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- 559 from 23 Nov 2011 to 1 Sep 2026
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2026 2
2023 3
2022 10
- Who Dares, Wins
- Update Hugo for Node 16 Github Pages
- Two Months with the M1 Macbook Pro
- Where the Rights Are
- Innocuous Birthday Career Advice
- Go to Where the Puck Is Going
- Discoverability Is Deserved
- What Did I Create as an Asset Manager CTO
- Optimizing Short Form Writing for Developers
- Code Review is not all about the Code
2020 2
2019 3
2018 2
2017 4
2016 14
- On the New MacBook Pros
- The Gentleman James V
- The Annual Dependency Library Upgrade Process
- Minimal Project Management - 6 Months Later
- Attractive Multi-Line SQL Statements in C++
- Apple Watch - After 1 Year
- Spotlight Only - Nine Months Later
- Text Expansion using Keyboard Maestro (First Cut)
- Apple at 40
- Dependency Limited and Conflict Free C++
- Talk to Drivers, not Mechanics
- Minimal Project Management
- Build only what you need
- Now in HTTPS
2015 28
- We're better than this
- Dangerware
- A Yosemite Markdown Spotlight importer
- Making and maintaining high resolution charts for Indesign CC
- Brown M&Ms: A Quick Way to Determine Code Quality
- Why I Subscribed to Apple Music
- The Simple C++ Makefile - Executable Edition
- Saturday Afternoons Watching Rugby Union
- The 'It has happened before, it will happen again.' Apple
- Open Extension-less Files in your Favorite Editor on OS X
- How the Apple Watch has changed my Behavior for the Better
- The Productive Mac Mindset
- C++11 on CentOS 6.6
- In the Press: This Week's Hedge Fund Alert
- Simple C++: From Makefiles to Xcode Builds
- Kindred-Family
- DuckDuckGo
- A simple Markdown Spotlight importer
- New Google Analytics for Status Board Server Edition
- That last effin 20%
- Rust hits 1.0
- The Perfect Keyboard(s) (for me)
- One-Key Format Presets in Scrivener
- Merge Asana Projects into OmniFocus (Updated)
- Seeing the Bigger Picture
- Eliminating Google Analytics Referral Spam
- StackOverflow Programming
- Write Timestamps containing Milliseconds to MongoDB in C++11
2014 39
- CodeRunner 2
- What to write about next?
- Lose the WWW
- Simple C++ Testing with Catch in Xcode
- Gist TextMate Bundle updated for Yosemite
- Create a Bootable OS X Installer Drive
- TimeToCall Removed from App Store
- Any hint of humanity is valued
- Standard Markdown
- The Quick Code Cleanup
- Aral on Spyware 2.0
- Quote of the Day
- An Xcode C++ Client-Server Development Trick
- WordCounter
- Sonicwall Mobile Connect for OS X Mavericks
- They will not come
- On the floor
- Upgrading Octopress to Jekyll 2.0
- Server-sided Swift Speculation
- Omnifocus My Way
- Solve Tab Hell with Fluid and ChoosyOSX
- Melding Scrivener and Marked
- The Markdown Payoff
- Keep long running UNIX commands alive
- Social Network Precedents for Connecting and Friending
- Rebooting OmniFocus
- It's that process that is the magic
- How I use OS X Tools to build a Linux-only Product
- Open Source Compiles in an Xcode 5.1 World
- Develop Locally, Stage Nearby, Production Anywhere
- From Tool Maker to Tool User
- Easy SSH to local linux VM
- I Choose not to be Anonymous
- Magical Migrations
- View on an Insider as CEO for Microsoft
- First they came for...
- More TextMate 2 Basics
- Reminder: Update your Tools
- Python: It's a Trap
2013 144
- Can't innovate anymore, my ass
- Writers: Thank You
- Cannot find File
- Managing Multiple Project's Assembly Notes in One
- The day he walked to freedom
- TextMate 2 Basics
- Merge Asana Projects into OmniFocus
- Apples and Rotten Oranges
- Sanity Saver: Detox expands t.co links
- Rails Tricks - Sharing the Model
- Why Microsoft Word must Die
- Using Mac Navigation Keys in Visual Studio
- Homebrew Happiness
- User Experience Shmecsperience
- SonicWall NetExtender for OS X Mavericks
- Setup ODBC for R on OS X
- Common Misconceptions about the App Store
- A Reliable Script File Layout
- Not the Clicky Keyboard
- BBEdit lives long and prospers
- Intentional Complexity
- ChronoSync Back to My Mac
- The Little Touches
- Gist TextMate 2 Bundle Updates
- Unreasonable
- Quick Process Search
- Laravel 4 Blade TextMate Bundle
- The Work Computer Software Loadout
- Fast SSH Windows with iTerm 2
- Xcode 4 Code Completion for External Build Projects
- Good Tools Change
- Xcode and the Simple C++ Project Structure
- Using the Spike Folder
- RIP Doug Engelbart
- A Simple C++ Project Structure
- Keep Building
- Back in the Saddle
- Pinbrowser for Pinboard Updated
- WWDC 2013 Post-Game Review
- Accessing SQL Server from OS X
- Horizons
- Sharing Reminder Lists
- Google Analytics for Status Board Server Edition
- Sanity Saver - Ticks and Crosses
- My Mac Indie Writing Workflow
- Letterhead - Markdown Style
- The One-Person Product
- Is it time to change tools?
