PPAs (Personal Package Archives) are a popular way to install pre-built packages that for some reason are not (yet) available in Ubuntu’s standard package repositories. Some common examples that co...

This site was my first attempt to write. I failed miserably and I produced some pretty crappy content, but I also learned a lot in the process. Over the course of a decade the blog saw quite a few...

For many years I’ve enjoyed listening to programming podcasts - it’s the perfect way to make a commute a bit more fun and educational.1 RubyRogues was always one of my favourite Ruby shows and I fi...

If only there was an easy way to find the first commit in a Git repository… A bit of Googling unveils some pretty hard to remember incantations like: $ git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD 91938b105b...

After dreading the migration of this site from Octopress 2 to Jekyll for years, I finally found the will to do it today. The process was actually very straight-forward and took me just a couple of ...

Back in black, I hit the sack I’ve been too long, I’m glad to be back Yes, I’m let loose From the noose That’s kept me hanging about I’ve been looking at the sky ‘Cause it’s gettin’ me high ...

CIDER 0.9 (a.k.a. “EuroCIDER”) is finally out and it’s our best release yet! (shocker, right?) It took a lot more time than I originally anticipated, but at least we managed to ship in time for Eur...

Projectile 0.12 is finally out! A lot of time has passed since the previous stable release, for which I’m truly sorry. I kept delaying and delaying the release for various reasons, but it’s fin...

Can’t wait for Octopress 3.0 to be released! Octopress 2 is killing me and I was seriously considering going back to a plain Jekyll blog, before I saw 3.0 is right around the corner. Any day now… ...

At Clojure/conj I had the chance to shake Rich Hickey’s hand and exchange a few words with him. When I asked him whether he currently uses CIDER or Cursive for Clojure development he replied that h...