Back at School

So I've had a week of classes back at school and it has been an enjoyable experience overall. I like all of my teachers, and I got into classes I wanted to. I also still have perfect attendance and a perfect grade in all classes. Easy to say so early on in the semester, but I like to celebrate success at every possible stop I get. College is an experience that is hard ...

Emacs Productivity

Let me first preface this with the following statement: I still use vim to edit text files. Hell, I used vim to configure emacs.

Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about productivity! I attempt to implement Getting Things Done in my daily life. I need to manage projects, contexts, and next actions. I've been using todotxt for the past semester with much success.. but the one missing link was email. ...

Have You Linuxed Today?

One thing I've been reading a lot lately is that GNU/Linux is utter crap on the desktop.

I used to agree with this sentiment. I thought that the problems you run into on a GNU/Linux desktop are not well documented, and hardware support was lacking. I use GNU/Linux for my reasons, many of them based on principles. I believe in the open source movement, and I encourage others to contribute or be a part of it.

But ...

Git's Killer Feature

The Git index is the killer feature of git. Now obviously Git has many other things going for it, but I was searching for the real differences between Git and Mercurial and this appears to be the trump card of Git.

You may know that I am a fan of Mercurial, and have fought against the tides of Git. I had an excuse for every feature that people brought up as a "killer feature". I ...