August 2011
3 posts
4 tags
Fixing the OS X Lion Terminal zshell pwd bug
(I wonder what percentage of mac users this represents, and whether or not I’d need to use scientific notation to represent that number.)
So, IF you’re running OS X Lion, and IF you use the terminal frequently, and IF you use zshell (which you probably should, but nobody does) THEN this might interest you.
Basically there’s a bug with the terminal’s “New tabs open...
My letter to Venmo
(I just forwarded one of Venmo’s weekly “update” emails back to them with a couple thoughts.)
Dear Venmo,
Just wanted to say—I appreciate what you’re trying to do with “social payments” but the automated weekly email telling me which friends and acquaintances had some kind of transaction is starting to seem pretty silly. I like the radical transparency...
Hating on Eclipse
This article is interesting. Comparison of developing for iOS and Android, including a proto howto to switching from one to the other. Winning line is about Google recommended Java IDE of choice:
You’re going to just hate Eclipse. You’re going to hate it with the heat of a thousand suns. It’s going to feel slow and bloated and it won’t taste like real food.
As a former Eclipse user, I agree...
July 2011
2 posts
6 tags
Calibrating your Macbook display for fun and...
I first found this video when I had just purchased a new 15” Macbook Pro and was noticing that the screen was worse than the several year old Macbook it was replacing. Everything was overexposed and it was hard to read text, etc. Turns out all it needed was a custom color calibration, and this is true of basically every mac laptop screen (and most others I’m sure, but it’s...
Switching to ZSH
My friend Kyle mentioned to me that he was on a mission to switch to zshell a few days ago, and it got me thinking. I’ve been ignoring that kind of call of the wild shell customization stuff for years, bashing my head against /bin/bash, assuming that if there were something better, everybody would already be using it, right? Turns out there is, and people are (well, the people willing to...
March 2011
1 post
Bookmarklet to load jQuery (for firebug/chrome...
Load jQuery (drag this to your bookmark bar)
The link above is actually a little JS bookmarklet that will load (as in, inject) jQuery in noConflict mode into whatever page you’re on when you click it. This will let you use the full jQuery framework on whatever page you want using your JS console of choice (i.e. Firebug, Chrome Developer Tools, Safari “Error Console”, etc.).
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