building an xkcd daily digest

2020-01-25

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~9 min read

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1612 words

I love Randall Munroe’s XKCD, but going to his site every day is potentially problematic because it’s so easy to get sucked down the rabbit…

people side of software

2020-01-25

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~1 min read

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186 words

I was listening to a Changelog interview with Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas which focused on the lessons they’ve learned in the twenty years…

handling incompatible postgresql versions

2020-01-24

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~3 min read

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567 words

I tried to start a PostgreSQL database yesterday from the command line and I was greeted with the error: I’m not sure how, but it seems that…

locate files quickly on your computer

2020-01-23

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~9 min read

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1605 words

I was looking to find all instances of Postgres the other day in order to check the version. A web search led me to this article…

git - checking out remote branches, revisited

2020-01-22

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~2 min read

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214 words

Previously, I wrote about how to checkout branches from a remote when the branch is not present locally. Recently, I found a new method that…

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