March 2010
1 post
iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader →
Waxes a little poetic on aesthetics, but otherwise a solid complaint on the state of RSS readers for the iPhone.
SparkFun Electronics: MP3 Player Belt Buckle →
No way! They totally stole my idea!
Saleae Logic: Logic Analyzer →
WatchWhoa.
Strength In Numbers – The Music →
First: Last.fm is awesome. Second: track 10 is sweet.
February 2009
9 posts
Get your rxvt terminal to clear the screen after exiting Vim or man by setting:
export TERM=rxvt
bash line wrapping problem →
An update to my bash prompt customization post; you’ll need to escape your color commands to prevent wrapping issues.
Bash prompt editing basics
A few links that I found useful while setting up my bash prompt:
Basic edits
Changing the color
Setting the terminal title
And, though nobody actually cares :), here’s what I finally decided on:
PS1="\[\033]0;\h:\w\007\]\e[0;36m\t\e[m \e[1;31m\w\e[m > "
The Cost of Lost
stevenf:
Notes:
Blu-Ray is the only format offering full 1080p HD, but only Seasons 3 and 4 are currently available. It seems reasonable to assume that season 1 and 2 will eventually appear, but there’s certainly no guarantee, so this is a bit of a gamble for anyone wanting to start a collection today.
I deliberately omitted “Torrents / Other” as a potential source due to them being...
You Done It →
An ode to the venerable You-Do-It electronics store in Massachusetts.
January 2009
4 posts
2009 Will Be a Year of Panic →
Interesting read.
LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine →
foobar2000 →
Man am I glad this exists. The best no-nonsense audio player for Windows that I’ve found yet.
December 2008
1 post
Getting Git to Play Nice with Windows and Cygwin
I converted a CVS repository over to Git using git-cvsimport, but the resulting repository used LF line endings which didn’t play nice with Visual Studio. Thankfully Git makes the solution easy:
% git config core.autocrlf true
This will make Git automatically convert LF endings to CRLF on checkout and vice versa. Now all you need to do is re-checkout the repository. There’s...
November 2008
1 post
October 2008
9 posts
Password Security - RedHat →
Highlight the current line in Vim:
:set cursorline
Daring Fireball Linked List: Google’s Open Source Patches to Wine:
The big win is saying “screw you” to KDE and Gnome and all those crap Linux interfaces and APIs. Start over with something new, cohesive, better, and, most of all, which is not, conceptually, a watered down clone of Windows.
There is something deeply and fundamentally wrong with this statement.
Foo Fighters (and others) don't like McCain →
I don’t know about you, but every time TortoiseCVS has an error I almost have a heart attack from the sound effect it makes. Do your nerves a favor and disable it in Control Panel → Sounds and Audio Devices → Sounds.
Watch(via Google Video)
A touch of Cocoa: inside the iPhone SDK →
NDA is finally lifted.
What’s New in Python 2.6 →
w00t.
September 2008
14 posts
“Another vote for the serial comma […] This was a dedication in a book: To...”
– Kent Lew - comment on National Punctuation Day Reignites Interrobang Passion
Ken Thompson and the Self-Referencing C Compiler →
“They were using the scientific method. They’d think of a hypothesis...”
– Clive Thompson
Idea: designer scrubs
Want to be cool? Hip? Converse with a swagger that can only come from spending half your life in school and driving a Porsche? Well then, sir, you need designer scrubs. The kind that cost $200.
Seriously, though, I’m calling this fad a few years in advance. Just wait. If I was any smarter I’d actually be hawking the dang things.
Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS. →
Got a new pair of chucks. It’s funny how — looking at my old pair — I can’t believe that they ever looked as clean as this new pair.
The python todo.py script (port of todo.sh) is lacking. Time for me to fix it up a bit. Hooray for open source software!
chris:
It seems like it shouldn’t really be called left and right shift… in little endian you’ll left shift off the LSb. Upshift and downshift? Msbshift and Lsbshift? :/
Except that endian-ness is abstracted as soon as the word is in a register. This would only affect it if you were to shift a word in place in memory (which, as far as I know, you can’t do).
It’s true that it...
Django 1.0 released! →
Remember the Milk (and friends)
So Chris is a big fan of Remember the Milk and I have to agree with him. It’s a fantastic web app. Slick, easy to use, and completely intuitive. I recommend that you use it. Like, now.
My only beef with it (and this is true for web apps in general) is that my data is stored online. I’d like to use it for work-related tasks, but I just don’t feel quite safe handing such data...
Two tools to make Windows livable
Here are two terrific utilities to make working with Windows more enjoyable.
I’m a big keyboard geek so I’m impressed by anything that lets me keep my hands off the mouse. In that vein here’s a link to WinSplit Revolution. This gives you keyboard shortcuts to tile windows on the screen, giving some tiling wm capabilities to Windows. Useful and it works well.
Even with a huge...
August 2008
37 posts
chris:
When first learning about OOP in high school I thought that classes would actually model the world. I believed that there would be some CPAN-like central repository of code that had classes abstracting reality, but always growing closer to a single, realistic end. Some introductory books pose it in a way that hints at this ability.
But they do! Everyone knows about the government...
