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Writing is Hard

Writing a blog turns out to be hard. This blog has been around since 2007, but at most, I wrote something three or four times a year. In late 2014 I committed to one post a week, and did a pretty good job of keeping to that. The way I di...

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Building Emacs on OS X El Capitan

Last week I wrote about my issue with Emacs’ visible-bell on OS X El Capitan. I figured it was about the most esoteric thing I’ve written, but it may have gotten more comments then any other post. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad…

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Emacs Visible Bell Work-Around on OS X El Capitan

After I upgraded to OS X El Capitan‎, I started having random display issues with my build from source version of Emacs. After a while I realized that it was caused by the visual bell. I hate terminals/widows beeping at me, so I always set:

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Client Certificate CA Setup and Signing

Previously, I wrote about the promise of using Client SSL Certificates for authentication. With this post, we start down the road of actually putting this in practice.

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Validating Rails Forms "without" a Model

Sometime I want all of Rails’ form bells and whistles for something that isn’t a database backed model. For example, I use this as a handy way to get form validations when starting a session with an API.

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diceware.rb Revisited

A while back I wrote about Diceware, a system for generating password using dice and a word list. I also include a Ruby script that use virtual dice.