Just published a gtypist lesson. The README is below.

GNU's gtypist program is a great way for Linux users to improve their typing speed right from the command line, and is widely available for every distribution. I personally used it extensively when I switched from practicing law to programming and discovered that the keyboard was full of keys I'd basically never needed before.

Creative Commons has officially launched CC Search, a search engine that indexes over 300 million images from 19 image collections, "including cultural works from museums (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art), graphic designs and art works (Behance, DeviantArt), photos from Flickr, and an initial set of CC0 3D designs from Thingiverse." All of the indexed images are in the public domain and released under Creative Commons licenses--meaning the images are generally free to use in a non-commercial setting.

To perform the gluteal squeezes, participants were instructed to sit up straight and squeeze their glutes as hard as they could for five seconds before relaxing and repeating. For proper form, they were instructed to sit with their hips and knees at a right angle, knees shoulder-width apart, and the insides of their feet together.

Instructions: For each move, perform as many reps as possible in 20 seconds. Rest for 10 seconds, then continue to the next move. After you’ve completed all four moves, rest for 30 seconds, then repeat the circuit as many times as you’d like.

• Burpee and Tuck Jump
• High Knees
• Sprawl
• Jump Squat

“Nine times out of 10, this is the ab routine I use, and I give to all of my clients,” she says. “It’s easy to modify to all athletic levels, and it’s, of course, a killer ab routine.”

• HIGH PLANK
• DEADBUG
• FULL ROLL-UP
• TABLETOP HEEL TAP
• HIP TIP CRUNCH
• BICYCLE CRUNCH
• QUADRUPED PLANK TAP

Ace this move, own the weight room. Learn how to nail one incredible lift.

The legacy of jQuery is quite impressive and a great example of how it influenced the standards are the querySelector and querySelectorAll methods which mimic jQuery’s $ function.

You can use document.querySelectorAll in the same way as document.querySelector. Any valid CSS selector will do and the only difference is querySelector will return a single element whereas querySelectorAll will return a static NodeList containing the found elements. If there are no elements found it will return an empty NodeList.

You don’t necessarily need to run querySelector(All) on document. You can run it on any HTMLElement to run a relative search:

Note: Alpine images are already very small and will probably be sufficient if you care about size.

Perl getopts FAQ: Can you demonstrate how to use the getopts function? (Also written as, "Can you demonstrate how to read Perl command line arguments?")

• Specifying type attributes in these contexts is not necessary as HTML5 implies text/css and text/javascript as defaults. This can be safely done even for older browsers.

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• Use Action Verbs (not generic yes/no)
• Use Precise Diction (Remove vs. Delete)
• Use Task-Specific Language (Publish vs Submit)
• Use the Active Imperative Form (Read Details vs Click Here for Details)
• Use Sentence-Style Capitalization (Friendlier than Title Case)

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If you test people on an app the first time they use it, Title Case will slow you down, just as it probably did just now. However, it is much easier to see the shape of Title Case text in buttons than sentence case buttons.

• Whenever you know that the column, or combination or columns, makes a unique key for a nonclustered index, I always recommend that you specify UNIQUE when you create the index. That information is great for the optimizer to have when generating query plans.

• Think carefully about the impact of your clustering key on your nonclustered indexes. Any non-unique nonclustered index will be larger (more pages, eventually more levels) because the entire clustering key will be in the tree level.

• If you have a clustering key with a column (or multiple columns) that are frequently modified, then those modifications have to be propagated to the tree levels of the nonclustered indexes as well.

The inputmode attribute that helps browsers on devices with on-screen keyboards decide which keyboard to display (e.g. telephone, numeric, email, search) has been around for long, but it wasn’t until a few months ago that Safari for iOS and Chrome for Android adopted it. Time to get familiar with the concept. Christian Oliff’s article “Everything You Wanted To Know About inputmode” is a great primer to dive deeper into the attribute and how to make use of it. (cm)

With browser support of ES6 having reached more than 96%, it might be a good idea to move away from jQuery to accomplish basic tasks like fetching data, selecting elements, styling and animating them, as Tobias Ahlin argues.

18-gauge brad nailer

If you plan to buy only one trim nailer, this is the size to get. I use mine more than all my others combined. It’s perfect for standard trim, furniture making and odd jobs around the shop. Models that shoot brads up to 1-1/4- in. are common, but I strongly recommend spending a few bucks more for a gun that can handle brads up to 2 in. long. Name-brand 2-in. guns start under $100.

Use nails before screws

I always found it difficult to keep parts aligned when screwing cabinets together. Then I discovered that a couple of shots with my finish nailer or brad nailer will keep the parts aligned while I drill pilot holes and drive screws for strong joints.

Invisible nail holes with a pinner

Pins are tiny and headless, so they’re hard to see even before you fill them. Afterward, nobody but you will know they’re there.

Nail before you clamp

With a coat of slippery glue, parts will slide out of alignment while you’re desperately trying to clamp them. My solution is to tack the parts together with a couple of nails. That keeps the parts aligned while I apply serious pressure with clamps.

No stud? No problem

Studs aren’t always located where we need them. When I need to nail trim where there’s no stud, I dab some construction adhesive on the back of the trim and then drive nails into the drywall at 45-degree angles. That holds the trim tight against the wall while the adhesive cures. This “trap nailing” technique works fine with brad nailers and even better with finish nailers.

The answer is physics. Specifically Newtonian physics, the branch of science dedicated to apples falling from trees onto scientists, also referred to as classical mechanics.