Ben Wendt's blog

A coworker recently filled my ear with praise for vue.js. I’m always eager to try new frameworks, and the benefits over angular (namely performance and simplicity) sound really promising. I haven’t had a chance to develop anything serious with this, but my initial attempt was exhilirating.

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Last month a workmate and I flew down to San Francisco to go to elasticon.

I attended an interesting talk given two employees of Giant Oak. Giant Oak does contracting for government agencies to try to solve social problems. I am not sure if this is their motto but one of the speakers say that they “see the people behind the data,” which sounds really cool.

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In irb,

fork

Now typing exit will not work because your keystrokes might go to either the parent process or the forked child process. I found it to be impossible to get the characters exit to coherently all go to the same process.