Joanna Walker

Killednloading MeteorJS Issue

When deploying my meteor app to a new server I ran into a weird issue that didn’t seem to come back with any helpful errors. Running: `` meteor would get stuck on Download meteor-tool@3.0.38 which would eventually exit with a “killednloading” message. For anyone else stuck scratching

How We Listen to the Music We Love

This wasn’t what I planned on writing about today… But since I’ve updated my gaming machine the other day (Goodbye Vista!  – yeah, I was surprised too, to see it was still running that…) I’ve been doing a little bit of clean up on it. The usual, tune

SailsJS 0.9.8 and Bootstrap 3.0.3 LESS

While trying to setup a starter project I hit a bit of a snag. Turns out the latest less files don’t want to play nice with the grunt-contrib-less (0.5.2) that comes with SailsJS (0.9.8). parse error: failed at &:extend(.clearfix all); Since the required

NaNoWriMo Time

It’s that time of the year again. Beginning of November, the time when most writers, especially the aspiring kind, get excited and plunge deep into writing. It’s like the writer’s New Year. Time to wipe the slate clean, and make some “resolution”. I have to say that

Wicked at 30

Some people dread the big 30. Personally I had a few brief moments of doubt before my birthday over the last few months, but nothing too panicky. The day finally came, and strangely I still feel the same. No earth shattering drama here. I don’t really have any regrets

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