I've long been a fan of Iain Broome. For one, he's got a cool name1. His blog has been in my RSS reader for years and I'm a regular listener of his podcast.
When his debut novel A is for Angelica was available for pre-order, I ...
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This is crazy. Compact Python code to render the Mandelbrot set that itself is shaped like the Mandelbrot set. I have no idea how it works, but it's really freaking cool. I changed the resolution to 7200x4800 and let it run overnight.
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Back in August, Shawn Blanc wrote about his desire to automate moving all of his bookmarks from Yojimbo to Pinboard. I hacked together some Python and AppleScript that mostly accomplished it for him. But it was just that: a hack.
Apparently someone else took and interest in it as well ...
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I own a lot of books. I've even read a bunch of them. Here are a few of my favorites1:
The Illuminatus! Trilogy - by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. A sexy nonlinear romp with anarchists and Discordians. Read this tome and you probably won't look at ...
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I'm apparently having a Michael Schechter love-fest this week:
read moreI know I'm a power user, I get that most people don't care about these kinds of things and that this clearly isn't affecting sales, but it's disappointing that Apple seems determined to limit other applications ...
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This post was partially inspired by two pieces I read this morning: My first month on App.net by Riccardo Mori and Can You Really Pick Yourself? by Michael Schechter.
I am not a social person by nature. I'm an introvert who will go out of his way to ...
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Other, more popular, people have linked to these already this week, so I'm mostly putting them here as a note to myself.
JSONHelper - an easy way to work with JSON in your AppleScript, should you be into that kind of thing.
LocationHelper - use Location Services from within AppleScript. I ...
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The one good thing to come out of the new Hobbit1 movie is the cool tie-in merchandise. For example, these Hobbit Moleskines from ThinkGeek.
As both a Tolkien nerd and a notebook addict I of course bought one of each. But I don't know if I'll ever ...
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Steve Losh tries to recreate the Space Cadet keyboard using modern hardware and software:
...tinkering around and seeing how far you can push things is fun (sometimes)!
Oh my. So much nerdy awesomeness in this post. Definitely some useful things to pull out and try. Now if only I used ...
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