Author Archives: Ryan Rauh

About Ryan Rauh

My name is Ryan Rauh and I like shiny things. If I've seen it on twitter more the twice most likely I've looked at it or tried it. I really like memes and other silly and seemingly useless things out on the internet. I blog about things *I* think are cool and interesting, I hope you will find them cool and interesting too.

The *nix Rube Goldberg Machine – find/grep/vim

Learn your shell! Piping grep into grep I was spelunking my .bash_history and came across this little piece of awesome. ~/lecode> find source/ -type f | grep -v ” ” | xargs grep this\.Asset.* | grep dovetail | grep -v … Continue reading 

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The *nix Rube Goldberg Machine

Learn your shell! Last time I posted a quick intro into basic shell programming. “Bash isn’t programming, its scripting…” “Shut up troll, its programming” This time I’d like to quickly explain loops. I’ll give you a quick example of how … Continue reading 

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The *nix Rube Goldberg Machine!

Learn your shell! Since I’ve started at Dovetail in June the best tool I’ve sharpened is my command line skills. My first week at Dovetail we got a surprise visit from @bob_pace and while pairing with him I was amazed … Continue reading 

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Huboard – Github issues made awesome

Meet Huboard ! Huboard is a kanban style drag and drop task board built entirely on top of the github api. How to get started Its easy. Go to any of your github repositories and add issues as you normally … Continue reading 

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r/CircleJerk

circlejerk To kneel in a circle with others and pleasure oneself. Also refers to a pompous, self-congratulatory discussion where little to no progress is made. 1. “I just walked in on a circlejerk yesterday; it was terrible!” 2. “Did you … Continue reading 

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Conjunction Junction: What’s your function?

A came across the video from my JavaScript talk at Austin Code Camp. I just watched it and I have to say it’s really weird hearing myself present. I am probably way too harsh on myself because I noticed a … Continue reading 

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Really silly things to do with C# expression trees

As you may remember from my last post I’m current reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs as part of a study group we started during Pablo’s Fiesta. I continue to find Lisp to be a fascinating language especially this … Continue reading 

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TIL everything in Lisp is a function

I’m current reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs as part of a study group we started during Pablo’s Fiesta. Our goal is learn Haskell by reading this book and implementing all of the exercises in Haskell instead of Lisp. … Continue reading 

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Ah Ha Moments – Handcrafted CSS

I recently started reading Handcrafted CSS by Dan Cederholm (just want to add that I am not being paid to blog about this book, it’s amazing, go buy it). I just finished chapter 1 and there are a few Ah … Continue reading 

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Ah Ha Moments – Handcrafted CSS Chapter 1

I recently started reading Handcrafted CSS by Dan Cederholm (just want to add that I am not being paid to blog about this book, it’s amazing, go buy it). I just finished chapter 1 and there are a few Ah … Continue reading 

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