The Pug Automatic

A blog by @henrik about Ruby, Elixir, Vim etc.

Ruby Module Builder patterns

July 13, 2023. Tagged Ruby, Metaprogramming.

Passing arguments to osascript in Raycast script commands

February 23, 2023. Tagged AppleScript, Shell scripting, Raycast.

Write self-deprecating comments

February 27, 2021. Tagged Code style.

Using "load" with "any?" to avoid double queries from Active Record

February 18, 2021. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Systematically removing code

November 8, 2020. Tagged Methodology.

Scheduled Roborock cleaning with a prompt using iOS Shortcuts

September 28, 2020. Tagged Automation.

Communicating between LiveViews on the same page

August 1, 2020. Tagged Elixir, Phoenix LiveView.

Optimising data-over-the-wire in Phoenix LiveView

July 11, 2020. Tagged Elixir, Phoenix LiveView.

Connecting Ecto to a legacy database in a script

June 22, 2020. Tagged Elixir, Ecto.

The case for multiple anonymous function bodies

June 12, 2020. Tagged Elixir.

Delaying the NProgress indicator in Phoenix LiveView

May 23, 2020. Tagged Elixir, Phoenix LiveView.

Persistent session data in Phoenix LiveView

May 22, 2020. Tagged Elixir, Phoenix LiveView.

Persistent session data via a database in Phoenix LiveView

May 19, 2020. Tagged Elixir, Phoenix LiveView.

Persistent session data via localStorage in Phoenix LiveView

May 17, 2020. Tagged Elixir, Phoenix LiveView.

Conversational implicature in testing

March 20, 2020. Tagged Testing.

Rotating light colours on each button press in HomeKit

March 14, 2020. Tagged HomeKit, Home automation.

How we do remote retros

March 9, 2020. Tagged Methodology, Remote work.

A trick for partial includes in Ruby

August 29, 2018. Tagged Ruby.

Naming as a fork in the road

April 29, 2017. Tagged Naming things.

Transforming hashes in Ruby without inject or each_with_object

April 4, 2017. Tagged Ruby.

Add documentation where you looked for it

April 2, 2017. Tagged Documentation.

Custom factory methods alongside factory_girl

March 9, 2017. Tagged Factories, factory_girl.

Double splat to merge hashes

February 22, 2017. Tagged Ruby.

Interactive rebase against the remote master

February 7, 2017. Tagged Git.

The pairing test for naming things

January 23, 2017. Tagged Naming things.

Capybara mini-abstractions

October 13, 2016. Tagged Capybara, Testing.

Chrome profiles and incognito mode for web developers

February 5, 2016. Tagged Chrome.

Rose memoization

January 26, 2016. Tagged Ruby.

Pattern-matching complex strings

January 8, 2016. Tagged Elixir.

Elixir string interpolation for the Rubyist (and others)

January 5, 2016. Tagged Elixir.

Static sites alongside Dokku on Digital Ocean

January 4, 2016. Tagged Dokku, Digital Ocean, Nginx.

The delightful char data

December 21, 2015. Tagged Elixir.

Elixir block keywords

December 3, 2015. Tagged Elixir, Macros.

Unforgettable attributes

November 14, 2015. Tagged Design patterns, Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

The emergent elegance of Elixir scoping

November 3, 2015. Tagged Ruby, Elixir, Macros.

Understanding Elixir macros

October 31, 2015. Tagged Elixir, Macros.

Controlling your Mac with a Flic

October 15, 2015. Tagged Automation, OS X, Ruby.

How to "expect(…).to" in Elixir

October 10, 2015. Tagged Elixir.

Testing callbacks in Elixir

September 20, 2015. Tagged Elixir, ExUnit, Testing.

Testing compile-time exceptions in Elixir

September 5, 2015. Tagged Elixir, ExUnit, Testing.

Apple Watch: day 58

July 19, 2015. Tagged Apple Watch.

Turning off responsive

July 8, 2015. Tagged Responsive design.

Pair programming is not a substitute for code review

June 19, 2015. Tagged Code review, Pair programming.

SoCraTes UK 2015

June 9, 2015. Tagged Conferences.

