December 2011
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Interesting Links - Week 52, 2011 →
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python - Just a rough outline at this point, but could turn into something promising
Raspberry Pi - A $25 ARM-powered Linux box. I might buy one just for the hell of it. The price is certainly right.
Asciiflow - An online flow diagramming tool done completely in ASCII characters
Proposed New Calendar Would Make Time Rational →
Not Mac related, but I’ve always been fascinated with calendars and the measurement of time. Personally, I think the Discordian calendar is far superior to anything we have going right now: none of this 30 days hath September bullshit. It’s all arbitrary anyway.
Running a website with VoodooPad →
VoodooPad is one of those applications that I’ve had for years and never quite found a good use for, despite trying. I have the iPhone/iPad version installed just waiting for something to click. But Gus makes great software (Acorn is my image editor of choice) and Brett, as usual, finds a way to make it sing.
Weekend Project - Exploring /usr/bin/ and...
Have you ever wondered what all that stuff in your /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/ directories does?
Probably not, but I have.
True UNIX geeks will most likely scoff at me for my ignorance, but everybody has to start somewhere, right? The brute force approach to exploring those directories would have been to get a listing of every command and run man on each one individually. But that strikes me as...
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Interesting Links - Week 51, 2011 →
Pygame Examples - Pygame is something I’ve been meaning to look into. I’m not much of a game developer, but it supposedly does a good job just teaching you about Python.
Brati’s Lover - AppleScript Collection - A nice collection of useful AppleScripts. (via Macdrifter)
Linux Distribution Chooser - I’m not sure why I put this here, but if you should be looking for Linux...
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Interesting Links - Week 50, 2011
Platypus - Turn scripts into applications (via Brett Terpstra)
CodeRunner - More than a text editor, not quite an IDE.
Wake In Progress - Finnegans Wake, illustrated.
DeckPub - Interesting approach to publishing on iOS.
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Evernote Quick Search with LaunchBar
For the next installment of my Evernote and AppleScript series, I present a really simple script that allows me to search my Evernote database from LaunchBar:
Instead of switching to Evernote, clicking on the search field and typing my search, this lets me do it all from the keyboard without leaving whatever other application I happen to be using. I just invoke LaunchBar, switch to text entry...
Interesting Links - Week 49
Stallion Python Package Manager - A simple local-running web app that shows what Python packages are installed on your system.
SiriProxy - Hacking the Siri protocol for fun but not profit (incidentally, The Siri Protocol would make a great science fiction title).
Move The Web Forward - A bunch of great links about web technologies and how you can get involved in making the web work better.
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Macdrifter: Python and the Mac Clipboard →
Besides just being generally useful, this post is also a great example of making a simple prototype and iterating to make it better. Because how often do you land on the “best” answer on your first try, especially when it comes to programming?
Gabe was also a guest on a recent episode of the Mac Power Users podcast. They talked extensively about Keyboard Maestro, which is a tool I...
iPen →
Speaking of styli, this looks pretty damn cool.
(via Macgasm)
TechCrunch: In Defense of the Stylus →
Devin Coldewey:
…despite being a third-class citizen in our world of capacitive touchscreens, being publicly ridiculed by Steve Jobs, and generally being considered a nuisance, the stylus isn’t something we should relegate to the company of floppy disks and CRT monitors just yet.
I can’t believe I’m linking to a TechCrunch piece, but I actually agree with most of it. A...
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Interesting Links - Week 48
Text Processing in Linux - Useful on the Mac too
einstein - NewtonOS emulator. Not something new to me, but it’s been getting some more love lately.
Amazon Kindle Source Code - I’ll never look at this, but still pretty nifty
playterm - Like looking over someone’s shoulder as they do stuff in a terminal.
70Decibels - Fun podcasts. British accents.
pickleDB - Kinda like...