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Nearly Daily Kearsarge

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:38:17 -0400

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The importance of Being Earnest

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I believe we all have multiple fictitious persona that we maintain in order to deal with the various aspects of the world around us; work, family, friends, online, and sometimes, even ourselves.

Third Party Sources, git, and you

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This is not a “new idea” but I can never find it when I need it. So if you too want to track some third party package that is not already in git (if it is then just fork it) then I suggest this method. Initial import $ mkdir <package> $ cd <package> $ tar -xzf <package>.tar.gz --strip-components 1 $ git add . $ git commit -m "Import version X.

On the move: to VIM (update)

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been about 5 months since I made the move to VIM so I figure it’s about time that I gave an update.

The Top Idea in Your Mind

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

… it’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower. via paulgraham.com

So very true. The article goes into other things (like money and disputes) that make it difficult to think and therefor solve hard problems.

Speeding up the Development Process

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I have found that the #1 slowdown, across all of product development, is waiting too long to provide something to your “client”.

If you really want to speed up development put something, anything, in the hands of your client as quick and often as possible.

Cool image compression concept?

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Very, very cool image compression concept.

On the move: to VIM

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I have been an Emacs user for the last 15 years or so. I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of code with it, written plugins for it, helped others to use it more effectively and about a month ago I gave it up.

Great Step by Step Tutorial of how GIT works

jshiffer@zerotao.org (Jason Shiffer) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Having difficulty grasping GIT? Unsure when you should pull vs. fetch vs. rebase?