- Most common git screwups/questions and solutions – 41J Blog
I know most of these in an abstract way. And yet, every time I need several of them, I find myself scratching my head, thinking "how do I do that again?". So I will want this for future reference.
Tag: howto
Bookmarks for October 11, 2013
- How to make an iBeacon out of a Raspberry Pi
Another thing to add to the list of things to do…
Bookmarks for September 16, 2013
Bookmarks for March 13, 2012
- Benjamin Franklin's List Of 13 Virtues To Live By
Nothing that'll blow your mind in here, but still nice.
- Fantastical and BusyCal
Reminder to self, mostly.
- 3.1 Million Pixels Are Heavy (Global Moxie)
Food for thought as regards serving images to the iPad3. And, indeed, any similarly hi-res display. Even if one were tempted to pretend the problem didn't exist for now, because it's "only" the iPad (and I'm aware of the absurdity of that position already, in any case), we're clearly going to reach a point where other displays are as good as well.
- A Precious Hour
I am generally at my happiest when I do this. I should make sure I do it more.
- Create a custom map of your city in 30 minutes with TileMill and OpenStreetMap | MapBox
Well, this might be fun. And possibly useful, too.
Bookmarks for January 10, 2012
- Copy Text from Quick Look Previews with a Terminal Command
Handy tip, that will save me a lot of otherwise-pointless application opening.
Bookmarks for November 11, 2011
- Node.js on Dreamhost | respectTheCode
Handy tutorial for getting node.js running on one of my webhosts.
- A Simple Blog with CouchDB, Bogart, and Node.js – How To Node – NodeJS
This is a bundle of technologies that I've been meaning to put a little time into learning for a while now. So I should sit down and implement this somewhere, when I get a little time.
- [this is aaronland] the unbearable finality of pixel space
If this matures a little, I'll be a happy man. Right now, it's a complete pain to get working out of the box, unless you're starting from a position of installing everything from scratch on an Ubuntu box, but if someone turns out a quick version that'll run on a basic PHP/MYSQL/Apache install on my webhost, I'll be a happy man. (Yes, I could spend a day or two making it run myself, but my photos are already well backed-up, ta, so my incentive to do it is limited. I quite want an easy minimalist portfolio site, but not enough to spend days building it.)
- A List of Things That Plugins Don’t Work With
Look seriously, if you're building a website, and thinking "Hey, I know, we'll do this bit with a plugin" – and it doesn't matter which one – Flash, Sliverlight, fuck, even Quicktime – then really stop, and think again. They're broken, and they don't do anything you can't do with modern web-standards based technology.
Bookmarks for September 1, 2011
- Take 5 Minutes to Make WordPress 10 Times More Secure
If you're using wordpress, you should probably do these things. None of them are hard, and all of them will help.
Bookmarks for January 18, 2011
- Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data – ProPublica
Handy set of guides for getting useful structured/meaningful data out of websites.
- Will the ConDems allow the disabled to live? | Blogeration
Another one I imagine you've already seen. Some absolutely splendid writing on the subject of the cuts, and how grossly unfair it is to ask the disabled to bear the size of cuts we're talking about.
Bookmarks for June 1, 2010
- How to Get More Privacy From Facebook's New Privacy Controls | Electronic Frontier Foundation
For those of you that have remained with them, here's a step by step guide to sorting out your privacy settings so that they'll give you maximum prviacy, until the next time the rules change. It's over 800 words long, and contains a video, and I'll restrain my ranting for now but the point is that at least you can get the job done.
- SproutRobot!
Lovely idea. Wish that a) I had a garden and b) they operated in the UK. Still the US-ians among you might get something tasty out of it.
Bookmarks for November 24, 2009
- panGloss: Mandy and Me: some thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill
A lawyer takes the Digital Economy Bill apart.
My own idiots guide to the DEB is at 1500 words and counting, and I'm not sure I'm even halfway through yet. So: serious question – if there anyone reading this who feels it would be useful for me to produce said guide? Is a guide that tries to use short words and explain the whole business practically from absolutely first principles worth it, or are you all going to go "tl;dr" and skip blithely past it? Who is there round these parts that feels like they don't know what's going on on this subject, and would like to? - The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia « Copybot
Dammit, these actually *are* that interesting. An absolute mine of weird crap that illustrates that the world is a pretty damn splendid place, when you get right down to it.
- Patched mach_kernel 10.2.0 for Atom-based netbooks – InsanelyMac Forum
I will have absolutely no need of this kernel patch at any point.
- How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook – Dell mini 10v hackintosh – Gizmodo
This would violate my EULA. Obviously, I would not wish to do this, because once I have legitimately purchased something, it is completely reasonable that that manufacturer dictate how I use it.
- Home – flashbake – GitHub
Tools for writers/people who generate text, rather than code, to apply more or less automatic version control to something you're working on, with tools to provide context on what was going on in your head when a given automatic commit happened.
- The Literary Gift Company
ZOMG! (As I believe the young people say.) Someone has made a website with gifts specifically for me and all my friends!
- Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | Politics | The Guardian
Gosh, couldn't have guessed this would happen.