I find I always have a whole lot to talk about at the end of every week. And that most of it is from the tech space. I attend this Software Club meeting every Thursday where I try to use some of that time to talk about the latest developments with people who get it. We exchange opinions on things we’re building. You know how that is. So I was like, how about I create something here that’ll be an outlet for that? So I did. Like many things I’ve started, I can’t be sure this will last. But I won’t try to preemptively kill it either. May the Force be with it. This week, I’m shipping the skeleton and letting the structure emerge naturally as I pump in more episodes. My consumption is personal, so what I include might skew toward my interests. Beware :)

So I’ve been trying to make my way through Progit. I have accumulated a whole lot of information so far and I was afraid for how not so often I used it. That I was going to forget it all. Hence my decision to share some of that with you, and with my future self.

In this post we’ll look at something you probably have never read about in isolation, gitignore files.

I set up a site on blogger (Google’s blogspot) and dumped it for a Hugo design that caught my eye. I thought I could learn some css building it myself. Feel good from doing it myself from scratch. But boy is CSS boring! And I only realized this after 4 hours of centering divs and hunting for unclosed tags.

Now the day had almost come to an end and I was feeling guilty for the waste that it’d been. So to alleviate the guilt , I decided to setup Hugo. I mean why didn’t I do this in the first place? Anyways. After some googling I got it running and hence this site. It looks nice doesn’t it? I mean, I still have to remove some stock pages but I needed some lorem ipsum available before I add content of my own.

E007… Yaay. That's 7 weeks old. Frikin 49 days.

There's a joy in watching sth grow as you nature it from one line idea to project. Seen that happen in a whole lot of projects I've taken on. (Hard to stick to projects but its been a consistent feeling for those I've stuck with). Recently took time off to build an app I have had in my projects folder for ages (under different names). Built teh complete version.. felt overwhelmed.. then built a real simple does one thing version.. and added onto that to graduallly have what I have now. (getting kinda the same feeling with this site, with compouding knowlege… more on that in a bit) Have heard of the unix philosophy and its one of those things I am reading about now. Its rather been hard to adopt. But I think theres something about the efficiency of this that is Unix philosophy Speaking of wc.