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RSS Sucks.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

I’ll admit that I haven’t spent too much time working with RSS feeds, but so far I’m unimpressed.  All they really seem to provide is a consistent view of published data for clients to read when they want.  That seems okay, but inefficient and a little redundant.  It seems like you could implement the same [...]

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Archiving your Mail

Monday, July 6, 2009

For those that don’t know, I use mutt for my email needs. This provides several niceties such as stripping out all the various formatting people like to include in their emails (fonts, graphics, etc), a keyboard driven interface, and, well, it just sucks less that most mail clients.
With mutt I choose to download all [...]

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git branch –force

Thursday, May 28, 2009

The headaches of coordinating a transition from svn => bzr at $JOB a few months ago have had time to fade, and I’ve now had some time to get used to using a DVCS on a day-to-day basis. Much like the experience of working with revision control is to the absence of it, I’ve [...]

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