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3 Free Short Horror Stories

Here are the current free stories by Horror author Jeff Barr available at www.jeffbarr.com.

The Sorcerer – a humorous short-short about friends with a different kid of benefits.

Mr. Moak and Mr. Soames – Two Fine Old Gentlemen – Another humorous and gross short story about the less obvious dangers of the Epicurean lifestyle.

Jerry and Me: A Love Story – This was a fun, somewhat Christmas-themed story I wrote as part of an impromptu writer’s group who sometimes hangs around at WeBook.com.

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Muxnote – Twitter-auth based TODO list for movies and books

Muxnote - light TODO for books and movies
Muxnoteis my extra-lightweight todolist that only cares about books and movies. At some point I will add more to it, though not much as I want it to be as lightweight as possible.
It represents my first foray into responsive design, using the Skeleton framework, as well as Sinatra. I use Omniauth to authenticate via the Twitter API. You can browse, fork, etc at the Muxnote github repository.

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GTD

It’s important to remember that GTD is not an immutable concept – you are free to delete items, knowing they will return to your inbox if they are important enough.

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Sinatra, Sqlite, Postgres, Heroku

Recently I ran into an issue trying to deploy to the Heroku Cedar stack for my (in progress) app, Mocknote. I developed the app locally with Sqlite3, using Sinatra and DataMapper.
Heroku complained about my Gemfile.lock missing the dm-postgres-adapter, but I was unable to install the gem locally. I resolved this conundrum by adding this to my Gemfile:


group :production do
gem 'dm-postgres-adapter'
end

I then ran this:

bundle install --without production

I was then able to successfully deploy to Heroku.

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Unix tree command on Mac OSX

The tree command is, sadly, missing from Mac OSX – but here’s a quick and dirty way to replicate it on OSX. You could of course use MacVIm and NERDTree, but where’s the fun in that?

find . -print | sed -e ‘s;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g’

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