zzamboni.org
zznippets

zzamboni.org
zznippets

Archive for

January 2012

 
Jan 31 / 9:41am

Lists of Note: Henry Miller's 11 Commandments

COMMANDMENTS
  1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
  2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."
  3. Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
  4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
  5. When you can't create you can work.
  6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
  7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
  8. Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
  9. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
  10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
  11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.
via listsofnote.com

Excellent advice for any line of work, not only writing.

 
Jan 25 / 3:16am

How to remove a subproject/submodule to a git-svn repository

To sum up, you delete the offending directory and then run something to the effect of

git filter-branch --index-filter \
'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path/to/the/formerly/misbehaving/module'

via ignoredbydinosaurs.com

I accidentally added another git repository to a git-svn repository, which makes it die when trying to push the changes. This technique helped me fix it. Documenting mostly so I remember when it happens again sometime.

 
Jan 23 / 10:06pm

nwdiag - simple network-diagram image generators — blockdiag 1.0 documentation

nwdiag generates network-diagram image file from .diag file. .diag file is similar to DOT file (graphviz’s).

You can get diagrams like this.

None

blockdiag.com via @saintaardvark

Very useful, like Graphviz but specifically for network diagrams. You can probably obtain the same result with Graphviz with the appropriate amount of dot magic, but nwdiag makes this very easy. Other useful graph types in sister projects: http://blockdiag.com/en/index.html

 
Jan 18 / 7:08pm

The Joy of Books - YouTube

via youtube.com

Wow, the amount of work that went into making this makes me dizzy.

 
Jan 13 / 8:36pm

I broke my Zagg Smartbuds :(

The cable caught on my knee while working out and snapped off the microphone unit :( Hope to get it repaired or replaced, I love these headphones.

Img_0110

 

 

 
Jan 13 / 1:14pm

How One Bit of Stupidity Could Have Brought Down a Multi-Million Dollar Media Company | Peter Shankman

the man sitting next to me was reading proprietary information, information that could be very, very damaging to this company if in the wrong hands, and he couldn’t have cared less about it
via shankman.com

Fascinating, scary story. It's amazing the things people do in airplanes (particularly on their laptops/iPads/phones) as if no one was watching them. Situational awareness is very important.