[tip] posts

I've been messing around with https://unraid.net again, trying to tidy up my data which was spread across multiple disks. This has led to a bunch of interesting needs:  removing duplicates finding series (Books, Music, Movies, TV) with missing items storing TBs of data temporarily as I move it around ...

The pitch Do you maintain your own .emacs.d and worry that it is a single pile of complected and unmaintainable logic? Fancy a bit of spacemacs' layers? Modules, modules and more modules for the win. Tooling This approach requires a trivially small amount of elisp and a single plugin ([ivy, actually counsel, all of which is confusingly ...

If you are using ClojureScript (and if not, why not? :-)) then I strongly recommend you enable parallel build. I mistakenly thought this meant that it would run separate builds in parallel, but no, it is far cleverer a ...

ag is great and searches through your code base in the blink of an eye. Coupled with helm it makes for a great experience finding things. If run in a git project then it helpfully ignores those in your .gitignore file. However, in most projects I have f ...

Another quick tip. I use the excellent cljsbuild to compile and test our ClojureScript projects (and I can't believe how difficult it is to wire this stuff together in 2016!). To support continuous integration I use phantomjs to provide the JavaScript environment. Unfortunately ...

I need to write a much longer post to explain my thoughts on 'versioning' and what constitutes a release with today's trends of continuous integration, but for now, a simple tip. I wanted a way to distinguish each build, not each release but each build. There is one excellent source of truth for that which is your git repository. Wouldn't i ...