Use FZF to Show the Contents of an AWS S3 Object
Once you discover fzf, you want to use it everywhere. It’s clean, powerful, and versatile. In this post, I show you how to use fzf to display the contents of a file in S3....
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Git GUIs: A Tale of Two Source Models
I’ll confess: I use a GUI for Git. Not always, and not even most of the time. The CLI is usually quicker, and I’m usually in the terminal anyway, but yet I also use...
Two Things I Learned About Vim from an Emacs User
Yesterday I was working on a problem with an Emacs wizard, and I saw him do a couple things in Emacs that made me squirm. You see, I badger and belittle him at every...
hc: Hex Color Command-Line Tool for OS X
I’ve been working a lot lately with LESS and Bootstrap, and wanted an easier and quicker way to visualize colors and what the various LESS operations do to them. So, I built hc — Hex...
Recovering My MacVim
Although I usually edit files with (graphical) MacVim, I occasionally launch terminal vim. When I do, I see this: github-issues.vim requires Python support, sorry :c I always smile a bit at my nephew’s use...
The Internet Is Too Small to Be Snarky
Last week, I was frustrated with Oracle SQL Developer (on Mac OS X) for two reasons: When a connection times out (after being left idle too long), the application hangs and I have to...
Setting Up My New MacBook Pro
I just bought a new MacBook Pro to replace my mid-2010 MBP. This is my first retina laptop, and it’s beautiful. I’d been waffling for awhile, but I’m glad I took the plunge. I...
How to Lock Up Linux Using Sublime Text 3
Steps to Lock Up Linux Using Sublime Text 3: Log in to your Mac OS X machine. Install VirtualBox. Install a Linux virtual machine. Boot that Linux virtual machine. Install Sublime Text 3 on that...
A $5 app isn’t expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy | Macworld
A $5 app isn’t expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy | Macworld: “You don’t buy a Kindle just to enjoy the dictionary and manual that come pre-installed on the device....
Introducing Wry: A Command-line App.net Client
I’ve released a command-line App.net client for Mac OS X: Wry. Its home page is http://grailbox.com/wry. It’s released under the MIT License, and is hosted on github at https://github.com/hoop33/wry. Check it out, and let...