I recently contributed a fix to the bootstrap framework that detects on-screen scrollbars to determine whether or not the body should be padded when a modal window is opened to prevent shifting of background contents. Detecting on-screen scrollbars turned out to be a bit more involved than I initially anticipated.

I’ve used Vagrant a fair amount in my day, and it’s great. I enjoy being able to spin-up toy linux environments to test out ideas. I tend to use the Chef provisioner with Vagrant to build-out a local environment that matches my server fairly closely.

Everyone universally agrees that most Message of the Days (MOTDs) are stupid and suck. By the end of reading this post, your mind grapes should be swollen with the knowledge of how to make an MOTD that isn’t stupid and, some would say, doesn’t suck.

I used to use del.icio.us to keep track of links, then it went away. After del.icio.us shutdown, I used a ton of uniquely awful services to keep track of links. Eventually, I came around to the idea that all I needed was a series of markdown files and github: BOOM! Public link repositiory—just like del.icio.us back in the day.

When I switched from GNU Screen to Tmux, I was just jazzed that Tmux had a status bar. To achieve that same effect in Screen I had a cryptic 115-character hardstatus string that I copy–pasted from someplace lost to the annals of the Internet Archive.