Category Archives: Freebie

Steal My Bash Profile

Feel free to skip the monologue and just get the goodies.

I am in love with the Bourne Again Shell. Bash is a fantastic terminal environment, and a very interesting programming language in its own right.

I grew up using DOS. Unix shells always seemed scary and foreign, for some reason. I think a …Read More

Open in TextMate in Finder for Tiger

This post has a great little droplet that can be added to the Finder toolbar to open either the selected items or the current Finder folder in TextMate.

Sadly, it doesn’t work in Tiger, and I haven’t made the jump to Leopard yet. If you’re a TextMate user who’s still on Tiger, and wants this …Read More

CSS Modal Dialog that Works Right

In my last post, I touched on a method to get different browsers to handle the inline-block display style. I decided to use that on a project that I’m working on now that has a few modal dialogs. Modals are usually done wrong on the web, but I’m pretty confident that this approach does it right.

Feel free to skip all this and go straight to the example.…Read More

Applescript for iTerm (and a request for help with it)

iTerm is a major part of my workspace. I’m a big fan of tabbed interfaces, and my fingers have gotten really good at the Apple-← and Apple-→ key combos to swap between them. I usually have three tabs going:

One that runs Unison in batch mode to keep my mac and BSD machines in …Read More

Broken Mac Wireless Driver in 10.4.10

Note: This post is regarding an issue that has since been fixed by Apple. If you’ve run this script, then please run the included undo.sh to reverse the changes, and then get the actual patch from the Software Update command in the Apple Menu.

If you’ve upgraded to 10.4.10, and you use wireless (who doesn’t, …Read More