Every time Gary Bernhardt speaks I lean forward and listen. I subscribe to Destroy All Software and just found the above linked talk from Cascadia Ruby Conf. Excellent talk.

I have said before that the more I learn about Unix, the more I feel like a god. I am learning the truth of what Blake Mizerany said in a talk once, “The world’s greatest IDE, it’s called Unix.”

I am currently reading “Classic Shell Scripting” to learn more. Pipes, sed, awk, functions, stdin, stdout, forking processes.

I have already realized that a couple things I wrote as rake (and cake) tasks can be written in easier, faster, and more versatile shell script.

I will learn to wield the Unix chainsaw like a master.

Update: “The Shell Hater’s Handbook” by Ryan Tomayko is another fantastic talk on the power of the shell found in the archives of Confreaks.com.

Update 2: “The Hater’s Shortcut to The POSIX Shell and Utilities”, linked up at the end of the talk by Ryan Tomayko above, is an excellent resource as well. Sweet!

I used Backbone.js, Backbone.localStorage, and the Zurb Foundation Framework.

(function() {

  // some code

})();

Those ending parens are the dog balls just hanging outside. haha.