Category Archives: applications

NNTP readers on OS X are built from failure

In the office where I work we use/maintain a news­group server with a vari­ety of inter­nal news­groups where every­thing from items for sale to com­plaints and has­sles are posted. Late last year I went pretty much all-Mac, all the time, with a Remote Desk­top win­dow con­nected to a Win­dows machine in the office which I used for Out­look (because we're an Exchange

Text editing for fun and profit

In the attempt to stream­line the process of main­tain­ing the myr­iad scripts and con­fig files that I use day to day as part of both my day job and my droll hobby. I've used Text­Mate for every­thing, which I've pre­vi­ously dis­cussed (par­tic­u­larly using it in con­junc­tion with CSSEdit, which we'll come back to). But this has

Software Regret

Alex Payne of Twit­ter (the social net­work every­one but me uses) has posted a well struc­tured list of soft­ware he's paid for but no longer users. I am in a sim­i­lar boat thanks to sites like Mac­Zot, where I have licenses for shit I will never, ever use again or for appli­ca­tions whose func­tion­al­ity was replaced by some­thing bet­ter later on.

Hosting control panels

Seri­ously, I am learn­ing to write code just so I can write a host­ing con­trol panel that doesn't make me vio­lently angry when I try to use.

fuck you, austin sarner

Matt Ball has posted a siz­able write-up which neatly sums up the ris­ing tide of back­lash against the so-called "Deli­cious Gen­er­a­tion" of soft­ware devel­op­ers cur­rently bilk­ing milk­ing aban­don­ing their installed base every 6-to-8 months. I had been work­ing on some­thing sim­i­lar, though admit­tedly much, much less details when this dropped. My inter­est in this was strictly

CSSEdit & TextMate = L-O-V-E

I don't know if I've ever per­son­ally men­tioned this and I know I'm years late to the party, but it bears repeat­ing that CSSEdit and Text­Mate are two of the only appli­ca­tions I miss when I'm on a Linux machine. One could argue that there is always (re: eter­nally) going to be vi/vim or emacs, but in my