My wife was kind enough to get me a fancy baking steel 5-ish years ago as I was starting to get more serious about baking pizza. Previously I’d just been using flipped over casserole dishes as ghetto pizza stones. We moved into a new place a while back where I bought a big fancy oven […]
(This post is extremely boring, but written for the benefit of people Googling this exact problem.) Usually when I buy a new Macbook, I buy the top of the line small-ish model. In 2011 that meant a Macbook Pro 13″ with a 2.7 GHz i7 processor. Since it’s from back in the good old days, when you […]
Emacs in Homebrew used to contain a patch to run in fullscreen on OS X. When OS X Lion introduced a new fullscreen mode, Emacs upstream added support for said mode and Homebrew removed their patch. However, until Mavericks, OS X’s fullscreen mode was rather unusable for multi-head setups, which I often use for development. […]
A couple days ago I released a Wikipedia Beautifier for Chrome inspired by Readability. It was my first exploration into the world of Chrome extensions (which turned out to be surprisingly straightforward). There’s still a rough corner or three to round out, but it makes Wikipedia much easier on the eyes. The internet loves it, […]
Or, “Why using send doesn’t work as exptected” So, I’ve been banging away at a Rails plugin the last few days. One of the things that I initially did was to add an initializer that extended the models from the app to avoid needing to muck-up the model, e.g.: [project root]/config/initializers/acts_as_foo.rb SomeModel.send(:acts_as_foo, :bar) It seemed […]
I’d been looking for an excuse to create a Cocoa app for a while. Even though I still switch hit between Ubuntu and OS X, I spend most of my time on OS X these days. I’d gotten Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X a while back, but had been missing that real-but-simple app idea […]
I’ve finally succumbed to the Github bug and have been slowly offloading small projects that I’ve created mostly for work stuff. The latest of these is a relatively small hack to produce an RSS fit from a Git repository, which I’d wanted to have posted in our intranet. Usage is simple and includes a command […]
TagLib, which I wrote way back in the day and has since been through many releases had another bug fix release that went out today, handled by Lukáš Lalinský, whom I handed over the reins to a bit back. There are more details in his blog post.
There’s one funny bit in the history of starting up Directed Edge: I have no idea when I decided to do it. I don’t really know when the idea first crept into my head seriously to start a company. I did a little reconnaissance on my e-mail and file archives and put together some of the […]
I’ve traveled a good bit in my day; I’ve been to some 20-odd countries, 4 continents, you know, the works. And if there’s one thing that I hate more than airports, it’s booking travel online. The problem is this: my goal is not to book flights at specific airlines, at specific airports, with specific ticket […]