May 2009
23 posts
Keeping your Downloads folder clean
A productivity tip for OS X: Keep your Trash and Downloads folder clean with the following script. Anything in Downloads older than seven days gets moved to the trash, while everything older than 30 days in the trash gets permanently deleted. #!/bin/sh find $HOME/Downloads -maxdepth 1 -atime +7 -exec mv '{}' $HOME/.Trash \; find $HOME/.Trash -maxdepth 1 -atime +30 -exec rm -rf '{}' \; I saved...
May 31st
New zipline ride at the Wild Animal Park →
Flying at 40mph for two-thirds of a mile over endangered species? Sign me up!
May 30th
May 30th
May 29th
You know those words that just all of a sudden start looking wrong? Yeah, it’s “bytes” for me today.
May 27th
May 27th
GTD weekly task review is easy to neglect, but has a nice built-in encouragement of being able to mark a bunch of old tasks as completed.
May 26th
May 23rd
I sometimes wonder what percentage of the sentences that I have ever written or spoken start with, or contain, the word “dude.”
May 22nd
Hilarious — “beware of people who own the dexter seasons on dvd http://bit.ly/IuP2s ” (via @courtsimas)
May 19th
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Los Angeles: http://bit.ly/fM0Zo – Felt it a few hundred miles south down here in San Diego.
May 18th
Ahh, it’s nice to be back in California. I kinda missed earthquakes ;-)
May 18th
Ten lessons in bootstrapping from the founders of... →
May 16th
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both...”
– Edward V Berard (via Classic Programming Quotes)
May 16th
One of my servers seems to have been inaccessible for about five minutes this morning. Guess what time the client went to visit their site?
May 11th
Balsamiq is kicking ass following the simple model of charging money for their web biz: http://twurl.nl/4bxfvp (via @dhh)
May 10th
May 8th
Anyone involved in web development from the client or PM side should watch http://twurl.nl/626bya for @dhh’s secret to productivity at 46m.
May 7th
Anyone know how to make TextMate’s ⌘-T finder actually search against full paths rather than just the filename? “show.html.erb” ftl… ;)
May 5th
First scrum at the new job. I am one of three Nicks and a Nicole on the team.
May 4th
Just finished payment processing for http://paratweet.com – public launch seems imminent…
May 2nd
Just showed my parents how to use the Mac Mini in the livingroom to stream House off my laptop. I will turn them into geeks yet!
May 2nd
A recent project of mine launched last week. @ibidcondo is a cool new way to buy real estate: online auctions with no minimum price!
May 1st