I’ve spent quite a few months working with tools that will enable me to do things better and faster. Be it the OS, down to the text editor of choice, I’ve learned how to use these tools at a level I never imagined.

All that’s left is to build something nice for everyone to enjoy. The finished product of the sharpened tools. Because in the end, it’s not the tools that build the product, but the hands that employ them.

Invest In Your Tools, In Moderation is a post from: joshkim.org.

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Just as a quick note for those of you wanting to set up custom domain names for Heroku on a domain name registered via Namecheap.

• Make sure the DNS is under Namecheap’s control, unless you want to roll it yourself.

• Select the domain you want to set up.

• Left Menu: “URL Forwarding” under Host Management

• Set the “IP ADDRESS/URL” of both “@” and “www” to be “proxy.heroku.com.” Never forget the period at the end. Don’t forget to set the Record Type as CNAME “(Alias)”.

• Wait, up to 24 hours. Usually faster.

And done. Quite simple. On GoDaddy? Ugh. I don’t want to encourage using such a trashy UI.

Custom Domain Names On Heroku Via Namecheap is a post from: joshkim.org.

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It’s kinda how My Tumblr (Tumblog is the right word, right? I don’t think I can get used it…) is kind of a wasteland of randomness, usually things that I’ve stopped myself from posting on Twitter.

That’s all I got for now. See ya later.

Final Fantasy XIII: Commentary is a post from: joshkim.org.

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It used to be that I had to get a git binary, then grab homebrew from github, then uninstall the git through the binary, and then install git through homebrew. Then, the fun would begin.

Now, it’s even more streamlined. Just grab the installer gist from the README.md page, and it should work. Although, I couldn’t get it to work and I was in a hurry, so I just grabbed the master tarball, and just physically moved the resulting /bin, /Library, and README.md.

Note: This probably worked for me because I already did everything else that was in the install script earlier, such as chmod’ing the /usr/local folder, as well as adding /usr/local/bin to the path.

Hooray for adhering to POSIX standards (Reference here: This is an awesome read, by the way, if you ever had any questions about why directories were as such in a Linux/BSD setting.).

brew install git
brew install ruby
brew install stuff

More on how brew affects Ruby on Rails installations later.

Homebrew (Mac) Installation is a post from: joshkim.org.

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There was a period of some weird instability with Google Reader earlier today, and I think there was something more than recommendation that hit.

Well, this changes my plans a tiny bit.

BTW: If You’re Using Google Reader is a post from: joshkim.org.

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