I guess the last bug report got me in the mood, and since it’s 11:55 here in Somerville, I have time to write up a quickie that I just noticed again, while investigating the other bug I reported tonight! This is an obscure bug, but part of my reason for sharing it in a post […]

I’m on a bit of a productivity kick lately. I’m trying to listen to the little voice in my head that speaks up when I’m doing something incredibly tedious and error-prone, and could clearly be automated. Some people would say that spending 3 hours cranking out a script that might save you at most a […]

If you’re like me, you take great comfort in the presence of the Terminal in Mac OS X. I love a great GUI, but the fact is that many tasks on the Mac are still best accomplished from the behind the wheel of a shiny new pseudo-tty. Usually I get the need for command-line access […]

WARNING – The content below is of an explicitly nerdy nature and is not suitable for young children, the elderly, pregnant women, or persons with compromised immune systems . . . unless they happen to be Mac OS X hackers! Most of us stick to IDE debugging as much as possible. The visual layout of […]