by David | 2017-04-28 | meta
(This revised post was initially posted on 2013-07-30.) A co-worker showed me that (on the Mac) you can move the destination of screenshots (e.g. ⇧+⌘+4) from the desktop to another location. I am going to touch on a number of things all at once in pursuit of doing...
by David | 2017-04-25 | development, meta, productivity, technology, usability
There is a lot to love and hate about the new MacBook Pros. I just got one from my employer. It’s so much speedier than my previous machine. I love that I can log in with my fingerprint, because I have a complex password for logging into my computer. Quite...
by David | 2016-02-12 | meta
A while back I read up on intermittent fasting and juicing around the same time. I came up with a culmination of the two. Before we go to far, I want to give a sense of the success that I have had. I have used this diet before to lose about 40 lbs in 2 months. A...
by David | 2016-01-14 | meta
Open Whisper Systems created Signal (Private Messenger) to make encrypted communication simple. It is available on iOS and Android. And they are working on a Desktop/Web version. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF [@EFF]) recommends it and has offered some guides...
by David | 2015-05-20 | meta
I don’t know if it goes without saying, or if it simply remains unsaid, because it is automated, but orderly HTML is still important even in this CMS age that we live. I am going to re-consider the order of a well-formed document here. I intend for this to be a...
by David | 2014-03-18 | meta
Andy Bailey answered the age-old question on StackOverflow: How do you convert a Roman numeral into an integer in PHP? And the answer is, drumroll, please… $romans = array( 'M' => 1000, 'CM' => 900, 'D' => 500, 'CD' => 400, 'C' => 100, 'XC' => 90, 'L' => 50, 'XL' =>...
