I maintain a small Homebrew tap for projects I work on at Site5, homebrew-site5. I came across a “meta” brew in Josh Peek’s homebrew-github Homebrew tap that allows you to install multiple dependencies with a single command. I adapted it for my own needs at Site5 and it has worked great.

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I use the awesome hub utility to open pull requests on GitHub from the command line. I love being able to do this from the terminal. Since I almost always need to push a branch and copy the pull request URL to my clipboard, I wrote a wrapper to handle these steps in one command.

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Rails comes with the ability to customize the IRB console when you run rails console. This can be useful to preconfigure behavior for your console when any developer runs it from any environment.

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When developing a RubyGem, it is often helpful to launch an IRB console preloaded with your library. There are a few ways you can do this.

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I finally got around to revamping this blog’s layout. Jekyll now includes a nice starting theme that I tweaked a bit. Now to remember to post more.

GitHub recently released a pages-gem making it easy to duplicate the environment they use to build GitHub Pages. Add a little [Rack][], and Pow, and you can be running GitHub Pages locally in no time.

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I wrote a blog post over at Eng5 outlining how we use TomDoc and GitHub pages for documentation at Site5. Check it out!

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I stumbled across this video for the Tomy Racing Turbo. I totally remember using this when I was 4 or 5 years old.

I read an interesting article today about the show Mastercrafts. Mastering a craft like blacksmithing or stone masonry seems a lot like mastering computer programming, but much less forgiving. Definitely worth a read.

The new Designed by Apple commercial is absolutely brilliant.

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