In light of some recent excellent posts about tools that smart people use, here are my essential tools that I used in 2011. Hardware I use a 15″ MacBook Pro i5 with 8 GB of RAM. It’s quick and does everything I need it to. It’s not too bulky, but it’s certainly bigger than my … (Continue reading →)
December 12, 2010 at 20.14
I remember reading about Tarsnap a couple of years ago, back when it was only an idea. I wasn’t too convinced about using a service that was in beta to back up my data, but I recently rediscovered that it had graduated to a full-blown product and signed up immediately. Tarsnap is an encrypted backup … (Continue reading →)
December 11, 2010 at 14.42
Pastebin.com is a utility for sharing snippets of text with anyone. The service is simple: go to pastebin.com, paste your text, click submit, and share the link. It’s useful for sharing time-saving snippets with you team, or for an impromptu, informal code review of changes that for one reason or another haven’t been committed yet … (Continue reading →)
November 28, 2010 at 16.10
Countless times, I have come across a piece of long-form writing that I just don’t have time to read at that moment. I used to just keep the link in question open in a tab for days and never actually get around to reading it. Sometimes I would bookmark it using Delicious, which helped me … (Continue reading →)
September 22, 2009 at 22.53
UPDATE: It seems that Yahoo! has changed their weather URL formats, which breaks the script that fetches the weather image. In order to fix it, go to Yahoo! Weather and enter your desired location. Once you have the correct page loaded, replace the URL in the script with this new one. The script should start … (Continue reading →)