February 2012
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Apps that use Vi shortcut keys
I’m a big fan of Vi/Vim and I love to see apps utilizing vim-like keyboard shortcuts. I thought I would start a list of them:
Gmail
The grand-daddy of web-apps, Gmail uses j/k for up and down and has a slew of other Vim-inspired shortcuts.
Google Reader
Uses j/k for up and down.
The Hit List
The Hit List is a powerful todo app and also uses the familiar j/k for up and...
December 2011
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Temporary vim background color
I use this little script to set a a temporary background color to differentiate vim sessions/projects at a glance.
October 2011
1 post
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Spinach →
Spinach, a gherkin based test framework like cucumber but without the Regex madness.
https://github.com/codegram/spinach
August 2011
3 posts
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Dropzone and Github Gist
One of the tools I use frequently in my workflow is Dropzone.
Dropzone hacks the dock to give you a pop over menu that is easily accessed. The functionality it provides comes down to two things:
A quick way to access icons you don’t want cluttering up the dock itself and -
Drag and drop scripts for things such as quick uploads to Cloud app, Flickr, Dropbox, and folders on your local...
Newest Robohash Family Member
A continuation of a previous post, here is the Robohash for baby Ayla:
http://robohash.org/ayla.png
“Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need...”
– http://avdi.org/devblog/2011/08/22/your-code-is-my-hell/
July 2011
2 posts
A few good robots
RoboHash is a cool site where you can get random robot (and monster) avatars via internet magic. Here are some examples:
http://robohash.org/lodestone.png
http://robohash.org/mattpetty.png
http://robohash.org/jammies.png
http://robohash.org/rollerbot.png
http://robohash.org/mirabella.png
http://robohash.org/kai.png
http://robohash.org/hiro.png
...
ROBO HASH →
Okay, this is AWESOME. Thanks @sparksjay
http://robohash.org
May 2011
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April 2011
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Software Stack
OS X 10.6.7 -…
Parallels virtual machine running Ubuntu Natty.
Ssh -…
from Mac iterm2 to VM Natty.
Zsh running -…
tmux, running zsh, -…
running Ruby on Rails 3 app.
X-forwarded gvim and gnome-settings-daemon running on…
OSX X windows implementation.
Add Chrome and Firefox for testing.
That’s a lot of software in my stack right now.
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March 2011
3 posts
Link to Amazon Cloud Player
Amazon Cloud Player url
“Whether it be the tools that you use, the projects that you work on, or the...”
– @jnunemaker from:
http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2011/02/20/give-yourself-constraints/
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January 2011
5 posts
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Versailles
Woke from one of those strange crepuscular dreams: I was working at my hs job and was video chatting with @coreylove via skitch explaining why Versailles is pronounced Ver-say’-uhlz
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Brain scans show children with ADHD have faulty... →
Brain scans of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have shown for the first time why people affected by the condition sometimes have such difficulty in concentrating. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, may explain why parents often say that their child can maintain concentration when they are doing something that interests them, but struggles with boring tasks.
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How to get Mac Vim clipboard copy and paste (Snow...
I’ve been spending more time lately in iterm2 exclusively. The recent split-screen feature is great for me. Running vim in the terminal, I finally accepted this morning how annoying it was that the system clipboard wasn’t integrated.
A quick google and recompile with xterm_clipboard support did the trick.
Here’s the configure command:
./configure --with-features=huge \
...
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Someone needs to use this.
jessnevins:
In a game or in fiction, somewhere:
In the much later Tibetan tradition, a special class of lamas (gter-ston, “treasure finders”) went about “discovering” scriptural treasures (gter-ma) that had allegedly been hidden away long before, during the Buddha’s lifetime, to await the foreordained moment of their revelation.
I can’t be the only one who sees the potential in the...
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LESS FEAR: Lessons from my Dr. Phil...
I consider myself so extremely lucky to have a friend so amazing and Good and True as Steve. I’ve been going through a lot lately that not only affects me but also him personally and professionally. I feel like I’ve come through the crucible and, despite the situation being bad for him, talking with him only made me feel so much better about who I am.
Here’re some tidbits:
Be...
December 2010
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“2 year old: “Daddy, where are you? Are you playing Work?”
Me:...”
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4 bash (bourne again shell) tips
Some quick keyboard commands I use often on the command line
Repeat last command: !! and Meta(Alt)+. Not sure about the usefulness of this one, but might keep your fingers a little closer to the home row instead of the land of arrow keys.
Begin and end: CTRL+a by itself moves your cursor to the beginning of the line. CTRL+e moves your cursor to the end of the line.
Delete a line of text:...
