Category Archives: Articles

Commentaries, rants, and papers written by psych0tik staff members

Mac-tacular backups, Apple, and OSX

Posted on March 17, 2012 by samurai

This post started out as a bit of a rant about back-ups I needed to make, due to a dieing Mac Book Pro.  Over the course of writing it, I’ve come across a few other issues and have looped in … 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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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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New box: Juggernaut

Posted on November 21, 2011 by samurai

I’ve been working on getting Juggernaut up and running for a couple weeks now and have promised a few people pictures and a summary of what’s going on… so here we have it. I was lucky enough to be given … Continue reading →

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