If you’re reading this, then the upgrade to WordPress 2.0 worked. Of course it worked! Those guys (and gals?) are flippin’ brilliant. I had been putting off doing the upgrade because I’m busy, and it’s always daunting to deal with upgrading web packages. Migrating database formats, making sure plugins still work, etc., etc. Well, I’m […]

Update. Well I am a complete idiot. Of course I should have assumed that if I wanted to build something out of Darwin, other people in the past have wanted the same thing. I’m a fool for not noticing this page at opendarwin.org. The “darwinbuild” tool basically “follows the dark dependencies” for you. I haven’t […]

I’ve been pretty busy lately, and spread thin over a wide range of projects. One of the “new to me” experiences involves supporting a custom HID device via Apple’s IOHIDLib API. The IOHIDLib API allows plain-ol folks like me to interact with HID-conformant USB devices without installing any kernel-level drivers or extensions. Let me say, […]

On the morning of January 10, I woke up expecting to waste a couple hours of my day scouring web sites and IRC channels for the latest transcriptions of Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote speech. It didn’t really bother me that it was not being streamed live this year, because every other year when they’ve tried […]