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
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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
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Update: This post is out-of-date.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
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
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