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Birth of a new blog

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What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”. This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various projects. It may or may not be entirely devoid of non irrelevant content for the wrong audience. Confused? So am I. Welcome to a world where we don’t know what we’re doing, and we just hope our code doesn’t crash in prod.
3rd Jan 2023

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