Chimeric Dream

I’d like to try out the NaBloPoMo challenge. In case that looks like gibberish to you, it stands for “National Blog Posting Month”. Basically the idea is that you write a blog post every day in November. It coincides with NaNoWriMo, which is short for “National Novel Writing Month”. In the latter, the idea is to write a novel (50,000 words or more) in the month of November. That comes down to about 1,700 words per day, which is a lot. I think for my level of availability, NaBloPoMo is more achievable. There’s no minimum length for a blog post, and I can write more than one at a time and queue them up.

It’s been awhile since I posted. For those who don’t know, this semester has not been very kind to me, and it’s been everything I can do just to keep up. But in an effort to get myself back on track, I’m putting myself out there and trying to come clean. I don’t expect this to be a happy post, but hopefully it will be a cathartic one, or at least start me down that path.

So after paying $50 (each), waiting more than six months, and driving 50 miles, Becca and I arrived at the location of the Warrior Dash this afternoon. Nick and Emily were there as well, as was my friend Jacob from the Swingsters.

Yesterday, I posted on how to contribute to a project that uses Git. But what if you forgot the last step in that process? What if you started working, making multiple commits, and never created a feature branch for your code? In that case, you would have been committing to the master branch of the repository: a big no-no.

In the first of what will probably be many posts that are useful for few beyond myself, here is a bit of information that has come in handy more than once for me. If it helps someone else out there, awesome.