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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

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Posts from May 2008

Helpful shortcuts for git svn

Tired of having to stash your changes when you want to grab the latest from svn or want to dcommit one file while keeping others in your working tree? In your bash profile: alias svnpull=’git stash && git svn rebase && git stash apply’ alias svnpush=’git stash && git svn dcommit && git stash apply’


Virtualization BoF at RailsConf

I will be doing a BoF session on virtualization and Elastic Server On-Demand at RailsConf on Saturday. If you have some stories to share about how you’re using virtualization for your projects, please come on by and contribute! If you’d like to be mentioned in the intro presentation please send me a couple lines on [...]


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20 May 2008 @ 7pm

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Disabling spindump on OSX to prevent slowdown after a crash

Update: it’s better to use a spindump script that sleeps, otherwise launchd keeps trying to restart it every ten seconds. Thanks to Steve Ryner for the script. And yes, it’s very simple but here it is :-) #!/bin/sh while true do sleep 60000 done Sometimes when things crash on OSX (biggest offenders: Quicktime, and Safari [...]


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