Automation
It’s pretty cool to build something that people grow to rely on. It’s also a little terrifying for someone like me who has a habit of second guessing decisions and who tends to be risk adverse. A few years back, the developer who writes our installers made changes to enable them to run in...
Quotes
You really gotta hunt for the good life. Jimmy Martin was a popular bluegrass musician from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Despite being a renowned and beloved musician, he was snubbed by the Grand Ole Opry because of his problems with alcohol. The quote above was his voicemail message before he passed...
Git
I get asked this a lot. Luckily, Git makes it pretty easy to get this information, but sometimes you need to string together multiple commands to do this gracefully. Here’s the meat and potatoes: git diff –name-only REVISION1..REVISION2 desired/sub/directory What if you don’t have the...
I haven’t posted anything in awhile, however I read this today from The Shortness of Life and I felt like it needed to be documented. I’m not sure this one requires much fleshing out or additional work to tease the meaning out. I’ll just present this by it’s self and let the reader be the judge. … →
Quotes
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. I think all he was trying to say is that when you start with nothing and there are systems specifically … →
Random
The politics as I see them in a nutshell: Democrats say that gun violence is a symptom of easy access to powerful firearms, inequality, and mental health issues. Their prescription is increasing the background checks and/or barring access to particularly powerful and/or large numbers of weapons...
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Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.
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A single tree is not remarkable if the whole forest rises to the same height.
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Seneca, while referring to the role that things play in our lives, had this to say: …mortals, most wretched in this respect also, are deceived: for we think that we hold them in our grasp but they hold us in theirs. Remember that stuff is just stuff. Our things are not what we are composed … →
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For we must indeed have someone according to whom we may regulate our characters; you can never straighten that which is crooked unless you use a ruler. I don’t recall which of Seneca’s letters this comes from but it reminds me of the core message in letter II, On Discursiveness In Reading where...
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What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. A reminder that you are, invariably, your own worst enemy and your own worst critic. If there’s one person who will be on your side no matter what, it’s you. No matter what happens, be a good friend to … →
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Seneca is an interesting character. His proponents say he provides a rich, digestible version of realist Stoicism and greatly influenced early Christian thought. His detractors would point to his apparent misalignment between simple philosophy and extravagant lifestyle. I’ll take the middle...