Tag Archives: Geekery

Set up your own lifestream using FriendFeed and… Dirty hacks

When Iceland went bust and started selling .is domains I grabbed martin.is. Of course I did. That’s the kind of guy I am. Even as I swiped that credit card (and by “swipe” I mean “typed in all my info into the appropriate boxes.”) I knew I had no idea what I was going to [...]

GeekTool Desktop

I’ve been a Solid Grey Desktop man for ten or twelve years, but GeekTool; a tool that lets you add all sorts of more or less useful info to your desktop, made me spring a pretty colorful theme today (click the image…). Not in the least because it requires some fiddlin’ around in the terminal [...]

The last WebMaster

If you have been around on the web for ten years or more you will remember (or maybe even filled the role) of the mythical “WebMaster”. The WebMaster would design and program your site. He (or she… but lets be honest girls. Mostly he) would publish your articles and fix your site when broken. [...]

Heads and bodies

I always knew this day would come. My claim to brief internet fame and niche uniqueness is at an end. It’s just too awesome an idea 1 for someone else not to have it.

There’s no denying that both her head and body outpretties mine by far, so my only counterpoint here is that A: Mine [...]

Some Path Finder AppleScripts

How’s that for a TitleCased title?
So I’ve been checking out Path Finder again. The thing with Path Finder is that it’s very nearly awesome, but there are a few things that bug the hell out of me. I may or may not come back to the most irritating shortcomings in a later post, but I’m [...]

Not quite Britney

This is freaking hilarious. Geek humor at it’s finest.

Hug a developer day

TextMate theme-switcher script

Summary: In which Martin ponders solutions on how to quickly switch themes in TextMate and comes up with a half-assed AppleScript / TM Command solution. Jump to the half-assed solution.
Edit: As these things usually go I had a bit of a revelation just minutes after posting this post. Completely by accident I typed the [...]

I suppose it’s unavoidable

Chrome!
And that’s all I have to say about that.1

Footnotes:

For now at least. I may speak up if I feel I can come up with anything worthwhile without pissing in the ocean to make it warmer. ↩

? Wordle

Wordle is cool. Give it a URL and it’ll generate pretty word clouds from the site content.