AWS CodeStar
Posted on 28 February 2018
When I decided to start this blog I had to spend some time figuring out a few things like where I wanted to host it. I've always been a fan of AWS, I've been using it in some fashion ever since it came out. So when I was registering my domain in Route53 this thing called CodeStar under the Services list caught my eye. Then I read the first line of the description.
Starting a new blog
Posted on 24 February 2018
I'm constantly learning new things. I'm a Frontend Engineer by trade and that space is constantly evolving. I've always liked the idea of blogging, but I've never really done much of it. Part of the reason is that I really like my editor (Emacs). I don't like the idea of typing a bunch of text into a textarea as in for a blog post for a couple of reasons. First, it doesn't have vim bindings. I can barely type anymore if vim bindings are not present. Secondly, I have actually lost form data before due to session timeouts and such so I just don't like typing large amounts of text into forms. I was excited the other day to find a Chrome addon that handles both of these concerns called Atomic Chrome.
Using dtrace to fix git
Posted on 14 March 2014
I am closing down my old blog on socketwiz.com and I didn't have much content over there and this was and article I felt like preserving.
First off the problem. I like to develop on
smartos because it is based on Solaris and has
all of the conveniences of Linux with a few extras namely zfs, zones
and dtrace. It’s dtrace that I’m going to discuss today. I run a
very specialized version of vim. By specialized I mean I have a bunch
of
addons. In
particular, YouCompleteMe
and UltiSnips requires
that vim be a particular version and have python support compiled
in.
VIM cheat sheet
Posted on 5 May 2012
I am closing down my old blog on socketwiz.com and I didn't have much content over there and this was and article I felt like preserving.
Since I have been using Vim almost exclusively lately I made myself a cheat sheet to help me remember some stuff. This is certainly not an exhaustive list, just some things that I don’t know how to do off the top of my head that I wrote down and ended up getting a little carried away. Just thought I would share:
How to recover data from a memory card for free
Posted on 21 July 2010
I am closing down my old blog on socketwiz.com and I didn't have much content over there and this was and article I felt like preserving.
So a friend of mine took some pictures on her camera which contains an SD card but for some reason was unable to retrieve the pictures off of it. I have a similar camera and a Mac she has Windows. Many times I’ve been able to access data on removable drives on my Mac that were inaccessible on Windows but not this time.