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Getting Internet Sharing to work on OSX 10.8 20 Aug 2013 | 04:39 pm
I noticed that the Internet Sharing functionality didn’t work on my Macbook Air (running OSX 10.8 – Mountain Lion). This is because the Air’s DNS server (BIND) isn’t configured correctly. For me, the...
Force Bower to clone from https:// instead of git:// 16 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
Most Bower packages will be fetched using a git:// URL, which connects on port 9418. This can be problematic if you’re behind a firewall which blocks this port. You can get around this quite easily b...
Dishonest comments 8 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
One of my favourite Ruby Rogues episodes (What Makes Beautiful Code) has a short section where the Rogues talk about the concept of dishonest code. David Brady wrote a really good piece on this, which...
Don’t use Git’s autocorrect feature 7 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
Quite often I’ve accidentally typed “git” twice. Usually this is fine, and Git just does something like this: But I recently turned on Git’s autocorrect feature, to see what it was like (git config -...
Installing PHP on Debian without Apache 1 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
When you apt-get install php5 on a Debian/Ubuntu server, you’ll notice that APT will automatically install a bunch of apache2 packages as well. This can be pretty annoying if you’re planning on using ...
Using SSH agent forwarding with Vagrant 1 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
Sometimes you’ll want to use your local SSH keys on your Vagrant boxes, so that you don’t have to manage password-less keys for each box. This can be done with SSH agent forwarding, which is explained...
Worst fonts for programming 17 Jul 2013 | 09:07 pm
There are plenty of discussions about which font is the best for programming. The problem is, there are so many “best” fonts that it’s difficult to choose one. Rather than have an exhaustive list of “...
When did dependency management get so complicated? 10 Jun 2013 | 02:48 am
This evening I wanted to start hacking on a project of mine, which is a simple WordPress theme. My main development machine was being used by somebody else, so I decided to boot up my old Sony Vaio ru...
Blazing fast WordPress with Nginx and Memcached 20 May 2013 | 06:18 pm
Inspired by Eric Mann’s post on caching WordPress with Redis, I thought I’d experiment with a similar setup using Memcached. Any memory caching system should work just as well, but I’ve chosen Memcach...
Increasing the size of the LISH console 20 May 2013 | 01:01 pm
If you’ve used Linode’s LISH console to get remote access to your server, you’re probably familiar with the way the console wraps everything to 60×20 (columns x rows) – even when you’re connected via ...
