While it is probably too far to say Twitter is important to me, I can say I have found and followed many internet acquaintances through their tweets. Some of these pals I found from their blogs showcasing then-new links to their Twitter feed. Others I found through the web Twitter wove among those users’ follows …
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My terminal was already pretty cool thanks to zsh and oh-my-zsh (see Tricking Out iTerm2, but I recently found a fun little app that make working in the terminal a lot more fun (and colorful)! Meet lolcat. rainbow coloring effect for text console display It doesn’t do much by itself, but make a few aliases …
Daniel Jalkut posted via Twitter: The Parkland shooter will suffer the ultimate consequence: life in prison. The death penalty lets the worst criminals off too easy, and makes the greatest miscarriages of justice irreversible. Note: This was posted using Daniel’s remarkable MarsEdit. Check it out!
After finding trouble updating the Preview preferences in BBEdit (the venerable text editor from Barebones Software), the company shared the fix. My problem was the preference options didn’t recognize items I knew I had installed in /opt/homebrew/bin using Homebrew. It turns out BBEdit runs as a non-interactive shell so it never loads my $PATH from …
With a new1 tech job this year, I have been focused on learning.2 With that, I have also been focused on sharing. I am a long-time fan (and paying customer) of Brett Terpstra. He sets a high bar—the gold standard IMHO—for Mac developers. He shares of a combination of polished paid apps with a generous …
We need a little help with some upcoming veterinary bills. For the first time in many years, I sought a line of credit to help with these new expenses. After finding a provider online and completing the application, I was provided with an application reference number and told to call Phone Number #1 to complete …
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For years as a curious nerd with an affinity for computers I have hopped from one writing platform to another. In my early years, those included word processors including Microsoft Word, Nisus Writer (the classic version for MacOS 9 and earlier), ClarisWorks (same, obviously), and others. At some point, probably around the time I discoverd …
A computer is in front of me most of every day, but I’m terrible at knowing what I’ve accomplished there. It’s a source of play and work (which is often itself a sort of play). My platform of choice is macOS split with work in Ubuntu linux at the terminal. As a longtime “computer aficionado,” …
The new year brought with it a new job for me as a full stack developer for Webinology,1 a small firm in Chattanooga, Tenn. I’ve always been a fan of linux, appreciate that macOS is built atop BSD, and have long been comfortable at the command line. While Apple provides Terminal.app, I’ve always preferred applications …
