by David | 2014-03-06 | meta
Apress is offering free ebooks online. This is not a limited time offer. You can find out more about it on their site. Preliminarily, here are some of the offerings that I found: TouchDevelop 3rd Edition Managing Risk and Information Security Intel® Xeon Phi™...
by David | 2014-03-06 | typography, user interface
I haven’t any practical knowledge of Intel’s new font Clear Sans, but I never let that keep me from opining. The David Spade in me wants to say: I like Clear Sans, but I liked it better the first time, when it was called Anivers. Now more seriously, they are...
by David | 2014-03-03 | meta, privacy, security, technology
My daughter asked me earlier this year, “Papa, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, why do you want to obfuscate your email traffic?” Actually, I am sure that she did not say obfuscate, but her point is the same: If you are not doing anything wrong, why would you want...
by David | 2013-07-30 | meta
~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User/Plain Text.sublime-settings { "tab_size": 5, "translate_tabs_to_spaces": false } ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings { "color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme...
by David | 2013-07-29 | meta
While using Sublime a co-worker and I were talking about using ‘vintage’ mode in Sublime and its shortcomings on Mac. Namely two: it starts in edit mode, and it does not support key repeat (e.g. kdoesn’t move your cursor up the page more than once...