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Zippey finally got a spot at the boatyard! She has been hauled out to redo the bottom. I will post a complete writeup when the process is complete, however

Here is a quick snippet that will reset all your git submodules to their most recent commit. Handy when something has happened such as a file permissions c

Comparing a file between two git branches is quite easy. You can do it with both diff and difftool. Straight diff git diff BRANCH_ONE BRANCH_TWO — FI

If you need to find out what the largest files are in a directory and subdirectories here is a command you can run that will find the top 5 largest files.

I ran across a photo of this boat in the background of a Craigslist ad and then saw it racing the Lake Union Duck Dodge the next week! If you know (or are)

Each year the Shilshole Bay Yacht Club (SBYC) host an annual Burger Burn on Blake Island. I love going to Blake Island (and have written other posts about

Occassionally I have need to mark a specific moment in a git repository. Often this mark is to call out a deployment point. If everything has already been

I find it handy to run a PHP syntax (lint) check on files after resolving a merge conflict in git. Here is a handy snippet that will run find every file in

MySQL has the ability to show you size of the information contained in your database. You can find this information per database or per table in a database