A pretty accurate description of what it’s like to be a developer.

I’ve been using this patch for a few weeks, and the speed increases on a Rails 3.2 app are definitely noticeable. It installed for me without any problems.

@erichatesyou sent me this tip today. It removes Finder from the OS X app switcher.

A few years ago I blogged about how I setup Vim on a shared web host. I needed to do this again today; but with a bit more control as to the features that were compiled:

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An article describing the usage of that weird ~> operator found in gemspecs and Gemfiles. I read this a while back but keep forgetting where it is when I want a technical explanation.

Researchers have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas.

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Another reason I like iOS better than Android.

I ran into an annoying issue trying to configure ctrl-q as a Vim mapping in Terminal.app for OS X. It turns out that flow control was blocking it. I had mistakenly thought that the flow control keys only applied to things like less or more.

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This post covers some vim anti-patterns and includes a few tricks I had not known about (such as :set tildeop).

I threw together vim-marked, that provides some mappings for opening and closing Marked.app. Check it out if you’re using Vim and Marked!