COMMANDMENTS

1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."
3. Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5. When you can't create you can work.
6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8. Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

Excellent advise for any line of work, not only writing.

To sum up, you delete the offending directory and then run something to the effect of

git filter-branch --index-filter \
'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path/to/the/formerly/misbehaving/module'

I accidentally added another git repository to a git-svn repository, which makes it die when trying to push the changes. This technique helped me fix it. Documenting mostly so I remember when it happens again sometime.

nwdiag generates network-diagram image file from .diag file. .diag file is similar to DOT file (graphviz’s).

You can get diagrams like this.

Very useful, like Graphviz but specifically for network diagrams. You can probably obtain the same result with Graphviz with the appropriate amount of dot magic, but nwdiag makes this very easy. Other useful graph types in sister projects: http://blockdiag.com/en/index.html

A-ma-zing. All made from ice.

Wow, the amount of work that went into making this makes me dizzy.

Communicate Better.

the man sitting next to me was reading proprietary information, information that could be very, very damaging to this company if in the wrong hands, and he couldn’t have cared less about it

Fascinating, scary story. It's amazing the things people do in airplanes (particularly on their laptops/iPads/phones) as if no one was watching them. Situational awareness is very important.

Awesome. So many memories.

It's been a while since a linked to a Big Picture set, but this one deserves it. They are all beautiful photographs.

We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We've done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format.

Lots of nice, free fonts.

Let me wrap this up by giving you a quick summary:

1. If someone tells you that all the apps in the multitasking bar are running, using up memory or sucking power, they are wrong.
2. When you hit the home button, an app moves from Active to Background and quickly to the Suspended state where it no longer uses CPU time or drains power.
3. An app may request an additional 10 minutes of Background running to complete a big task before becoming Suspended.
4. If memory is becoming scarce, iOS will automatically move Suspended apps into the Not Running state and reclaim their memory.
5. Five classes of apps - audio, GPS, VOIP, Newsstand and accessory apps - and some built-in apps such as Mail may run indefinitely in the background until they complete their task.

Great post explaining iOS background processing and why you don't need to go around removing apps from the multitasking bar.

15 Years Ago Today

Apple acquired NeXT. Not a bad move.

Not a bad move indeed. I loved NeXT computers and NEXTSTEP, and I'm happy every time I see its legacy on my Mac.

I remember joking in grad school that we should've had coffee-on-tap so we didn't need to walk all the way down to the kitchen. Seems my dream has come true. I want one of these.

Amazing.

Very nice video.

Nyamulagira, which generally erupts every two years, rumbled to life at 8:06 p.m

Must be an amazing sight.