Linux has better hardware support than OS X
TL;DR: OS X users pick their hardware from a very short list of known-good configurations, and when you do the same thing for Linux, the results are equivalent. Like most…
Don’t Buy Parallels Workstation for Linux
So I have this video project I’m working on. There are many things a Linux workstation is great for, but editing video is not one of them. I’ve tried a…
The happy developer
The programmer has a fixed amount of time and concentration that he can give every day. He must give a bigger piece of the pie to the bad technologies, simply because they…
Leave it to java
After what felt like thousands of years of font purgatory, fonts have more or less been completely ironed out in modern Linux desktop systems. But that’s not going to stop…
Greenletters: Painless automation and testing for command-line applications
Did you ever use Expect to automate a complex command-line procedure, like an FTP upload? Expect is handy – and very powerful – but for Ruby projects it sure would…
Announcing Firetower – A command-line interface to Campfire
OK, this is pretty early stuff but it’s already usable and I think it has a lot of potential. Firetower is a command-line interface to Campfire. It’s currently for Linux…
Daemonic Emacs
Emacs is many things, but lightweight is not one of them. You don’t want to be starting a new Emacs process every time you edit a file, especially if you…
Ubuntu, Emacs, and Fonts
Ubuntu is a wonderful development environment in many ways, but let’s not beat around the bush: fonts in Linux have always been a disaster. It’s not as bad is it…