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01-02-2011
Completing The TextMate Circle
In a previous post, I muttered about making Code Search queries from TextMate. In this post, I present the other side: opening Code Search results in TextMate. This Chrome extension will, once you configure the path to where you’ve put your Chromium source tree (the options page sets this), augment the line numbers in Code Search results with TextMate URLs. Click the line number to have TextMate open the file at the desired line.
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-- Rob
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12-23-2010
TextMate and codesearch
The packet is fickle: always I am willing to switch to a new development workflow. Definitely if it’s better. Or even if it’s just different. Lately, I have been exploring use of TextMate. I use to use (and maintain my own version of) wily but given that a a three button mouse is mandatory to efficient use, it is a challenge to use on planes, trains, etc. Other posts will expand on my editor angst — Acme vs Wily and the absence of source highlighting for example.
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12-23-2010
Food Photos
It has become a bit of a recurring meme to take photos of food. Many times, food is indeed plated in a fashion that is at least creative if not actual art.
This begs the question: what makes for photogenic food? The steam? The color? Does comfort food look better or worse than la nouvelle cuisine? Inquiring minds want to know.
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12-17-2010
Ack: No Delicious
It has penetrated the packet’s WebKit-induced mental torpidity that delicious will be going away. Ack. How will I have manage my enormous collection of semi-useful bookmarks? (A large and growing collection of digital cruft which are a meta-level equivalence to many of my books. Links to knowledge are equivalent to having the knowledge right? But never the mind. Back to the topic at hand. How to manage bookmarks now.)
I have read redmonk’s opinion and have no idea how to proceed.
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-- Rob
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12-02-2010
Wiki Tooling
As per our first new-style post, the previous incarnation of drunkenpacket had a custom tool chain for building sites. It was an offline system:
posts were written in Markdown collaboration was based on storing the changes in git and exchanging patches. (You’d be thinking at this juncture that drunkenpacket is comprised of programmers.) a miscellany of home-built command line tools in python constructed the html content from the Markdown source yet more command line tools uploaded the static content to S3.
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12-02-2010
Reboot
It’s been a while. The packet has been distracted with life. I suppose that will get discussed in future articles. So we are trying something new. Largely because the old way was technically neat and all but required us to spend more time developing blogging tools than actually updating the blog. And so there are a lot of unfinished CLs for the blog tools but no actual new blog entries. So, a new way: less friction.
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07-20-2008
1984 again?
Some of you may remember 1984. Not the movie but Macintosh. As far as a computer geeks go, that was the event in the year. It took a while for me to touch the machine personally. I still remember the moment. I was a poor college student living in Tokyo back then.
In an afternoon of the day, I stopped by a showroom of a major computer dealer in Tokyo downtown (precisely say, Takatano Baba).
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-- Shin
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07-10-2008
Macintosh Image Editors
Introduction The packet wanted to change the size of an image. (You might notice the result in a previous post.) As always, we over-complicated the task. You see, rather than settling for just any editor, we here at drunkenpacket wanted an image editor that was satisfying.
So, we tried some out. And will give you the benefit of our opinion. Even though you didn’t ask. The basis of comparison was some sort of non-objective sense of snappiness and responsiveness of dragging a selected segment of an image.
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-- Rob
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07-10-2008
Slithering in the Alley
Not your usual alley denizen but a definite commentor with something to say.
-- Rob
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05-15-2008
Rotating Houses
We here at drunkenpacket are concerned about energy efficiency. Really. You might think that bouncing around the Internet would make us not care but in our corporeal identity, there are gasp seasons.
Seasons are the bane of the architecture of energy-efficient houses: a house needs to keep in every last erg of heat in the winter. But in the summer, this would slowly bake the packet. (Perhaps poach or desiccate depending on the humidity.
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-- Rob
