Tips

Programming

• Typical Single Character Variable Names
• Typical Game Variable Names

SSH

• Remove an SSH key passphrase:

$ cd ~/.ssh/
$ ssh-keygen -f id_rsa -p

• Login to stout without a password

Emacs (OSX)

• Use Emacs Cocoa from the commandline alias emacs="/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs"
• Open emacs on the commandline after that: emacs -nw

Git

Consider using a GUI to make commits; Some options:

• GitX (OSX)
• Gity (OSX)
• git gui (All Platforms)
• Git Extensions (Windows)
• TortoiseGit (Windows)

Every single GUI on the git wiki

Use and update a .gitignore file to not commit 'junk'/'garbage' files

https://github.com/github/gitignore