As a child, my wife Aditi had memorized this poem by Oliver Herford. She remembered enough of it that we were able to find it on the Googles, and I’m absolutely in love with it. As your end-of-the-day, end-of-the-world thought, and as my I-just-ate-my-first-hamburger-in-15-years thought, I present:
personal, poetry
I use a lesser-known (and very old) program called Spark for defining most of the keyboard shortcuts on my system. I have a shortcut for every one of my most regularly-used applications, plus shortcuts for various AppleScripts, shell scripts, system functions, etc. I know there are more recent applications which do the same thing, but I’ve had everything set up in Spark for ages and it still works a treat. Seriously, if you want an application launcher, it’s worth checking out (and…
applescript, quicktip
This post is a departure from my usual. I need a chance to think out loud about a larger-than-usual decision I’m making. Bear with me, or skip it entirely if you like. You can always come back again later for nerdier fun. This morning I’m writing about this choice. This is not a life-or-death decision, but it is certainly a change in the way I view the world.
diet, health, personal
Event Delegation versus Event Handling - how to create quicker web apps Smart stuff, and an optimization that frameworks like jQuery can make really easy to overlook. Sync.in A new incarnation of Etherpad, and a slick-looking one at that. Free for public notes, $2/mo for private notes and other features. Unusual Computer Mice You Probably Haven’t Seen Before Wow. I had not seen many of these, and there are some really cool ideas in this gallery of unusual mice. After dozens of…
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I made a few breakthroughs on nvALT before bed last night, and I’m excited, so I thought I’d share. It’s not ready for testing yet, but the following two features are working as initial implementations:
notational velocity, nvalt
Recording Interviews on Skype and converting to HTML5 friendly formats the easy way A complete solution for ScreenCasting with Skype (and a few other apps) and sharing it cross-browser with HTML5. I’m very pleased to learn about Archive.org, too. MINI PLANNERS on Vimeo Man, I do love a good Moleskine. Git Immersion - Brought to you by EdgeCase Great git tutorial which covers some of the more advanced features I’m not well versed in. Great thanks to lenwnc…
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It records its scroll position in the preview window before it updates the content of it. If the note has already been previewed (you didn’t just switch notes), it injects a script into the updated content to restore the scroll position when the window finishes loading. The result should be a completely transparent way to hold the scroll position despite the frequent updates.
markdown, notational velocity, nvalt
Volkside – Wirify homepage – The web as wireframes Cool trick; turn any web page into an instant wireframe version for easier visual dissection. 45 Clean and Beautiful Minimalist WordPress Themes Definitely includes a few inspirational themes to dig into. Ajax file upload with pure JavaScript This is awesome to know, I just wish it worked with iCab’s file upload on iOS. CSS2/DOM - Styling an input type=”file” Bookmarked because it took me a while to find a good…
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We made it home from our vacation to Punta Cana late this afternoon. The vacation was amazing, and I made new friends and put some faces (and amazing personalities) with names I already knew. A great time was had by all. The trip home, US Customs, canceled flights and fleabag hotels I could have lived without, but I’m home safe and looking forward to getting back to work, coding on my various projects, and catching up on all of the TUAW news I missed!
personal, travel
In Punta Cana, when they let us know that there was no way we were going to make it through customs in time for our connecting flight, they promised us a hotel room and a cab. We got to Miami, made it through customs and finally got to a ticketing counter to collect our hotel room. They shook their heads at our naivet.
personal, travel
Aditi and I are at the airport in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Wifi is a little spotty, but I’m going to see if I can get this posted from my iPad. Our flight to Miami was delayed enough that we’re going to miss the last connecting flight that would have gotten us any closer to home than Florida. We get an extra night of vacation, I guess, courtesy of American Airlines.
personal, travel
redo I wasn’t at this wedding, but my friend (and awesome photographer) Peter Boysen was, and he captured this moment. If you look at it for a while, you can see a good 5-minute story in one frame. Site-Specific Email Addresses Some smart email/GMail tips from TUAW’s TJ Luoma. Markdown Primer - TUAW TUAW mentions Markdown often enough that we thought we should have our own “Intro to Markdown” we could point people to. Advanced SimpleNote: Collaborating, Blog posts, and…
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Here’s a quick bookmarklet you can run on any Pinboard page containing a list of bookmarks. It adds a “Read” link at the end of the edit links for each post, and clicking the link will open the post in Instapaper Text1 view in a new page/tab. It also marks the post you click as “read.” Note that this happens whether you have that specified in the preferences or not (because it’s a quick hack and I think it’s weird to not mark an article as read when you read it).
bookmarklet, experiments, pinboard
This is a very short post to mention that I’ve fallen in love with Pinboard. I’ve been using in it earnest ever since the day Yahoo said they were sunsetting Delicious, and now I feel stupid for not switching years ago. Even if Delicious survives, I’d never go back now.
Clickable Tweet Links, Hashtags & Usernames In A Custom NSTextView ~ Flyosity by Mike Rundle I’m not building a Twitter client, but there are some darn handy tricks in here. UMEKit - Open Source UIKit for Mac OS X Cocoa Desktop Applications Make Mac desktop apps look like iPhone apps. I will try not to get carried away with this. The 15 Best Vim Plugins – Steve Francia’s Blog I can’t prove they’re the best, but they are among the most awesome I’ve…
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