Archive for October, 2009

Worthwhile vim tips

David Wolever is the man who made me productive in vim. Not from the ground up, mind you. I already knew the basics from my internship like how to swap between modes. I’d internalized that each string of keystrokes forms a command with a verb[0] and, if applicable, movement keys. It was enough to use [...]

Fooling around with Wave

I’ve received two e-mails from Google today. They’re both regarding Wave. First, there’s the e-mail saying that my name was put forth by a Googler (thank you to the chap from #hacklabto, you know who you are) for a developer sandbox account and please fill out this form with your desired usernames. The next was [...]

An experiment in printing

I was sitting in my book history lecture and looking at a picture of a compositor putting his type into a galley. Later, we watched a video of John Kristensen talking up letterpress. It shows him laying out illumination by hand. It also shows his linotype, but he still spent a fair bit of time [...]

So long SugarSync, hello Dropbox

I’ve had some problems with SugarSync. My Leopard install died, and I also reformatted my Windows 7 machine to go from RC1 to the copy of RTM I received through MSDNAA. Now I can’t add my “new” machines to SugarSync because I’m at my two machine limit. Worse still, I can’t have my “new” machine [...]

What I did Friday night (or: I might be a geek)

I’ve recently picked up an Arduino with an ethernet shield. I didn’t have good reason to, and I probably shouldn’t have paid as much as I did, but it sure is a fun toy. I say that as someone who’s played around a little with AVRs too. I bought my kit on Friday night. I [...]