OS X fsevent fatal error 'stdio.h' file not found

Posted: 2012-07-01

Getting the following error on Mac OS X? Read on.

Fixing arrow keys in iTerm and Terminal.app for Mac OS X

Posted: 2012-06-01

I am a user of irssi over GNU Screen + ssh as well as locally, and I tend to use Emacs style text movements in bash, so need my ctrl and alt/option keys to work more or less as they do in Linux.

Node.js, Requests, Connections, ending, and closing

Posted: 2012-05-01

You close connections, you end requests.

Fixing syntax highlighting in Jekyll

Posted: 2012-04-02

When I was getting the Jekyll version of my site rolling, I ran into some problems with how RedCloth, liquid, and pygments were interacting. What follows is the error that was caused.

How to resolve 'Could not find module XMonad.Actions.Volume'

Posted: 2012-03-01

You need to install xmonad-extras from Hackage as the volume control functions are not included by default in any standard XMonad install. Below is the script for getting it installed.

Getting w3m to work with Emacs 23 in Ubuntu 11.10

Posted: 2012-02-01

I encountered some issues getting Emacs 23 working on Ubuntu 11.10 and I wanted to chronicle my travails in case someone else bumped into this. I tripped into this error after installing w3m-el-snapshot.

Why the poor are poor

Posted: 2012-01-01

Analysts and economists like to fixate on two metrics for personal finance, income and net worth. They are in some sense a measurement of slope, and of the volume under the curve minus spending and debt. I don't think either are a meaningful gauge for really understanding why the poor are frequently stuck being poor.