Author Archives: Adam Young

About Adam Young

Once upon a time I was an Army Officer, but that was long ago. Now I work as a Software Engineer. I climb rocks, play saxophone, and spend way too much time in front of a computer.

Tools First

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I have wasted a lot of time as a developer waiting for long running processes to complete. Whether it is a Linux Kernel compile, and Ansible Playbook tearing down and recreating a system on a remote server, or a gitlab pipeline building and testing code, the common problem is that my head is in the problem being addressed there, but I cannot do anything to verify hypotheses until the process completes. I often get distracted while waiting, and find that what could have been a 5 minute turn around has become a 2 hour turn around.

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Tavolo

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When the noise of the DotCom boom became too loud for me to ignore, I finally left my role enabling mainframes and joined a consultancy focusing on Electronic Commerce with a skillset based on Java. I was pretty well prepared for this, as the Object Oriented approach I had learned in the Visual C++ world translated over fairly cleanly, and I had taken a Java transition course at UC Berkely extenstion. Thus, I moved two streets up, two streets over, to the overheated, noisy, open bay office if Fort Point Partners.

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vim windows

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I tend to want to work with three windows side by side. Two have the code I am working with, often production code on the left, test code on the right. The third window is the output from running commands to test the code.

I recently have decide to go all-in on vim, and it is progressing nicely. Thank you the Jake Worth for inspiring this. In Vim, the meta key for for doing windows operations is Ctrl-W. Here are a few commands I have gathered up from the internet. I will collect up the links where I get them at the bottom

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