Adventures As Me

Applications that steal focus are the bane of my computer experience. Particularly egregious are the ’sudo’ type authentication dialogs on the OS X platform. On a multi-monitor setup ( which I have at work ) these dialogs remove the focus to a place where one is not looking. It is too easy to continue type and depress the enter key, thereby submitting an incorrect password.

Stealing focus should be prevented and preventable.

Just a simple post. Emacs is still my main editor. The real question is: how much have I edited? Answer: very little.

Today marks at least my 10th attempt at making Emacs my main editor. I’m trying harder this time however. For example, this entire post was composed and submitted directly from Emacs.
A co-worker has been using Emacs exclusively for 1 year and I’m drawing on his knowledge and experience to improve my conversion.
One element that was always off-putting in the past is my non-conventional typing skills. Largely self-taught, I don’t use the typical layout and maneuvers, which makes certain keystrokes Emacs is fond of rather annoying. However in the last 3 years I have done far more consistent typing which improved my speed, accuracy and flexibility.

I give myself one month :)

The error message:

To ssh://user@host/path/to/repository
   c441eb7..a5705cd  master -> master
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://user@host/path/to/repository'

The error condition:

A hook script that does nothing. Either the script is empty or contains only comments.

Apparently git does not like useless hook scripts. Took me a good 10-15 minutes to deduce that was the problem ( thank you for pointing me in the proper direction with the error message!) :P

Five years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Combating Comment Spam” It amuses me that this post attracts the most comment spam than any other post on this site. The spam ratio is easily 100:1