The Climber’s Pie: A Triad of Technique, Fitness, and Mind

Climbing is more than just a sport or a hobby—it’s a journey of self-discovery that constantly challenges your physical capabilities and mental resilience.

Whether you’re a novice attempting your first climb or an experienced pro tackling challenging pitches, the essence of climbing can be distilled into three key aspects: Technique, Fitness, and Mind.

Here’s my first very rough draft of “LifeTips”.

https://github.com/gubatron/LifeTips#life-tips It is a short manuscript with actionable tips to live a better life, it’s there primarily as a manual for my kids when I die. Advice is grouped into 6 sections:– TIME– BODY– MIND– MONEY– WORK/LEADERSHIP (Entrepreneurship)– PEOPLE Most needed and valuable feedback is welcome. If you have corrections, additions, feel free to Create […]

[SYSADMIN] Serve your WordPress cached pages directly with lighttpd and not PHP

Optimizing Your WordPress Cache Loads in Lighttpd. If you don’t configure your wordpress virtual host properly in lighttpd, your wordpress cache will still make use of PHP. Wouldn’t it be nice if all those cached requests were served directy from the webserver as the static files that they are, bypassing the CPU/memory load PHP can […]

command line speed test, see how fast is your server’s connection

Save the following script in a file called speed_test #!/bin/bash # Requirements # sudo apt-get install lftp iperf lftp -e ‘pget http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.3/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso; exit; ‘ make sure the file is executable: sudo chmod +x speed_test Once you have installed lftp and iperf make sure you have the script somewhere in your $PATH. The script basically downloads […]

How to create a list that holds different object types using `void*` in C.

I remember being in school back around 1998 and not knowing enough about C to do this. After coding in other languages, then going back to C++ and understanding at a lower level how references and pointers work, this was pretty easy to figure out. In this exercise I store elements of different types in […]

How to make a “foreach” function in JavaScript

I thought this would be a simple exercise in case of having to interview someone for a JavaScript position. “How would you make your own ‘foreach’ in JavaScript” I came up with the following solution: // // collection: A list of objects. // onElementIterationCallback: The function to be called on every element iterated // taking […]

How to edit the same word/token in multiple places using Sublime Text

1. Double click on the word/variable/token 2. Press Ctrl+Cmd+G 3. start editing, it will edit all the ocurrences of the same token within the same file. 4. When you are done, you can click anywhere, or press Ctrl+Cmd+G again to finish the simultaneous edits.

First Impressions Lenovo Yoga Pro and Windows 8.1 with a 2 in 1 device.

After now almost 2 weeks of heavy duty use of this machine, I must say Windows 8.1 is not fully baked when it comes to its tiled/touch/app store experience, however it’s not the nightmare I expected. The FrostWire 5.7.0. currently circulating on the Internet was built on this machine, the experience was quite pleasant as […]

WordPress: Cannot create directory error, got everything chmoded to 777?

So you went as far as chmod’ing your entire folder structure to 777 (very unsafe), you’ve hacked wp/wp-admin/includes/file.php return new WP_Error( ‘mkdir_failed_ziparchive’, __( get_current_user() . ‘ Could not create directory. (‘.$_dir.’)’ )… to print out exactly what directory it cannot create and what user is trying to create the folder, everything is correct, yet it […]

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