I am a die hard command line user. I am not highly opinionated on whether or not everyone else should be working solely out of the command line, but my own personal idiosyncrasies kind of demand it – I hate having multiple windows open. This means, I use a lot of tabs and splits and my preferred text editor is Vim. I work from my terminal and I love it because it provides me with...

My coworker, Paul and I were discussing the virtues of tmux a few days ago and both of us were at a loss at to why it was useful. tmux brands itself as a “terminal multiplexer”. It gives you the ability to have multiple terminals instances opened at once without having to use multiple windows. This seems useful at first, but both Paul and I use iTerm2 as our terminal app and iTerm2 already provides...

I have been banging my head on my keyboard for quite some time trying to figure out why using git push origin master has never seemed to work for me when trying to push the few local repos I have to github via the command line. I knew I was missing something essential about the process, but was struggling to put my finger on it. Finally, I’ve found out there is no established git command...

This recap is coming several days late, but day two of the conference was amazing! The second day’s talks were much more relevant to my work as a developer and I remained incredibly engaged the whole time. I basically lived at the Builders Stage! So many great talks that were relevant to my work as a developer. My networking skills are definitely in need of some work, though. I would get nervous and scramble for...

I have been eagerly anticipating today since I got my Collision ticket back in October of last year. I have never been to an industry conference and the naive nerd inside of me was squeeing in utter delight that I finally get to go to a conference. My coworker, Paul, and I took a whole hour to pore over the seminar descriptions and set up our joint schedules. Day one of the conference definitely did...