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In defense of Ballmer 25 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
The resignation of Steve Ballmer has unleashed a lot of criticism. Normally, I’d be happy to join in, because I think Microsoft’s approach to the interaction of humans and computers has pretty much al...
Scripts for WordPress and BBEdit, Part 2 23 Aug 2013 | 06:43 am
In contrast to yesterday’s script, which focused on pushing posts up to the blog, today’s scripts focus on accessing and downloading articles from the blog. Like the publishing script, they’re built i...
Scripts for WordPress and BBEdit, Part 1 22 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
About this time last year, I switched from TextMate to BBEdit and wrote a few scripts to help me blog directly from my new editor. As I explained in these two posts, the goal of these scripts was to b...
New Apple affiliate link scripts 20 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
This afternoon, I followed James Thompson’s tweet to learn about Apple’s new affiliate program. It’s dropping the slow and exceedingly clumsy LinkShare and moving to the Performance Horizon Group (PHG...
Hyperloop 19 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
The Hyperloop is a futuristic, high-speed transportation system dreamed up by Elon Musk, of PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors fame. The idea is that you and a couple dozen other travelers get into a ca...
And it comes out here 12 Aug 2013 | 04:22 am
I listened to the time travel episode of The Incomparable today, and as the panel discussed 12 Monkeys and its “only one timeline” structure, I waited for them to mention other time travel stories wit...
Poor practice in plotting 9 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
I think I’ve mentioned here before that I was among the last group of people whose first programs were written on punched cards. In the Fortran course I took as a freshman, we spent as much time learn...
Sorting with Pythonista 4 Aug 2013 | 07:10 am
I saw this tweet from hiilppp yesterday: Sort lines of text in @draftsapp w/ a little help from Pythonista: gist.github.com/hiilppp/6139407 — hiilppp (@hiilppp) Fri Aug 2 2013 8:49 AM CDT I pretty m...
I wish to register a complaint 1 Aug 2013 | 08:10 am
On ATP 25, Casey Liss was shamed after asking whether the new Logic Pro X should be pronounced “Logic Pro Ex” or “Logic Pro Ten.” This came a few days after a similar incident on The Prompt when poor ...
Parsing my Apache logs 29 Jul 2013 | 08:29 am
I stopped using Google Analytics a couple of months ago. It’s nice to have all that information at my fingertips, but I’m not sure what Google’s tracking code does, and I decided it was presumptuous o...
