(Symmetric) Encryption with Ruby (and Rails)
I wrote and maintain (though not as attentively as I’d like) a Ruby Gem, Strongbox, which adds Public-key Encryption support to Rails’ ActiveRecord. Simply p...
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Open the iOS Simulator from the Command Line
When I need to test web apps on an iPhone or iPad, I use the iOS Simulator that ships with Xcode1. The Simulator is intended for developers testing native ap...
Building a Portable Emacs for Mac
A visitor, Rakkesh, stopped by with a question about Building Emacs 24.4 From Source on the Mac. He had an issue that when he built Emacs on one machine (a M...
Diceware for Passwords
Making up passwords is hard. You want something you can remember which is and you need something difficult to guess or brute force.
Laziness with Make
I have lots of shell aliases/functions for repetitive tasks. Copying files to and from servers, removing editor backup files, connecting to specific database...
Controlling HTML5 Audio on Mobile Devices
HTML5 <audio> tags is pretty straight forward. Given:
Working with EmacsClient
Previously, I showed how I set $EDITOR. On my laptop, I actually do something different to take advantage of my favorite Emacs feature EmacsClient. EmacsClie...
SCP Between Servers
TL;DR - This won’t work:
Setting $EDITOR with some Smarts
My editor of choice is Emacs. However, in a pinch I can drive vim or vi just fine1. While I prefer Emacs, I can’t think of a UNIX-like operating system that ...