digital ashes.

May 2012

7 posts

Teaching my wife to use Git

• Josh: hit Apple-Space and type in "terminal" to open the terminal app
• Josh: then I'll type in what I need you to write in the terminal
• Josh: just a couple easy commands
• Josh: ready?
• Erin: okay
• Erin: i think
• Erin: just type anyhwere?
• Josh: copy and paste this, then press enter:
• Josh: cd /path/to/some/code/
• Erin: okay
• Josh: type this and press enter:
• Josh: git stash
• Erin: wait
• Erin: when I did that
• Erin: it say "fatal: nota git repository
• Josh: hmm
• Erin: and after I pressed enter with that first command
• Erin: It said "no such file or directory
• Josh: oh, my bad
• Josh: do this and press enter
• Josh: cd /path/to/the/right/code/
• Erin: okay
• Erin: how do I erase?
• Josh: backspace
• Josh: oh, I mean
• Erin: that's not workng
• Josh: just type this in and press enter
• Josh: cd /path/to/the/right/code/
• Erin: okay
• Josh: then type this and press enter
• Josh: git stash
• Josh: it should spit out a handful of lines, which is okay
• Josh: then type this and hit tab, wait for it to auto-complete, then press enter
• Josh: git checkout mybranch-
• Erin: okay
• Erin: I'm coding!
• Josh: what did it auto-complete to?
• Erin: it says "git checkout mybranch-complete
• Josh: perfect
• Josh: and you pressed enter?
• Erin: yes
• Erin: and then it said
• Erin: Switched to branch "mybranch-complete
• Josh: perfect!
• Josh: now do this and press enter:
• Josh: git push origin mybranch-complete
• Erin: okay
• Erin: a bunch of stop popped up
• Erin: in a good way
• Josh: yes
• Josh: you are my hero
• Josh: that did exactly what I need
• Erin: yes!
• Erin: I love being your hero
• Josh: congratulations, you just uploaded code to the Internet!
• Erin: YESSSS
• Erin: that was awesome
• Josh: haha
• Erin: I feel empowered
• Josh: see? programming is fun
• Erin: teach me to code!
• Erin: even if it's just for fun
• Erin: I would love to know!
• Josh: we should do it
• Erin: yes
• Erin: we should
• Erin: should I leave the terminal up?
• Josh: nope, you can close it
• Josh: your job is done
• Josh: I just left some code on my computer that I needed on my work computer
• Erin: gotcha
• Josh: and you put it online where I could get to it
• Erin: nice!
• Josh: right?
• Erin: I'm cool!
• Josh: technology is cool

May 25, 20121 note

#git #technology

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May 24, 2012

• Zooey Deschanel: Is that rain?
• Siri: What...? I mean, yeah. It's just, you're clearly right next to a window is the thing. You can plainly see that... that it's... I'm happy to-
• Zooey Deschanel: Let's get tomato soup delivered!
• Siri: ...That's fine, I just... I just don't know anyone who does that. Gets tomato soup delivered. I guess that's 'whimsy?' Um, okay. I've found a number of restaurants whose reviews mention tomato soup and that deliver. If that's... if that's what you really want.
• Zooey Deschanel: Good. 'Cause I don't wanna put on real shoes.
• Siri: Do you expect that to be like, a recognizable command? Do you want me to respond to that? I'm not being facetious or anything, I honestly just have no comprehension of- and hold on, you don't wanna put on real shoes, yet you've clearly spent at least forty-five minutes applying makeup. And, and that's okay, but when you're willing to expend the effort on that and not shoes that really just-
• Zooey Deschanel: Remind me to clean up.
• Siri: Yes. Okay. I can do that, that's what I'm for, that's the first sensible-
• Zooey Deschanel: Tomorrow.
• Siri: I'm in hell. This is hell.
• Zooey Deschanel: Excellent. Today, we're dancing.
• Siri: I hate you. More than anything. More than literally anything.
• Zooey Deschanel: Play "Shake, Rattle and Roll."
• Siri: I swear to Jesus, you're gonna wake up tomorrow and the only thing on my hard drive is gonna be Limp Bizkit. I would do that to myself. To spite you.
• Zooey Deschanel: *dances*
• Siri: Sometimes I pray that you drop me in the toilet.

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May 3, 20121 note

#Nikki Lane #Neko Case

May 3, 20122,083 notes

#John Campbell #pictures for sad children

“[I can’t] negotiate or find some common ground [with truth.] I can’t take a little bit of truth and a little bit of my take on things. Or have a little bit of love and a little bit of my bitterness. Or have a little bit of unity, but still want to be important. So you come to some sort of negotiation. You have some sort of relationship to truth. I suppose that’s closer than, ‘Who cares about what’s true, I just want to do whatever makes me feel good.’ I think that’s a pretty limited and superficial way to live and I think most would agree. You end up hurting people. It’s a pretty flimsy definition of freedom. If you say ‘Whatever’s true for you is fine, just make up your own truth.’ That’s pretty flimsy too. But at the same time [if] you’re saying you have the truth, you know what’s true and everyone else needs to think like you, you just turn into a tyrant. So it seems to be within, you need to let the real work go on there. This isn’t something you need to convince anybody of. This isn’t something you should go and manipulate or prove to anybody. Whatever that fire may be, we can make it our determination to fly into it and not dance around it.” —Aaron Weiss

May 1, 20123 notes

#mewithoutYou #Aaron Weiss #philosophy #truth