Git commits on xkcd

I've had no time to do any coding lately, which makes me sad, but when I did have time and was doing lots of commits in short periods of time, I definitely felt like doing this. Many many times.

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Last tattoo session pics

Today I got more work done on my sleeve, but I'd neglected to post (and even take!) pictures of the next-to-last session. So if you look at Flickr you'll see the last bits I got done (the flaming cross and re-darkening the tribal Jesus), but not the stuff before that …

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Some changes...

The blog needed an updated look. I think I kinda like this new look. Much cleaner and sharper.

I think I'm going to be doing more "life" blogging from this point forward. The tech stuff is important, but so is "real life". So there should be more stuff of the …

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Dealing with a Sea of Backlog

I saw this on Facebook today and, thankfully, it's also on their blog. I've always liked the idea of "Inbox Zero" and have even gotten my inbox to zero a few times since I started (mostly)-seriously using GTD. Sadly, I'm not there anymore due to how crazy work has …

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Real-world SSD vs HDD: cvs2svn speed

This just absolutely blew my mind so I figured I'd post a quick note about it. I have to convert a CVS repository to SVN and this is a big repository, over 33k commits to it spanning a decade. In my trial runs, using cvs2svn resulted in it taking just …

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Setting up a Drobo 5N

There's something about NAS units that makes me happy. Tiny little boxes full of storage and ripe for mucking with since for the most part they run Linux make me all warm and fuzzy and just generally put me in a good mood. Probably because I'm a bit of a …

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Converting subversion to git redux

I know I've written about this in the past (here and here), but I needed to do another conversion the other day that was similar, yet different. Previous posts talked about pulling parts of a subversion repository into a git repo -- effectively taking one svn repo apart into multiple git …

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