December 2011
4 posts
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Memetronic Memerator →
Several months ago, I created a cli tool for generating memes on memegenerator.net. It relied on screen-scraping, and when they changed their HTML, it broke. I finally took the time to fix it, and I made it even awesomer. You can list the most popular meme characters or search, which makes it even faster to create a meme because you don’t have to go elsewhere to look up the title. The...
Dec 18th
“Humanity’s first sin was faith, its first virtue doubt.”
– Unknown
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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I give in
Making my own website is probably never ever ever never ever going to make it to the top of my to-do list. So I’ll start tumblring again because I do want to blog, to practice writing, because I have a strange fear of writing, or rather, an anxiety, so I need a blog, to practice. Because if I try to write stuff that I know no one will ever see, it comes out like this: what should i...
Dec 14th
November 2009
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Nov 22nd
October 2009
1 post
WatchWatch
Milton and a bag of plastic bags. (I need to learn to take not-blurry iPhone videos, but you get the gist.)
Oct 3rd
August 2009
1 post
WatchWatch
Another cool moment in the city… after opening our 20th floor window to see where the music was coming from.
Aug 28th
July 2009
2 posts
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Using git with SVN without git-svn
U P D A T E — July 24, 2009 Thankfully, I don’t have to use the solution below anymore. It was really confusing to SVN when I switched between branches. I accidentally fixed it while solving another problem… SVN wasn’t able to check out externals either, which looked like a completely different issue. It turned out it was using my username on my mac instead of the...
Jul 13th
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Defaulting MySQL to InnoDB and UTF-8
Problem I wanted Django’s syncdb command to create my tables as InnoDB with a default character set of utf8 and collation of utf8_unicode_ci. Solution Create a file /etc/my.cnf with the following contents (or add to current my.cnf): [mysqld] default_table_type = InnoDB collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci character_set_server=utf8 Assuming you’re just starting a new project,...
Jul 4th
June 2009
6 posts
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TextMate Command: Convert Markdown to HTML with...
Well, I created my first TextMate command. As with most development firsts, it’s really just a mashup of code scavenged elsewhere. El Problemo… I like creating technical documentation in plain text. It doesn’t really keep me from thinking about formatting as I intended it to, but it does make it easier to get my thoughts down. I usually end up switching from plain text to...
Jun 25th
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when .gitignore doesn't work
Because I keep forgetting that .gitignore won’t work on files that are already tracked — remove files from git with git rm --cached [file]
Jun 23rd
Jun 15th
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Jun 14th
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“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak...”
– Abraham Lincoln
Jun 13th
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Excel SUMIF "not"
Random Excel tidbit: to assign SUMIF criteria by exclusion use SUMIF([ref],"<>[criteria]",[ref])
Jun 4th
May 2009
2 posts
May 29th
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Why are atheists angry?
This is a reply to this blog post: http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/2009/05/angry-and-aggressive-atheism.html I began a discussion with a commenter named Mary, and decided to continue it here as my comment was too long to post there. Hi Mary, You’ve given me a lot to think about, and helped me to clarify my own views about this debate. It seems to me that we (each side, not you and me...
May 26th