Matt Behrens (asktherelic.com)

Something I've noticed lately with vim plugins are that miniscripts and smaller vim tweaks, any sort of vim functionality, are being packaged and shared as a proper vim plugins via git, not just big IDE style plugins. This may not be an entirely new idea, but I think it's becoming more of the norm to use pathogen and git submodules to share everything vim related, rather than copying and pasting actual code, I think the idea of managing everything via git, github, and git submodules is pretty neat.  read more »

A habit I've developed over the last few years is to backup all of my online artifacts and identities once the year ends. Maybe I'm just a bit paranoid, but in this day and age with more and more things being stored in the cloud, control and access to your data is being shifted to faceless servers and scripts that can disconnect you quite easily with little recourse.  read more »

I wanted to do some kind of reflection this year, so may as well hop on the bandwagon.  read more »

Design For Hackers
David Kadavy
ISBN: 1119998956  read more »

After receiving some patches on GitHub this weekend and renewing my interest in this project, I've decided to tag a 1.0 version of my Comcast Bandwidth Usage script! After being stable for atleast a year and combined with these new feature, it's probably worth finally tagging a stable version.

What's new in 1.0?  read more »

I've been playing with Heroku for a project and wanted to use the default cron addon to run a Python script and only email if that script printed anything to stdout; regular Unix style.

This repo is my attempt that.

Overall, I definitely accomplished what I set out to do! I've been very impressed with Heroku's Cedar stack and how flexible it is. It's awesome being able to script the creation of an enviroment and instantly see if my script is working or not.  read more »

The last few months have been a bit hectic: a few weeks traveling through NYC and DC, a new job in San Francisco, a cross country drive, and a few apartment moves. Thankfully, my life has finally reached the point where I am comfortable again and can start coding and writing in peace. My new job has kept me quite busy, but what little free time I find, I try and make good use of.  read more »