May 2010
18 posts
» Logging with Sinatra and Passenger – Another try... →
8th Light Blog →
“Instead of absolute paths, it’s often common to create a ./lib directory...”
– The ‘require’ Method in Ruby— Is the Require Method Overlooked in Ruby?
philnash's bitly at master - GitHub →
One Thing Well: mkcd Improved →
Reader Martin got in touch to suggest some changes to mkcd, a simple shell function that lets you make a new directory and change into it in one step, and I added one little fix of my own:
# mkdir, cd into it
mkcd () { mkdir -p "$*" cd "$*"
}
The new improved mkcd will let you make a…
One Thing Well: aria2 →
aria2 is—deep breath—‘a lightweight multiprotocol & multi-source, cross-platform download utility’.
After using it for a fortnight, it’s become my first choice for downloading large files, on the Mac and my Linux machine, whether they’re served up with BitTorrent or over HTTP.
It’s a…
sudo !!
onethingwell:
If you need to run the previous command as root, you can save a good few keystrokes with:
sudo !!
always forgetting about this one
Hazel →
onethingwell:
Hazel watches whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create.
Spend five minutes with Hazel, and you’ll never have to tidy up the Desktop or Downloads folder on your Mac again. Spend ten minutes with Hazel, and you’ll be automating iPhoto imports, Trash-emptying and file labelling. Spend half an hour with the thing, and...
750 Words →
onethingwell:
Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in “long hand”, typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head… The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day.
750 Words is the...
“I can either be a guy who writes novels, or I can be a guy who answers email....”
– Merlin Mann paraphrasing Neal Stephenson (via jonathan-deamer) (via marco) (via mnmal)
» the beauty of a digital vacation :mnmlist →
Software Design, In Two Sentences | Code... →
mnmal:
1 - It is more important to reduce the Effort of Maintenance than it is to reduce the Effort of Implementation. 2 - The Effort of Maintenance is proportional to the complexity of the system.
adsf →
onethingwell:
adsf (A Dead Simple Fileserver) is a tiny web server that you can launch instantly in any directory.
Simple, useful, and easy to type!
MeetingWords →
onethingwell:
A collaborative real-time text editor (which looks to be a rebadged version of Etherpad, an excellent service which Google bought, shut down and—after protests from users—open sourced).
Via Giles
AppTrap →
onethingwell:
Moving an application to the trash is simple and easy. Shouldn’t true uninstallation on the Mac be the same way? With AppTrap, when you move an application to the trash, you’re automatically asked if you want to move the associated preference files as well. Now that’s uninstallation, the Mac way.
Unlike rivals AppCleaner or AppZapper, AppTrap installs as a Preference Pane and...
QuickCursor →
onethingwell:
QuickCursor allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor.
QuickCursor doesn’t work with every application—Mail.app and Chrome being notable exceptions—but it works with enough of them to be very useful indeed. I use it most as a bridge between Notational Velocity and WriteRoom.
Read on for a brief Q&A with QuickCursor developer Jesse Grosjean.
Swiss design, minimalism, typography and grids |... →
“Lack of creativity: What separates programmers who are 10x more effective than...”
– Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor - (37signals)