May 2012
1 post
The Twelve-Factor App →
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March 2012
2 posts
Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an... →
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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas →
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November 2011
4 posts
blockdiag - simple diagram images generator —... →
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Brendan's blog » Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac... →
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The Limping Middle Class →
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An iOS Developer Takes on Android (Aspect Ratios) →
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October 2011
2 posts
mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2011-07-22: Writing Unit... →
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Gitbox — The version control app on a Mac →
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WatchStar Wars Auditions.
Wow.
September 2010
1 post
July 2010
1 post
8-Bit Cities →
June 2010
1 post
hgsubversion with Homebrew on Snow Leopard
Prerequisites: homebrew
$ brew install pip
$ pip install mercurial
$ pip install hgsubversion
$ cat >> ~/.hgrc
[extensions]
rebase=
svn=/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/hgsubversion
^D
$ hg clone svn+https://url-of-your-repo [local-name]
May 2010
5 posts
The Atlantic :: The Enemy Within →
Fascinating article on Conficker.
Bob Gates & The Cost of Empire →
Jean Louis Gassée on HP and the Incumbent’s Curse →
“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on...”
– Tim O’Reilly
March 2010
4 posts
Panic Status Board →
This is sick—and I’m not normally one for such phraseology.
Pixar: High Goals →
We shouldn’t be thinking that it’s okay to be doing something which isn’t great. -Ed Catmull, via Waffle
An Argument against Actors, or, Haskell versus... →
Scala and Haskell are never referenced, but it’s pretty clear that he’s comparing Scala’s Actors to Haskell’s pure, side-effect-free, functional programming.
Objective-PHP & Moka →
Brackets are growing on me, more and more.
February 2010
1 post
November 2009
3 posts
VMWare 2.0.6 and Hudson CI interaction on Mac OS X...
The setup
I was running Hudson inside Tomcat 6 on Snow Leopard, and I had VMWare running some Linux VMs.
The problem
Hudson worked fine, but during certain situations, such as JUnit test cases that accessed the network, or post-build svn and Capistrano scripts, the following error message would appear:
could not lookup DNS configuration info service: (ipc/send) invalid destination...
Basic Maths →
Grid-based WordPress theme, with color-scheme.
October 2009
5 posts
Mini opensource-OCR software review conclusion
The podium, in order of perceived accuracy:
tesseract
gocr
ocrad
September 2009
9 posts
Acorn 2 →
Coolest new feature:
Layered Screenshots
It’s a new preference, and it’s turned off by default since it’ll make some pretty big images- but you can now take screenshots where every window gets its own layer, and the layers are organized by applications in layer groups.
So now you can take a screenshot, and not worry because your background has something funky in it, or you are...
In The Loop: Best In Show meets The West Wing meets The Office.
Dogma Diet →
Congratulations to my Liebliengsfreundin Liz on starting her blog.
1 tag
“The idea that information can be sequestered at a time when people can...”
– Why ‘GQ’ Doesn’t Want Russians To Read Its Story
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“This phenomenon—heightened driver attention and slower traffic in the absence of...”
– Decongestion | GOOD
Hex Color Picker 1.5
It’s out, and as Jesper says, it’s “extremely universal”—it does 32- and 64-bit, PowerPC and Intel, and PowerPC-Rosetta. And it has a couple of easter eggs.
It’s pretty much the only color picker I use.
July 2009
2 posts
“So I think Gnome and KDE are stuck with a problem similar to the uncanny valley....”
– John Gruber
Use copy-paste to send full-res photos from iPhone →
via DF
May 2009
3 posts
Tufts Baccalaureate Pre-game 2009
“It Wasn’t Me” (cover)
E-Water...
April 2009
3 posts
"Two years researching… two more years developing... →
Twitter wasn’t a company 3 years ago.
Ryles Jazz Orchestra
March 2009
5 posts
Cello Song, The Books & José Gonzalez
Cattle sure carry a lot of water weight: http://ping.fm/kMES7