- Every 'The Best Programmers Editor' Review
- My Next Product
- A Coda 2 Use Case
- Octopress now has Footnotes
- Avoiding the Blogger Trap
- Reading the Archives
- Hedge Fund Systems
- Fix the Mac Function Keys with Palua
- Instantly grab a high-res icon for any Mac app
- Email before the Open Web
- The Process is not the Product
- My Workspace
- Phone Etiquette
- Make Perfectly Good Mistakes
- Punctual
- Analyst Expectations
- Apple's Scheduled Releases are a Mistake
- Slogger after 6 Months
- Have to Have It Just to Have It
- The people who love something are its best critics
- 18 Months of Octopress
- Add GA OS and Browser to Status Board
- My TextMate 2 Setup
- Hourly Analytics for Status Board
- Natsukashii - iPulse Sighting
- Top Pages in Status Board
- Google Analytics for Status Board
- Google Already Is Big Brother
- Is this the end?
- Sharing nvAlt Notes with Ulysses III
- Go Home
- Direct Marketing your App to Tip Lines
- $60 million to aquihire me
- Oldest Trace of You on the Internet
- Bjango's Photoshop Actions
- Mixing Legacy and Modern Web Development on OS X Mountain Lion
- RSS Address Change
- Someone Else Did It Better
- Long on Apple
- I'm doing it wrong: Dropbox buys Mailbox
- Windows Phone 8 support will expire before your phone contract does
- Cutting down on Web Tracking
- Premature BlackBerry Sales Analysis by Forbes
- Also Destroyed the Ecosystem
- Backup Your Online Life
- Guessing the Wall Street Journal Agenda for Apple
- Sharing Bash Profiles across Computers
- Better Bash Shell Expansion
- Gist.tmbundle Updates
- Modular Mac Pros, the new Burroughs B20?
- The diminishing relevance of MS Office
- TimeToCall - After One Month
- Defend your Livelihood
- We unfortunately can’t pay you for it
- Fix Copy Address from Mail on OS X
- On Ihnatko Switching to Android
- TimeToCall Demo Video
- Better?
- TimeToCall - First Updates Coming Soon
- Have a Better Agenda
- BuyReply: Email, Text, Tweet, Click to Buy
- Using Twitter and #xpost (Archived)
- Gist TextMate Bundle and Command Line
- Multiple Themes in TextMate 2
- Glui - a better Skitch
- CriticMarkup Bundle for TextMate 2
- TimeToCall - After One Week
- Make iTerm 2 more Mac-like
- Download Dreamhost Server Logs
- Add Web Clip Icons to Octopress
- TimeToCall - Shipping
- TimeToCall - Dawdle to the Finish
- TimeToCall - The MacGuffin
- TimeToCall - Polishing the App
- TimeToCall - Sweating the Details
- TimeToCall - Good and Bad Times to Call
- TimeToCall - Presenting the Clock
- TimeToCall - The Biggest Design Decision
- Clothes make the Man
- TimeToCall - Building the Core
- TimeToCall - The Effort and the Return
- Time To Call - Coming Soon
- Dog with a Bone
- Surface Pro Pricing Madness
- Sanity Saver: NoMoreiTunes
- Browser Windows on all Desktops
- Being Productive with Virtual Desktops
- RVM in TextMate 2
- Back to TextMate 2
- Hit by a Bus
- Priming the Pump
- Workable Social Network Connection Heuristics
- Ruby Tempfile Aggressive Unlink
- Reprogramming my Brace Style Mind
- The Entirety Of Information
- Assembly Notes
2012 245
- 1GHz Titanium PowerBook
- Mind hacks
- Be Organized and Productive
- 2012 Year End iPad Essentials
- CD to Current Finder Path
- How to Flexify a Class
- Free Instagram Ad Image for Advertisers
- Premature Flexification
- Depersonalize because you can’t quit
- You’re the Advertisement
- Gun Control does Work
