Vent

The joys of everyday computing, mostly.

Mac apps that do one thing well.

Chrome I try to use safari whenever I can, but the Dev-tools in Chrome are just so much better.
1Password Certainly the best (and prettiest) way to manage your passwords. Just hit cmd+# in your browser and 1Password does the rest.
Reeder Gorgeous RSS reader! Hope they can continue after...well you know.
iTerm2 Far better terminal emulator than the standard one. Splitscreens, awesome fullscreen...love this thing.
Dropbox Fuck yes.
Alfred One of my all time favorite pieces of software, super simple to use.
Pixelmator Still cannot belive I bought this app for 16€. Lovely interface, serves all my photo editing needs.
Marked Markdown preview, if you like writing Markdown this is a great app.
GitX Awesome overview of your git repository.
Skitch I actually have the old one installed. Don't like what evernote did to it. This is one of those ugly ass apps. But does a great job.
FileZilla Another ugly one but best ftp client I used.
Anki Great tool for learning! Thanks to Derek Sivers for suggesting it.
SizeUp There are a few things Windows does better than OS X.
Sublime Text 2 Still a vim user, but sublime is lovely for reading and exploring code bases. (And awesome for css editing with the live reloading plug-in)
Skype Still on version 5 or so, because I'm afraid of an update...But it is a great piece of software.

And these are all the 3rd party apps I have on my mac. (I have to use others like Virtualbox and Firefox but dont really like them.) Hope you find some of them useful.

Sit on my face

Picture of next Yahoo! board meeting:

Just imagine Yahoo!'s engineers (who are now working from their offices) being advised by a 30 Million $ heavy toddler on how to make 0$ revenue...

David Coulthard on yeserdays GP

"You can micro-analyse it all you want, but Vettel was given an instruction. He disobeyed it. He has recognised it and he has apologised for it."

Full column

At the end of the day it is rather simple: Vettel came first, Webber second.

Multi 21

What a race. Sucks for Webber and Rosberg. Wondering what Vettel has to say for himself.

Fortunately there is a more humerous side in F1 too.

Emptying the trash

WAT

Advanced General

Something is probably wrong

What does Yahoo! do?

Like a lot of people I read something about Yahoo! banning their employees from working remotely. Now, to be honest, I'm in my early twenties and if someone were to ask me what Yahoo! is I'd probably tell them something along the lines of: "before Google got big there was this thing called Yahoo! which people used to find stuff on the internet." But a lot of the tech folks seemed to be interested in this remote work banning story and someone called "Marissa Mayer". I thought like so many times before: there is probably more to it.

So, I decided to find out what Yahoo! does.

Generally speaking, the first time I hear about a company and want to find out what they do, I visit their website. After a minute or so I'll get a pretty good idea about what's cooking. At least that's what I did when I first heard about

Apple
37signals
Fog Creek
Y Combinator

so I thought I'd do the same...

Open Chrome
CMD+L
yahoo.com

"...kind of looks like ahhh... this other thing... whats it called...msn.com yeah it's like that...some sort of news site... but more like...hold on a second..."

what is this: yahoo

and that: yahoo

and this: yahoo

and that: yahoo

and this: yahoo

and that: yahoo

Well, maybe I should look at the about page...

Hmmm...something about "finding a job"...nope I'm looking for "We offer..." or "We build..." just gotta keep looking...maybe on the right...nope...a little south...

"Our company blog: Yodel Anecdotal"
Let me repeat that again: "Yodel Anecdotal"

Fuck off...I'm outta here.

But why do the nerds care so much? Perhaps it's about that "Marissa Mayer" person... who is she anyway?
yahoo Nevermind...I get it...

"Like Chess, Only without the Dice"

Footballer Lukas Podolski comparing football to chess.

Reads like a poem.

And Tim Pope has a fucking point, if the software knows what I want, why doesn't it do it?

Trailing whitespace

--help -help

Getting it right the first time: impossible.

Great collection

martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life

Trends

Conclusion: Apple is dying, Google is Skynet and Microsoft is downloading the required file.

Neutral

Entertaining Podcast about automobiles.

Here is a taste of the 6th episode:

Talking about hand signals while driving...

"I'm on my deathbed in the hospital, after being shot in the head and I have to explain to my child: Well, I could have not been shot but I really wanted to give this guy the finger."
- John Siracusa.