A git power feature that helped me 10 mins ago

I was setting up a new git repository (more on that in a later post) and I was using a wrong author, so the name was wrong on all the commits. I googled around and found this command which allow you to basically rename all the authors: It’s deep in dirty-commit-territory, so if there are [...]

I have arrived in Palo Alto

Good news. I have finally arrived in Palo Alto.

I just got to my hotel and I’m getting my apartment later this week (hopefully), so you could say that I’ve officially moved.

Best vim Cheat Sheet in the World / Planet / Solar system

This is awesome for all Vimsters out there. A guy named Michael Pohoreski seems to have had a similar problem to almost every other vim user/beginner out there. He couldn’t find a good vim cheat sheet, so he made the mother of all cheat sheets. It’s damn ugly, but pretty good:

Commands for converting from TextMate to Vim

I saw this post on Hacker News today and thought it might be interesting to the TextMate users out there.

It’s written by this person, Jack Kinsella and he goes very much in-depth into how to convert yourself from being a TextMates to a vim user.

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/09/05/textmate-to-vim.html

How to Draw an Equilateral Triangle in Photoshop CS5 (updated)

An equilateral triangle, in case you’ve forgotten, is a triangle composed of lines that are all of the same length.

For some reason I started thinking about those kinds of triangles the other day and wanted to create one, for use in a pattern or something.

I could have opted to just google for an image of one, but I wanted to draw one by hand. I started by creating a shape using the pen tool (p), but I found out quickly that it’s not intuitively easy.

Palo Alto

Picture from Palo Alto, Stanford University Palm Drive

On a professional level, the last year and a half has been pretty interesting. I’ve been managing my own projects, doing freelancing work, did some traveling, even some classes at a university, tried to work on a lot of side projects, etc. I can’t say I did everything I wanted to, but it’s still been pretty great.

However, times are going to get even more interesting in the coming months…