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The Death of a Thousand Pronouns
We interrupt this narrative to discuss the election and politics in general. The 2024 election is over, and it was a massive Trump victory. Not quite a Dukakis level beatdown, but still very decisive, with Trump winning both the majority of electors as well as the popular vote. That, boys and girls, is what we call a "mandate ( Read more... ) -
Hello Again - Part 2
Things in North Carolina started well. I was attending local gaming events, and going to an actual office to be around people instead of working remotely for a change. Redhat HQ had a nice system where I could go in 3 days a week, and work from home the other two. It was the perfect combination of social interaction and the ability to get stuff ( Read more... ) -
Hello Again - Part 1
Has it been 5 years since I posted anything here? Wow. Well, what's new ( Read more... ) -
Running a remote rails console
Another tip for myself, courtesy of a co-worker.
If you want to run a rails console on a remote app you can use the `ssh -t` option. The -t option forces pseudo terminal allocation. Put your pubkey on the remote system to avoid password prompts.
ssh -t username@some_server 'cd /remote/rails/app/base/directory && bundle exec rails c production' ( Read more... ) -
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Mostly a note to self, this is how you can show your current git branch in Windows Powershell. Just add it to your profile.ps1.
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Building libxml2 and libxslt on Windows
I had a little trouble building these from source with MSVC so I thought I'd record the issues I faced both so that I can refer back to this post if I forget, and perhaps help others along the way ( Read more... ) -
Azure and client connections
For anyone out there wondering how to do client side connections with Ruby and Azure, this should get you going. It took me a while to figure this out because the vast majority of the examples online assume you're doing this strictly within a web app and send the token to a reply-url, which is obviously unsuitable for scripting. So, here you go ( Read more... ) -
Hands in the Sea, a game that I designed, is on Kickstarter!
After about 3 years of development and playtesting, my game "Hands in the Sea" is finally going to be published! Hooray!
http://kck.st/17rokCIIt's a 2-player deckbuilding game on the First Punic War, i.e. the first big war between Rome and Carthage. So, not Hannibal, but Hannibal's father, Hamilcar. The mechanics are heavily inspired by a game ( Read more... ) -
Getting irb history without readline
I built Ruby 2.1.2 from source and got all the desired 3rd party libs installed except readline. A minor nuisance since it mostly only affects irb and history. Except I want irb history so I can use the up arrow key to recall commands ( Read more... ) -
Building openssl for Ruby with Visual Studio
Yet another "how to build" post mostly for my own reference, but you may find it useful.
Building the openssl lib for Ruby with Visual Studio is a bit of a pain. First, you'll need to install openssl itself (which you can build from source if you have Perl installed) or use their precompiled stuff. To build openssl itself from source, do this:
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