Spacerobots:

Robotic jellyfish powers itself with seawater

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:21:05 -0500

Robotic jellyfish powers itself with seawater

Operating systems

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:18:12 -0600

Me: No, the pirate game is not on your computer.
3yo: It's not on our computer?
Me: Yes, that computer is a Linux computer.
3yo: What's a Linux computer?
Me: It's an operating system.
3yo:

Apps that use Vi shortcut keys

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:17:00 -0600

I’m a big fan of Vi/Vim and I love to see apps utilizing vim-like keyboard shortcuts. I thought I would start a list of them:

Gmail

The grand-daddy of web-apps, Gmail uses j/k for up and down and has a slew of other Vim-inspired shortcuts.

The Hit List

The Hit List is a powerful todo app and also uses the familiar j/k for up and down.

Twitter

Again the familiar j/k up and down. I don’t think there is anything more hidden in this other than the up and down navigation.

Reeder

j/k up and down

I’m sure there are more out there. matt@kizmeta.com or @mattpetty on Twitter and I’ll add to this list.

Temporary vim background color

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:56:00 -0600

I use this little script to set a a temporary background color to differentiate vim sessions/projects at a glance.

Spinach

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:34:10 -0500

Spinach:

Spinach, a gherkin based test framework like cucumber but without the Regex madness.

https://github.com/codegram/spinach

Dropzone and Github Gist

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:25:59 -0500

One of the tools I use frequently in my workflow is Dropzone.

Dropzone hacks the dock to give you a pop over menu that is easily accessed. The functionality it provides comes down to two things:

A quick way to access icons you don’t want cluttering up the dock itself and -
Drag and drop scripts for things such as quick uploads to Cloud app, Flickr, Dropbox, and folders on your local machine.

Here’s a screencast of how you can use Dropzone to turn highlighted text into a Gist:

It’s worth it at the regular price of $14 bucks anyway, but if you are reading this today (2011-08-23) then go get Dropzone for a 30% discount ($9.79) at Mupromo.

Newest Robohash Family Member

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:25:00 -0500

A continuation of a previous post, here is the Robohash for baby Ayla:

http://robohash.org/ayla.png

"Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need any of this..."

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:31:24 -0500

“Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need any of this discipline, have a chat with the guy or gal who is still maintaining the first Rails app you worked on.”

- http://avdi.org/devblog/2011/08/22/your-code-is-my-hell/

A few good robots

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:41:36 -0500

RoboHash is a cool site where you can get random robot (and monster) avatars via internet magic. Here are some examples:

http://robohash.org/lodestone.png

http://robohash.org/mattpetty.png

http://robohash.org/jammies.png

http://robohash.org/rollerbot.png

http://robohash.org/mirabella.png

http://robohash.org/kai.png

http://robohash.org/hiro.png

http://robohash.org/aimee.png

Cool stuff!

ROBO HASH

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:16:50 -0500

ROBO HASH:

Okay, this is AWESOME. Thanks @sparksjay

http://robohash.org

Current status bar

Sat, 07 May 2011 08:29:46 -0500

Current status bar

Software Stack

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:20:51 -0500

OS X 10.6.7 -…
Parallels virtual machine running Ubuntu Natty.
Ssh -…
from Mac iterm2 to VM Natty.
Zsh running -…
tmux, running zsh, -…
running Ruby on Rails 3 app.
X-forwarded gvim and gnome-settings-daemon running on…
OSX X windows implementation.
Add Chrome and Firefox for testing.

That’s a lot of software in my stack right now.

I like to pretend these sorts of things are about me.

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:30:04 -0500

I like to pretend these sorts of things are about me.

Link to Amazon Cloud Player

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:19:33 -0500

Amazon Cloud Player url

"Whether it be the tools that you use, the projects that you work on, or the people you work with,..."

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:08:20 -0500

““Whether it be the tools that you use, the projects that you work on, or the people you work with, give yourself constraints. Create something that you have always wanted. Get other people excited about it. Work cannot always be “work”.””

- @jnunemaker from:

http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2011/02/20/give-yourself-constraints/

I finally got my timemachine working, so the first thing I do...

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:31:31 -0600

I finally got my timemachine working, so the first thing I do is…

… head back to southern California in the early 80s for the casting call to The Karate Kid.

I got offered the part and promptly turned it down.

I know all too well how much Ralph Macchio loved being on the cover of Tiger Beat.

Versailles

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:04:43 -0600

Woke from one of those strange crepuscular dreams: I was working at my hs job and was video chatting with @coreylove via skitch explaining why Versailles is pronounced Ver-say’-uhlz

Brain scans show children with ADHD have faulty off-switch for mind-wandering

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:31:06 -0600

Brain scans show children with ADHD have faulty off-switch for mind-wandering:

Brain scans of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have shown for the first time why people affected by the condition sometimes have such difficulty in concentrating. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, may explain why parents often say that their child can maintain concentration when they are doing something that interests them, but struggles with boring tasks.

How to get Mac Vim clipboard copy and paste (Snow Leopard) in the terminal

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:57:55 -0600

I’ve been spending more time lately in iterm2 exclusively. The recent split-screen feature is great for me. Running vim in the terminal, I finally accepted this morning how annoying it was that the system clipboard wasn’t integrated.

A quick google and recompile with xterm_clipboard support did the trick.

Here’s the configure command:

 ./configure --with-features=huge \
                    --enable-cscope \
                    --enable-pythoninterp \
                    --enable-rubyinterp \ 
                    --enable-perlinterp \
                    --enable-gui=macvim \
                    --with-mac-arch=intel \
                    --enable-multibyte \
                    --enable-clipboard=yes \
                    --enable-xterm_clipboard=yes

If you are like me you prefer a single line for copy and pasting so here’s the same command in a margin defying format:

 ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-cscope --enable-pythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-perlinterp --enable-gui=macvim --with-mac-arch=intel --enable-multibyte --enable-clipboard=yes --enable-xterm_clipboard=yes

Someone needs to use this.

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:18:23 -0600

jessnevins:

In a game or in fiction, somewhere:

In the much later Tibetan tradition, a special class of lamas (gter-ston, “treasure finders”) went about “discovering” scriptural treasures (gter-ma) that had allegedly been hidden away long before, during the Buddha’s lifetime, to await the foreordained moment of their revelation.

I can’t be the only one who sees the potential in the gter-ston, can I?