Aaron Brethorst (Page 69)

Textmate competition == fail

I use TextMate for just about everything: Skytap Virtual Lab, processing random text files, storing notes and thoughts…you name it. I just heard about the new “TextMate killer” for the Mac from the creators of CSSEdit and gave it a try. The app, E...

Dec 30, 2008

playing with themes

Every year around this time, I start thinking that I need to do some cleanup on my personal website. It kinda-sorta happens eventually, but it seems to trickle in over the course of December, January, February and March, culminating in April when ...

Dec 30, 2008
Politics

Paul Jenkins: The GOP's White Supremacy

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it. "Barack The Magic Negro" and Palm Beach aryanists are just the more bizarre manifestations of ...

Dec 30, 2008
Apple

25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek

"When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, 'Get it away!' and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you'll be crushed. You have ...

Dec 29, 2008

Surprise Surprise

I just finished installing Windows 7 Beta 1 into a VM on my Mac, and I find it to not only be inoffensive, but actually quite nice! Well worth the hour or two necessary to get it up and running, especially if you’re using Vista :P