? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @rockhopper ever

April 2015

newsobserver Shoe tree, 1-mile run honor Holly Springs jogger struck by car bit.ly/1DNX5M5 pic.twitter.com/GhfCAeuWYU

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A first for me : attended a “memorial run” tonight, honoring my friend and neighbor, Derek Davis.

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@mattgemmell I’d just be worried that a watch had to boot at all.

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Ukulele players: what’s the difference between Worth’s medium and hard strings? And can you really get 2 sets from 46 inches?

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iPhone iOS 8.3 upgrade broke my free “Tipster” tip calculator app. So I fixed it. Available in the App Store today. sentosa.us/apps/tipster/

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Something that’s hard to Google for: an open source package that you use to track licenses for your customers buying your product features.

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3 satellites, 1 Lyrid meteor.

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Teaching my kids to shop: (1) buy music (2) clone Windows VM (3) install Amazon Music Downloader spyware (4) download music (5) delete VM

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Sure, the new “wget -qO- SOMELINK | sudo sh” method of installation is convenient… if you dare.

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@wuhelp If it helps… previous incorrect location was in my old favorite locations list. Stuck maybe?

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@wuhelp Old app worked correctly. New notification widget shows correct location. Reinstall corrected the problem. Thanks!

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@wunderground New app gets my location wrong by 100 miles (iOS maps app is spot-on).

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“To do” list says I need to water my new grass seed. Sky says I won’t need to.

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My worlds collide. Speakers from @CarolinaCon now on #99pi? @shoebox discusses locks with @romanmars. And was that @deviantollam??

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@pwbrewer iTunes is the root of these problems.

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iPhone ‘Music’ app routinely loses my music, ‘Photos’ app routinely makes “phantom folders” that contain a random mixture of photos.

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Anyone have suggestions for 3rd party iPhone apps to replace the built-in Music and Photos apps? Tired of them mis-managing simple media.

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” ‘Tipster’ is submitted to the App Store for review”, he said, five hours after he started.

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The Panther Creek High School theater took us Into the Woods and back.

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Grass (and weeds) mowed, bare spots tilled, seeds spread and covered. Ready for some rain!

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Wondering what “docker run -v /something” means… without the colon. Man page says “from Docker”. Huh?

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I suppose the app-flamers won’t email… they’ll go straight to the App Store reviews with 1 star and turd emojis. sentosa.us/apps/tipster/

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@jdriscoll Slider widget just disappeared from a XIB-based screen. <poof!>

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iOS 8.3 upgrade broke a free app that I wrote in 2009. Emails coming in - civil, so far. Waiting for the first inevitable flamer.

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Cool tool of the day: “ack” from @BeyondGrep : a super-fast grep tool that’s optimized for source code, skips over git/svn dirs, and more.

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Discovered a really nice vim plugin called “tagbar”, shows a table of contents of my source code. Basic stuff, I know, but still helpful.

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Tip of the day: “—itemize-changes” option on rsync tells why the file is being copied.

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@emmarockin How about someone who nods and says “uh huh, I hear ya” while reading their phone? If you need that, I’ve got you covered.

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Taxes and iTunes restore in the same day… two of my favorite things!

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It’s a good thing I’m so obsessive over backups.

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Internet being what it is, I’ll probably get a lot of calls / tweets / emails from plumbers tomorrow morning.

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@pwbrewer Cleaning was the only troubleshooting advice for the FlowMaster. The Korky appears to be closed, hard to get to.

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@OldCrank I’ll play with the height on the Korky. I think the FM was a dud.

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@OldCrank The FM shuts off if it’s lifted a little, but starts leaking if lifted all the way. I think it’s just poor quality control.

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@OldCrank In both cases, it’s the shut-off that’s not really shutting off, not a leak at the seals. :-/

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Toilet valve needed replacing. Put in a new FluidMaster. It leaked. Put in a new Korky. It’s leaking, too. How hard is this problem?

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Our room at the Hyatt smells like the inside of an old shoe.

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Alpharetta has more than their fair share of taco places and dentists (correlation does not imply causation).

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Two firsts tonight: 1st time shopping at Fry’s & 1st dinner at a sushi restaurant (and the night is still young).

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Ugh, ATL traffic… 3.5 miles between the hotel and the office, takes 1 hour to get there and back.

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