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Thank you for the mutt reference. I've been meaning to overhaul my email configuration and this seems like a great place to start.

I too am fond of both the content and design of Steve's blog. He chooses to write about really interesting topics I find. Love the git koans :)

Hm, at first glance I am as well, especially with tagged template strings. Those look particularly simple but powerful.

Generally though, is it reasonable for features such as these to be included at the language level? I primarily use ES5 JavaScript so I'm used to pulling in a decent amount of modules (in this case handlebars, underscore, etc.) for things like templating.

But I will be relieved to have a language-standard solution to what feels like such a common problem for the environments in which JS is used primarily, despite the tradeoff that's made in accessibility due to feature bloat.

Thanks for your input. I might be switching over as a result of the recent downtime and the support Linode has been receiving on this thread. Unfortunately, especially for non-hobbyist apps and services, this is an area demanding fickleness.

Agreed. I think what worries me most is that I wasn't aware of their downtime a week ago..

I'm not too qualified to comment on the hosting market, but I do want to vouch for DigitalOcean as I've never had uptime issues with them until now. They also have always had timely and helpful support and their pricing is obviously competitive.

That being said, near 100% uptime is really desired in this space and I've been scratching my head for the past hour or so wondering why I couldn't connect to my mongo process running on my droplet...maybe I should have tested DO sooner, but the fact that only mongo seemed to be failing (and not postgres for example) made me think I had client and not server issues.

As someone who's completely ignorant to the concepts behind algorave, could anyone more experienced outline the helpful prerequisites to know before I experiment with a tool like Wavepot?

I assume it's mostly the (basic?) physics of sound waves that I'd need to understand?

I've just started using git recently and have completely fallen in love with its power and flexibility.

But as someone just starting out, I can relate to how demanding git can _seem_ to a beginner. Say I have some refactoring ideas floating around in my head. I could either begin accommodating for these changes in git (namely branching, perhaps also chunking my edits into commits) or start coding and go back and handle commit isolation and branching later.

For me it can seem like git is getting in the way if I select the former method, and that the latter is just messy and cumbersome. But the more and more time I invest into the tool, both my efficiency and the cleanliness of the code base increases. Persevering through the higher learning curve (which exists probably due to a minimal (bad?) interface wrapping a set of concepts that can best be understood visually à la Dwarf Fortress) appears to be a worthwhile investment.

In addition to this, I think something that would help me a lot is being able to step back and forward through any history of commands that I'm experimenting with.

Great stuff!

It might not be a crime, but if I were a woman, I could easily see myself feeling uncomfortable in a situation that were to remind me of our gender-imbalanced culture(s).

Ah I'm so excited to play To the Moon. This one by far stands out above the rest in this bundle at least to me. I'm going in with very little foreknowledge, just the way I like it.

I don't recall ever having any issues myself when donating for a Humble Bundle, but I frequently enter the wrong characters on other sites' CAPTCHAs, so I totally understand your frustration. Actually, I think it's because I'm always (just barely) beating the average: "Orders below the average must authenticate with reCAPTCHA to help cut down on costly abuse." Is this the CAPTCHA you're referring to?

"it's gets" => "it gets"

Would you say Insync is worth the $10 if I only have one Drive account that I want to back up? They do offer backups, right? Their site seems to advertise multiple account sync as its biggest feature.

If you like the idea of Dear Esther, you will probably enjoy yourself, as I think it achieves its goal quite well.

As a critical piece in the "Games as Art" movement/feud/war, Dear Esther is certainly polarizing, but I am of the opinion that it should be experienced with a certain amount of Shoshin because enjoying it might require a bit of unlearning.