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Dan 29 Jan 2010 | 11:25 am
The crisp California breeze washed away the drudgery of my six-hour confinement within the metal conduit that had taken me from my home in Ohio to the realization of my pipe dreams on the West coast. ...
Starting Up, One Year Later: Recovery 30 Jul 2009 | 03:55 pm
[This entry is part of a series. Read previous entries here.] I didn't find a hotel on the morning of June 2nd, 2008. I stuck to driving up and down the same road, too afraid of losing my bearings am...
Music Monday: Jenny Lewis 7 Jul 2009 | 02:26 am
Acid Tongue by Jenny Lewis Listen on Posterous If you haven't had the distinct honor and pleasure of hearing the heart-melting voice of Jenny Lewis, you certainly should. Give her a listen, then pick...
Living The Dream 25 Jun 2009 | 11:03 pm
It was seven a.m. on a nondescript Monday morning and I'd yet to go to sleep, not that it especially mattered. I caught a chill walking out the door in shorts, a t-shirt and a pair of sandals. The...
Starting Up, One Year Later: The Downward Spiral 21 Jun 2009 | 08:24 pm
[This entry is part of a series. Read previous entries here.] A fellow developer, entrepreneur, and friend said this to me yesterday: I feel like all I do is wake up, code, then do it again. His st...
Git Tip: Spin Off a Directory Into a New Branch the "Right Way" 10 Jun 2009 | 12:58 pm
One root directory in our git repository accounts for about 99.999% of files in the project. Tired of checking out 13,000 files each time I needed to switch between branches, I decided it was time to ...
Starting Up, One Year Later: The Honeymoon 7 Jun 2009 | 03:56 pm
[This entry is part of a series. Read previous entries here.] Last year I teamed up with a friend to create TicketStumbler. We got accepted into YCombinator, hardly believing our good fortunes. Over ...
Starting Up, One Year Later: Chasing Dragons 6 Jun 2009 | 10:32 am
Tilling my own grave to keep me level Jam another dragon down the hole Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren One that pushes me along and leaves me so... To a developer, our needle i...
Setting Up the nginx_request Plugin 17 Apr 2009 | 10:35 am
The nginx_request plugin for munin has given people some trouble and since there doesn't seem to be any information regarding how to work around the minor issues it has, I'm posting this up for poster...
Meh, I Quit. 27 Jan 2009 | 02:08 pm
Smoking, that is. It has started to bore me and I always said I would quit when I got bored of it or died, whichever came first. It's practically illegal everywhere now and I'm sick of pansy bitches...
