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…
bookmarks
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…
bookmarks
Dontcom - HTML5 Boilerplate TextMate Template Bundles Handy HTML5 boilerplates as TextMate templates. Why you don’t like changes to your design - The Oatmeal This Oatmeal strip, like many of theirs, will stick to my ribs for a good while. Exploring the Simplenote API - And now it’s all this The SimpleNote API is as simple as you’d expect it to be. This is going to burn some hours of playtime. Bing Query Language Don’t get me wrong about my love for Google…
bookmarks
nvALT 1.0.3 has been posted for automatic updates and direct download. If you’re already running nvALT (formerly Notational Velocity ALT), just go to the application menu and choose “Check for Updates” to get the latest version. Otherwise, download it from the project page.
notational velocity, notes
This is probably clearly documented somewhere, but it took me by surprise. If you have a full “attributed string” url in your clipboard (meaning you used ctrl-click “Copy Link”) and you pop up Notational Velocity and hit the Command-Shift-V shortcut, it will actually download all of the text of the page the link leads to, title it and insert the original url at the beginning?
notational velocity, nvalt, quicktip
I’d just like to put it out there, as someone will eventually: Notational Velocity ALT (henceforth referred to as nvALT) is turning into something antithetical to the original premise of Notational Velocity. I understand that, and I accept it.
cocoa, experiments, multimarkdown, notational velocity, objective-c, programming, textmate
HTML 5 innerShiv jQuery workaround for an IE html5 issue that a shiv can’t solve. See related gist, too. 25 Tips for Intermediate Git Users : Andy Jeffries A great “intermediate” guide to Git that was perfect for the level I’m at. If you’ve been using git successfully for a while, but know there’s more to it than you’ve mastered, check this out. Table Techniques Taught Tastefully (part 3) NSTableView tricks. elastic threads Notational Velocity fork…
bookmarks
After a few late nights of off-hours programming, I’m putting Notational Velocity ALT out as a version 1.0. Obviously built on the backs of others, I’m just giving it a versioning scheme of its own to make it easier to track my own updates. It does have the built-in updater pointed to my own servers now, so once you install it, updates will be available from within the app.
experiments, macos, markdown, multimarkdown, notational velocity
