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I discovered Jekyll. Jekyll allows me to write blogs in Markdown and add them with git. This is much closer to the workflow I want, because it's a very developer-centric blogging style. So...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/11/blogging-elsewhere.html

I was procrastinating about a work project, thinking about magnets , thinking about crushers , thinking about thermite , when I thought about my status tracker. It goes by the name status.pl be...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/08/considering-code-documentation.html

Quick history: I started out as a vi man, having the comical "how do I save and exit?" issues with emacs that I see lots of people complain about for vim. After college, my first job's standard e...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/07/using-vs-code-and-ligatures.html

It started here. > I need a Twitter that sends all my grumpy thoughts into oblivion > rather than to actual people. — Phil Sands (@PurdueCSPhil) July > 10, 2017 >  I ...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/07/sentimentalizing-twitter-first-pass.html

As discussed last time , I had been using my GitHub Pages space as a list to my Repos. I had been considering moving my blogging from here to ... something else, and this looked like an interesti...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-next-thing.html

My projects are on GitHub: https://github.com/jacoby/ I have a page on GitHub: https://jacoby.github.io/ Early in my playing with Bootstrap, I made this as a way to begin to play with it. It...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/07/github-to-perl-to-github-putting-your.html

I'm always curious about how people customize their prompt. I put name and machine in, with color-coding based on which machine, because while spend most of my time on one or two hosts, I hav...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/07/temperature-based-on-current-location.html

A Delorean with a Perl-powered center column and the cutest little Flux Capacitor on the dashboard. Oh, the wonders you can see at a developer conference. "A man's got to know his limitation...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/07/working-through-limitations-perl.html

I lost the bubble. I wrote a post at the end of the first day of the Perl Conference , intending to do the same for the second and third, but I went to visit family and play with their puppies o...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/06/three-little-words-perl-conference-2017_29.html

I was on I-70 in Maryland on Sunday, going to Alexandria, Virginia, along with a lot of others. I was using Google Maps for navigation. When I could look down, the route was looking red, ind...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/06/reverse-engineering-google-maps-at.html

A few lessons learned before I dive into the talks I attended and what I gained from them: I had figured that aspects of my Every Day Carry would not be appreciated in a government building, so...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/06/feeling-tipsy-perl-conference-2017-day-1.html

Starting "Has this ever happened to you?" is a very informercial way to start, but it's where my brain has left me: Working on your computer and suddenly, something happens. Blue screen. Kernel p...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/06/tracking-your-old-tabs-in-chrome-over.html

I've been working on modules again, after a recent push, and I found a big project whose .travis.yml file only went to Perl 5.20. I thought I'd get some dev brownie points by adding the next two ...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/05/testing-perl-modules-on-windows-cry-for.html

A recent comment from Schlomi Fish said: > Hi! I cannot seem to find any contact information on this page. How > should I contact you? And then linked to a FAQ entry explaini...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/05/contact-me-if-you-really-need-to.html

I have what you might call a conflicted relationship with caffeine . Long story short: I found it necessary to cut down on caffeine, limiting myself to two cups a day, preferrably before no...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/05/coffee-and-code-and-calendars-and-r.html

I recall reading something online about 20 years ago (gasp!) where the authors were looking for a core set of knowledge that would constitute "knowing Unix", and found that there just wasn't. Kno...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/05/count-is-not-uniq.html

Classic unix utilities give you a number of great tools, and you can use sed and awk and bash when those aren't enough. But sometimes ... I use ~ as a scratch space all too often, which leave...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/05/one-one-new-utility-bwa-ha-hahaha.html

Today is Pi Day, which is a good day to talk about Pi. Normally, I'd probably use Pi, sine and cosine to draw things, but instead, I flashed on a couple ways to estimate Pi. Also, showing you...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/03/coding-for-pi-day.html

#!/group/bioinfo/apps/apps/R-3.1.2/bin/Rscript # a blog post in code-and-comment form # Between having some problems with our VMs and wanting  # to learn Log::Log4perl. I w...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/02/having-problems-munging-data-in-r.html

Starts with a thing I saw on David Walsh's Blog : > I've been working with beefy virtual machines, docker containers, > and build processes lately. Believe it or not, working�...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2017/01/ding-ding-process-is-dead.html

As with most things I blog about, this starts with Twitter. I follow a lot of people on Twitter, and I use Lists. I want to be able to group people more-or-less on community, because there's ...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2016/11/graphs-are-not-that-scary.html

This started while driving to work. If I get mail from coworkers, I get Pushover notifications, and halfway from home, I got a bunch of notifications. We don't know the cause of the issue, bu...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2016/11/modern-perl-but-not-modernperl.html

Favorites. Also known as "Likes", they're an indication in Twitter that you approve of a status update. Most of the time, they're paired with retweets as signs by the audience to the author tha...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2016/10/nettwitter-cookbook-favorites-and.html

I've been looking at command-line code for both fun and work. I know I can have one module handle just the interface, and have the module where the functionality happens pass the functionality al...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2016/10/using-symbol-table-help.html

> #wearables  etc > (arduino, others) is the rare tech where women are present and often > set the pace of the tech. hardware more welcoming? ;) — Su-Shee > (@sheesh...

https://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2016/10/gender-and-wearables.html