Small Programming Tricks

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Day to day, I think a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge: being aware that a language feature exists; knowing that an unexplained tcp delay is probably related to the TCP_NO_DELAY setting and Nagle’s algorithm; knowing the right git incantation to get out of a pickle; or knowing a trick with sed to rewrite a file. Of course those smaller pieces of knowledge matter. But I think there are some nuggets of knowledge that are particularly valuable and don’t require a lot of supporting mental infrastructure.

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