The 10 Rules of a Zen Programmer
Seriously Zen. Topics include:
- Focus
- Keep your mind clean
- Beginners mind
- No ego
- There is no career goal
- Shut up
- Mindfulness. Care. Awareness
- There is no boss
- Do something else
- There is nothing special
I already see myself improving from some of these values.
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Links #1
- Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I’m Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
- What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?
- Skim Fat-free client-side templates with Slim and CoffeeScript
- “Crazy Deep” Rails 3.2 Example Apps and Tutorials
- Chaplin - “Chaplin is an example architecture for JavaScript applications using the . . .
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Converting flac to alac using ffmpeg
In my last post I showed how to convert flac to mp3 using the lame encoder. In this post, I’ll show how to convert your flac audio files to ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec). The main reason to convert flac to alac is to preserve lossless audio files in iTunes and even play them on your iPod/iPhone, natively. All that you need is to install . . .
Bash one-liner to convert a directory of flac audio files to mp3 V0
$ for file in *.flac; do flac -cd "$file" | lame -h -V0 - "${file%.flac}.mp3"; done
V0 just because -b 320
can be rather silly.
On a Mac using Homebrew, just do the following:
$ brew install lame flac
Steve Jobs On Being Truly Satisfied With Your Job
It's like most of your day.
Reblogged for truth! Why settle for anything less?
onceuponamanda:
If I could hug a quote, I would.
startupquote:Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what . . .
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots - 2011 Rubyist's Guide to a Mac OS X Development Environment
giant robots smashing into other giant robots: 2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment
thoughtbot-giantrobots:
It’s been two and a half years since my last laptop. It’s neat to look back and see how much has improved since then for setting up a Ruby development environment.
Of particular note, . . .