TextMate is used in the development of NY Times online. See here:
It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to “hand code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields […]
Donald Knuth, creator of TeX, describes his workflow for writing in an interview:
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine, using the conventions of TeX. I use tex, dvips, and gv to […]
Git allows you to visually inspect your commit history with Gitk. Which is great. But on OS X it looks a bit crap set against the polish of the OS and native apps.
If you are a Git-using geek still addicted to the Mac aesthetic, fear not! GitNub is for you…
GitNub is not as fully featured […]
Earlier I noted how current writing technology tends to be the dominant metaphor of the mind. Related to this, is the tendency for writing technology to make a technological platform. Texting was the killer app for the cell phone, and the wordprocessor was the killer app for the PC. But before that, there was UNIX, […]
GitHub is out of beta and has launched. More than just Git hosting, it has been described as myspace for hackers (for more on the social networking meme see also this post). And it seems that distributed version control and social software were made for one another. David Heinemeier Hansson has declared GitHub the killer […]
The Ten Commandments of Unicode:
I am Unicode, thy character set. Thou shalt have no other character sets before me.
I would like to post more about Git, but, alas, at this I point, I am still too much of a n00b. I will be moving over to Git entirely this summer and will post more on this topic then. But for now, let me pass on this useful tidbit for fellow n00bs. If you […]
As a testament to the power, flexibility, and ease of modification of TextMate, I draw your attention to a new bundle that allows you to do DNA Sequence Analysis with TextMate. It is cool to see the bioinfomatics people hack TextMate.
Typographic rage is a new meme:
Grammar nazis are so last century. Welcome, friends, to the brave new world of the typography nazi.
Help make cognitive therapy an effective counter meme.
After reporting on a not so merry jester, I thought an April Fools Day Roundup would lighten the mood:
GitHub becomes SvnHub: “Yes, that’s right! Git is too new, too big of a change, and too hard to explain to my parents. We’re moving back to Subversion and all of you are coming with us.” Mark Liberman […]
Disrupted Library Technology Jester reports that the Library of Congress is adopting Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. Part of a library’s mission is to preserve and provide access to our literary heritage. That part of the mission is contravened when content is delivered to some but not all computing platforms (“crossbrowser and crossplatform” my eye—try to […]
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