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 …
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 …
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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 …
Soon after New Year’s Day I started a new job as what is easiest to describe as full stack developer. I turned 50 in February and have learned more in the past two months than any other point in my life. I bought books on Linux (to refresh my memory) and a great book on …
The Verge published a great interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg. So quotable! Here are a few hotspots. I try to make as few decisions as possible and really say, “How do we push that out to the teams, the divisions, the edges of the branches of the tree versus the trunk?” The assumption is …
Montreal developer Julie Evans has been publishing information about the Domain Name System (DNS) that is easier to understand than anything I’ve read before. If you’re interested in learning more about the topic, check out these articles: What happens when you update your DNS? How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS? …
