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Sat Jun 7
“ I mean even the styling of the pic of the guy is so not Apple’s style. They’d use a cleaner pic of some shiny person with perfect hair and a toothy smile - content with the knowledge that their perfect lives are enhanced by a Video Chat (Caps intended). CrunchGear comment on supposed 3G iPhone promo material
Mon Dec 10
CTDB Demo Videos
Sun Sep 2
“ If an interactive Erlang shell shows up on the console and displays “CouchDb has started. Time to Relax.”, relax. CouchDb ReadMe.txt
Wed Feb 28
From my Brother-in-Law in Iraq

From my Brother-in-Law in Iraq

Tue Feb 27
“ Science — that thing that humans do to find out more about the world around them. Not new age — a fake thing that involves pan flutes and rubbing crystals on your body. FIRE JOE MORGAN
Sun Feb 25
“ When confronted with its multi-functionality, one webmaster didn’t quite know where to list it, saying that he might have to invent a whole new category for PIKT! Followed by a spit-take.
Sat Feb 24

Quick IRC Alias

alias irc="ssh -t irchost 'screen -Dr'" Which means: ssh to irchost (much easier with something like SSHKeychain), power detach (remotely log out if necessary) any attached screen and then reattach. The -t option is necessary to force ssh to assign us a tty even though we’re running a command. Possible improvements:

  • Naming the screen on creation (screen -S irc) and using that name in the above alias so you don’t reattach the wrong screen
  • Automatically start screen if the irc session is not found
Fri Feb 23
“ Dreaming up edge cases is a sure fire way to waste a month of development time and burn buckets of morale. Jason Fried, Highrise Preview 2 comment