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Trying to apply the instructions for the Vagrant tutorial to Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr and I ran into a problem when trying to load up the localhost in order to take a peek at my shared directory. I kept getting an Apache error, which meant that the web server was running locally, just nothing was getting served. Running down the error, I came across this Ask Ubuntu post. Rather than trying to mess with any conf files, I simply dropped an html directory to /var/www/ and voila - it worked.

Getting up to speed during my first week on the new job. My first task has been upgrading the versions of Ruby and Rails for the main website. To handle some of the common tasks across web applications, we use an in-house gem. While testing the upgrades, I noticed that some of the JavaScript libraries called in the web app weren’t being pulled out of the gem. It took some digging to discover why, but here’s what I found. ...

“Midway through development we decided to switch from private shared accounts to a corporate account. Switching local repos couldn’t be easier:” git remote rm origin #Removes old origin git remote add origin https://username@bitbucket.org/your.new.repo #Adds new origin pointing to BitBucket git push -u origin #Pushes commits to new repo [I love it when this stuff works so easily.] src

minimalmac: Share files, passwords, and more with self-destructing private links. Really handy. I’ve used it a few times now. Works as advertised. I had this idea a while ago, before I even knew how to code. I was thinking of building it as a web app, but this still looks great. I’m just glad that it’s out there so I can cross it off my To Make list. [goto](https://usetorpedo.com/)

Smashing Squashing Git Commits for Open Source Contributions Recently, I made my first contribution to an open source project, homebrew-cask, “a CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries”. Basically, it’s a way to install applications through the command line, rather than visiting a website, clicking to save a disk image, opening said disk image, and clicking and dragging the application icon to the application folder. TIme-consuming and full of opportunities for distraction. ...

“Part of Unreal Engine, JSified.” On Asm.js: Ending The Ice Age of JavaScript

Engelbart’s law of technology prediction says that all technology predictions overpredict what technology will do for you in the short term and underpredict what technology will do for you in the long term. –David Maynard Meta laws. (Busted: Yes, I was reading Fast Co. Yes, I’m sorry.)

In case you were also wondering about the origins of <a href="some link address">linky link</a> “A” is for “anchor”, “HREF” is for “hypertext reference” from a W3 article on making a server, by way of this place

I copied my `gem list` and `brew list` outputs to text files in Dropbox today [is the next step writing a script that installs the listed packages when called?]. I then did some sort of nasty copy-and-paste job on my Sublime Text 2 settings, putting them into the Reboot folder, too. Then I came across this response to a question on Stack Overflow. It’s so much nicer & will continue to backup automagically. It’s another one of those too-rare instances where technology makes life easier. ...

My latest project: a Sinatra-based Stoic quote generator that yammers on Twitter. Working from the “Meditations” written by Marcus Aurelius, a Ruby gem by the name of marky_markov creates a Markov chain and the Twitter gem feeds it into the Twitter silo. Which is to say, Marcus is [sorta] still sharing his insights today. Currently, the thing posts only when hitting a local URL. Next steps are to give it a presentable face, host it online, and automate posting [looking at you, Heroku Scheduler]. Give a follow if you don’t already have enough bots in your life. ...