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Engineering Mantras
workplace

Engineering Mantras

Like everyone else, I have a list of favorite quotes that have influenced me or that I have found especially compelling. In the technical world, these sometimes become mantras, guidance, or even best

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
3 min read
software

The Benefits of Upstream Compatibility and Upstreaming

So you've read the loads of articles about why Open Source Software (OSS) is good for business. Perhaps you've also read Tom Preston-Werner's superb article about why your company should open source as

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
4 min read
linux

powerlevel9k - Improved Git Repo Information!

Update: This post is out-of-date. Please head over to the newest post for Powerlevel9k, here. Original post: In the post where I first announced the powerlevel9k Oh-My-Zsh theme, I lamented the fact that

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
1 min read
code

Rainbow Parentheses in Vim

Vim doesn't support rainbow parentheses highlighting, out-of-the-box, for anything except Lisp. Rainbow highlighting is pretty awesome though, so if you want it for something like C or C++, a plugin is your best

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
1 min read
code

Cheat Sheet for git Submodules

I use git submodules pretty often. Usually, I interact with them while maintaining my configuration files ('dotfiles'), which you can find on Github. I have 45 submodules in that repository. Pretty epic. If

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
5 min read
latex

LaTeX Needs To Be Reborn

Introduction I have been a LaTeX fan and evangelist for years. I've used it for slides (Beamer class, of course), reports, academic papers, resumes, random documents, and my graduate thesis. I've always encouraged

  • Ben Hilburn
    Ben Hilburn
16 min read
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