March 2009
10 posts
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Understanding Git Conceptually →
Good overview of Git that focuses on understanding things “under the hood” instead of memorizing commands.
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The Three20 Project →
One by one I’ve been re-designing and re-factoring each of the components I wanted to open source, adding them to a new Xcode static library project, and then re-integrating them with the Facebook app. I just finished doing that a few days ago, and now I’m ready to start sharing the results.
Looks like it could be great.
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The Peekaboo Paradox - washingtonpost.com →
One of the more interesting articles I’ve read in a while. Also, one of the longer ones. Takes some surprising turns.
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Intervals — Interval Timer for iPhone and iPod... →
My first iPhone app is up on the App Store.
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Hacker News - Readability | userstyles.org →
I like Hacker News, but the site’s design just kills my eyes. All of the text is so small and so close together. To remedy this, I made a quick Sylish script to fix things up a bit. Granted, you get more headlines per screen with the original style, but for me, the new style is much quicker to scan. Check it out at the link above if you’re interested.
Here’s what it looks...
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iPhone Development: Debugging Part 2 →
Good tip on symbolic breakpoints. I’m giving this a shot right now.
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Wolfram Alpha →
The vision seems to be to create a system wich can do for formal knowledge (all the formally definable systems, heuristics, algorithms, rules, methods, theorems, and facts in the world) what search engines have done for informal knowledge (all the text and documents in various forms of media).
So which will be a bigger let down, Wolfram Alpha, or Cuil?
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Safari 4 Beta - Open Links in New Tab (Not a New...
The thing that’s been killing me the most with the new Safari 4 beta is not the funky titlebar embedded tabs, but the fact that targeted links open in a new window instead of a new tab. Luckily, running this line of code at the terminal (on a Mac) resolves that issue:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
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Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment →
One of my favorite links in a while. This bookmarklet removes all the clutter from pages leaving just the nicely formatted article text. I’ve been using this a lot tonight, and it works great. Highly recommended for cleaning up cluttered and ad ridden pages.
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iPhone SDK Examples →
Some nice, quick iPhone sdk code examples.