You don’t really need anything other that git to manage your dotfiles if you know how to do it correctly.…

The proposal draft for Go2 “contracts” is in full swing and is a hot topic in the Go community. If implemented, contracts represent a massive change to Go that will influence how programs are structured, maintained, and written for many years to come.…

Today, I am happy to announce flaggy as stable for production use. Flaggy was originally built out of frustrations with all other flag packages available today. There are a lot of flag packages out there, but missing features, lack of subcommand support, and strange hard-to-remember patterns are all too common. Flaggy is new, but has been polished and tested extensively. I think you’re going to like it.…

I was scouting around github today and noticed that many projects seem to have a huge number of forks… Way more forks than are actually being used. At first this seemed strange, but I quickly realized that this large number of forks is due to people not knowing what forks are actually for. Forks are for…

The Chef community didn’t have a good cookbook for deploying RServe as a headless daemon, so I created one! This cookbook installs R, RServe, and sets up a daemon that listens on port 6311. Tested with…