http://atomized.org Fragmenting reality. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:48:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://atomized.org/2008/07/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-netnewswire-on-the-iphone/ 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, ... http://atomized.org/2008/07/third-party-os-x-drivers-just-say-no/ Put these in your ~/.bash_profile. function mkcd () { mkdir -p $1 && cd $1 } function cdrm () { THIS=`pwd` cd .. rmdir $THIS } mkcd makes a directory, then changes into it. cdrm changes to the parent directory, then removes the one you were ... http://atomized.org/2008/07/ridiculously-useful-bash-shell-functions/ ieure@host:~/modules$ 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 ... http://atomized.org/2008/06/subversion-continued-hate/ 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 ... http://atomized.org/2008/06/reassigning-trac-tickets-from-commit-messages/ I’ve been dabbling with Python for several months now, but I’m not quite as proficient with it as I’d like. I was hacking on some stuff recently, and needed to parse the query parameters in a URL. Python has URL parsing, but it doesn’t include querystring parsing. This was the pleasantly easy ... http://atomized.org/2008/06/parsing-url-query-parameters-in-python/ A while back, I was looking for a way to remove the Spotlight icon from my menubar. I rarely if ever use menu icons, and wanted to reduce the clutter. The only guides I was able to find recommended chmodding Spotlight.app to 000, to prevent it from being run. I did ... http://atomized.org/2008/05/the-correct-way-to-disable-spotlight/ ⌘T in nearly any app which uses tabs opens a new tab. In apps without tabs, it opens the Show Fonts. This is a floating window, which cannot be closed with ⌘W, the usual binding to close a tab or window. While it can be closed in most cases, you have ... http://atomized.org/2008/05/keybinding-irritations/ Using tar to back up a disk which contains large numbers of hard links (e.g. a Time Machine volume) is extremely slow. Slow as in, I started the backup of this 300gb disk last night, and it’s just over halfway done this morning. http://atomized.org/2008/05/something-i-did-not-know/ The Unicode family of encodings has just become the dominant encoding on the web. Good news for all. http://atomized.org/2008/05/unicode-wins/