The relentless pace of change

Extract from a breathtaking 24ways-piece by Christopher Murphy: On 21 May 2013, I woke in a hospital bed feeling exhausted, disorientated and ashamed. The day before, I had tried to kill myself. We work in a fast-paced industry: few others, if any, confront the daily challenges we face. The landscape we work within is characterised …

Making ‘git rebase’ Safe on OS X

When performing a large rebase with several commits and many changed files on OS X 10.7+, the rebase process can randomly abort, stating that there are uncommitted changes and rebase cannot continue. However, a git status does not report any changes. Fix is to set core.trustctime to false. Run the command below to do so: …

Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard

Let’s face it: Grunt is one of those fancy newfangled things that all the cool kids seem to be using but at first glance feels strange and intimidating. I hear you. This article is for you. Great introduction to Grunt on 24ways. A must read for anyone starting out with it. Grunt for People Who …