March 2010
8 posts
“I do remember someone asking me “Am I going to die?” And I was like...”
– A friend of mine, discussing his poor marks on “professional manner and rapport” on the medical boards.
Better svn modification tracking
We use svn at work (we’re looking at hg or git, but that’s a different discussion) and we have projects with huge external lists. That means the output of a generic svn st command can be incredibly difficult to parse.
I’ve been using —ignore-externals and piping through grep often enough that I finally slapped it into a shell script on my path. It’s been incredibly...
Updates to the MassTexter
I just pushed a few changes to masstext on github.
As I said, I was working on setting up some basic call list style groups and moderation. A few updates have laid some groundwork for that, and now there’s full support for simple groups:
A user’s phone number can belong to one, and only one call list.
A call list can be marked as moderated or unmoderated from the web interface (a...
A Virtual Laptop
I have a spare laptop from the days when I was pursuing linux as my full time operating system. It’s a nice one—a daru2 from system76.
I’ve been using it at work so that I would have access to a linux machine while using the windows workstation that I had. Recently though the department has switched over to linux for everyone (aside from a few holdouts) so I don’t need a...
Introducing MassText for Group Text Messaging at... →
I have been blogged about at twilio.
Which is actually pretty cool.
WatchA cool little video showcasing Tokyo.
Dressing Like an Adult
As I’ve grown up, I’ve taken stock and noticed my wardrobe of baggy jeans and hoodies doesn’t really fit for a late-twenties, soon-to-be-married, recently-tried-to-buy-a-house guy. That, plus the input of Put This On has led me to start thinking about what a complete but relatively minimal “adult” wardrobe (that I would want to own) might need.
Here’s my take...