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,...

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...

rest in peace

by beka mae | Mar 25, 2015 | Entertaining Myself

add_action ( ‘wp_head’, ‘sir_terry’ ); function sir_terry() { $clacks=”<meta http-equiv=\”X-Clacks-Overhead\” content=\”GNU Terry Pratchett\” />”; echo $clacks; }

hyperfocus

by beka mae | Jan 26, 2015 | Entertaining Myself

it’s a very exciting and confusing time with the gazillion frameworks, preprocessors, languages, and all the other stuff i’m learning right now. sass, ruby, git, jekyll, bourbon, neat, homebrew, liquid… and lest you think i’m a one trick pony...