Apple Watch: day 2

May 22, 2015. Tagged Apple Watch.

The Apple Watch is not a Fitbit wristband

May 21, 2015. Tagged Apple Watch, Health.

Make sharing explicit

May 12, 2015. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Wrap instance variables passed to layouts

April 28, 2015. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Ruby's String#[/regexp/]

March 7, 2015. Tagged Ruby, Regular expressions.

The 10,000 steps

March 6, 2015. Tagged Health, iOS.

Tests lie and that's OK

February 28, 2015. Tagged Testing.

Time-restricted autodeploy

February 19, 2015. Tagged Continuous Delivery.

Take iOS 8 screenshots with a clean status bar

February 18, 2015. Tagged iOS.

Open in iTerm Vim from Finder

February 1, 2015. Tagged Vim, OS X, AppleScript.

When to define an exception class and when not to

January 13, 2015. Tagged Ruby, Exceptions.

Express complex conditionals with multiple returns

January 12, 2015. Tagged Ruby.

The !!! operator

January 9, 2015. Tagged Ruby.

Backslashy Ruby

January 8, 2015. Tagged Ruby.

Remove debug code with Vim's :global

December 16, 2014. Tagged Vim.

The gestalt of comments

December 5, 2014. Tagged Code style, Review in review.

Array#to_proc for hash access

November 5, 2014. Tagged Ruby, Metaprogramming.

Ruby DATA for quick-and-dirty jobs

October 22, 2014. Tagged Ruby, Vim.

Splat for concatenation

October 13, 2014. Tagged Ruby.

:: is a code smell

October 9, 2014. Tagged Ruby, Review in review.

UNION with Active Record

August 22, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Custom 404 error page with Rails 4

August 8, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Cheatsheet: login/log in, setup/set up etc

August 7, 2014. Tagged Language.

Archiving a (Rails) site as static files on Nginx

August 7, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Nginx.

Font Awesome icons on file fields in WebKit

August 2, 2014. Tagged CSS.

The Golden Rule for programmers

July 5, 2014. Tagged Methodology.

Make your assumptions explode

July 1, 2014. Tagged Review in review.

Explain the trade-off

June 30, 2014. Tagged Review in review.

Using a headless Rails for tasks and tests

June 25, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Midnight fragile tests

June 23, 2014. Tagged Testing, Review in review.

Use Active Record's last! in tests

June 23, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Review in review.

The emoji consensus model

June 14, 2014. Tagged Methodology.

Exceptions with documentation URLs

May 27, 2014. Tagged Exceptions, Documentation.

Stacked Vim searches down :cold

March 24, 2014. Tagged Vim.

Vim's life-changing c%

March 3, 2014. Tagged Vim.

SimpleDelegator autoloading issues with Rails

March 2, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

What I dislike about Draper

March 1, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Presenters.

Don't mix in your privates

February 13, 2014. Tagged Ruby.

The risks of feature branches and pre-merge code review

February 12, 2014. Tagged Git, Code review, Continuous Delivery.

Git pairing aliases, prompts and avatars

November 22, 2013. Tagged Git.

Option lists with simple_form

September 5, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Ruby, simple_form.

Review: Raygun error reporting

September 1, 2013. Tagged Review, Tools.

Memoization is a liability

August 31, 2013. Tagged Ruby.

Constant of constants

August 30, 2013. Tagged Ruby.

String inheritance is overused

August 18, 2013. Tagged Ruby.

Struct inheritance is overused

August 8, 2013. Tagged Ruby.

Dynamic super-overridable methods in Ruby

July 31, 2013. Tagged Ruby, Metaprogramming.

Using concat and capture to clean up custom Rails helpers

June 18, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Helpers.

Render Rails views with locals, not instance variables

May 20, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Unnesting routes in Rails

May 19, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

How to make negative assertions in tests

April 27, 2013. Tagged Testing.

Pow port forwarding with Vagrant

March 1, 2013. Tagged Vagrant, Pow, OS X.

Beyond Active Record merge

February 28, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Object design.

Self-contained features

February 14, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Object design.

Waiting on non-DOM Ajax in Capybara

February 12, 2013. Tagged JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Capybara, Ruby, Ajax.

