Author Archives: richo

About richo

Flying, coffee, computer stuff.

Using Oauth outside of the webapp domain

Posted on March 23, 2012 by richo

Recently at work we had a R&D day during which Josh Benham and I worked on a cli interface to github. We knew immediately that we didn’t want to use basic auth, obviously preferring the oauth library which is significantly … Continue reading →

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Displaying the current repo in your prompt

Posted on March 14, 2012 by richo

I tend to nest repos a lot in my usual workflow (The common elements are generally ~/code/ext/[repo], but with the pull_ext infrastructure I wrote, >5 levels of nesting are not uncommon). To work around this, I wanted my prompt to … Continue reading →

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Openbox gets a faux-Divvy mode

Posted on February 29, 2012 by richo

Openbox For some time now I’ve used openbox as my WM of choice (I worked it out the other day, it’s about a year since I migrated) and apart from needing to add one feature, it meets my needs pretty … Continue reading →

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psych0tik mirrors raspberry pi

Posted on February 21, 2012 by richo

Anyone who’s spoken to me in person knows that I’m really excited about the upcoming release of Raspberry PI. I’ll keep the speil to a minimum, but a $35 ARM SoC with ethernet, USB and enough hardware onboard to decode … Continue reading →

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Git stashing, and why you do it too much

Posted on January 31, 2012 by richo

First of all, this workflow depends entirely on an (rarely un)spoken rule in my repositories- if it’s in the wip/ or trash/ tree, don’t touch it. I’m planning on rebasing with impunity. I stash a lot at work, especially when … Continue reading →

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Convert iterm color file to Xdefaults

Posted on January 27, 2012 by richo

My favourite colorscheme for vim (Jellybeans.vim recently had a pull request submitted including a colorscheme for iTerm2, a terminal emulator for OSX. Not wanting to go back to OSX after finally getting my encryption key back and being back in … Continue reading →

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