Bullet Journal
Here’s something slightly random and the exact opposite of technical, the Bullet Journal.
Recent Posts
Stupid ssh-add Tricks
If you are reading my blog, odd are you already know how to use ssh-add to manage you SSH keys. If not, you can read up on it.
Web Storage
Recently, I had the task of speeding up the response time of an app that depended on a remote API. The issue was that the API could take a long time to respo...
Laziness: curl Host Header
For some reason, I can never remember the right command line option for setting the Host HTTP header with curl. It’s actually something I need to do fairly r...
Tunneling to Localhost
When you’re developing Rails apps or pretty much any other framework you can name, you typically work with a server running on localhost. This is all well an...
The Sekrets Gem
I occasionally write about encryption in Ruby, yet somehow I haven’t managed to cover my friend Ara’s Sekrets gem.
Thin with SSL on El Capitan
Hit a bug, couldn’t find the answer, documenting it here for the next person.
Emacs El Capitain Visible Bell Fixed
The Emacs Visual Bell issue I previously wrote about has been fixed.
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 committ...
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 go...