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Here’s for a small change of pace… I’d like to talk about a tool I’ve all but forgotten I’m even using (and that’s a compliment to its stability and unobtrusiveness). dzen is a great little application from the folks at suckless.

Git submodules are pretty great.

Mocha expectations are incredibly useful for ruby unit testing.

Anyone who knows me knows I love the shell.

I use Arch linux for a number of reasons.

Often times, I find myself wanting something anonymous.

In Haskell, functions must always return the same consistent type.

Recently I’ve come across a stretch of similarly themed articles.

Often you might want to present a table of items, each of which links to its own page.

In my last post I went over setting up sphinx full-text search using an xml data source from a yesod application as well as hooking into sphinx to return search results for a given query as a JSON data feed.

Note: this post describes a system for searching posts which once appeared on this site.

Astute readers may have noticed, the site looks a little bit different today.

Just a quick heads-up post about a recent site refactoring.

No one can deny that rails likes to do things for you.

Ruby’s intance_eval and class_eval are awesome tricks of the language that can really cut down on redundant code or let you do truly dynamic things that you’d have never thought possible.

As everyone who happens upon this site probably knows, I prefer to develop software in linux.

With my recent job shift, I’ve found myself in a much more sophisticated environment than I’m used to with respect to Software Engineering.

This site was previously served via lighttpd using fastcgi.

Note: this page describes a custom system for commenting once present on this site.

Mairix is a nice little utility for indexing and searching your emails.

A fairly long time ago, there was a thread on the Arch forums about clearing your pacman cache.

While writing a small learning exercise in C, I came across a nifty little concept.

subtitle: how to stay sane when developing for the web in haskell This post was originally about how I structure my Yesod applications and where it differs from the scaffold tool.

Let’s say that you have a list of values and you needed to check if any of those values satisfied some condition.

For me, any sort of general purpose note taking and/or keeping solution needs to meet only a few requirements: Noting something has to be quick and easy (in a terminal and scriptable) Notes should be available from anywhere… tothecloud!

Last weekend, when our heat wasn’t working (again), I had an idea: What if there were a site where I could bitch about my landlord?

The idea was that 100 developers, 50 designers, and 50 “others” would all get together Friday night, team up and develop a phone or web app to make life better in the city of Boston.

I always thought Ajax (and JavaScript for that matter) was some crazy web technology, some new way of programming the web, some big scary thing that would be really difficult to learn or use.

This post is crazy out of date.

Android notifier is a great little app I just recently found on the marketplace.

When you use an extremely powerful text editor such as vi, vim, or emacs, there are often times where you’ll discover a feature or command that literally changes the way you write text.

20:24 rson: if there is anything i could ever suggest that you'd listen to, let it be this.

Recently I had the opportunity to write some php pages (some mine, some others) that required simple authentication.

This page is to serve as both an apology and an announcement.

I’ve been looking for a good Haskell project for a while now.

Recently, I made the switch (again) away from Uzbl as my main browser.

If you’ve read my recent post on using a scratchpad in XMonad, and if you’ve actually implemented this in your own setup, you probably know how useful it is.

I am not an android developer.

This snippet, when added to one’s ~/.vimrc, allows the toggling of commonly used options (i.e. things like hls or wrap) with a single keypress.

I’ve recently finished work on an HTPC.

It’s been a while since I’ve made an XMonad post.

MPlayer 🔗 MPlayer is an extremely versatile media player, I’ve begun to use it for absolutely any media that I’m not already piping through mpd.

Irssi is an IRC client.

It seems as users (myself inclusive) progress through the stages of using a distribution like Arch linux, they reach certain stages.

This post is very out of date.

One of my favorite modules from xmonad-contrib is the IM layout.

So the other day when I was using wifi-select (awesome tool) to connect to a friends hot-spot, I realized, “hey!

Mutt can be really great with multiple accounts, but it’s not exactly intuitive to setup.

This is a short but extensible script to allow text messaging (to verizon customers) straight from the commandline.

One of the trickiest things for a new user of XMonad is adding a statusbar.