December 2011
1 post
#Defining your wrappers
I’m working on a new project that uses ARC, because, frankly, I suck at memory management (in Objective-C and in real life). Zeroing weak references (ZWRs) are my absolute favorite new feature, as I use weak references fairly often to reference the parent object in a tree. So, I was very disappointed to learn that ZWRs do not, in fact, work on Snow Leopard.
Luckily, the Mac community came...
November 2011
2 posts
Eject key hacking for fun and profit
A while back, I wrote about how you can make the Caps Lock key actually do something useful. Today, I’ll do the same thing with the Eject key.
Now, granted, the Eject key isn’t quite as useless as Caps Lock, since it is the easiest way to get a disc out of your SuperDrive. However, and I don’t know about you, but I haven’t been putting very many discs in there lately that...
wild chocolate: A Letter to the Developer... →
Absolutely spot-on.
wildchocolate:
Dear Mac/iOS Developer Community,
Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes who may be different from yourself and attempt to understand/have compassion towards that person’s feelings, especially if their feelings are different from your own. If you do not consider yourself…
October 2011
6 posts
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Grocery Culture
I wrote this essay for Michigan State University’s application. I spotted two typos immediately after submitting it. *bleeping bleepity bleep*
I work at Rahilly’s IGA, one of two grocery stores in my hometown of Newberry. Newberry is a small town in the middle of nowhere, and, as such, doesn’t have much in the way of diversity. The only exposure you really get to other cultures...
How I Taught Third Graders Binary Numbers -... →
I wish we had stuff like this in third grade. I don’t think most of my class could even handle the Roman Numerals, and they’re graduating this year.
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Why Computers?
This is an essay I wrote for the Michigan Tech Leading Scholar Award scholarship. I’ll probably be posting other essays as I write them.
Why computers?
I’ve been programming since I was six years old. I started with Liberty BASIC on an ancient Panasonic Toughbook that my Dad gave me. Ever since then, I’ve been learning every language I could get my hands on, writing everything...
September 2011
1 post
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August 2011
1 post
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July 2011
10 posts
JUST WORK HARD : IT’S NOT HARD WORK | THE HUNDREDS... →
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Tabled for Consideration – Andy Ihnatko's... →
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"Deleted Messages" label considered obnoxious
Protip: To keep Mail.app from adding the “Deleted Messages” label to archived messages on Gmail, go to Preferences > Accounts, select the Gmail account that you want to fix, switch to the “Mailbox Behaviors” tab, and uncheck “Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox”. Et voila, no more “Deleted Messages”! It also removes the useless...
Computer learns to play Civilization by reading... →
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Nailed it in one! - Imgur →
Time to bow down to our algorithmic overlords.
On Starting a Long-Term Company →
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From Here On Out, Do What You Love | Justin Briggs →
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Zero load time file formats - Steve Hanov's... →
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June 2011
4 posts
Fish don't know they're in water... →
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May 2011
12 posts
Raw Syntax: Importance of Side Projects →
rawsyntax:
Side projects are important for a few reasons. Programming is a creative process. Side projects allow programming without deadlines or restraints. Side projects allow programming in an exploratory way.
Explore new technologies
Every day there are more and more bleeding edge technologies coming…
Good stuff. Unfortunately, all my projects are side projects for the moment.
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MailChimp's Project Omnivore: Declassified |... →
This is just a really cool use of technology. REALLY COOL. YOU SHOULD READ IT.
seandenigris.com » Only running unit tests in... →
Also useful for any other type of script.
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April 2011
11 posts
Command-line (bash/GIMP) mass conversion from XCF... →
This is awesome, with one small change on the Mac. In the last line of the script, where it actually runs Gimp, you need to replace “gimp” with “/Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gimp”
Enjoy!
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Watchfloatingparticles:
mnwka:
ATTENTION INTERNET: THIS IS A PENGUIN BEING TICKLED.
GODDAMMIT FUCK THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD.
INTERNET GOLD.
OH MY GOD YES I LOVE IT
March 2011
4 posts
