The Birthday Problem surprises people constantly.

Some business proposes using "day and month of birthday" to uniquely identify people in a really small group of like 50 people. There are like 365 days in year. So it should be 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 that they'll collide.

Sounds reasonable, right?

Wrong. With just 23 people, you're 50% likely to have a collision.

Humans are terrible at estimating hash collision probability. Always do the math on your key space before assuming it's "unique enough."

Little #MastodonTip : if you ask a question in a post and eventually get a good answer, you can edit your post with the answer added!

That way people who have boosted it will know the answer as well (it should notify them) and people who see it know that there is no need to answer.

printf "%s\n" '#!/bin/sh' "echo No, car go road" > ~/.cargo/bin/cargo-space; chmod +x ~/.cargo/bin/cargo-space

$ cargo space
No, car go road

As a next step for Herb, I'm happy to announce the release of the Herb Language Server and VS Code extension.

Built on top of Herb's HTML-aware ERB parser to bring diagnostics, instant feedback, and structural awareness to HTML+ERB files.

Still early, but a solid first step towards better HTML+ERB tooling. Feedback is very welcome!