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Adventures in shell scripting
I don’t write bash or shell scripts everyday, but I write it enough to have picked up some useful tips. Some of those tips I’m constantly forgetting, so as part of an effort to further cement their usefulness to memory, I figure I could jot them down here as I...
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Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
Creative Selection by ex-Apple engineer Ken Kocienda is a great read. He has an extremely interesting perspective on how a few aspects, the aspects he built primarily,of iOS came to be. Reading about what he went through as he worked his way through issue after issue and demo after demo...
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Rescue Data From Your Dying Hard Drive With Single-user Mode
About a week or so ago, the hard drive in my Macbook decided to die. Right in the middle of some very intense work I was doing, all processes slowed to a crawl and the machine locked up. After staying frozen for a few seconds, I got the dreaded screen...
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hello shhhhh
So I wrote a pretty small gem whose current main purpose is keep the “/assets/..” entries from appearing in your dev log files and incidentally your server output. I just got tired of all of assets hiding the real meat of the request so I figured I would write something...