I’ve been using DNSimple for most a lot of my domain hosting lately. It’s a great service and I highly recommend checking them out for domain hosting. Recently I went out of town but wanted some way to be able to SSH home if I needed to. Luckily, DNSimple has a nice REST API that [...]
Continue Reading →Textmate Next and Previous Tab Keys
If you’ve just upgraded to Revision 1616 of Textmate, you may be wondering why your next and previous file tab keys stopped working. The author of Textmate recently changed the next and previous file tab key shortcuts to the universal mac application equivalents. Here it is in the release notes: [CHANGED] Change next/previous file tab [...]
Continue Reading →On Passwords
On a recent episode of The Dev Show Dan and I talked about passwords. In particular, the topic of password hashing came up. I’d like to say up front that I’m not a security guy and most definitely not a cryptographer. However, I don’t have to be because there are much smarter people who have [...]
Continue Reading →Using Concentrate for the Pomodoro Technique on OS X
Concentrate is a Mac only app. It lets you do a number of things like block web sites, launch apps, play sounds, etc. Combinations of these things can be configured to go on for varying amounts of time. I use it for the Pomodoro Technique when programming. Corey Haines introduced me to Tomatoist when I [...]
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