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Using Vagrant to Deploy to a Remote Hyper-V Host

My Vagrant/Hyper-V combo worked well, but had two problems: wifi going out, and the large footprint of Vangrant/Chef on a Windows OS.

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A Simple GIF Screencast Workflow for Mac

How I make GIF screen recordings on Mac OSX with Quicktime and ffmpeg.

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CodeRunner: A Generalist’s Swiss Army Knife

While all of its features, taken separately, are available for free, CodeRunner makes it painless to sit down, choose your language, and just start coding.

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Google Sheets’ Query Language

Using the QUERY function in Google Sheets, which supports querying a spreadsheet dataset using SQL.

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Creating Man Pages in Markdown with Ronn

Ronn is a fantastic, simple tool that leverages the Markdown you use every day to create man pages for your command-line software.

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Working with Text at the Command Line – Tools for Searching & Editing

The multi-monitor, high-resolution graphics revolution didn't bring graphics, just windows full of text. Command lines are still great working with text.

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Specifying the Destination of an Unwind Segue Programmatically

How to programmatically determine the destination of an iOS Unwind Segue by overriding canPerformUnwindSegueAction.

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autoclave: A Pressure Cooker for Programs

autoclave applies prolonged heat and pressure to eliminate hard-to-reproduce bugs.

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Setting Up a Project Workspace in Tmux

Instead of organizing my terminal sessions across tabs, I use Tmux to create a project workspace.

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Custom Animation for an Unwind Segue

What do you do if you want a custom animation for your unwind segue in Xcode?

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Version-Controlled Hardware Design with EAGLE

Two different setups for implementing a hardware design version control system using CadSoft EAGLE.

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An iOS Developer’s (Mostly) Open Source Toolchest

iOS developers have many tools to choose from. Here are our picks (most of them open source) for one project.

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