osx Symlink Directories on OSX The OSX version of the ln command behaves differently than the GNU version. As a result, I could not figure out a way to correctly symlink an entire directory (and its contents) on OSX. Here's a quick solution to this problem: This command will install and allow you to use
music Music For a Hranj Day 004: Local Band Spotlight Sometimes when the weather sucks and you're feeling down, you want to find something new to cheer you up. The focus of this post is to highlight a number of local bands that I believe deserve recognition. Hopefully the bands in this list will be new to you and you'll
hackNY A hackNY Week 1 Recap It's absolutely crazy to believe that I'm already halfway through my hackNY Fellowship summer. Here's how my first week went.
git Squashing Git Commits Using 'git rebase' There's many times when collaborating on Git that you may need to combine, or "squash" multiple commits into a single commit. For example, the repository I'm currently working on at my internship with BuzzFeed has 8,500+ commits and hundreds of open pull requests at any given time. If these
tattooing 9 Blackwork Tattoo Artists You Should Have Already Emailed In honor of my recent offer for an internship position at the Internet's viral vestibule BuzzFeed [http://www.buzzfeed.com/], I've decided to write a post in the style of a BuzzFeed list. This post is going to highlight a number incredible tattoo artists that focus exclusively on blackwork. The
music Music For a Hranj Day 003: The Concept of "The Good Album" Today's weather calls for another installation of "Music For a Hranj Day". However, in this chapter I'm not going to provide the usual recommended listening for a day of crappy weather. This post is going to explore a concept that my band, Save Face [https://www.facebook.com/savefacenj/], joked
Using Environment Variables with Chicago Boss Chicago Boss is an awesome web framework built on top of the functional programming language Erlang.
music Music For a Hranj Day 002: Best Uses of Delay In this iteration of 'Music For a Hranj Day' instead of observing a single album we are going to take a look at my favorite examples of the delay effect in different songs. There's something strange about delay that, when used correctly, perfectly fits the mood that I find myself
hackathons BAWLS Out For Local Hack Day This past weekend I had the privilege of organizing my first hackathon with the help of Major League Hacking [mlh.io]. Well, it wasn't a full-blown hackathon, but a sort of mini-hackathon called Local Hack Day [https://localhackday.mlh.io/]. The purpose of Local Hack Day was to bring together
Music For a Hranj Day 001: Still - Dionaea In this new series of posts I'm going to share and discuss albums that I find particularly enjoyable to listen to on rainy days. I'm going to try to focus on lesser known albums from local and inactive bands. There's no better way of kicking off this series than with
twilio Send SMS Messages with Processing and Twilio Processing is a relatively new framework used for creating rich visual-based applications in Java, Android, Javascript, and more. It's free, open source, portable, extensible, and well documented.
twilio Featured Debugging Twilio - Hangup All Active Calls If you're an idiot like me you might find yourself using Twilio one day and accidentally making way more phone calls than you intended to. I'm not ashamed to admit that this has now happened to me multiple times. I find myself scrambling for a way to clean up the
twilio Featured Debugging Twilio - HTTP 405 Not Allowed There is nothing more discouraging than hearing “We’re sorry. An application error has occurred.” over and over again while debugging a Twilio [https://www.twilio.com/] application. I experienced this recently while rehearsing the five-minute Twilio demo I’ve given dozens of times before. This post will examine a
mongodb The Struggles of a MongoDB Newbie They say “don’t knock it ‘til you try it.” MongoDB is no exception to this rule. So I decided to try it, and I’d like to briefly share my first impression. For a database working to eliminate the need for relations, why does the functionality for subdocuments seem
