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A Little Love For Git 27 Aug 2013 | 04:44 pm
When I last wrote about git (and distributed version control in general) I wasn't impressed. Sure, it's an absolutely valid version control choice, but not one I was abandoning subversion for with the...
Hacker or Poet? 23 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
Most comments in source code are junk. They either state what the code does (what do you know, model.update() update's the model!) or get woefully out of sync. Plus, consistency in naming can go a hec...
Scratch: Continuing to be the ultimate kid programming environment 23 Aug 2013 | 08:41 am
For the last few days we've been doing a stint of short term respite care for a 15 year old (great kid, by the way; he went home tonight). This evening we had some time to kill, and I thought a quick ...
Girl Fight! 22 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
OK, not exactly a fight. More like some extra pad work at the gym. (Notice how their hands aren't wrapped up? That's because they were focusing more on technique rather than slugging it out.) Still, w...
A tiny eshell add-on: jump to shell ready to take input 22 Aug 2013 | 12:33 am
So I'm finally grokking eshell and one feature I want is the following: Suppose I'm looking at a buffer containing index.html which lives in ~/projects/hacking. I'd like to effortlessly switch to esh...
Name that Plant: Red Stems with Clusters of Berries Edition 22 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
I've noticed a fairly interesting weed along my usual walking route, and today I decided to see if I could name it. Here's what it looks like: I typed weed with red stem and a cluster of dark blue be...
Finally wrapping my head around eshell (the emacs shell) 21 Aug 2013 | 04:48 pm
For years, I'd see eshell (an emacs command shell) come across my radar, and being an emacs guy, I'd naturally try it out. And within a few minutes, I'd be back to my bash and screen ways. It recently...
More Finds in Arlington Cemetery 21 Aug 2013 | 01:54 am
Took a delightful walk through Arlington Cemetery with a friend this afternoon. As usual, we discovered a number of interesting sights. Among them: a memorial to the Surrender of Geronimo, a tomb of n...
4 Hacks: Post-Its, Foam Cups and an Anti-Hack? 20 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
Here's a collection of hacks I've picked up the last few days: 1. Post-It Note Sketching - Melanie Reim shared this story of putting her jury duty waiting time to good use: My fellow jurors and I sa...
Name That Plant: Green Tentacles Edition 19 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
I usually learn the name of new plant or tree by "discovering it" in the wild, and searching for it's most prominent properties on Google Images. This time, however, I had the reverse happen. I was lo...
