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A Spotless Branch of Releases
When setting up our new production environment for SaveUp, we decided that we wanted to override a lot of capistrano's core functionality and use git to handle a lot of things. In particular we wanted...
View ArticleModern Vim
A few days ago, Nathan Barry unleashed his ebook upon the Internet, netting him over $6000 inside a few hours. This got me thinking about a domain name I had bought several months ago, modernvim.com,...
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Green Faces (or How to Hack Your Metabolism)
On August 21, while having dinner at a local restaurant, a conversation about health and diet erupted between me and my coworkers. I mentioned a desire to lose some unecessary weight, and some others...
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ANSI Colors
I love ANSI escape sequences. You can use them to add color to your terminal apps, which I think is all kinds of awesome. I like to throw them anywhere and everywhere, since they’re so simple and...
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Live Coding in CoffeeScript
I’ve been working on a project of mine for the past few days that I had previously neglected. It’s called Beats.IO, and it’s a fun little tool for making music by writing code.BackstoryA whole bunch of...
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My First Car
I’d like to talk about my first car. The thing is, I haven’t had a first car. Sure I’ve driven a bunch of cars before, but I’ve never owned them. It’s always been either my parents’, my employers’,...
View ArticleComments
I don’t want to restrict people to Facebook for comments, so as of this post, comments are now hosted by Disqus. I’m open to suggestions though. If there’s a better commenting system I can add without...
View ArticlePGP at Stripe?
A rekindled interest in PGP (due in part to recent revelations about the NSA) led me to perusing public keyservers for people I know. After clicking around a bit, I found that there is a reasonably...
View ArticleFacebookless
For about a week and a few hours (almost exactly as long as the US government shutdown), I’ve been without Facebook. I took the plunge and deactivated my Facebook account. For those who don’t know,...
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Butts, and The Internet
Note: This article first appeared on dev.toFirst… ButtsLet’s talk about butts. Specifically horse butts.There’s a story that’s been going around the Internet, probably since its inception, about how...
View ArticleYet Another Attempt at FFI for Node.js
Note: This article first appeared on dev.toEarlier this year, I was working on optimizing a data path inside a Node.js library that creates a bunch of data, encodes it to MessagePack, then sends it off...
View ArticleNode.js Heap Dumps in 2021
Note: This article first appeared on dev.toIn diagnosing memory leaks, one of the most useful tools in a developer’s aresenal is the heap dump, or heap snapshot, which gives us insight into what...
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