Mike Lyons mikelyons

When I went to college, I fully immersed myself into many things, mostly related to Linux and Python. I learned more than I have in my entire life — yet I never went to class more than once a week. Obviously, that isn't sustainable, so I dropped out, moved back home, and sold all of my "distractions" — namely my camera and related things. I was left with the essential: a simple computer. The plan was to go back to my old job at McDonalds and slowly save up money to go back to school and refocus.

This was a pretty dark time in my life. I went through a few different jobs, all terrible. But everything changed when I met some fascinating people in my town at the local coworking center.

These were people that were interested in the things I cared about — software, servers, programming, the internet, and people. They were genuinely interested in my opinion of the things they were building. That changed everything for me. I was valuable to them. The next day, I formally decided that I wasn't going to return to sc

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

One of my favorite past times is to look at the notebooks of famous scientists. Da Vinci's notebook is well known, but there plenty others. Worshipping Da Vinci like no other, I bought a Think/Create/Record journal, used it mostly to keep jot down random thoughts and take notes. This was great in the beginning, but the conformity of lines drove me nuts. Only moleskines made blank notebooks, so I had to buy one.

At the same time I started a freelance project. The project itself is irrelevant, but suffice to say it was very complex and spanned several months. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to use the moleskine. Looking back, all my entries fell under few categories:

Todo
Question
Thought
Bug
Feature

Step 1: Clone the bundles into your Sublime Text packages directory

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages
git clone git://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script-tmbundle CoffeeScript
git clone https://github.com/miksago/jade-tmbundle.git Jade
git clone https://github.com/LearnBoost/stylus.git Stylus

Step 2: Restart Sublime Text 2

A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".


	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head><title>ChamberedTest</title></head>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="js/chambered.js"></script>
	<style type="text/css">
	canvas, img {
	image-rendering: optimizeSpeed;
	image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges;
	image-rendering: -webkit-optimize-contrast;

	# -- Conf --
	[color]
	branch = auto
	diff = auto
	status = auto
	showbranch = auto
	ui = true

	# color.branch
	# A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# An example hook script to verify what is about to be committed.
	# Called by "git commit" with no arguments. The hook should
	# exit with non-zero status after issuing an appropriate message if
	# it wants to stop the commit.
	#
	# Usage:
	# Remove the .sh file extension when you put the script in your hooks folder!
	#

	// Namespace
	Twitter = Em.Application.create({
	ready: function() {
	// Polling
	setInterval(function() {
	Twitter.searchResults.refresh();
	}, 20000);

	Twitter.searchResults.set("query", "Top Charts");

	[
	{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+t"], "command": "open_terminal_project_folder" },
	{ "keys": ["ctrl+tab"], "command": "next_view" },
	{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+tab"], "command": "prev_view" }
	]