RSpec shared examples with template methods

February 11, 2013. Tagged RSpec, Ruby on Rails.

PORO validators in Rails

February 8, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Vim's :w

January 26, 2013. Tagged Vim.

Named placeholders in Active Record queries

January 19, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Customizing Rails.vim

January 12, 2013. Tagged Vim, Ruby on Rails.

Update with joins in Rails migrations with Postgres

January 9, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, SQL.

Why mixed responsibilities resist refactoring

December 24, 2012. Tagged Object design.

Brackets in regular expressions

September 23, 2012. Tagged Regular expressions.

De Morgan's laws in programming

September 19, 2012. Tagged Logic, General programming, Ruby.

Don't include all helpers

August 30, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

The Rails flash isn't just for messages

August 18, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Rails STI and form_for

August 14, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails, STI.

SendGrid metadata and Rails

August 7, 2012. Tagged SendGrid, Ruby on Rails, Action Mailer.

Captio with multiple recipients

August 4, 2012. Tagged Apps, Tips, Gmail.

Abort mail delivery with Rails 3 interceptors

August 1, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Action Mailer.

Sinatra with rack-cache on Heroku

July 23, 2012. Tagged rack-cache, Sinatra, Heroku.

Rails i18n tips

July 22, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails, i18n, Tips.

Project-wide search-and-replace in Vim with :Qdo

July 17, 2012. Tagged Vim.

Tests on demand using Vimux and Turbux with Spork and Guard

July 13, 2012. Tagged Testing, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Vim, tmux.

Randomize your factories

July 8, 2012. Tagged factory_girl, Factories, Testing, Ruby on Rails.

Usability trumps security

July 16, 2011. Tagged UI, Annoyances.

Vim Ruby Runner

March 19, 2011. Tagged Vim, Ruby.

TextMate to Vim with training wheels

January 6, 2011. Tagged Vim, TextMate.

Canonizing pseudo-slugs in Rails

September 13, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Git hook to auto-reference tickets from the branchname

September 10, 2009. Tagged Git, Git hook, Ruby.

Buying from the US iTunes Store

August 22, 2009. Tagged Apple, iTunes, iTunes Store.

jQuery in GreaseKit

July 21, 2009. Tagged JavaScript, jQuery, Userscripts, Greasemonkey, GreaseKit.

TextMate "Open Finder" command

June 13, 2009. Tagged OS X, TextMate, Finder.

VNC Stacks in OS X

June 12, 2009. Tagged OS X, Leopard, VNC, Screen Sharing, Stacks.

Jekyll

April 23, 2009. Tagged Jekyll, WordPress, Ruby.

Time zones and multidimensional grouping with Active Record and MySQL

March 26, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

git reset --soft as stash replacement and undo

February 20, 2009. Tagged Git.

Non-restricting scope and the UserSession class in Rails

February 19, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using the "ZNC" IRC bouncer with OS X and iPhone

February 16, 2009. Tagged OS X, Colloquy, iPhone, IRC.

Request for the ideal iPhone PDF reader

January 20, 2009. Tagged Annoyances, iPhone.

Get rid of org.jruby.Main with JRuby on Rails

January 9, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Rake, JRuby.

"Basic Instructions" RSS feed with only comics

January 2, 2009. Tagged RSS.

Page numbers in Pages.app

December 18, 2008. Tagged OS X, Pages.app.

MacPorts gotchas: staging ncurses, running mysql5

December 12, 2008. Tagged OS X, SQL, Git.

Show Git dirty state (and branch) in the prompt

December 3, 2008. Tagged Shell scripting, Git.

Merb flat apps: layout and template paths

November 26, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Merb.

Use "require 'sass'" to enable Sass with Merb 1.0.1

November 25, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Merb.

AtomICA: ICA-banken RSS feed

November 25, 2008. Tagged Ruby, RSS.

Use save(false), not save_without_validation

November 24, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Check if gravatar exists for email in Ruby

November 21, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

AppleScript Folder Action to add missing image extensions on download

November 21, 2008. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Rails/jQuery UI sortables with single UPDATE query

November 15, 2008. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Ajax, jQuery.

