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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Reading with Ever
Ever was born in March of 2011, and we made a point to start reading with him as soon as we brought him home from the hospital. At first reading with him was easy, because it didn’t matter what we … Continue reading
Removing all files of a certain type
While working on a django project recently, I had to remove all the .pyc files before running syncdb. These are the kinds of commands I want to know well: find . -name “*.pyc” type -f | xargs rm -f This … Continue reading
Heart Oil Dipping Dish
I made Erin a Valentine’s Day gift using Shapeways. One of our favorite meals is fresh bread with olive oil and brie, and a bottle of wine. So I designed an olive oil dipping dish with a recessed heart to … Continue reading
Posted in modeling, openSCAD
Tagged 3d modeling, balsamic vinegar, bread, dad blog, dipping dish, family, olive oil dipping dish, openSCAD, shapeways, valentine s day
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Why do programmers have better tools than educators?
There is a significant inefficiency in the education world, with a fairly straightforward fix. The problem is simple: every educator writes lesson plans of some kind, and almost everyone does so using word processing software. There are important, non-obvious inefficiencies … Continue reading
Ten months of Ever pictures, from my phone
I am finally trading in my old Samsung Solstice for an iPhone, so I saved all my old phone pictures onto my computer for the first time. Here are the highlights from the last ten months.
A sed one-liner, from my father
I have known about sed and awk for a long time now, but I haven’t used either of them much at all. I recently got my hands on a copy of sed & awk by Dougherty and Robbins, so the … Continue reading
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Tagged family, father, linux, programming books, sed, substitution
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