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Deploying Hugo With Github Actions

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:08:49 -0500

I recently converted this site from hexo to hugo. Hugo is fantastic but the lack of a built-in deployment mechanism leaves much to be desired.

A Look at Vim and Emacs

Sun, 29 Mar 2015 06:06:55 +0000

On Thursday, March 26th, 2015 my friend Jacob and I presented to DevICT on what we love about our editors of choice. Jacob covered vim and I spoke about emacs.

While this talk was billed as a head-to-head competition, neither Jacob nor I had any intention of “battling it out”. Instead, we wanted to focus on what we thought each editor excelled at, and what we in particular liked about them.

Invalidate Projectile Cache on Delete

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:36:39 +0000

Projectile is a staple of my emacs configuration. In my opinion, it is one of the all time best packages available, along with org-mode and magit.

One of my most commonly used commands with projectile is helm-projectile. This lets me locate any file in my project by pressing C-c p h. Using the narrowing abilities of helm, I can quickly filter the list of options to exactly the one I want.

Performing Controlled PHP Refactorings in Emacs

Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

By day, I work as a PHP developer at Research Square. My time is spent developing new functionality for the RS suite of products. This may include working in greenfield code bases or extending our legacy products. In either case, dozens of times a day, I find myself performing various code refactorings.

Embedding Code Snippets in Org Mode

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:15:00 +0000

Without a doubt, Org Mode is one of the most impressive and versatile features of Emacs. Great for writing structured documents, managing lists and planning, and for exporting those documents into a variety of formats, it’s my go to tool for flexible, efficient editing.

Generate Daily Messages With Org Journal

Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:38:00 +0000

One of the requirements of my job is to send out a daily message. This message should summarize what I did the day before, and what I hope to accomplish for the current day. At first, I would spend my day jumping from task to task, and then the next morning, I would rack my brain to make sure I included all the things I worked on.

Efficient Command Line Navigation

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:36:00 +0000

I live on the command line. Between vim, tmux, and xmonad, there isn’t much I have to use the mouse for these days. Given my love for keyboard navigation, it only makes sense that I learn as many of the command line shortcuts available as possible. Here I detail some of the most helpful navigation tricks, and those I use on a daily basis.

Snippet Expansion with YASnippet

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:35:00 +0000

Any editor worth its salt has some provision for text snippet expansion. TextMate, Vim, and Sublime Text 2 all have this capability and Emacs is certainly no exception. If you’re not familiar with the concept of snippets, the basic idea involves defining a keyword, which when followed with some trigger (keyboard shortcut or menu option), replaces that keyword with some predefined text. This functionality is a great boost to productivity as it prevents the developer from having to manually type potentially hundreds or thousands of lines of relatively boilerplate code.

Automation with GNU Screen and SSH

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:38:00 +0000

As a developer, I tend to prefer automation whenever possible. Hours of your life are lost in the minutes spent doing that which could easily be scripted. The classic rule of thumb I try to follow is “if you have to do it twice, automate it.”

Dancing Code Monkey

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:09:00 +0000

A few months ago, I started playing around with Emacs. For roughly six years prior to that, I was a die-hard Vim fan. Vim will always hold a special place in my heart, but I have grown to love Emacs. I’ll undoubtedly cover Emacs in more detail, but I’ll leave that for other posts.

Negation and De Morgan's Law

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Undoubtedly, your grade school grammar teacher has scolded you at one point or another for your inadvertent use of a double negative. Statements such as “I don’t know nothing about physics”, while grammatically incorrect, are often semantically inaccurate as well. While the previous statement would commonly be understood to mean the person possesses no knowledge of physics, the actual statement implies the opposite, that the preposition “I know nothing about physics” is incorrect. Certainly your teacher offered sound advice and one would be wise to heed such instruction.

About Me

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Living in the Raleigh-Durham area, I work on the SDK squad at LaunchDarkly. In addition to my full time job, I also own Tortugas Consulting, LLC. I share my life with my wonderful wife Whitney and two beautiful daughters, Madeline and Emily.