? OK so what is the FUD? Read more

This post is the first in a series on web fundamentals. The series was inspired by a perpetual amazement at the amateurish output of professionals working at large internet companies. In this post we will look at the URL, which we have all seen in our browsers’ address bars, and plastered all over social media. Hopefully, by the end of the article, you will understand the structure of the URL, and have enough of an understanding to be rightly appalled at some of the ones you see in the future. Read more