Jim Kalafut

I’m very happy to have just ticked off a really old to-do.

It’s that time of year again: I start thinking about how inefficient the tax preparation process is.

I’m in Malaysia for a couple of weeks (Penang to be precise, my wife’s home island).

A while back I dabbled with Fossil SCM.

I’ve just re-enabled my Netflix DVD service for the umpteenth time.

So Mad Men is done.

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Useful, concise advice on public speaking, even for non-nerds.

Federal Judge Paul Cassell, on administering a mandatory minimum sentence to a 24 year old for three marijuana sales: “If he had been an aircraft hijacker, he would have gotten 24 years in prison.

I’m usually the last to see viral videos, and even later to pass them on, but this battle of train vs. snow must be shared.

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Make no mistake: installing an infant car seat can be strenuous work.

The Chrome browser on Nexus 7 has never had the Close All Tabs function like its brother on the phone.

I’m in the process of taking a hard look at Fossil for source control.

As a long-time consumer of RSS feeds, I was shocked along with many others at the fairly sudden termination of Google Reader.

I was recently asked why I switched from Octopress to Jekyll.

I bought the Nexus 4 shortly after it came out.

I knew about variadic functions, and the “…” syntax, but I’d assumed that was limited to the function declaration.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about writing a todo application.

My first post to this blog was a little over a year ago.

I want to move this thing to Github, so say hello to Jekyll.

Say hello to the Königspress theme.

I bought a Chromecast shortly after it debut and enjoyed months of great service.

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I spent an hour trying to figure our why, after replacing or removing a Fragment, the UI of the fragment persisted (even though subsequent attempts to remove it would fail because it was supposedly already gone).

Few things on my Macbook Pro consume as much power, and make the whole housing heat up, like a running emulator.

http://ejohn.org/blog/write-code-every-day/

I just installed and activated a Comcast DVR.

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I wondered why my Vim command history wasn’t being preserved between sessions.

I run Postfix on my VPS’s exclusively to send mail.

If you’ve used Bootstrap 2.x and need a quick introduction to Bootstrap 3’s new “mobile first” grid system, your best read is Erik Flower’s introduction.

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It’s very easy for me to become paralyzed by the pursuit of a “best practice”.

A few months ago I started a side project.

Both tmux and iterm2 are great, but the default interaction will have iterm scrolling your entire tmux window off the screen which is probably not what you want.

I’ve lived in Oregon for almost four years and love it.

I spend fair amount of time on the command line, and one of the most useful tools I’ve come across is a little script called ‘Z’.

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After a couple hours of fun messing with ansible and node deployments, I think the rest of Friday night would be better spent watching Grave of the Fireflies.

Octopress offers a ton of useful rake tasks, but they’re somewhat hobbled if using zsh due to globbing.

Two zsh features that are usually helpful but sometimes not: globbing, and autocorrect.

I use splinter to automate downloading information from banks and brokerages.

In 2005 I started a blog.

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