Writing about various hacks and programming projects I've done along the way.

All of my writings on programming, workflow, and more, collected in chronological order.

Work with Me

Hello there, I'm Evan! I'm looking to work with a growing startup tackling whatever engineering problem you have. I've worked with a bunch of different tech stacks and have many different open source projects as well.

Detroit Marathon 2017

I signed up for the Detroit Marathon 2017 with the idea of qualifying for the Boston Marathon (I know that's almost every marathon runner's goal). I have to say, the Detroit Marathon is truly one of a kind. There are quite a few experiences that I don’t think I would have experienced anywhere else.

Introducing Namer

I read an article recently about launching a bunch of mini-apps to grow some traction. I'm not sure that these things will grow traction for me. I more wanted an excuse to work on small apps that I thought were cool. I am building everything under the OpenPace branding and website so they are all open source.

Build a Chatbot with Phoenix and Api.ai - Part 1

If you are reading this, you have likely seen my website (or maybe not). But, on the front page of the site is a chatbot. I know what you are thinking; chatbots are so 2017. Well, that is when I started working on it so I am still going to share it with you all.

Creating a Global git ignore

I didn’t want to change every .gitignore for each project that I worked on at my company. I found this little trick.

Hack: Naming Hosts and Ports with Nginx

At Cribspot, we had a bunch of different ember apps and one single rails API that fed all of them. They were all separate projects in different repos. Ember with ember server would run on port 4200 for every project.

Magit Introduction on Spacemacs

Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a bunch of different. We will be talking about how to commit changes, use diff to look at changes between branches, how to checkout new and existing branches, and even how to speed it up so it isn’t so slow.

Simple Sitemap in Phoenix Elixir

For this website, I built a sitemap with Phoenix. I wanted to share what I did to make this happen.

Spacemacs + Org mode

For the last four years, I have started every day pulling out my notebook and organizing my day. I break everything down by the hour, filling in meetings, todos, runs, and everything in between.

Spacemacs Command: Jump-to-definition

I learned a new trick today on Spacemacs that is super ideal. I was watching a coworker use sublime text 2, and he used a shortcut to jump to the definition of a class. Spacemacs must have that too!

Useful Spacemacs Commands

I have been using spacemacs for a few years now and I wanted to make a quick list of helpful commands.

Building an ASCII Quine

I was watching some of the RubyConf stuff today and I stumbled upon this talk. The talk was given by Yusuke Endoh and he is an absolute wizard. He has a bunch of these quines on his blog and they are really crazy. There are examples where he plays music, makes a revolving globe quine, and makes it snow. I would check these out if you have time.

Hello World

Hello World! This is my first blog post of many to come…hopefully.