January 2011
9 posts
Ubuntu 10.10 Nicer Console
I posted a while ago about changing the resolution of the linux console for my VirtualBox machine.  Year ago (seems like just yesterday) you could hack on “vga=xxx” in order to change the resolution.  Then around Ubuntu 10.04 (maybe even 9.10) there was a new way which didn’t work with VirtualBox at the time. That prompted this: Quick Way to Have a Nicer Console Now that Ubuntu...
Jan 28th
Salmon With Scalloped Sweet Potatoes →
Made this last night. Seems to work well, but might be a little sweet for some.
Jan 24th
The Monkeys You Ordered
themonkeysyouordered: Here are the monkeys you ordered.
Jan 18th
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Jakub Kuźma - Serve local directory using... →
Well, this is convenient!
Jan 14th
SQLCipher, OS X, and -arch madness
LTCOMPILE_EXTRAS=”-arch i386 -arch x86_64” make OS X ships a FAT libsqlite3.dylib.  It includes both x86_64 and i386 (and ppc7400) code. I’m trying to write a ruby extension that can call the new sqlite3_key() methods from C, rather than just going through “PRAGMA” in Ruby. Getting my new library to link to the new SQLCipher build has been driving me up the wall....
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December 2010
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October 2010
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-moz-background-size →
Very excited to see that everybody is supporting some variant of the background-size property in CSS.  One quirk currently in Firefox 3.6.11. If you specify the background-image as an inline style in the tag, but the background-size property within your stylesheet, it doesn’t work. WebKit (Safari & Chrome) seem to figure it out.
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September 2010
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August 2010
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“What we’re suggesting is that something that doesn’t really interact with...”
– I love neutrinos!  symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements
Aug 26th
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jQuery: ajaxManager3 →
A great little plugin that lets you decide how your ajax requests are sent. Includes support for queuing, aborting, all kinds of callbacks etc. One hint:  If you are kicking off a subsequent request from within the success() handler of a previous request, put it in a setTimeout().  Otherwise, it won’t run.
Aug 5th
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July 2010
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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon (via Gwen McCartney) (via samrayner)
Jul 5th
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June 2010
8 posts
contact high-five
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job—a barber, yoga instructor or friendly waitress—that you enjoy more than you’d like to admit, a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug.
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New York City – Pictory →
It’s tempting to want to live there…
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May 2010
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Sepcot.com Blog - SVN: Merging a Branch into Trunk →
This is the easiest to understand and execute little guide to merging and SVN branch back to trunk.  Since it happens so infrequently, I’m constantly having to refer back to it.
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“I am still amazed by how the Mayans knew when IPv4 would run out.”
– (not my joke)
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March 2010
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Triumph of the Cyborg Composer →
Is computer-composed music still music?  Does it have “soul?” If I ever wanted to go back to school, I think I’d love to focus on this kind of stuff.
Mar 10th
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Quick way to have a nicer console
Update 1/28/11: There’s an easier way to do this in Ubuntu 10.10 http://the.zachchadwick.com/post/2976114502/ubuntu-10-10-nicer-console I am starting to virtualize a lot of my development machines that are filling my closet.  Most of them just need to run quietly in the background and not do too much by way of the GUI.  VirtualBox is great for this. Instead of booting them all into a GUI,...
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February 2010
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acts_as_taggable_on :weirdness
I’ve spent a large part of my day tracking down a very weird behavior in the acts_as_taggable_on plugin.  I am using it to tag articles with multiple categories. In general, it’s awesome. The weirdness comes in with the specific tags that I am using.  For example, one article might be tagged “DHCP” as it refers to that protocol.  However, as soon as I created a...
Feb 10th
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irb _
How have I missed this until now?  When in Ruby’s irb, you can use ‘_’ to reference the previous result of anything. >> 10 + 3 => 13 >> _ + 2 => 15 >> _ / 3 => 5 >> Very useful.
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January 2010
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“The work you find yourself doing while you’re procrastinating is probably the...”
– Jessica Hische (via samrayner)
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“Jesus has all the answers, and that includes “what the heck meter is this...”
– @musicalpeep
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