Archive for March, 2009
Episode 3: Ergonomics, Thou Art a Bitch
Update [March 31]: Added a pic of my setup.
Owing to Google Summer of Code 2009, I have been spending more time using my MacBook than ever before – hanging out in IRC channels, building Haiku (the project I applied to), writing code and doing a lot of reading. The result? The entire last week spent [...]
Episode 2: What Grinds My Gears
Buzzwords. This is what Wikipedia has to say about them:
A buzzword (also fashion word and vogue word) is a vague idiom, usually a neologism, that is common to managerial, technical, administrative, and political work environments. Although meant to impress the listener with the speaker’s pretense to knowledge, buzzwords render sentences opaque, difficult to understand and [...]
Episode 1: Perspective Shift
Somewhere in the depths of my hard disk, lies a small RTF file titled “Goals for 2009″. It has largely been forgotten. It was an ill conceived idea, anyway. The RTF said: “write at least 150 blog posts this year”. Evidently, whoever typed in that number did not belong to civilized society. Want to smell [...]
Thoughts on Using a Mac as a Development Platform
This post was inspired partly by this Reddit post.
Take my opinions on the Mac as a development machine with a grain of salt, since I’m neither a professional programmer, nor do I contribute to any major open source projects. I’m still in the early stages of hackerdom, and most of the code I write is [...]