February 2012
3 posts
Writing Kit Blog: Writing Kit 3.0 →
writingkitblog:
The first thing you will notice in this 3.0 update is the brand new app icon. Under the hood, Writing Kit 3.0 is a major release that helps refine many of the app’s powerful features, make them more friendly and easier to use. Let’s go through each of them in brief details.
My latest major update to Writing Kit is out. Check it out, guys.
Listing of Public Sales Numbers →
Rank 300 overall - $1000/day
Rank 25 overall - $2500/day
Rank 10 overall - $5000/day
Rank 5 overall - $15000/day
Rank 2 overall - $30000/day
Rank 1 overall - $40-50k/day
From the guy who made Trainyard.
January 2012
1 post
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MAMP Pro fails to start Apache on Lion
Couple of days ago I noticed that MAMP Pro seems to have problems with Lion: The Apache server couldn’t be started at all. Googling the problem revealed that I was certainly not alone.
I managed to track down the problem to be with the unique_id_module. Simply disable it in the control panel fixed the issue.
November 2011
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October 2011
4 posts
An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple's... →
dhotson:
Cool hack!
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Writing Kit 2.0
Just so you know, the first major update to my Writing Kit app is now available. It now becomes a universal app, and is free for all existing users.
Check out my blog post and get it from the App Store if you haven’t done so.
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Importing Momento 1.x entries into Day One
Couple of days ago I found my old Momento archive, which was exported back when it was still at version 1.x. I wrote a short Ruby script to import those entries into Day One:
require 'open3'
require 'plist'
m = Plist::parse_xml 'momento.plist'
m.each do |mm|
date = mm['Date'].to_s
text = mm['Body'].strip
Open3.popen3("/Applications/Day One.app/Contents/MacOS/dayone", "-d=\"#{date}\"",...
Work it, girl
animalsbeingdicks:
In observation of Atlanta Pride this weekend.
August 2011
8 posts
“The most comically tragic “failure to effectively test restore”...”
– Hacker News | Ask HN: What’s your favorite online-backup tool?
This sucks.
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My Unpublished Kindle Review
I wrote this review on March 8th, nearly 5 months ago. It’s a ‘glamorous review’ as I put it back then. Ironically the day I wrote it was the day my Kindle died. Yes, half of its screen suddenly went blank, and no effort I made was able to bring it back to life. Fragile.
I called Amazon Customer Service, and got a new replacement Kindle sent to me within the next 2 days. No...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
“There used to be all this stuff about the cloud and storage and backing up your...”
– Drew Houston Why Dropbox Avoids Industry Buzzwords Like “The Cloud” | Fast Company
April 2011
1 post
Firefox 4 Improves, But Not Radically →
As an aside, you have to appreciate the names given to JavaScript engines: Firefox’s SpiderMonkey, TraceMonkey, and JägerMonkey; Safari’s SquirrelFish, SquirrelFish Extreme and Nitro; Chrome’s V8, Opera’s Futhark and Carakan; and Internet Explorer 9’s Chakra.
March 2011
3 posts
If Steve Jobs was such a bad boss why did so many... →
When Disneyworld opened in 1971, a reporter remarked to Roy Disney, “It’s a shame that Walt didn’t live long enough to see this.”
To which Roy responded, “He saw it before you did.”
From the comments.
February 2011
10 posts
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On Switching to a SSD
I’ve been using my new Intel X25-M SSD for a while. Overall, I’m satisfied with it. The performance gain is very much noticeable: Launching applications takes no time at all, compiling code is amazingly fast, and opening my Aperture libraries didn’t slow my machine down as usual. It’s like a dream comes true.
That being said, going down from a roomy 250GB HDD to a 120GB...
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How Dropbox Saved Me Big Time
Couple of days ago, I overwrote the .git directory within my Cyberspace folder. It was a terrible mistake and costed me 5 hours worth of commit logs.
Yesterday I repeated the same mistake — this time by overwriting the whole [INSERT_MY_NEW_PROJECT_NAME_HERE] folder. Worse yet, all the new code hasn’t been commited to my Git repository. It sucked.
Sitting there for two full quiet...
Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code →
When Srivastava reported his finding, he was referred to Rob Zufelt, a member of the lottery corporation’s security team. After failing to make contact for a few days, he began to get frustrated: Why wasn’t Zufelt taking his revelation more seriously? “I really got the feeling that he was brushing me off,” Srivastava says. “But then I realized that to him I must sound like a crazy person—like...
January 2011
27 posts
“We build products that 500 million people see… If 5 million people see a movie,...”
– Mark Zuckerberg’s Take on “The Social Network”
(via Cyberspace)
I blog so my kids can know me when I'm gone →
My online presence was a direct result of illness. My primary goal was to leave a record of who I was. I didn’t want my kids to rely on my family and ex-husband for their memories of me. I wanted them to have a permanent record of my impressions of childhood, joys and travails in adulthood. I wanted them to know my thoughts on literature and politics, my assignments for the writing classes I...
Why won't bedbugs die? Because they're mutants →
Urban pest-management specialist Dini Miller calls the gene-restructuring process “unnatural selection.” Repeated exposure to pesticides causes certain bedbugs to produce more of the enzymes that combat poisons in the system. According to findings published by Ohio State University entomologists in PLoS One Journal, these enzymes “modify toxic compounds into water-soluble, non-toxic compounds”...
Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. | Derek... →
To be a true business owner, make sure you could leave for a year, and when you came back, your business would be doing better than when you left.
(via Cyberspace)
Apple’s bet on publishing →
One of the most interesting questions is Apple’s underlying strategy. In a nutshell, Cupertino is betting on “many small” rather than on “few big ones”. Let me explain. Publishers, such as The New York Times, Condé Nast or Le Monde are good at managing subscribers; they purposely maintain sizable staffs and they want to replicate their know-how online. On the contrary, small publishers can’t...
Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry... →
From a programmer nerd, Schmidt has the most enviable resume.
The entrepreneurs admire Jobs and Gates, but Schmidt worked his way through Bell labs, PARC, managed the release of Java, was CTO of Sun, CEO of Novell, and brought google from a well executed grad school project to dominate the internet. He turned down a job with the Obama administration to be the governments CTO.
He also...
“Algorithms are for people who don’t know how to buy RAM.”
– Coding Horror: 24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody
A Problem with UIModalPresentationFormSheet
[This is] a behavior discovered in the iPad keyboard, where it refuses to be dismissed if shown in a modal dialog with a navigation controller.
Basically, if I present the navigation controller with the UIModalPresentationFormSheet modal presentation style, the keyboard refuses to be dismissed. If I comment out this line, the keyboard goes away fine.
This has been classified as...
Apple icon secrets: hidden meanings hiding in... →
Dive in to the iPhone or iPod touch’s iPod function and cast your eyes toward the bottom of the screen. There you’ll see an Artists option, illustrated as all good bands are, by a man screaming his lungs out at a microphone. But look closer. Does the silhouette look familiar? It should do to U2 fans, since it’s lead singer, and some-time Apple collaborator, Bono.
Annoying Xcode Bug
Q: I’m running Xcode, trying to get my app to run on my iphone. I’m getting the error message “the program being debugged is not being run.”
A: The solution was to remove my developer provisioning profiles from my phone using Xcode’s organizer window while my phone was connected to my computer, then to re-add my developer provisioning profile, which I re-downloaded...
“Yea…the VP of Analytics got laid off…just overheard that a few mins...”
– IAMA Myspace employee about to be laid off today
Hilarious.
“You can do so much in 10 minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone...”
– Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA