Adam's Awesome: Archive

xargs(1), you can no longer taunt me!

This joyful snippet: find . -name "*.working" -print | xargs -J % mv % ~/.Trash Finds files named .working, like Subversion generates on conflicts, and tucks them away in your OS X trash. More joyfully, it lets you pass positional arguments to commands invoked by xargs(1). A revelation for some, this may not be, but it is for me POWR.

Jul 31st

Jul 29th

adaptive path » our reading list →

My reading queue just got a lot deeper.

Jul 29th

Welcome to Backdoor Comedy, Dallas TX →

Sadly enough, the club is shutting down. I performed there twice when I was 15. It was the apex of my stand-up career (so far!)

Jul 29th

OSCON 2007 presentations

The Holistic Programmer is about how programmers should approach take a global view on the stack of abstractions in which they work and also in the spectrum of communications between people and machines. People Hacks is about improving your people skills to work with those who aren’t much fun to work with, becoming a better advocate and gelling a team so they can make “the no look...

Jul 27th

Man vs. Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →

Jul 24th

C.E.O. Libraries Reveal Keys to Success - New York... →

Jul 21st

The CADT Model →

Jul 21st

“This option can be used if a disk or the processor is on fire.”

– docs.sun.com: man Pages(1M): System Administration Commands

Jul 21st

Jul 19th

Let’s Play Two: Singular Piano - New York Times →

Jul 16th

Jul 15th

Erb'ing my mind →

Wherein Ara makes sense. Finally, I can rest well!

Jul 13th

Jul 12th

Jul 11th

Dear W. Axl Rose, No amount of reason can dig you out of that deep trench ‘o crazy you’ve made for yourself. Sincerely, Adam Keys

Jul 10th

dustym: I won't be around for tonight, guys. SORRY
therealadam: what WHUT
 » therealadam single tear
dustym: sry mang, I gotta go get a haerocut.
therealadam: to get your hair did?
 » therealadam stabs dustym
dustym: I guess I could just leave early and try to make it...
dustym: I dunno. I JUST DUNNO
dustym: Ah fuck it, I'll just leave at 4. No one that I work with will know why.
therealadam: I hear he's going out on a date with that chick from the Pussycat Dolls
therealadam: the singer chick who looks like she might beat you up
ssmoot: I think we'd all be cool with you taking off early dustym if you promised to take a shower as well?
dustym: yeah sure, with ur mom.
therealadam: TURNABOUT +5
ssmoot: it burns!