At Ender Labs, pretty much everyone but me uses a Mac.
In the last year or so, I’ve started to realize that there must be some new Mac
app or function that, via a hotkey, allows you to select an arbitrary region of
your screen, create a screenshot, and then automatically uploads it to a hosting
service. I know this, without doing any research, because in irc/slack/gtalk
I’ve started receiving screenshots as responses to questions I ask. These
screenshots arrive fairly quickly after said question is asked.
Welp, my simple human test, where you had to type “vim” to enter comments on
this blog, finally failed to keep out the spam. Surprisingly, it did work for 6
years before I had problems.
This year, I went to the Lute Society of America Seminar at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a lot of fun, and I’m going to share some
of my experience here.
Due to the recent news Regarding Stallman’s heart attack, I ended up on the
wikipedia page for The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and I was reading the
“Guidelines for creating good opensource software”. Number 3 says:
A few years ago
I posted SupaCount to the Android
market. Shortly after that, I stopped posting updates for three years.
Yesterday, after many years of using Vim, I’ve finally realized what the purpose
of Vim Tabs is. My friend asked me to post this article, because she was also
stumped by their functionality.
In December, 2007, I was watching the History Channel, like I often did at the
time. I’m not sure what show was on, but the episode was, I think, about ancient
instruments and early music.
This sparked a wikipedia session, where I looked up the origins of my own
favorite instrument, the guitar. I found out about one of the guitar’s cousins,
the Lute. I wondered if people still played it, and looked it up on …
I haven’t posted in forever. I have a bunch of things I want to post about,
though, and I will continuing forward.
SupaCount 0.1.0 published to the Android Market. I don’t suspect that it’ll be a
highly successful app, being that it’s a utility that most people won’t need.
However, being my first app on any of the mobile markets, it’ll be interesting
to see what happens. There are, at the very least, hundreds of thousands of
people (200,000+ people bought a Motorola Droid the first week it was released)
with access to the market.
So, I got a Droid, which for me, meant that I had to start learning the
Android SDK. In my
opinion, the best way to learn something like this is to write an application.
It’s how Exaile and
JBother came to be, and now, it’s how
SupaCount came to be.
I bought myself the first generation iPhone about 8 days after it came out, and
have followed the upgrade path (getting the 3G and 3Gs as soon as they were
available) clear up until about a week and a half ago, when I jumped ship from
AT&T. I love the iPhone. Sure, there are some things that bother me about it,
but it really was good to me. Especially now, that a lot of the features I was
missing in a phone were suddenly there (copy & paste, MMS, etc).
The Utah OpenSource Conference went underway
yesterday. I thought I’d share my experiences and thoughts here as the con
progresses.
For whatever reason (I can only assume it has to do with the product being
released /after/ Ubuntu 9.04 came out) the Ubuntu devs have decided to call
Firefox 3.5 “Shiretoko”. You can install alongside your regular Firefox
installation by typing @aptitude install firefox-3.5@ and you can run it by
typing @firefox-3.5@. That’s all well and good, except that the User-Agent
string is set to:
This month is my company’s national convention. This combined with a secret
project I’m working on after hours means I basically have no time to work on
Exaile until October. So, no thanks to me, Exaile 0.3.0.1 has been released.
This one is brought to you by the other members of the team, and is a bugfix
release for 0.3.0. This includes fixing the bug that was causing 0.2.14->0.3
migration problems for most people. Enjoy!
Yup, you probably heard it here last. I’ve been super busy irl, and just haven’t
had the time to throw up a blog entry just yet, but 0.3.0 final is out and you
can grab it from the Exaile
downloads page.