Based partially on Steve Yegge’s advice that you should learn your tools, along with an interest in doing some kind of coding even while being busy with school, I’ve been working my way through the emacs manual and the emacs-lisp-intro, which latter is highly recommended.
(As an aside, one thing I’ve been working on has been [...]
In honor of getting subversion up and running on my website, and in honor of sort-of publishing my first code, I wend ahead and set up websvn. With syntax highlighting! (Thanks to mihasya) So, if you’re ever curious about what I’ve been coding recently you can check out svn.quodlibetor.com and view logs, etc.
And, of course, [...]
2:00am, finals week, what would be a good use of my time? Oh, yeah, how about writing a little bash script to keep my external hard drive from constantly spinning down? Observe:
#!/bin/bash
while [ true ]
do
touch /media/BigEx/.keephdactive
sleep 4m
done
Wow, right?
Yeah, it’s been kind of bothering me for months, nothing [...]
