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2016 / 10 / 02 » Repairing a Yamaha Digital Piano

My friend's piano was busted and they asked me to fix it.

2014 / 02 / 05 » Edward Snowden's greatest fear already happened in the 1970's

Edward Snowden has stated that his biggest fear after revealing the large scale domenstic spying operations of the NSA is that nothing would come of it. Sadly, it looks like this already happened in the 1970's.

2012 / 07 / 25 » Forker: a PHP Library

A while back we released [Forker](http://github.com/ifixit/Forker), a small PHP library that enables easy parallel processing. We've been using it in production for a couple of months now, so I figured it would be a good candidate for a first post.

2012 / 04 / 26 » Clean up your git -- pruning merged branches

git prune only goes so far, here's how to delete merged branches locally and remotely.

2012 / 04 / 08 » Collabrative Terminal -- Sharing a Screen Session

It's easier than you think.

2012 / 03 / 27 » SSH in the background

Launching and controlling a port-forwarding ssh session from a shell script.

2012 / 03 / 14 » Faster than scp

On occasion everyone needs to move large files between servers, this is the fastest way.

2012 / 03 / 13 » iFixit's Git Scripts

iFixit has open-sourced our git workflow scripts

2012 / 02 / 19 » Jekyll and Github Pages

This blog was a piece of cake to setup, thanks to Github Pages and Jekyll.

Fork me on GitHub