Software Trenches

Code Cuts

Code Cuts — this is what Thsrs came up with when I tried to shorten Software Trenches.

Thsrs is special kind of thesaurus that suggests shorter words. Might be very useful when you try to cram your full message into a Twitter post.

Via Daring Fireball.

localhost.com annoyance

If you are developing with Ruby on Rails then I am sure you had this happened more than once — type http://localhost:3000 in your browser and after a short delay it goes to http://www.localhost.com because your local server didn't start successfully.

To get rid of this annoyance, change /etc/hosts file and add

127.0.0.1 localhost.com