Joshua Lyman.com

I was in search of a new merge tool to use on macOS today, and decided to roll with the free p4merge tool, since it’s pretty solid and slightly less long in the tooth than my old friend, kdiff3.

I’ve really been enjoying Jujutsu (jj) for source control over the past several months.

Software that functions well is wonderful.

I have a static site hosted in an S3 bucket (old 8mm family videos) that I wanted to make available to a limited number of folks, but I didn’t want to bother with worrying about doing any sort of federated authentication or limiting via IP or VPN access.

tl;dr: Use Cmd+C to start a cut/copy operation like normal, and then use Option+Cmd+V to move the file.

I recently got into a sticky situation where I needed to move code from a repository hosted on BitBucket into one hosted on Azure DevOps, but this particular repo was backing a Netlify site that had autodeployments configured.

I bundled together some very useful code that I’ve used on several projects and put it up on GitHub for use by others: https://github.com/jlyman/simple-model-mapper Here’s a copy of the README file.

I’ve been blessed to be able to spend nearly the entire past year focusing on Perspexi Labs, the company I co-founded with my great and very able business partner last year.

tl;dr – By changing the first letter of a Mac’s model to “F” and appending it to https://www.apple.com/shop/product/, you can access the product listing page for non-listed refurbished Macs.

I almost titled this post “When technologically actually works how you want it to,” but figured it’s such a rare event that nobody would actually believe it and would skip over it.

I have been an Apple-centric user for the last thirteen or so years, having been swayed back in high school by the excellent build quality of aluminum PowerBooks and the utility of OS X.

Developing applications in React Native is great, but in any real environment you will spend a large majority of your time debugging.

Pornography is a problem, a big problem.

Marketing has never been my “thing,” and I suppose it still isn’t.

I needed a quick way to make sure I had all the launch images for my Houston Tunnels app recently, as it was time to support some new devices like the iPhone 6 Plus.

“Too many of us who start down the path of [career] compromise will never make it back.

I’ve had the chance to use Inbox for the last couple of days, and so far it’s been a good experience.

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