Hiltmon

TL;DR: Run avahi on the VM, ssh to the VM name dot local.

A simple premise.

As I am writing this, I am using magical migrations to perform a full data transplant across three servers, each with 100+GB of data, with a single command.

Today, Microsoft announced Satya Nadella as its new CEO, a 22-year veteran of the business and a true Insider.

A Modern Version First they came for the record stores and I didn’t speak out because I used iTunes online.

Previously, I wrote about the TextMate 2 Basics that I use all the time, and I recommend you read that post first.

At the start of every new year, I spend a the time to update all my tools and recompile all my products with them.

TL;DR: Python is the best language for quantitative scripting (because of its libraries).

Over the past few days I have seen so many references to the Quartz post 2013 was a lost year for tech that it has become a meme.

I want to say thank you to a bunch of writers, to people who do what they do because they love to do it, from an anonymous one that reads and appreciates what they do every day.

“Can you please send me that file again?

The problem I have is that I regularly need to open a specific set of Markdown documents scattered all over my file system while I work and have them available at my fingertips.

I remember it as a clear day.

I have been using TextMate for years as my primary programmer’s editor, but it turns out that I only use a subset of its amazing features.

Note: Updated the script, see Merge Asana Projects Into OmniFocus Updated.

So Frank Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Communications at Microsoft wrote a thing called Apples and Oranges in response to the Apple Laptop, iPad, iWork, iLife and Mac Pro event yesterday, and sadly, it got a lot of coverage.

If you use Twitter and click on t.co links, or use Google search and follow their links, chances are your browser history is a mess of t.co/C*R@A%P& or google.com/S$H@I*T#.

I am building a series of Rails applications for different users and use cases, but they all hang off the same database schema.

Charles Stross, yes, that Charles Stross writes in Why Microsoft Word must Die: The .doc file format was also obfuscated, deliberately or intentionally: rather than a parseable document containing formatting and macro metadata, it was effectively a dump of

As a developer, sometimes I am forced to use Visual Studio to code for Windows.

If you are expecting an article about beer, this is not it.

We designers of software spend a lot of our time thinking about user experience.

UPDATE: 10.9 or above users, use the Sonicwall Mobile Connect app on the Mac App Store (or learn more at Sonicwall Mobile Connect for OS X Mavericks).

Hi Folks, Please do not follow this advice, its an old article that somehow has stayed way past its welcome in the search engines.

Over the past few days, new and old friends have been popping up to mention they purchased TimeToCall and were surprised that I did not know that they had done so.

I write a surfeit1 of Ruby scripts that I use every day at work, everything from sending, transforming and retrieving files to monitoring systems to glueing platforms together.

It’s pretty popular these days for popular bloggers, writers and programmers to use mechanical-switch, or clicky, old-school keyboards like the DAS Keyboard, old IBM keyboards or the original Apple Extended Keyboard.

On Twitter today: Celebrating back to school?

John Duns Scotus’ (1265-1308) book Ordinatio: “Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate”, i.e., “Plurality is not to be posited without necessity” William of Ockham’s Razor, modern science version: “The simplest solution is often the best.”

TL;DR: You can use ChronoSync to access a remote ChronoAgent if Back to My Mac is turned on for both computers.

It’s the little touches that turn ordinary products into great products.

New updates to the Gist.tmbundle for TextMate 2: Changed the launch key from ⌃⌘G to ⇧⌃⌘J as it interferes with the Find and Replace All (the TextMate 2 defaults changed) Am now having GitHub guess the language of a “Gist from Selection” by taking the file…

There are two ways to deal with “the ways things are” in an environment where one can change them: Find some way to justify or meekly accept them, however twisted and delusional they may be; and try to get on with things within those perceived constraints.

I am forever starting and running background UNIX tasks, either manually or via cron jobs.

In the comments of My TextMate 2 Setup, reader Bob Rockerfeller wondered if the Sublime Text Laravel 4 Blade bundle could be ported to TextMate 2.

I got Back in the Saddle over three weeks ago and purchased a new Haswell 13-inch MacBook Air as my primary work computer.

I have a bunch of Linux boxes that I need to access via SSH, whether to install things, start or stop processes or browse log files.

In Xcode and the Simple C++ Project Structure, I showed how to set up Xcode as your IDE for the Simple C++ Project Structure.

In Good Tools, James Bennett writes a compelling article on how his investment in learning his most used tool, emacs, has paid huge dividends in his productivity for years and years.

In a previous post, I talked about a A Simple C++ Project Structure that I am using to create a bunch of high-speed daemons for work.

In yesterday’s post A Simple C++ Project Structure, I mentioned the spike folder.

Doug Engelbart passed away last night at age 88.

One of the things I need in my new job is a bunch of blazingly fast daemons to capture market information and trade data.

Marco Arment (@marco) on his blog in Lockdown, writes: We need to keep pushing forward without them, and do what we’ve always done before: route around the obstructions and maintain what’s great about the web.

TL;DR: I got a job!

I just downloaded the updated Pinbrowser for Pinboard from the App Store, an iOS app by Mikael Konutgan (@mkonutgan), and it just got a whole lot better.

Just under a week ago, Tim Cook walked out on stage to present the keynote at WWDC 2013 (Video here).

Every once in a while I need to access a Microsoft SQL Server database from my Mac, usually to create a data migration script.

When I was a child, my horizon was the building I was in, my home.

Looking for a quick and easy way to share reminders with other people?