So, John recently showed me this cool service, Foward. They are useful for two main things: showing off your development on localhost to people on the other side of the NAT, and developing on localhost with calls to external services that need to then call you back. Basically, it’s just a reverse proxy. So, without …
So, last night, TN ground to a halt because of a failure in the backup system. Yay, I have backups. Boo, the drive they’re on died, thus failing to mount, and the backups went, due to a quirk of my backup system, to the HD with the root of the filesystem. Filled that up quickly, …
The internet is a weirdly wonderful place sometimes. I was playing TF2 last night, and first off, I ended up playing with some of my internet idols: Lore Sjöberg and Mark Rosenfelder. I knew I was playing with Lore—both recognizing his voice and having his steam username. But when I was playing as a medic …
Lightning trip to SF for a job interview. This is a truly wonderful city; it has what I like about NYC, offset with a certain undefinable Pacificness. The company makes browser-based games, particularly Facebook games. (remember when it was The Facebook? Yeah.) I’m particularly curious about their game design process; I can code, sure, but …
Is still cool. I’ve got a pile of invites; anyone want one? (Since people keep asking: Google Wave is not, in and of itself, anything new. It is, rather, a beautifully conceived [though not yet quite fully implemented!] melding of existing technologies. The tag-line version is that it is a integration of wiki, IM, email, …
The inimitable @andrewa121 pointed out that the iPhone has greater extended-latin input abilities than I had ascribed to it; he suggested touch-and-hold to get options for accented characters (which is exactly what one does in Android 2.0). I would like to state for the record that I had tried this unsuccessfully on an iPhone 3GS …
Well, I’ve had this phone for a bit now, and thought it time to give my thoughts on it. They are basically positive—if you’re a nerdy guy, this is a good smartphone for you. The pros are good pros for me, and the cons are cons that don’t bother me, but might be bad for …
Well, I feel like I’m officially in the future, now that I have a smartphone. I got the Droid, a bit of nice Motorola hardware running Google’s nice open-source OS Android, and carried by the icktastic Verizon. So it goes.
I spent much of today rewiring the house (with my dad’s assistance, or, more accurately, I was assisting him). Lots of drilling, crawling in the basement, getting dusty, trying not to inhale fiberglass insulation. I found it quite fun, but it’s not a usual thing for me, which I suppose makes a difference. But there …
I have many ways to switch between active work areas: ctrl-a, n when using screen; ctrl-arrow when using Spaces; cmd-tab when using normal OS X application switching; ctrl-tab when using my Windows VM. These can get confusing, and I spend a certain amount of time swapping between applications and desktops and virtual terminals fruitlessly. I …