Apple Interface Style & TUI
macOS-based Night mode supported scripting to update various configurations across different development environment tools including, Alacritty, Tmux, Neovim, Starship, and Bat.
Writing.
Using the new Gandi provider
Manage your Gandi DNS records via Terraform with open source tools and free commercial products. Also, setup your repository for better documentation writing with Vale.
Leadership styles of staff engineers
When moving up in an individual contributor track, you will move from senior exclusively-technical roles into a hybrid of technical & leadership roles. These roles are usually fall under the staff+ engineering path which is a compliment to the engineering manager path.
Switching to Neovim & Lua
I’ve been using Vim for 8 years and found that it was finally time to migrate my development environment over to Neovim. This meant learning about Lua and writing Lua configuration files for Neovim. My journey was cathartic and took less than a week.
Check for changes on git pull
As projects grow, there are dependencies that fall outside of the project’s dependency graph. This means that there are some actions you need to perform on your code base when things change. Using the post-merge git-hook can help automate this for your team.
Clean Git house
Learn how to delete your local Git branches with a full breakdown of how to do it from manual to fully automated step-by-step.
Iterating again and again
Let’s iterate across files using ls and grep to copy or move files from a parent directory into a bunch of sibling directories related to the file. We can do this in an automated way using the commands mentioned above.
Smooth terminal
This is a review of the decisions that went into my $PS1
while also discussing some customized fonts using NerdFonts and
iTerm2.
Setting up lolcommits
Setting up lolcommits for local selfies from Git commits you make on your machine using your camera. This is geared towards Mac OS X users.