M.C. Pantz

The terminal is still where most developers live.

pcmantz at mcpantz dot org Experience Workforce.com Sept 2025 - Dec 2025 Senior Software Engineer Chicago, IL Worked with an international engineering department to build features for Workforce.com’s payroll and tax engine in a monolithic, multi-national…

After fourteen years of disuse, I have decided to take the effort to dust off this old domain and blog and to try to breathe some new life into it.

I use Emacs to manage multiple different projects simultaneously.

I am setting up an OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) machine as a development machine.

Within the next 24 hours, my GitHub Page should be accessible any- and everywhere from my preferred vanity domain, mcpantz.org.

One of the most productive “A-Ha!”

I attended my Fourth YAPC::NA this past week, and just as usual, I had a blast.

I converted all my old published content from mcpantz.org to this new GitHub page.

I get a lot of benefit from managing my own Perl via perlbrew, but I’m fine using Ubuntu’s packaged Postgres sever.

In the ruby world, many people are aware of the ruby rvm tool for ruby version management.

I have started work on a new project where a lot of the source files are huge; files are commonly over 1,000 lines in length.

I’ve been an Ubuntu & Mint user for the past few years.

Today, I gave ruby’s ecosystem of web tools a try.

I just requested a CPAN account last night.

What did i do this weekend?

After a bit of database corruption sweeped under the rug, I’m back and as ornery as ever.

If you’ve known me for any length of time, you’d know I hate mornings.

For the past few months I’ve been working with a friend of mine to establish a hacker space in Chicago.

So here we are in 2009, and in between the hangovers and days off people are considering what they’d like to achieve this year.

When I turned 18, I was staying with my aunt and uncle in Champaign, IL; soon on my way to college.

Why yes, I would like to beat up my boss!

How do you like having an extremely extensible, mature, and stable text editor.

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com I invite all of you to view the source of this site, which is exponentially hilarious.

I’d never been to Hot Doug’s before, but I’m certainly glad I went: That’s a half-eaten merlot and blueberry venison sausages, and a kangaroo sausage with chili mayonnaise, with duck fat fries lining the top right of the image.

For being in Chicago for almost five years, I’ve been fairly lucky as I’d never been mugged.

My good friend Karl and I were on our way back from Lollapalooza last week when we happened upon this vehicle carrying two passengers from the Blackstone Hotel.

Google Labs just released Lively, a supposed contender to Second Life.

Because I’ve never had one.

…I left my combat boots in San Francisco.

Depending on how well you know me, you may or may not know that I love music.

I have been fighting with Samba recently, to get it configured correctly.

If I haven’t already given you an ecstatic phone call or instant message, then I should tell you that I’ve just accepted an offer from Zmanda as a design engineer.

A gem of a post came across my alma mater’s computer science mailing list: Prime detection using regular expressions.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted a legitimate excuse to use that phrase.

So I don’t know if any of you are familiar with Dr.

A couple ex-coworkers and I have come up with a startup idea and bought some domain names.

There are about a million things I feel like I could be doing to prepare myself for employment.

If I haven’t already foisted it upon you, I decided to create a blog outside of the standard venues of Facebook and Livejournal.

Hello everyone, My name’s Paul Mantz and I’m starting a public blog.