William Vaughn

Give Thanks to the Lord, for He Is Good 106 Praise the Lord!

I’m still on the plan, but it has been so difficult to find time for all the reading and especially the blog writing in the midst of everything I have going on.

20 “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat. 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of

Let’s be real, there are a lot of places in the book of Genesis where you’re going to go “Ewww!”.

Finally, God speaks.

Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”

It still blows my mind that I am a born-again Christian.

When I used to use vim (or evil), I was able to use the :read command to execute any random shell command and plop its output into my current buffer.

VP of Emacs is a blog series about using Emacs as an essential tool in my job as the VP of Software Engineering at Carbon Lighthouse.

VP of Emacs is a blog series about using Emacs as an essential tool in my job as the VP of Software Engineering at Carbon Lighthouse.

VP of Emacs is a blog series about using Emacs as an essential tool in my job as the VP of Software Engineering at Carbon Lighthouse.

Sourcehut recently announced their new chat.sr.ht service to provide an IRC bouncer server for all paying members.

Python Packaging User Guide Python is incredible, but the packaging story is a pain point even for programmers with years of experience.

This is a follow-on to my previous two blogs about running ZNC and Bitlbee in k3s/Docker.

Bitlbee is an IRC server which bridges to other common chat applications.

In my previous blog My Personal IRC Renaissance I explained how and why I’ve recently started using IRC more.

Freenode->Libera + System Crafters A few months ago the parts of the Internet concerned with free and open source software and IT were abuzz about an IRC Exodus from Freenode to Libera.

The git-add command is easy to overlook, I’ve used it thousands of times without ever thinking about reading the manual.

I started by trying to install Fedora 32 on this machine, just could not figure it out.

I am installing CentOS over the top of ubuntu on my Protectli 4-port Vault Mini PC.

Why?

I am repurposing one of my Raspberry Pi’s and need to format the microSD card.

This is a fairly short, but informative, manual for a powerful command in the git arsenal.

Preparation In order to stop my system from continuing to update the original linux kernel, I edited the ignored packages list in my /etc/pacman.conf file.

The tmux manual is extensive, well written, and informative.

This is a collection of useful things I learned while searching the web for how to do something in Emacs.

This follows my last post Arch Linux on my Lenovo t470s with more details about my own personal setup with Arch Linux.

Install Arch Linux is a rolling update distribution of Linux with great documentation, and a minimalist approach.

I’ve spent most of my career being scared of git rebase.

The git log command is for exploring the history of a git repository.

Review The gitrevisions manual describes all the ways you can reference objects, and ranges of objects, in git.

The giteveryday(7) manual seeks to describe a minimal set of useful commands for everyday usage of git.

The git tutorial manual is actually two separate manuals, gittutorial(7) and gittutorial-2(7).

Running man git opens up the entrypoint on git documentation, there are separate manuals for every command, references to the Git User’s Manual and the gittutorial, as well as giteveryday.

Basic curl Essential curl You don’t know curl Review I can now recommend the curl manual.