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my stomping grounds straddle the CP rail line that divides the Plateau from Rosemont-Petite-Patrie. The train tracks and adjacent industrial areas create a boundary within the urban landscape, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing: over the decades, it has allowed the neighbourhoods on either side to  evolve distinct characters.

This simple CSS trick can be used to create a mask outside the border box of any focus-able element. It relies on outline-offset.

timerange is a command line script to generate a range of date/times in various formats. It is used to produce list of date/times that can then be passed to other programs or used in shell/batch scripts where operations with date and times are required.

t is a command-line todo list manager for people that want to finish tasks, not organize them.

phil is a command line utility that sends reminder emails about meetings as defined in an iCalendar file.

Though Git’s commands are incredibly useful, it’s hard for newcomers to make a good combination of Git’s commands to finish their own tasks, like shell commands. Recent Git’s command-line interface is well polished, but there is no command such as git undo-what-i-did, because things to be undone are varied for each situation. So that we have to execute a bunch of commands to do what we want.

DataTree is a library for creating structured documents in python. Inspired by ruby builder but with the goal of reducing the amount of line noise while remaining "pythonic". As an added bonus the tree can be output to to any structured format (with XML, JSON and YAML supported in the library).

AppleInsider:

Although the Mac maker has reportedly developed a revision to the existing Mac Pro that may or may not see the light of day, people familiar with the matter said management as far back as May of 2011 were in limbo over whether to pour any additional resources into the product line.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Oui je suis d'accord avec Gruber : Apple a abandonné le marché des entreprises, il quitte peu à peu celui des professionels. La cible est claire : la classe moyenne supérieure qui préfère Coca à Pepsi par snobisme. C'est elle la cible ultime, c'est pour ça que Siri comprend les rots mais pas l'accent écossais.

Update: You can swipe with two fingers to move forward/back a word at a time, and three for the entire line — but I find these gestures hard to use, especially on the iPhone. If they’re not perfectly horizontal they scroll the view.

Nous dit le type qui 5 minutes avant prétendait que quasiment tout était découvrable facilement sous iOS.

Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.