Lately at work there’s been a bit of an obsession with metrics – I’m not sure it’s healthy. Code metrics can be interesting, but in the wrong hands or used the wrong way, they are misleading and harmful. It’s still to be seen what the outcome will be in this case. I’m more than little [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write this post forever, but once I started doing what I suggest here it seemed so obvious that I have trouble remembering what life was like before I did it. Once you’ve been working in a terminal for long enough, you realize how much more productive you can be with your [...]

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I’ve been working on more and more computers lately, and I was getting tired of my favorite bash and editor shortcuts not being available between the different machines. I finally took some good advice I heard a while back and put my config files under source control, and it’s been one of the best tips [...]

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