I am a coffee enthusiast. Preparing it. Drinking it. Talking about it. It’s a serious matter to me. One of the most heated debates in the coffee world is how best to prepare it. Some are die-hard French Press people. Others swear by the Pour-over. This piece is about the Aeropress, which is a newcomer with a passionate…
A Possible Text Editor Change for 2012?
I’m considering making an attempt to move from TextMate to MacVim/Janus as my main text editor. I have a few main things I do with TextEdit that I need to be able to (mostly) replicate: Git integration with my website (I use git to do all updates) Snippets Blog integration (I use TextMate to do all blog updates)…
The Ultimate Bash Prompt
I just installed Lion and decided to do a refresh on my Bash prompt. After an hour of research and tinkering this is what I ended up with. It not only displays user, host, and directory information in a nicely color-coded manner, but it also gives git information. Here’s the code at Pastie. And here’s what it looks…
Percentages of Hitting a Given Number Using x Number of d6’s
My buddies and I are doing a Harn campaign right now and one of the mechanics involves accruing stat “checks” over time. Every five stat checks you get allows you to roll a single d6. So if you have 15 checks you get to roll 3d6. The goal is to roll over your stat, which will raise it…
Exploring Coffee
I’m learning more about coffee. The main reasons for this are that I enjoy knowing a lot about things–especially when they are as rich and nuanced as coffee, and also because I’m trying to be more healthy, which means drinking coffee black. One thing I’ve picked up through my limited research is the fact that most coffee consumed…
Essential Skills: Keyboard Navigation + Text Editing
I’ve come to a realization recently. Few things are more important to a modern geek than being efficient with keyboard shortcuts. This applies to both their main operating system and their applications, but especially within the context of their primary text editor. For anyone doing writing or programming I think these skills are absolutely vital. To me the…
Hacker News is the New Reddit
Anyone who likes Reddit needs to check out another similar site called Hacker News. It’s rather like Reddit used to be before it went mainstream, i.e. lacking the high noise that reddit now has. The big difference is that this one is almost purely technical in nature. Definitely check it out if you’re looking for a high-quality reddit…
A Sex Joke Involving the Special Theory of Relativity
XKCD comes through again. Image from xkcd.com
My Idea For A True Content Aggregation Service
I’ve been struggling with a problem for a while now. The problem is how to properly display on my site everything online that I create vs. everything online that I find and enjoy. The issue is that these two types of content need to be differentiated to provide maximum value to readers. So here are my requirements. I…
A Response to “Mac Elitism and Snobbery”
A fellow security blogger, Michael Farnum, has posted a piece that I felt compelled to respond to. In the post he essentially complains that most of the pro-pc/anti-mac commentary he reads at Computerworld get modded down, while the pro-mac/anti-pc stuff he sees usually gets modded up. He goes on to write: So if you own a Mac and…
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