Getting rid of border-bottom on linked images with jQuery

November 4, 2008. Tagged JavaScript, CSS, jQuery.

Time Machine mounting issues

October 24, 2008. Tagged OS X.

Validate URL format in Rails

October 19, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Validating slugs against existing routes in Rails

October 18, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using form helpers with split-up forms in Rails

October 15, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

cap gems:install and a Gem dependency gotcha

October 12, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano.

Repeat content in Rails with content_for

October 3, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using Apple media keys over the network

September 21, 2008. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

"Blend mode: Multiply" in Photoshop

September 13, 2008. Tagged Photoshop.

Augmentations plugin for Rails

September 10, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Show 404 instead of 500 for invalid format in Rails

September 3, 2008. Tagged Shell scripting, Rack.

ZephIR and my HTPC

August 29, 2008. Tagged OS X, AppleScript, Hardware, EyeTV.

Updating plugins for Adium 1.3

August 28, 2008. Tagged OS X, Cocoa, Adium.

Custom 404 action in Rails

July 25, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Raise Error404, don't render and return

July 24, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Simple double form submission prevention with jQuery

July 23, 2008. Tagged JavaScript, jQuery.

Tab favicons with GrApple Firefox themes

July 22, 2008. Tagged OS X, Firefox, CSS.

Ware the Air (core shutdown issue)

June 12, 2008. Tagged OS X, MacBook Air.

Rails authenticity token with jQuery

May 31, 2008. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, jQuery.

Share screenshot to big screen

May 25, 2008. Tagged OS X, AppleScript, Shell scripting.

iPhoto Library Manager shortcuts with drag-and-drop importing

May 24, 2008. Tagged OS X, AppleScript, iPhoto.

Secure note in Keychain for credit card details

April 23, 2008. Tagged OS X.

EyeTV on/off keyboard button

April 19, 2008. Tagged OS X, AppleScript, EyeTV.

Torrent Forwarder

March 27, 2008. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Pinch to fold in TextMate

March 24, 2008. Tagged OS X, TextMate, MacBook Air.

MacBook Air volume icon

March 24, 2008. Tagged OS X, MacBook Air.

irb readline support on Leopard

March 22, 2008. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Full screen multi-touch gesture

March 21, 2008. Tagged OS X, MacBook Air.

Map right-side Option to Enter in OS X

March 16, 2008. Tagged OS X.

Circle circumference and area insight

March 5, 2008. Tagged Geometry.

Flickr-style tag splitting in Ruby

March 4, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

jQuery "more"/"less" HTML truncate

February 28, 2008. Tagged JavaScript, jQuery.

del.ishli.st – a del.icio.us wishlist

February 23, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Merb.

Rails model extensions (mincemeat models revisited)

February 8, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

with_unprotected_attributes Rails plugin

February 6, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

admins_create_and_edit

February 6, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Haml::Template options in Merb

February 5, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Haml, Merb.

Non-obvious method arguments in Ruby

February 4, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

PHP in nginx on OS X

February 2, 2008. Tagged OS X, PHP, Nginx.

Lambda

February 1, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

Rails truncate helper that handles HTML tags and entities

January 30, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Hpricot.

TextMate command to prevent em spaces

January 28, 2008. Tagged OS X, TextMate.

IMDB Trivia & Goofs Growler

January 28, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Hpricot.

surround helper alternative in Haml

January 21, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Haml.

rake solr:tail for acts_as_solr query log

December 28, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake, acts_as_solr.

Full error messages without prepended attribute name

December 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

The Dilbert Blog RSS feed with full entries (and RSS scraping with Ruby on Dreamhost)

December 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Hpricot, RSS.

Change displayed column name in Rails validation messages

December 3, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Epson Stylus Photo R300 ink levels and the Airport Extreme

December 2, 2007. Tagged Hardware.

My Rails title helpers

November 26, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

EyeTV Hybrid can pause and rewind live analog tv

November 26, 2007. Tagged EyeTV.

Use __END__ for keeping code around in testing

November 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Hide Leopard stack overlays in Finder

November 11, 2007. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Comma concatenation for punctuation after link in Haml

November 5, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Making Leopard toolbar buttons

October 31, 2007. Tagged OS X, Design.

