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!
Posted March 4, 2012 | ∞ | File under: link, programming, unix
Cool, simple, “designy,” to-do list app, TeuxDeux.
Posted December 10, 2009 | ∞ | File under: actually doing the thing is something else entirely, design, fight procrastination, link
Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar perform songs composed for Jack Kerouac’s “Big Sur.”
Going to see Where The Wild Things Are tonight with B and Raina. Excited. Some cool interviews with people who helped make Where The Wild Things Are at vbs.tv.
Posted October 16, 2009 | ∞ | File under: link, movies, personal, where the wild things are
“The Doers Club,” by William Kamkwamba, who you may know, as I do, from his appearance at TED.
Posted September 21, 2009 | ∞ | File under: link, things that make me feel lazy and stupid but inspired
