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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

T-Minus Seven Days

Seven short days until take-off. I've pulled the rope out of storage. I could probably almost set up a 5-to-1 pulley blind-folded. (Let's hope that particular skill isn't put to the test.) I customized my new backpack with an attachment on each side, onto

Fooooood

The final detail - meal planning - is done. We're going to bring roughly twenty-two days of food that we can stretch out to twenty-five. There won't be any pancakes, bacon and maple syrup breakfasts this year but it'll still be decent food. It

Linkers

I spent this week learning about Node.js C++ add ons, node-wap, node-gyp and linker behavior. What a week. The monkey wrench in the whole thing was that this C++ add on depended on a particular static library (".a" file). The resulting file (from "node-wap build"

D-Link Life Expectancy

My home network has had at its center a D-Link switch for a year and a half now. Recently it has started failing every few days - refusing to route any packets until it was rebooted. Considering the value of a packet-switching device that refuses to route packets, this was

Denali and Hunter

So it looks like there's a chance team Midnight Meat Train will be tackling the West Ridge of Mt. Hunter after we finish up the West Rib of Denali (time permitting). And not to jump too far ahead, but hopefully that'll all lead up to the

Winter in Atlanta

I spent most of last week in New Hampshire. The state is completely covered in snow and ice and somehow the people there continue to function. Upon returning home I made a trek to the grocery store. I chanced to pass by where some water was dripping from an over-hang

Alaska #4

It's set. My fourth Alaska trip is scheduled to commence on May 5. Ninety-three days remaining. Wow. The team name is Midnight Meat Train.

Getting and Setting a File's Extended Attributes

One last code snippet.... This'll let you get and set the extended attributes on a file in OS X. It uses setxattr() / getxattr() / listxattr(), but it's all wrapped up in ARC-dependent Objective-C. When setting a value you can pass in either an NSString or an NSData.

OS X Computer Name and Local Host Name

On OS X your computer name and local host name are stored in a preference file - accessible via SCPreferences. In a recent project I needed these values. The following two Objective-C functions are what I'm using. The excessive error reporting was really only necessary while I was

Human Readable File Size & Duration

Here's a little Objective-C code for creating a human-readable file size given a quantity of bytes. If you're not using ARC this'll leak memory. It's roughly modeled off the behavior of the Finder - that is, no more than two decimal places;

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