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    grk avatar grk 5 years ago | link | on: Ruby’s magic underscore

    Also, in irb and rails console, _ holds the return value of previous line. So if you do something and forget to assign it to a variable, you can just write a = _.

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      grk avatar grk 5 years ago | link | on: tmpfs considered harmful

      Wait, he’s complaining that files in /tmp won’t survive a reboot? Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?

      In my experience it’s a great idea, small temp files don’t hit your disk.

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        grk avatar grk 5 years ago | link | on: Stop Validating Email Addresses With Regex

        To improve the experience on the user side of things, you could try mailcheck. It catches common typos in emails and adds a link to correct them next to the field, like that: ![](https://raw.github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck/master/doc/example.png)

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          grk avatar grk 5 years ago | link | on: How are tags created?

          Whenever you wonder how lobsters works, you can check the code. It looks like there is no interface for adding tags, I guess they’re created from the Rails console.

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            grourk avatar grourk 5 years ago | link

            Ah, good point. I didn’t think of looking at the code.

            I suppose my question was more along the lines of, What’s the policy? The submission guidelines mention that if there’s no tag for your story it likely doesn’t belong on lobsters. But that seems a bit restrictive right now since there aren’t that many tags (yet).

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            grk avatar grk 5 years ago | link | on: Lobsters has moved to a new server, invitations are enabled again

            I’m curious, what’s the hosting setup?

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              jcs avatar jcs 5 years ago | link

              A (real) server in California running OpenBSD.

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                eddanger avatar eddanger 5 years ago | link

                Any reason for OpenBSD, other than the high security? Personally, I’m a FreeBSD fan for servers.

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                  jcs avatar jcs 5 years ago | link

                  I’m an OpenBSD developer and it’s just what I’ve used for everything for the past decade or so.

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              sramov avatar sramov 5 years ago | link | on: Mailrox | A web application to quickly build bulletproof HTML emails.

              Soo, make it even easier for people to send crap around?

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                grk avatar grk 5 years ago | link

                Why the negativity? A lot of people sign up for newsletters to get aggregated news (e.g. ruby weekly, status code, etc).

                I tried the mailchimp design tool and it’s horrible to use. This is much easier, and looks like it could be easier to use for designers (upload a template, cut, add text).

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                  sramov avatar sramov edited 5 years ago | link

                  The problem is HTML in mails, it simply has no place being there. But what do I know, I am that crazy guy still using mailx on SDF.

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                    kyle avatar kyle 5 years ago | link

                    I use mutt on a self-hosted mail server; HTML emails can be pretty annoying, especially since I use lynx(1) for viewing html emails.