Remember to Backup

I’ve written twice before about how important it is to have reliable, automatic backups running on all of your machines. I’m especilly thankful for mine this weekend. After travelling for the American holiday, I returned home to find my iMac in an unbootable state. I’m not sure what happened exactly — all I could tell is that a hard drive error occurred around 3am one night, corrupting the system. Disk Utility, which often works magic, couldn’t fix the error. But, not to fear, four hours later Time Machine had me back up and running exactly where I left off. The …

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Publishing Your Blog with Dropbox and Jekyll

Back in August I wrote about my experience switching this blog from WordPress to Jekyll. Three months in, I’m happy to report everything is going swimmingly. I survived a few high traffic moments from Hacker News and was thrilled to see the site stay up even when I managed to break MySQL on the server. The only issue I’ve faced is a higher barrier to writing new content. Switching away from WordPress means I had to give up their web interface and one-click posting. Instead, my workflow is Write a post using some text editor – typically TextMate on my …

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