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• Doomed To Reinvent

  https://justatheory.com/2009/06/doomed-to-reinvent

  There’s an old saying, “Whoever doesn’t understand X is doomed to reinvent it.”X can stand for any number of things. The other day, I was pointing out that such is the case for ORM developers. Take ActiveRecord, for example. As I demonstrated in a 2007 Presentation, because ActiveRecord doesn’t support simple things like aggregates or querying against functions or changing how objects are identified, you have to fall back on using its find_by_sql() method to actually run the SQL, or using fuck typing to force ActiveRecord to do what you want. There are only two ways to get around this: Abandon the ORM and just use SQL, or keep improving the ORM until it has, in effect, reinvented SQL. Which would you choose?

• https://justatheory.com/2004/10/svnnotify-2.41
• A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions

  https://reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-garden/tutorials/webmention-tutorial

  Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.

• Test XML and HTML with XPath

  https://justatheory.com/2009/09/test-with-xpath

  Introducing a Rails-inspired Perl module to test the structure and content of an XML or HTML document using CSS selectors.

• Encoding is a Headache

  https://justatheory.com/2011/02/encoding-is-a-headache

• A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions

  https://reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/tutorials/webmention-tutorial

  Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.