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Remembering the Utils: Substitutions with Sed

These utilities turned a daunting process of identifying and repairing hundreds of calls into a simple pipeline, easily adapted to fix other problems.

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A Guide to Transitioning from GUI Editors to Vim

A short guide for transitioning to Vim from GUI text editors like VS Code and Sublime. Get up to speed by learning the most essential commands.

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Three Awesome Spacemacs Features

I was initially hooked by the nearly flawless Vim emulation. But then I fell in love with the pre-defined mnemonic shortcuts and amazing packages.

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Simple Way to Start (and Stop!) Background Processes in Bash

A Bash script to quickly start and stop multiple processes from the command line during development, while running multiple servers and/or clients.

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Running the Current Test File in VS Code

How to configure Visual Studio Code to run an external shell command passing the current file as an argument. Great for running tests!

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Testing Email Workflows Using Disposable Email Addresses

How can you test that your code triggers the message to be sent AND that the message gets delivered to a real mailbox? With a disposable email service.

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Avoid Lint Errors in CI with Git Hooks

It's a common practice to run linter tools in Continuous Integration. Git Hooks can help automate this process and stop lint errors from failing your CI.

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Effective Pivotal Tracker: Tips and Tricks

Pivotal Tracker is more opinionated about the software development process than some other tools on the market, but with that "limitation" comes benefits.

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Visualizations: Making Your Data Make Sense [w/Video]

Choosing our data visualizations carefully can make the difference between fruitless data manipulation and a groundbreaking discovery.

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(Clojure) Spec-ing Data from JSON

My first experience creating Clojure specs for JSON data from an external system taught me that it's a bit of an artform. These are some things I learned.

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Clojure Development with Visual Studio Code

Learning Emacs while also attempting to learn Clojure was too much all at once. So I decided to try out Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with Clojure.

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Docker for Mac: Overcoming Slow Mounted Volumes

You could develop in a windowed Linux environment. But if you want to stay in MacOS and use Docker, I have a few tips to make your life better.

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