BitBar is an Open Source OSX application to enhance your menu bar.

A little GNU Screen BitBar plugin I wrote is now available on the BitBar plugins site.

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I can’t overstate the peace of mind that working on a project with comprehensive tests gives me. It truly amazes me how much better code I produce with I feel confident that the changes I’m making aren’t breaking things.

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groovysh

I’m a command line person, and I love the interactive nature of Ruby’s irb for extemporaneous coding. Groovy comes with its own analogue, the Groovy Shell (groovysh, which the parallelist in me would...

statement of sadness

A while ago I switched from Linux-nearly-everywhere to a MacBook Pro for my main iron.

I run JVM applications. A lot of JVM applications. Most were well-behaved, but some of them lost focus on launch.

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the net hack

the background

A while back, Bridget Kromhout (insanely, given our schedules) proposed we give a talk at DevOpsDays Minneapolis on why every technologist should play Nethack.

Curse, bless her now with my...