I work with the terminal a lot. In fact, the first thing I do when I log in to my machine at work is to open up several shell tabs in Terminal and change directory. The specific directories I change to vary from project to project. With a little help from common shell commands and utilities, it’s easy to find out which directories you CD into most often. If you find yourself visiting a particular directory often, consider adding it to CDPATH.
The latest version of the LittleDog Robot (via daringfireball) Amazing.
Americans don’t realize how serious the oil catastrophe in the Gulf really is. The ecological and economic ramifications of this spill will be staggering.
Io seems like a wonderfully gentle introduction to Lisp.
Sometimes I think I know how Cicero or Cato must have felt as they watched the death of their Republic, powerless to prevent it. Last month, the New York Times reported that the President approved the “targeted killing” of an American citizen. The penalty for treason in the United States is death (or a minimum of 5 years and $10,000). But the Constitution is unwavering in its insistence that even especially traitors must be convicted in a court of law. What has happened to our Constitution? What has happened to us?
Update: Salon has an excellent op-ed piece on this travesty.
I love the Ruby language. And I’m a huge fan of the Rails framework. But I’m so over the project names.
Adobe’s response to Steve’s Flash-bashing. There’s one argument they can’t rebut: View Source.
