Thanks to FeedPress for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. I use FeedPress for all of my RSS and podcasting needs, so I’m happy to have their support!
sponsor
As an introvert with poor social skills and lack of desire for company most of the time, I’m a bit of a hermit. I would love to live in a Walden-esque cabin, miles from civilization, but it’s really hard to get decent internet out there.
humor, personal
There are a lot of catchy clichés describing how optimism is the light of the world, and how pessimism is evil creeping into your thinking. Seeing a glass as half empty, though, is not a negative outlook. It’s a realistic assessment of a limited resource.
personal
If you’ve never explored Bash’s file, there’s a lot of customization you can do in there. From setting completion and Readline options to creating custom keybindings, you can greatly improve your command line efficiency with a little tweaking.
bash, terminal, unix
Thanks to Smile and TextExpander 5 for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! TextExpander has been a vital part of my workflow on every Mac I’ve ever owned, and version 5 does not disappoint.
snippet, sponsor, textexpander
I put together a little utility this morning to help me remember what GitHub repositories I’ve grabbed with the intention of playing with later. I often clone or fork a repo and plan to explore it over a weekend, but then quickly forget about it if I don’t add a reminder.
cli, macos, ruby, terminal
