Are you a delicate flower? Does spelling mistakes and profanity in comments feeds make you cringe? YouTube Comment Snob may be for you. This is a Firefox extension that filters out “undesirable” comments fro YouTube comments threads. The following rules are available:
More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension […]
A harbinger of TM2?
A quick TextMate theme I knocked off since I need a light theme but hated the available white themes.
It is hosted at GitHub, so git users can get theme with git clone git://github.com/PhilGeek/clear-pond.git. Other wise, it can be downloaded here.
As promised links to philosophy feeds. The list is not exhaustive and there are some gaps. Cambridge journals have not been included since the feeds seem only to be available to individual subscribers and not institutional subscribers. If there are any additions you would like please let me know and I will update the list. […]
Wordle is a web service that generates word clouds from submitted text. Here are a couple of examples. The first is from my paper “Color Pluralism”:
The second is from my paper “Respecting Value”:
Too fun =)
From the rut—typographic snoot gone gangsta:
Version 1.4 of Aquamacs, the Aqua-native build of Emacs, has just been released, and has a number of interesting features making it an even better OS X citizen:
New multi-tabbed interface similar to Safari. This makes switching between open files faster and more intuitive. Full screen editing now available. This allows you to focus just on editing […]
From Crackle: Jace Hall, Ep 1: DUKE NUKEM FOREVER - SNEAK PEEK!
When can we expect TextMate 2 to be released? Here is what Alan Odgaard has to say in the TextMate 2 FAQ:
[…] there is no ETA, and I won’t speak about timing before I am certain I can provide an […]
Stability is a precondition for the possibility of citation.
Consider direct quotation—no easy phenomena. Part of the point of citation, here, is so that the reader can read the quotation in context, to decide for themselves whether the quoted author has been misrepresented. The usual case is to quote from a dead tree source—a printed book […]
Having decided to try out Git, I was excited to learn that Git could interface with Subversion repositories via git-svn. git-svn provides a bidirectional flow of changesets from a branch of a Subversion repository and any number of branches in a Git repository. The problem that I soon encountered should be evident from this description—you […]
Open Terminal is a useful TextMate command—it opens a new instance of Terminal.app in the directory of the current file. Terminal.app has improved under Leopard; it now supports tabs. It would be great if the Open Terminal command could open the directory of the current file in a tab of an already opened instance of […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Ten Commandments of Unicode:
I am Unicode, thy character set. Thou shalt have no other character sets before me.
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.
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 […]
Despite my deep aversion to it, I still have Microsoft Word 2004 on my hard disk. Largely because administrators keep sending me Word docs, not to edit but simply to read, many of which have complex tables that TextEdit fails to render sufficiently well to be usable. (When will people learn to send PDFs? There […]
Continuing our ongoing text editor roundup for OS X, I am pleased to report that SubEthaEdit 3.1 has just been released. The world’s best collaboration text engine just got better. SubEthaEdit now supports:
Automatic port mapping making communication over the internet easier—no manual configuration required Inviting your iChat buddies Friendcasting—the ability to connect to a friend’s friend.
To get […]
You can force Mail.app on OS X to use UTF-8 with the following command:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset “UTF-8”
As I have posted earlier, you should be using UTF-8 for all your plain text needs. Dont trust me? Then trust Allan.
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