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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

My OS X Desktop system has a problem. When the screensaver activates, there is a small window, one or two seconds in length, wherein if I depress a keyboard key or move the mouse, the screensaver does not fully activate. However, it does not de-activate, leaving me with an unusable desktop.
The system does not respond [...]