Revamp your Mac OSX terminal experience
If you spend a lot of time in a terminal, and that terminal is on a Mac OSX machine, and in that terminal, you're mainly using vim and tmux, then, boy, do I have some…
$rails new start; ember new beginning
There are a few moments in your life when you understand that there's an horizon you can't see past until you've made a certain decision. I've had to make a few of these in my…
Some principles on deciding to build or buy software
Lately, I'm finding myself being asked the following question over and over again: When is it appropriate to buy software, and when is it appropriate to build software? What do you base your decisions on?…
Reports are requirement anti-patterns
Can you build a report for me...? How many times have we, as system builders, developers and product owners seen this requirement in one of its many subtle guises? Me? I get these kinds of…
Thoughts on RubyFuza 2014
This year I went back to RubyFuza for the second time. And this year, I also brought 10 of my colleagues friends from Internet Solutions. It was an inspiring conference that has had me processing…
Using the shampoo effect for personal gain
The shampoo effect is an interesting phenomenon wherein you maintain being drunk or high or whatever with minimum effort if you keep constantly drinking or dosing, even in normally small and ineffective doses. As per…