HTTP STATUS CODES
five classes · twenty codes you meet every day
IFS AND FIELD SPLITTING
Two kinds of delimiter: white ones merge into one, non-white ones each cut on their own — and the same value gives one field or four
JAVASCRIPT vs GO
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
JAVASCRIPT vs RUST
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
LANGUAGE CODES
487 rows in ISO 639-2; 183 languages also have a two-letter code and 20 have two three-letter ones — and the tag is always the shortest
LIFE CYCLE MODELS
the same steps arranged five ways: the document, the year, and what one turn of the loop covers
THE MIDI PROTOCOL
one top bit separates status from data, seven commands per channel, and how much time a serial wire actually takes
${…}: FOUR MODIFICATIONS
The colon asks about emptiness too: in the column of the empty variable it changes the answer four times out of four, and in the other two columns none
POSIX SIGNALS
Twenty-seven signals, five default actions — and two that cannot be caught, ignored or blocked
PYTHON vs GO
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
PYTHON vs JAVASCRIPT
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
PYTHON vs RUST
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in