August 24, 2018

Getting URL and Tab Title from Firefox with AppleScript

A long time ago, a coworker shared an AppleScript function that gets the title and URL from the current tab in Chrome and formats the result as an Emacs org...

August 19, 2018

Tech debt

For a long time I’d considered technical debt to be just a bad thing. That it was a mess left behind by imprudent coders of the past. I hadn’t paused...

June 20, 2018

Command Lining

I’ve slowly accumulated knowledge of a few tricks that help me to be productive at the terminal prompt. These are things that I somehow missed during years of computer science...

June 04, 2018

User Feedback

I spent some of my free time over the past three weeks rebuilding a small single page app I maintain: Tumblr Top (code here). The original incarnation of this app...

April 12, 2018

Spreadsheet Jeopardy!

My girlfriend and I often watch Jeopardy! together, and we play along and keep score to make it more fun. To avoid having to pause the show to wager, we...