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Vim Text Editor
Vim is a good, light-weight text editor that should run well on most any netbook. It’s very lean, consuming just under 2mb of RAM, but it’s also extremely powerful. There’s pretty much nothing it can’t...
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Amazon MP3 Store FTW
I’ve been hitting up the Amazon MP3 store every weekend to pick up some old and new music. (Note that it’s frighteningly easy to get carried away so you’ve don’t click unless you have major self...
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Staying in Sync on the Move
If you’re like me you may constantly be switching between many different computers. Between one work laptop, two personal laptops (one for development), a linux server and a netbook, I’ve been forced...
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Envy Code R is Good
Envy Code R is my latest favorite programming font. It replaces both Consolas and the esteemed Liberation Mono fonts. Envy Code R is tres geeky and yet still very functional and readable. It’s not as...
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jEdit is Good
jEdit is another text editor that I like. It’s a good bit easier to use than vim; it doesn’t have any of vim’s anachronisms while still sporting a robust plugin ecosystem and syntax hiliting for pretty...
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Chrome Rocks
I’ve been pretty unhappy with Firefox’s terrible performance, stability, and general badness for a while now but I never bothered to try anything else because, well, old habits die hard. After almost...
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SyncToy for Syncing Portable Disks
Putting together a decent backup strategy is hard. It shouldn’t be hard. Engineers ought to have eliminated the intolerable risk of data loss long ago. But it is. There’s no magical push button...
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Easy Backups with rdiff-backup
Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync describes Mike Reubel’s classic system for using the popular rsync tool for snapshot-style backups. But Mike’s system is still a bit...
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Computing in Strange Places
Much of the commentary around the iPad suggests that the device is a kind of un-computer, a computer for doing things that you want to in places other than your work desk. Such un-work computing...
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Hg in Control
If you have a set of files that you need to synchronize across multiple computers and you’d also like to be able to edit these files on the different computers then you have a problem. This problem is...
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