Using git and GitHub can be intimidating for people who don’t spend most of their time in the command line, or who haven’t…
I often find myself working on node apps, and missing the robust runtime debugging that I get when working on Objective-C apps.
Node has some pretty solid debugging tools built right in, but they’re not the easiest to use.
I’ve been playing a lot of music in the We Heart It office lately.
I usually just put on my Last.fm or add stuff to a Spotify playlist as I go — however, I have a wide range of music taste, some of which is not office appropriate. I’ve…
Recently I needed to redirect a mobile web version of an app to an installed app.
This proved somewhat challenging, as there’s no standard for checking if a user has an app installed. You can of course just…
I often find myself spinning up projects that I want to continuously deploy to a production-like environment. One of the easier ways to deploy code is to add an origin and push to it to deploy. It’s already in your workflow, so a setup like heroku makes a…
Yesterday I was looking through an EC2 setup that I had made a while ago. I needed to automatically mount an EBS volume at boot, so that the services running on the box could talk to a partition without mounting it, regardless of if I rebooted the…
