happy birthday to me

by beka mae | Sep 2, 2018 | Entertaining Myself, Set The Table, Web Development

It’s my birthday today and I celebrated by doing exactly what I wanted. Installed CentOS 7 in Virtual Box. Installed MySQL on it. Crash course in VM networking. Exploding course in ssh keys and all the ways things can go wrong. Finally connected to the guest os...

Vim cheat sheet

by beka mae | Jan 21, 2018 | Entertaining Myself, Web Development

With my ADHD remembering these things comes and goes, especially if I’m not using it every day. ysst – surround on current line, ignore whitespace, no indent y_ou s_surround(ing) s_selection t_ag ySS – surround, put surrounded text on own line,...

5 Games I Can’t Wait To Play

by beka mae | Sep 24, 2017 | Entertaining Myself

I love games. I am terrible at them because my attention span is …not so good. Bordering on bad. Ok. It’s quite bad and getting to the point where I can’t go to the store alone. Exhibit A: J: Buy zyrtec on your way home. me: Got it. *three hours...

Three Cheers for Master

by beka mae | Nov 11, 2015 | Entertaining Myself

We played Three Cheers for Master last night…finally. I bought it when it came out and we’d never had the time/place/frame of mind to get into a game. FINALLY, last night we were able to make it happen and we had a lot of fun. I definitely see needing...

Clean Up Microsoft Word in Vim for HTML

by beka mae | Apr 10, 2015 | Entertaining Myself

Sometimes I get these Word docs that need to be used in WordPress or PHPlist. Sending out mass attachments is a huge no-no so I needed a way to quickly clean these things up in vim. I’m sure there are other tools out there that could do this in one or two clicks...

started seeds for 2015 garden

by beka mae | Apr 4, 2015 | Entertaining Myself

parsley, chive, rosemary, basil, cilantro, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber, sweet peppers, beans, zucchini.