- De Fault with Default
- On Customer and Developer Entitlements
- Forced Arbitration and the Right to Sue
- Apple, Please make a Touchscreen Laptop
- Bills Doubled in 8 Years
- Yahoo Finance Logger for Slogger
- Inbox Kinda Zero
- Back to Byword from iA Writer
- Workflow is Functionality
- Multi-Platform Editing is Sublime
- Hiltmon.com - One Year Old
- Vegemite Sandwich
- Day One iCloud Sync Fail
- No Sale: It does not have what we can and will not use
- Python Zen
- Google Analytics Logger for Slogger
- Another Reason to love this Community
- Linking to Bullshit
- Adverse Apple Articles
- Multiple Themes in Sublime Text 2
- Rarely Microsoft Office
- Managing the Productivity Context
- Reducing Inboxes
- Surface Disk Free Space
- AAPL vs AMZN Performance Madness
- Grand Central Today
- Surface RT is not a Duck
- Marco and the Surface
- Windows 8 Launch MIA
- Apple vs Microsoft Launch Differences
- Email Etiquette
- The Big 5 Windows 8 Lineups
- There’d be something called a mini
- The myth of the wireless spectrum crisis
- Huge Last Week in October 2012 for Tech
- Solutions born from deep experience
- 45 Revolutions
- Say NO to Spec Work
- Why Windows Just Can’t Win
- Too Many Menu Bar Apps?
- Walled Gardens are Permeable
- The Post-PC future, iCloud turns one
- Fixing Open With in OS X
- Scratched iPhones
- Spent more on Patents than R&D?
- Microsoft Lost its Mojo
- BBEdit still Rules
- Stop with the old Text Editors already
- Minimize the Glue
- Export to Excel is a Red Flag
- Entitlement
- Windows 8 Preview on a Tablet
- Bye bye Skitch, Hello LittleSnapper
- New iOS6 Cached Maps
- The best Sushi
- Buying a new Suitcase
- Text Editor Addict
- Thwarted by Patents
- Care
- Where is the International News
- AT&T effs users again
- Hipstamatic fires its devs
- RIP Twitter
- My Sublime Text 2 Setup
- Choosing Sunglasses
- App.Net Funded
- Textmate 2 is now Open Source
- Expect the Unexpected
- Well Managed Scripts better than Platforms
- No competition in Carrier space
- Mischief Managed: Update Tools, Learn New
- Mischief Managed: Archiving
- Mischief Managed: Google 2-Factor Authentication
- Mischief Managed: Clean Inbox
- New Site Font
- Change is Good - New Applications replacing Old Ones
- Moom Corners
- Setting up BBEdit for Markdown
- Day One updated to v1.7
- My first computer - Sinclair ZX81
- Lead the Business
- If the NBC Olympics team did the NFL
- The value of Apps
- Low app prices unsustainable
- How many 99c apps it takes to afford that guy
- Talent Acquisitions and Product Casualties
- Joining the SSD Club
- The 10-year rule
- Two kinds of innovations in tech
- 7 Reasons Why I Can’t Do “Free”
- Software will always trump Hardware
- International Terpstra Day
- Octopress Post and Publish
- Estimating Software like it is
- Kinds of Files in a Project Folder
- TextExpander in Terminal
- Cheap programmers cost more and ship less
- Kifu v1.0 Released
- Building and dismantling the Windows advantage
- Great since day one
- The unreasonable man
- Slicy Photoshop Artwork
- Target the Forward Fringe
- Carriers are the biggest threat to innovation
- Project Folder Layout
- iPhone is 5 today
- Syncing the Desktop and the Laptop
- Data presentation at its best
- On the Nexus 7
- Someone is coming to eat you
- Compete to maintain, Disrupt to succeed
- Non-upgradable Smartphones
- Single-pay, Ad-pay or Both-pay?
