Matt Behrens (asktherelic.com)

After five years and some change, I am now a college graduate with a BS in Software Engineering! To clarify, that is four years of schooling and one year of internship… My life has changed dramatically over this time span: academically, in terms of how I think about my career, emotionally, in how I view my relationships with other people, and internally, in how I think about myself and my goals for life. I’ve made some great friendships, traveled around a bit of the world, and learned enough to hopefully get me a job being useful to the world.  read more »

I love the punchcard graph on GitHub, showing the hourly/daily/weekly output of a project in a nice and neat format. I decided to apply the punchcard format to my Bash history, one of the random bits of data I have lying around.

By default, Bash just stores history commands sequentially with a number and the command. To store the command with a timestamp, you must set the HISTTIMEFORMAT variable in your bashrc. That variable is used to format the output from “history”, but it must be set to something for Bash to store the timestamp.  read more »

I finally switched all of my projects over to git or git-svn and have never been happier. Everything has so many more options than svn, everything is faster, and the universe of software for git is way better than svn. Switch now!

Awhile back I wrote a command to print the total number of lines contributed per author for my svn repository because I wanted to see how awesome I am. I decided to port this command over to git.  read more »

After a month of recovery, I’ve managed to write up the experiences from my bourbon roadtrip over the summer. My plans for this trip are here. Overall, it was a great time to drive across America and meet some very unique people. I enjoyed the different perspectives that I gained and the connections that I made. Also the food and drink that I sampled was fantastic.

Some quick stats:  read more »

As the summer comes to a close, I have one more roadtrip planned. The main cause for this roadtrip is a gaming convention called Quakecon that is taking place in Dallas, TX next week, but I’m making a wide swing from New Orleans to Chicago, visiting a few friends and relatives along the way.  read more »