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14 Apr

How to Stay Productive on Personal Projects: An Integrated Strategy to Avoid Failure

I get wrapped up in a lot of personal projects. Some of them are as small as writing a new post or article (check!) and some are big, long-term software ides. It’s easy to get involved in a project, but...
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21 Aug

Tidbits: Copying in Tmux & Ruby Method Internals

A couple of small but interesting items (to me, at any rate), may they come in handy (a little, at least) to your daily work: 1. Copy-paste in tmux. I only just started using tmux, for some reason, and...
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18 Aug

Today’s Little Git Adventure

Today’s lesson: pull before you make changes, and what do you when you forget that. The task started off well enough — branched off of master, made my changes, committed them. Ready to send my content upstream as a...
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27 Jun

“I need to use Emacs and I’m in a hurry.”

Emacs is one of those classic Linux tools that feels like you can keep learning it forever. Compact, extensible, and crammed with features, Emacs lets you grow into it over time. Your first time using Emacs should be...
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30 Aug

Learning Jenkins: Example Projects

Learning Jenkins? Jenkins, a free continuous integration tool, is fantastic for handling large projects, and its abilities within its domain are practically limitless. But this benefit is a hindrance, too — getting started can be befuddling! The fundamentals of...
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