So, I’ve been suffering through the crappy mobile NewsGator site while gnashing my face off waiting for a native NetNewsWire on my iPhone. Last Friday, I got it, and I’d almost prefer the mobile site.
One issue is speed. It’s not very fast. It’s not unusable, but it is irritating. I’m not going into that, because [...]

Without a doubt, the worst part of using a Mac is dealing with the mess that is third-party hardware drivers. Using hardware under OS X is either completely painless, or a nightmare.
The best scenario is that the hardware is supported out of the box. This happens most of the time, and it’s extremely pleasant. You [...]

Put these in your ~/.bash_profile.

function mkcd ()
{
mkdir -p $1 && cd $1
}

function cdrm ()
{
THIS=`pwd`
cd ..
rmdir $THIS
}

mkcd makes a directory, then changes into it.
cdrm changes to the parent directory, then removes the one you were just in.

ieure@host:~/modules$ svn up
svn: Working copy ‘branches/genesis’ locked
svn: run ’svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type ’svn help cleanup’ for details)
ieure@host:~/modules$ svn cleanup .
ieure@host:~/modules$ svn up
svn: Working copy ‘branches/genesis’ locked
svn: run ’svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type ’svn help cleanup’ for details)
ieure@host:~/modules$ svn cleanup
ieure@host:~/modules$ svn up
svn: Working copy ‘branches/genesis’ locked
svn: run ’svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type [...]

Here at Digg, we’ve been discussing ways to streamline our development process. One of the suggestions I came up with was the ability to reassign tickets (via trac-post-commit-hook) in commit messages.
I hacked it together today and submitted it back to Trac.
The changes are against r5308 of the hook, which is all well and good if [...]