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Habermas Meta-Tweet

Wow! A meta-tweet from Jurgen Habermas:

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2010 01 29 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (0)

Flashbake or Git Gateway Technology?

Flashbake aims to bring version control to writers—or at least writers who have harnessed the power of plain text. Flahsbake is a simplified front end to Git that runs in the background automatically committing changes and recording various ambient information as you write (such as what you were listening to when the commit was made).

Written […]

2009 05 14 Mark Eli Kalderon git
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Font Restrictions

As I have remarked before, good typography does not merely have aesthetic virtue. Importantly, it has cognitive virtue as well. Good typesetting makes your work easier to understand. A good font is but one element of typesetting, and a font may be appropriate to one context but not others. Still, font choice is one of […]

2009 01 04 Mark Eli Kalderon Academic Publishing
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Gist-ing from TextMate

Well that didn’t take long. In an earlier post, I remarked that with command line support for Gist, the git powered pastebin service, TextMate support for Gist was now within reach. There is now a gist command in the GitHub bundle. You can either post private or public gists. The gist that figured in the […]

2008 11 26 Mark Eli Kalderon TextMate
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LaTeX TODO

The Problem

One of the great features of using TextMate to produce LaTeX documents is the TODO Bundle. The TODO Bundle let’s you to insert TODOs into comments and display these in a nicely formatted HTML window with links to the lines where the TODOs occurred.12

There are two limitations with the TODO Bundle, however, which made […]

2008 11 23 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (2)

Progress

Git commits by day and hour on the Philosophy BibTeX project.

Been working on some scripts to clean up the BibTeX file, to normalize cite keys, to render consistent author and journal names, to strip out local URLs, etc. So look forward to a new development branch and a directory of utilities.

2008 11 09 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (0)

Naming Tabs in Leopard Terminal

Leopard’s terminal was a huge improvement, but issues remain. One of the welcome additions to the terminal was tabs, but there is no way to name them. With a number of tabs open, this can make navigation tedious. If only there were a convenient way to name tabs. Thanks to Erik Anderson there is. Terminal.app […]

2008 10 20 Mark Eli Kalderon Terminal Comments (0)

Philosophy and Microblogging

Ryan Paul in an Ars Technica article, Byte-sized stories: Twittering a tiny tale, wonders about philosophy and microblogging:

Microblogging can clearly work with fiction, but what about more substantive works, like philosophical treatises? In a moment of intoxication inspiration, I came up with a quick Python one-liner1 to compute how many lines in an […]

2008 09 02 Mark Eli Kalderon Philosophy Comments (1)

Delicate Flower

Are you a delicate flower? Do 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 […]

2008 08 25 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (0)

Portent

A harbinger of TM2?

2008 08 20 Mark Eli Kalderon TextMate Comments (0)

Clear Pond

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.

2008 08 03 Mark Eli Kalderon Text Editor
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Philosophy Feeds

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. […]

2008 07 25 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (3)

Wordle

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 =)

2008 07 22 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (0)

Typographic Snoot Gone Gangsta

From the rut—typographic snoot gone gangsta:

2008 07 17 Mark Eli Kalderon Typography Comments (0)

Aquamacs 1.4

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 […]

2008 06 20 Mark Eli Kalderon LaTeX
OS X
Text Editor
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Duke Nukem Forever and TextMate 2

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 […]

2008 06 16 Mark Eli Kalderon Text Editor
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Prologemena to Any Future Bibliography

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 […]

2008 06 13 Mark Eli Kalderon Academic Publishing
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Migrating from Subversion to Git

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 […]

2008 06 05 Mark Eli Kalderon git
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Open Terminal in New Tab

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 […]

2008 05 18 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (2)

The Power of Text Meets the Power of the Press

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 […]

2008 04 30 Mark Eli Kalderon Text Editor
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