- Learn to Automate
- Markdown Metadata
- Unrepairable
- The care and feeding of software engineers
- I love my lawyers
- My WWDC 2012 Scorecard
- Sandboxing and Productivity Utilities
- My WWDC 2012 Predictions
- No more than Five
- Shuttle on the Hudson
- How support via Twitter works
- The Demo Bag
- Annual Apple WWDC Disappointment
- Notice of Revocation of Independence
- Screw the Power Users
- Mac App Store vs Buying Direct
- The Last of the Workstations
- Using Mission Control Desktops
- Project Specific Data
- The Missing Feature Fallacy
- Old Farts Know How to Code
- Please Learn to Write
- Stylizing my Services Agreement
- Distributed Note Taking
- Zombie email
- My own support call line
- Apple Cinema HD Display circa 2003
- Automatically Managed Files
- US Aircraft Embarkation Etiquette Failures
- Recent Travels and Tech
- Application Context Packs
- My iPhone Home Screen
- Why Scope Creep is your fault
- This Industry Is Full Of Crap
- Microsoft did not always suck
- US Dining Etiquette Failures
- Spike UI Teaser
- The news routine
- Augmented Paper
- Another view of the TSA problem
- Text Notes - Going Electronic
- Don't Panic - Flashback Trojan
- Marked 1.4
- The Candle Problem
- Explaining the Internet to Old Powerbrokers
- Spike Solutions
- Adjusting the Cap
- And this is why
- I love debugging
- Photoshop Etiquette for Web Designers
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
- The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
- On Digital Hoarding
- You're being stalked
- iPad 4G Misleading
- Freemium Simulation Games prove Stupidity
- Giving yourself away with a Facebook Login
- Clarity
- Markdown Quick Look
- 2012 iPad Essentials
- With In-App Coins, We're all Losers
- First impressions of the new iPad
- My Blog Writing Workflow
- Get to read quicker
- Not Your Free Tech Support
- Top of the Line
- Writing on the iPad
- iPad - On Two Years of Use
- The Markdown File Extension
- You Are Not Ruthless Enough
- The 10 commandments of good source control management
- Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?
- Presenting a Professional Indie Image
- Serious and Snark
- Thank you for a great February
- The End of Advertising
- TSA:Fail
- Quick and Dirty Rails Performance Profiling
- iPhone Data Plan Follies
- Text Editing Fonts and Colors
- Apple and Facebook
- The Markdown Mindset
- The 4G deception
- All to Octopress
- The App Store playing field
- Taking down my old iPhone Apps
- Fix instead of Blame
- Speculative Developers
- Design needs an Advocate
- Structure First. Content Always.
- Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway
- Cheap iPhones, Wealthy Workers, Pick One?
- News Logic
- The paradox of choice
- Childlike Wonder
- Fragility of Free
- Test Driven Development Really Works
- Where the light is better
- Less Wasting Time
- Trade Trade Secrets
- Understanding ACTA
- Operations by Exception
- Bread crumbs in Day One
- Developers, A Love Story
- A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
- Make a better product
- Software is Eating the World
- Stop SOPA and PIPA, a personal request
- Hollywood Accounting and SOPA
- Google's Schmidt Solution to Android
- Products define you
- Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users
- How Google failed to fix the mobile market
- It should only take you a few hours...
- Why patents are a big problem
- Always Be Selling
- Does money even exist anymore?
- Bandwidth caps never necessary
- My Favorite Mac Apps of 2011
- Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking
- The coming war on general computation
2011 63
- The definition of open
- Get it brilliant
- The difference between drivers and passengers
- Creating games in genres you hate
- Lodsys still trolling
- Bogus copyright claims under SOPA
- Not secret subpoena
- Ridiculous Gizmodo
- Reviews should advise
- Textmate 2 Tips
- Is America Giving Up on the Future?
- Programming polytheism
- 2011 Platforms - Ruby on Rails
- 2011 Platforms - Objective-C and iOS
- The whole world is watching while the USA collapses
- You're the product
- The cartoon villain behind SOPA
- One version of the truth
- Smoke Screening
- Adam Savage on SOPA
- The missing feature
- Developer and Power Tools
- If it ain't broke, break it
- Bring in the nerds
- On the topic of talent
- Speculative work hurts
- Machine-driven
- Design is Horseshit
- Seek the Criticism
- Don't give up on your techs
- The usage lifecycle
- The lost art of the print statement
- Write code for someone else
- Kindle Fire lets kids charge up a storm
- Information, not Data
- Don't be a free user
- Good news - online retailers do not hate their customers
- Zittrain misses the point
- The argument for coding standards
- Automate or Die
- The best Steve Jobs quote
- The four hour rule
- e-reader roundup
- No Service Competition in New York
- Data caps don't work
- Explain the Problem - Not your Solution
- Close to the Business
- On Designing Web Applications balancing Identity, Usability and Familiarity
- VC tries to sell a con
- Hundreds of sites ordered deindexed
- The readable future
- Copycats
- Almost no-one changes their settings
- If your site does ..., you hate your Customers
- Should I wait?
- I just want a Hamburger
- You are not your Customer
- F*ck You, Pay Me
- Signing up for Everything
- The Pummeling Pages
- The Way of the Code Samurai
- Four Keys to Apple's Success
- Migrating to Octopress