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SPSS Statistics on MAC OS X Snow Leopard
If you are running Snow Leopard and are trying to install SPSS 17, follow these instructions. I had to adjust a few steps personally, so YMMV. Specifically the instructions listed a path as /Library/System, and I’m pretty sure they meant /System/Library because the former wasn’t present on the system I was installing SPSS on.
...
November 2010
2 posts
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Charlie
2yearold: I want to watch a show
me: Sorry, charlie
2yearold: I not Charlie! I Kai!
Super Punch: Robot model kits →
September 2010
2 posts
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Work with non-printable characters in Vim
If you are working with a file in vim that has unprintable characters in it (^@) to duplicate those for search and replace do CTRL+v CTRL+@ or whatever character it is.
In shorthand: ^v^@ is what you want.
Working pdftk installer for Mac Snow Leopard 10.6 →
May 2010
2 posts
RRobots - ruby robots →
April 2010
6 posts
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haml filters for markdown etc
Can’t ever remember how to do filters in haml, despite it being stupid easy:
Full doc here:
http://haml-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.HAML_REFERENCE.html
Haml Filters
The colon character designates a filter. This allows you to pass an indented block of text as input to another filtering program and add the result to the output of Haml. The syntax is simply a colon followed by the name of...
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Horrible Tivo Customer Service Chat
Haley: Hi, my name is Haley. How may I help you?
Customer : hi haley, I purchased The Backyardigans "Tale of the Mighty Knights" from Amazon on my series 2 in the living room. I want to get that same show on my Premiere in the bedroom. How do I do that?
Customer : (without them being networked) i.e. download it to my Premiere
Haley: I can definitely help point you in the right direction! Let me go ahead and pull up your account.
Can you please provide the email address associated with your TiVo account?
Customer : Hm. Why do you need my email address?
Haley: For any troubleshooting steps and assistance I do need to pull up your account.
Customer :
Haley: Thank you! In order to verify your identity, can you please provide the following account information?:
*address
* phone number
Customer : what? i'm confused and frustrated. i thought using chat would be a quick way to have a question answered. obviously not. what is it about my account that you need to know in order to answer a generic question about the Premiere's interface?
Haley: It is protocol to verify your account for trouble shooting steps just as it is when you call in. Also, if in the future you need to refer back to it the next agent will know exactly what was discussed if you run into any problems.
Haley: If you would rather speak to an agent over the phone, I would suggest calling into Tech Support at 1-877-367-8486.
Customer : Can you direct me to generic documentation first? Where is the Premiere documentation for searching and downloading Amazon videos?
Haley: I cannot assist you if you do not verify your account.
Customer : Right, because *thats* great customer service.
Customer : Okay bye.
Haley: Thank you for contacting TiVo Chat Support! Have a great night!
BBC News - Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble... →
I like the rules as they are - lowercase, in the dictionary, no dots or dashes.
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Had @WoodWhisperer on while I worked today. Saw cool inlay stuff. I’m no woodworker but it is nice to have Marc jammering in the background.
if your brick and mortar business website is made entirely of flash and you provide pages in pdf format, you are doing it wrong. i’m looking at you Nature’s Pantry http://pantry.biz
Oh Tivo. Please fix your Premiere.
@tivo @stevejobs says it’s okay to hate Flash
It seems strange that Tivo would harness the cost savings and stability of open souce Linux as an OS, but jump to proprietary Adobe Flash for their new HD UI. And only half-ass the HD UI anyway, what’s with that? Most of the Premiere’s menus are in the old SD resolution and it lags as there is a blank black screen while it switches...
March 2010
18 posts
Fatty foods may cause cocaine-like addiction -... →
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Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Harmony - Ordered... →
by @jnunemaker
Anthony Bourdain talks Backyardigans →
Anthony Bourdain gives a great, funny, and surreal (coming from him) take on the shows he watches along side his daughter. Backyardigans, Dora, Diego, Fresh Beat Band, Wonder Pets, Blue’s Clues, Kai Lan. Yep. If you know these shows, read this.
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5 Browsers and the Modes of Transportation They... →
Vim Markdown Preview (Mac OS) →
Nice little preview for markdown in vim.
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Visualized data on supplements →
What does one TRILLION dollars look like? →
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Lessconf 2010
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I’m posting information on Less Conference 2010 as I know it. I had a bit of trouble tracking down this info as Allan and Steve where offline and most all links point to the old 2009 site.
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Less Conf 2010 Info
Dates: May 21-22, 2010
Where: Atlanta, GA USA
Register
It was great fun last October. I hope to see you there.
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Dice (XKCD) →
Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't →
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