There’s been a lot of nerd rage about the new google favicon. I joined in with a rationalization for my distaste for their new design. After a few days of the lower-case “g” on a gray background, I decided today that I just couldn’t take it. Here’s how I fixed it, so …Read More
The Internet is (today) a 16 year old child
The web today is in its teenage years.
When you were a baby, you had one name (if even that, as far as you were concerned), and a very small network of people that you knew and trusted completely. Access equals trust for a baby. Identity is not worth thinking about, because it’s so …Read More
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
OpenSocial, Meetings, and Success
It’s a very interesting time for me at Yahoo! right now. I’d been keeping quiet about what’s going on for two big reasons. First, I’ve been too busy working to write about it. Second, it’s secret.
Well, as of 2008 March 25, it was a secret. This press release broke the news …Read More
Needed: chpass, finger, and pw for the web
It’s been said that the best startups take a popular Unix command and bring it to the web. But there are a few that are poorly represented. I understand that I may be making a bad career move by discussing this openly on a blog, but quite honestly, my desire as a consumer for a satisfying product is enough to risk—-nay, hope—-that someone else makes a million dollars doing this before I get a chance to.