Yesterday I was at Owl & Company over on Piedmont Ave in Oakland and came across an interesting read by complete chance. It is a book of poetry and narrative of archy, who was a roach in 1920, and before that, a free verse poet. Archy hops from key to key on a typewriter leaving […]
Here’s my .emacs file in all its unedited glory. May it be a light in your time of google searching or a darkness in your time of trying to understand how to configure emacs. It’s also in a gist. It’s a franken.emacs from lots of sources on the net. I’ve forgot them all, but almost […]
Shakespeare said something about roses and names smelling nice, but if you’re Outkast you know that sometimes, roses really smell like poo. Additionally, if you’re a programmer, you sometimes need to get another set of better spelling roses to set the world right. Far-fetched metaphors aside, namespacing issues come up less than I would expect. […]
I am a big fan of Dictionary.app. It’s pretty handy for English, but what makes it really shine is that it has a zomg-amazing Japanese dict called Daijisen. What’s more, with 10.8 Apple threw in German, French, Spanish, and Chinese dictionaries as well. However, after getting used to the app, while still using it, I […]
BaconGameJam is one of several game jam/rapid development challenges like Ludum Dare and One Game a Month. The last jam took place over the weekend. The theme of “Lights Out” was announced friday night, and teams had 48 hours to design and implement a complete game. I signed up as a team after finding team […]