From time to time you’ll need to inspect the contents of a locally installed Ruby gem. For instance - I needed to check the contents of my Jekyll theme (minima) earlier today, so I could override s...

Just wanted to let you know that for various reasons I’ve migrated the comments of (think) from Disqus to Hyvor Talk. I’ve described the process in a dedicated article. One small difference in the...

Every time I change my computer or my operating system1, one of the first things I have to do is to configure Git. This article simply covers the basic Git settings that I always adjust. So, here’...

From time to time we need to rename a bunch of files according to some pattern. One simple example that comes to mind is that recently I noticed that some articles in my blog had a .md extension a...

That’s going to be one really short post. I just wanted to share with you that I’ve been using HEY (a new e-mail service from Basecamp) for the past few months and overall I’m quite happy with it....

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 ...