Signing Git Commits With A Keybase GPG Key
A relatively unknown and underused feature of Git is the ability to cryptographically sign commits. It is an optional feature that provides a way for the author of a commit to prove ownership. It uses…
End of Life for Zevive Pebble Apps
Unless you follow my work closely, you probably weren’t aware that I used to develop apps for the Pebble Smartwatch. The signature feature of my apps was a utilization of the awesome Pebble Timeline feature,…
Hello World (again)!
Welcome to my new website. It’s been a long while since I rebuilt my last one (two jobs ago, infact!), so I figured I should launch a new site and get back into the blogging…
Opening the GNOME Shell Overview with a Logitech MX Master
My beloved Logitech MX Revolution died recently, so I upgraded to the new MX Master, and I wasn’t disappointed -it’s just as awesome as the Revolution. 🙂 With the new mouse, I decided to try…
Byobu for Terminal Management on Ubuntu
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a DigitalOcean Community Tutorial. Introduction Byobu is an easy-to-use wrapper around the tmux (or screen) terminal multiplexer. This means that it makes it easy for you…
Introducing My Habits for Pebble
I am really excited to announce the release of the much awaited Habits app paid upgrade: My Habits. This upgrade brings to you much awaited and requested features, including fully customisable Habit frequencies and times,…
How To Use the DigitalOcean API v2 with Ansible
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a DigitalOcean Community Tutorial. Introduction Ansible 2.0 has recently been released, and with it comes support for version 2 of the DigitalOcean API. This means that…
Getting Started with PHPUnit in Laravel
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a Semaphore CI Community Tutorial. Introduction PHPUnit is one of the oldest and most well known unit testing packages for PHP. It is primarily designed for…
Habits – Pebble Timeline app
I am excited to announce that Habits, my latest Pebble Timeline app has been released! Habits is the evolution of 8-A-Day, designed to help you start and maintain (good) habits through the Pebble Timeline. It…
Using Laravel 5 Middleware for Parameter Persistence
I am lucky enough to get to work on a large Laravel 5 full time in my day job, with some awesome developers.I recently came up with what is, in my humble opinion, an elegant…