Generate Password LaunchBar Action
I often need to generate random passwords when testing development work. To help with that, I’ve created a LaunchBar 6 Action, [Generate Password.lbaction][].
The One Where I Got A New iMac
I bought a new iMac to replace my aging MacBook Pro. Here’s a post where I gush about it.
Stupid things I had to Google
“Never memorize something that you can look up.” — Albert Einstein. Some stupid things I never memorized and had to look up.
My Vim Setup
This is my Vim config. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Procrastination
A “poem” I wrote in late 2002 for creative writing — clearly 10 minutes before it was due — about being lazy.
Using Nginx as an SSL proxy to GitHub Pages
I love GitHub Pages, but the one feature they’re missing is SSL support for custom domains. I came up with the idea of using Nginx to proxy and found I was not [alone][NGINX Reverse proxy settings to Github pages]. I was finally able to get SSL working on my GitHub Pages site — and it took me longer to blog about it than set it up.
Running PHP’s CLI Server with launchd on OS X
Here’s how I configured launchd to run WordPress via [PHP’s Built-in web server][] on OS X.
Better local GitHub Pages with Pow
A couple years ago I covered how I setup a local GitHub Pages build environment using Pow with Rack. Things broke on me recently, and while trying to fix them, I found an even easier way.
The time I ran `rm -rf /`
A lot of sysadmins have had that holy shit moment where they ran rm -rf /.
Here’s mine.
Shell Tricks: Colorized output
This is part 3 of my series on tricks I’ve used in shell scripts. In this post, I’ll share a few ways I’ve colorized text in shell scripts.