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It’s about time. Typo isn’t working very well for me anymore, it’s hogging too many resources on my server, commenting is really slow, deleting comments is even worse, and I’ve botched my svk/svn setu…

I just got this from Jan, the author of CSSEdit.

To get CSSEdit 2.5.2 to autosave all files when focus is lost, just close CSSEdit and type the following in terminal:

defaults write com.macrabbit.CS…

We saw Jacob Holdt’s American Pictures slideshow yesterday. It made a deep impression on me.

Jacob’s core belief is that every person on this planet is fundamentally good. He meets everyone with love…

We just got back from two weeks in our beloved Italy, and there’s one day in particular that I wanted to share with you.

It was Saturday, smack in the middle of the trip, when we were leaving the apa…

Here’s a snippet of code for a Rake task that will filter your Rails log by IP address, so you can quickly follow a single user’s session.

Run it with rake log:for IP=10.20.30.40

The story goes:

The huge printing presses of a major Chicago newspaper began malfunctioning on the Saturday before Christmas, putting all the revenue for advertising that was to appear in the Su…

I’ve been scanning the market for coaching education for some time, and am 95% committed now to starting with Sofia Manning in a little less than a month.

The other program I’ve been considering is t…

I’ve realized that while I love creating great software, I care even more about creating great lives.

It started to dawn on me at the EuroGEL conference in the fall. GEL is rooted in technology, but …

I found this inspiring quote in John Batelle’s The Search. It’s Bill Gross talking about his friend, director Steven Spielberg (on page 99):

“He walks around all day using his brainpower to creatively…

I’ve noticed a pattern that has been annoying me. We’ll be having a conversation about the development of a product, I’m feeling good, things are flowing, we’re coming up with ideas. But then someone …