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A Tiny Toolbox for Spelunking through JSON

A quick look at how curl, bash, jq, and json-diff can make JSON less painful to wrangle from the command-line.

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Why Use Git?

5 reasons I prefer Git over other version control systems like SVN, Mercurial, Perforce, etc.

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Monitoring Your iOS Traffic

With a few simple steps, you can leverage the sniffer tools you already know to intercept and view your iOS traffic.

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I Hate #regions

"I hate regions" not only automatically expands the regions when you open the file, it changes the font size and color of the regions.

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Cool and Easy HTML with Emmet

Emmet is a easy-to-use, lightweight tool that reduces frustration while writing HTML.

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Increasing Pivotal Tracker Usability with Shorter IDs

Shorter IDs makes it easier to find stories your Pivotal Tracker backlog, so I used Pivotal's REST API to create custom IDs.

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Xcode Efficiency Tips: Keyboard Shortcuts

Xcode shortcuts for getting around workspace windows, navigating in the editor, building, running, testing, and debugging.

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Editing the Future – Light Table, and Atom, and Then What?

A look at what recent programming editor projects (Light Table, Atom, etc.) are trying to deliver and what I'd like to see from them in the future.

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Affordable CAN Bus Tools that Won’t Break the Bank

The CAN bus is a cheap, robust and simplistic interface between microcontrollers wired together. Here are some low-cost alternatives to CAN bus sniffing.

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Script Away your Annoyances: Employing Automator in a Pinch

OS X's Automator is a handy tool for quickly scripting annoying workflows.

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Adventures in Pair Programming – 2 Devs, 3 Computers

Using tools that get out of our way makes a big difference. Synergy is a nice addition to our pair programming toolkit.

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Moving Unpushed Changes to a New Branch with Mercurial

You wish you'd been committing your changes to a different branch. Is there a way we can just move unpushed changes onto a new branch? Actually, Yes!

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