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Scan Mode for iTunes Script

In goodstuff, music, osx, ruby, technology on 20 April 2009 with no comments

So I was hacking on some Android stuff this weekend and I was immediately distracted by constantly having to flip the song on iTunes party mix DJ bullshit marketing name for shuffle mode. What I wanted was the equivalent of seek mode on car stereos. Where you basically press a button and every 10 seconds, [...]

What I Learned Today: Ack and Ephemerides

In astronomy, goodstuff, linux, osx, programming, technology, what i learned today on 15 January 2009 with no comments

Been so busy there’s barely been any time to think about blogging. Today’s edition of What I Learned Today covers two totally separate topics. The first is: Ack Ack you say?! Yes. ack. Ack is a command line utility that searches through files for patterns of text. It’s like grep except…it’s more friendly, has some [...]

Why Git Rocks

In goodstuff, programming, technology on 5 October 2008 with no comments

I’ve been a longtime subversion user and before that Visual SourceSafe (ew gross), but at the new jobby job, it’s all git all the time. Being very used to the pretty awesome TortoiseSVN and ZigVersion gui clients for svn, I’ve been a bit hesitant to really dive into git, not really knowing what to expect [...]

The Big Switch

In goodstuff, osx, technology on 4 October 2008 with no comments

Well, it’s been a few weeks of working fulltime with Ruby, Rails, on OS X and I must say, I know so much less than I thought I did about OS X, Ruby, and Unix-like systems than I could have imagined. I have taken for granted that in the last seven years of experience I [...]

Secrets of Being a US Open Ninja

In goodstuff on 4 September 2008 with no comments

KL and I went to the US Open last night and saw some great tennis. The Williams sisters beat the crap out of each other until Serena prevailed, and M. Fish put up a great fight with Nadal for a while. We’ve been lucky enough to have a great ticket hookup over the past several [...]

Changing My Name

In goodstuff, humor, programming on 25 July 2008 with no comments

Zac([kh]|hary)$ As Afshin says, it’s pronounced “Zack Dollar”.

Innovation

In goodstuff, microsoft, technology on 27 May 2008 with no comments

It’s pretty funny that we actually have Microsoft to thank for the original XHR. Makes you wonder what else is hiding in their R&D labs.

JavaScript, the Good Parts

In goodstuff, javascript, programming, technology on 15 May 2008 with no comments

This guy is so great. First JSON message failed because of JavaScript limitation on not allowing reserved keywords as name part of object literals.

Fanboy Supercuts from Waxy

In goodstuff, humor, idiocy on 11 April 2008 with no comments

Great post over there today. My favorites have been the Every Turbo Boost in Knight Rider one and The Big Lebowski – The Fucking Short Version.

Useful Keyboard Shortcut of the Day Alt+Enter

In goodstuff, microsoft, technology on 14 March 2008 with no comments

Alt+Enter brings up the properties panel for items in Windows. I did not know this. Equivalent in most cases to right clicking, properties but much much faster.