Mark’s Blog

  • Cryptic Crossword – Numpty / 2 (Answers)

    This post discusses the answers to the cryptic crossword I posted on this blog a couple of weeks ago.  There’s a sort of “ghost theme” – The 11a, 6a and The 15d all appear in 24, 22. Across: 5. SHUCKS: Double definition 6. WALTER: (TRAWLE)* 9. GRAMMY: Cryptic definition 10. ABETTING: not A BETTING man […]

  • A Few git Tips

    I owe thanks to Johannes Schindelin, who passed on at least three of these tips to me in the course of working on Fiji :)  Update: this page was written when I was relatively new to git – some of the general remarks about the philosophy of git are better expressed in a short tutorial […]

  • Cryptic Crossword – Numpty / 2

    This is the second 15×15 cryptic crossword that I’ve tried to set, dating from some time last year.  There are a few things in here that I wouldn’t do nowadays, but rather than rewrite clues for the same words over and over, I think it’s best to just see what people think and move on.  […]

  • git: fetch and merge, don’t pull

    This is too long and rambling, but to steal a joke from Mark Twain Blaise Pascal I haven’t had time to make it shorter yet.  There is some discussion of this post on the git mailing list, but much of it is tangential to the points I’m trying to make here. One of the git […]