2011-05-31

Reduce your HDD spindown time for silent SSD computing

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If you've got an SSD+HDD/optibay setup in your macbook, you probably find that the thing is damn near silent when the spinning rust goes...
2010-03-02

More vim tidbits

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it's been a while since I put anything new up, but I have a bunch of post-it notes stuck to my monitor that I'd be mighty peeved if ...
2009-12-11

Page caching per request domain with Rails and nginx

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At work we run a number of different sites of the same codebase, serving content based on the request's domain. we recently found some p...
2009-08-05

dynamically defined methods in ruby

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I've been playing around with dynamically creating methods today and it's mighty cool stuff. here's a very contrived demo class:...
2009-07-28

Negative Lookbehind in vim

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very similar to the last post, but this time for _not_ matching text that is preceded with some other text, and this time using the vim rege...
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2009-07-26

Regular Expressions - Negative Lookahead

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/a(?!b)/ will match an a that's not followed by a b (with the not-b character not being included in the match) this can be built upon t...
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2009-04-02

Xcode keyboard shortcuts W.I.P

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Xcode's automatic completion is called codesense, which helps when you're searching for information about it. pressing ESC will brin...
2009-04-01

Happy Birthday GMail

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It's been 5 years since webmail changed. It's 5 years to the day since the introduction of GMail. I remember the announcement, I tho...
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2009-03-26

Objective C W.I.P

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The @ symbol (or at symbol) anything preceeded with an @ is a compiler directive. keywords have specific meanings too numerous to list . @...
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2009-03-21

Basic Non-destructive Backup with rsync (good for music & photos)

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#!/bin/bash EMAIL="me@myemailhost.com" HOSTNAME="fileserver" LOCAL_PATH="/mnt/data/photos/" REMOTE_PATH="...

find and execute

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find -name "*.rar" -exec unrar e {} \; recursively searches for rar files, extracts the contents of each. matching filenames are ...

.bash_profile

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export EDITIOR=vim sets vim to be the default editor. it's probably not kosher to leave off the path, but it varies a lot between system...
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.inputrc

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ok, this one is super short set completion-ignore-case On makes bash tab completion ignore case for file and directory names

VIM

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commands :%s/find/replace/g finds and replaces all instances in file :%s/find/replace/gi finds and replaces all instances in file (ignore ca...

Blog purpose

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If you're reading this, you're probably a bot, or wondering what the hell this random collection of unrelated crap is for. basically...