Category Archives: general

Command line bulk file editing

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 8, 2012

The other day I wanted to change a particular string in a lot of files. Rather than do it manually we have a lot of Unix tools at our disposal. find . -name “*.txt” -print | xargs sed -i ‘s/my old string/my new string/’ Tweet

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It’s never done

By Joshua Lay | Published: November 30, 2011

Everything seems ready. There’s nothing else to do. Then you commit to releasing. Push it out into the wild for everyone to judge. It’s right after that moment you manage to see all the flaws. How incomplete something is. But you need to take that jump to open up your mind again.

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Dear me, here are a list of things I don’t like about you

By Joshua Lay | Published: July 10, 2011

I hate the way you forget to care about me I hate the way you never use me to my full potential I hate the way you never follow things through I hate the way you forget there is only one of me I hate the way regret is the only way you learn I [...]

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Blind trust

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 29, 2011

“Zi Gong asked, saying, “Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life?” The Master said, “Is not RECIPROCITY such a word?” – Confucius Every day you drive on the roads you put your trust in people you don’t know. Every day you drive you have faith that [...]

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This workout is insane… well all of them are

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 22, 2011

The workout 30 burpees, 10 man-makers, 100 jumping jacks, 100 mountain climbers. Then continue by reducing the burpess by 5 and increasing the M-Ms by 2 until you get to 5 burpees and 20 MMs – the JJs and MCs stay at 100 reps throughout. so it will be 6 sets in total. Rest as [...]

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Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z

By Joshua Lay | Published: May 22, 2011

via: Slashdot I’d rather tell these kids to support themselves. You bring in something that isn’t supported by your company you should deal with it. I don’t like this notion of having to adapt totally for people who are suiting themselves. It’s like.. let me do what I want. The moment I experience a problem [...]

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Brain farts

By Joshua Lay | Published: September 24, 2010

We all know and love them. Somehow (despite your vast knowledge) you commit to something knowing it’s not a good idea. The whole time prior you tell yourself. That’s not a good way to go about it. Then what happens? You do it anyway. Maybe it’s because you thought of not doing it so much. [...]

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