I just uninstalled TextMate.

I also just revamped my git workflow, and am going full-on Vim everywhere.
That’s MacVim, Janus, using git within Vim, posting to WordPress from Vim,
using Vimium in Chrome…

Everything.

I’m …

Here’s what we should be saying to people who attack us, and to those who
panic when we are attacked.

Risk is often calculated as Probability x Impact. As such, what I’m speaking
of here is a colossal reduction in impact (and …

This video
is an entertaining look at the hype and reality leading up to today’s iPhone
5 release. I think they get a lot right, but they missed the most important
point: the iPhone 5 doesn’t need to be revolutionary.

Why …

Here’s
a quality link
for those who wish to know what Obama has done with his time in office. It’s
broken down by category and has a very crisp structure to it. So for anyone
looking to:

Learn for yourself what…

You never really feel like you master it, but that’s not really the point.

The point is to get intimate with it, to never stop learning, and to accept
its vastness. Let it swallow you up, and be thankful for what you do know
…

Trickle-down economics, i.e. the idea that if you give the rich lots of
money it will improve the economy, is traditionally associated with
financial conservatism, yet the reality is quite opposite.

This is an unproven clai…

When things are roughly similar, I value form over function. It’s that
simple. Elegance, beauty, and design are all magnifiers of experience for
me, and my daily device is the place where this matters most.

But I also see t…

I recently converted (from TextMate) to using vim for all of my text
editing, and it turns out there are a number of places where knowing your
vim strokes can help you.

Vimium

Vimium
is a Chrome extension that allows you…

As a security consultant I do quite a bit of travel for my job.
It’ssomething I enjoy immensely, but standing in airport security lines
canquickly taint the experience.

For this reason I’ve looked into the various ways to spee…

If you enjoy the command line then you don’t need to be sold on efficiency
or purity of action. But even those who grok CLI are unaware of a number of
ways to be more elegant accomplishing their tasks. Here are a few of my
favori…