Creating an Elixir module
Creating an Elixir module
Thought Eddies
Git aliases
Here's a quick post for managing your git shortcuts. If you use git regularly, you should have a .gitconfig file in your home directory that looks something like this:
PySpark dependencies
Recently, I have been working with the Python API for [Spark][pyspark] to use distrbuted computing techniques to perform analytics at scale. When you write Spark code in Scala or Java, you can bundle your dependencies in the jar file that you submit to Spark. However, when writing Spark code in...
Python Fabric
To help facilitate my blogging workflow, I wanted to go from written to published post quickly. My general workflow for writing a post for [this blog][MyBlog] looks like this: Create a post in _posts Write the post Run fab sync
Bash SSH host management
If you have a lot of servers to which you frequently connect, keeping track of IP addresses, pem files, and credentials can be tedious. SSH config files are great for this problem, but they don't play well with bash. I wanted to store all of my hosts' info in a config file but still have access to...
Managing bash aliases
Bash aliases are great. Whether you use them to quickly connect to servers or just soup up the standard bash commands, they are a useful tool for eliminating repetitive tasks. I'm always adding new ones to optimize my workflow which, of course, lead to me create aliases to optimize that workflow....
Elixir binary search
A few days ago, I saw a Guess my word game on the front page of Hacker News. Before spoiling the fun for myself by checking out the comments, I decided to try my hand at writing a solution in Elixir. Afterwards, I generalized the code to choose its own word from the UNIX dictionary and then "guess"...
Hello
Hello and welcome to my third and final attempt to start a blog. To be honest, the hardest part has been choosing what tool to use to build and maintain the blog itself. I've been so inundated with The Next Big Thing™ in [static][Metalsmith] [site][Octopress] [generators][StaticGen] that I never...
qc: quick calculator
If you spend most of your time in the command line, you don't want to leave to do math. Qc is a script that does in-line command line math without forcing you to exit the main bash prompt as you might with a program like bc or a language interpreter.