January 2012
1 post
Duly noted
Speaking of notes, there has always been a subset of my notes that I’ve wanted to share with the public — those little techie one-liners that take hours to figure out or find on the web. The ones where I’ve had to look up the same thing over and over so many times, I finally said to myself, “I should really write this down somewhere.”
I couldn’t find a tool...
December 2011
2 posts
Shut Up extension for Chrome
Ricky Romero has released the Chrome version of his excellent Shut Up extension formerly available only for Safari.
The Chrome and Safari extensions make it a snap to use my shutup.css stylesheet, which hides the soul-deadening comments on many popular websites.
Thanks, Ricky!
UNITINU
If you like pointless things and are easily amused, you might enjoy UNITINU, new from stevenf.
Available exclusively on the stevenf aneurysm store.
November 2011
1 post
My dream notes app?
Here’s a rough spec of what I think would comprise my ultimate note keeping environment. I’m writing this down in the hopes that someone will implement it, as I don’t have sufficient spare time.
“Have you tried…?”
Yes, I’ve tried that app. It didn’t do at least one of the following things.
There are at least a half dozen apps that are...
October 2011
1 post
Steve Jobs
Apple was founded in 1976, a year after I was born. We grew up together. In fact, for a little while, we grew up across the street from each other.
Through a completely unrelated-to-Apple twist of events, my family emigrated from England to the US in the early 80’s, and we just so happened to land in an apartment complex off Stevens Creek Blvd, about a mile from Apple’s campus.
I...
July 2011
2 posts
How to Count
I’m happy to announce my first (short) book “How to Count”, is now available on Kindle. Coming soon to unprotected PDF, print-on-demand (and iBooks/ePub if I can figure out how).
“How to Count” is the first volume of what I hope will become a series called “Programming for Mere Mortals”, designed to teach you programming concepts from the inside-out.
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Off again, on again
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve rebooted this blog. Since 2002, I’ve run it on Movable Type, Tumblr, and all manner of handmade software. Nothing ever feels “just right”. I’m not even sure I know how blogging software is supposed to “feel”.
Tumblr drives me crazy lately. It used to be a wonderful thing. Now it’s slow and just...