Cherry Picking is an art form. — Have you ever used the art form of cherry-picking? I’m not talking about the form of actually picking cherries. I’m speaking about the programming term of cherry-picking from a git commit history. Per the documentation: git-cherry-pick — Apply the changes introduced by some existing commits Cherry-picking in git is the…

If you want something, break it into steps and achieve them. — Do you have dreams? If you do, fantastic; if you don’t that’s okay too. I’ll rephrase and ask instead: do you have something you would like to do at some point in your life? …

How you start your day reflects how your day will go. — “To begin, begin.” -William Wordsworth The morning is a special time of the day. It’s a starting point. Like Link in Legend of Zelda, who always starts his journey by waking from slumber, your “game day” begins by waking up. The choices you have after that are endless, but taper…

With what it’s best known for: Extensions — A text editor for a developer is everything. As a programmer, we sit and edit text all day long, every day. We spend most of our time looking at code and finding the best solutions to problems. Reading and writing. Thinking about why this function or that method doesn’t work…

Finding what motivates you, so that it can keep you going. — What happens when you lose your motivation again? Maybe you only had it for just a minute or two. You had it going to bed wanting to workout in the morning; to implement that new idea you had in the shower before work — then when it comes a time…

What is this sed programmers are talking about? How do you use it? — Linux is a wonderful tool. If you’ve never worked in it before, why not check it out? You can do it without dual-booting or setting up a Virtual Machine (well it’s like a VM, but different) with Docker. I wrote a tutorial about it in another post you can read…

Because you might need it — Have you needed a quick Linux instance? You’ve wanted to test something out without having to create a dual boot or all the none-sense of a separate Operating System? Think about this scenario: You’ve just finished your new project: a NodeJS API Server. It’s wonderful; the best of the best…

Now you can with GitHub Profile READMEs. — You found a secret GitHub has released a sly little update that I’ve only just found out about. Welcome to Profile READMEs! These readmes are a great way to introduce yourself when someone visits your profile. …

What makes it worth it for me. — What is writing to you? Ask yourself that; what does writing mean to you? Think about it for a minute. What is your relationship with writing? Do you like it? Does it have any benefits that you can see? Do you prefer to type as opposed to writing? …