Leopard breaks "View > Actual Pixels" in Photoshop

October 31, 2007. Tagged OS X.

Lift the Leopard download quarantine

October 29, 2007. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

"Open Terminal Here" and lselect (glob select) in Leopard Finder

October 28, 2007. Tagged OS X, Design.

"Open in TextMate" from Leopard Finder

October 28, 2007. Tagged OS X, TextMate, AppleScript, Design.

Displaying UTF-8 correctly in Leopard Terminal

October 28, 2007. Tagged OS X.

rake accessify

October 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake.

Whiny protected attributes

October 5, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Bypassing attr_accessible/attr_protected for test factories

October 4, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Printing on a Windows shared HP PSC 950 from OS X

October 3, 2007. Tagged OS X.

object.in?(collection)

September 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby.

Ruby script to batch find-and-replace in LiveJournal entries

September 11, 2007. Tagged Ruby, LiveJournal.

MediaWiki image upload tip

September 9, 2007. Tagged Tips, MediaWiki.

Make blank acts_as_solr queries find all records

September 3, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using RJS generator methods in raw JS

August 29, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ajax.

Colloquy scrolling issue and Safari 3 beta

August 18, 2007. Tagged OS X, Colloquy, Safari.

OS X icon transparency and Tasks bundle file icon

August 16, 2007. Tagged OS X, TextMate, Annoyances, Design.

Tasks bundle for TextMate

August 11, 2007. Tagged OS X, TextMate.

Skinny controller, mincemeat model

July 25, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate, Ruby on Rails.

TextMate "Paste Line/Selection Online" command mod

July 10, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate.

Trac autologin Greasemonkey script

July 4, 2007. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

Flash outgoing mail in Ruby on Rails development

June 29, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Alternative Git logo and favicon

June 29, 2007. Tagged Git, Design.

Preferences class for TextMate commands

June 28, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate.

Grep in Project command for TextMate

June 27, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate.

TextMate command to close all HTML output windows

June 26, 2007. Tagged OS X, TextMate, AppleScript.

An alternative to password confirmation

June 25, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Annoyances, Ruby on Rails, UI.

Tumblr in a subdirectory

June 24, 2007. Tagged PHP.

Raising finders

June 24, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using will_paginate with acts_as_solr

June 15, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Rake task to (re)index models for acts_as_solr

June 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake.

Colored SSH terminals in OS X

June 14, 2007. Tagged OS X.

"cap deploy" command for TextMate

June 8, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate, Ruby on Rails, Shell scripting, Capistrano.

Filter del.icio.us dailies from RSS feed using Yahoo pipes

June 5, 2007. Tagged RSS.

Cut-off point for Time Since plugin

June 3, 2007. Tagged PHP, WordPress.

Fix SharePod "non-standard" characters

June 1, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Windows.

File Transfer Sender Subdirectories plugin for Adium

May 24, 2007. Tagged OS X, Cocoa, Adium.

Hide "Snap Shots" link preview bubbles

May 21, 2007. Tagged Annoyances, CSS, Userstyles.

Fitting images in liquid columns with Prototype and per-font CSS font-size

May 10, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, CSS.

Recent LiveJournal entries with Ruby (including LJ cuts and comments)

May 9, 2007. Tagged Ruby, LiveJournal.

"Premature end of script headers" for CGI can be directory permissions

April 27, 2007. Tagged Ruby.

Google Talk emotisprite love

April 26, 2007. Tagged Gmail.

Coda Light AppleScript

April 26, 2007. Tagged OS X, TextMate, AppleScript.

24-hour time in Gmail

April 25, 2007. Tagged Gmail.

Adium tip: swap buffers

April 24, 2007. Tagged OS X, Adium.

Fix Your Last Input plugin for Adium

April 20, 2007. Tagged OS X, Cocoa, Adium.

LiveJournal comment notification scrollable quotes

April 18, 2007. Tagged LiveJournal, CSS, Userstyles, Gmail.

Ruby script to make LiveJournal entries private in batch

April 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby, LiveJournal.

Importing mail into (Google Apps) Gmail: some tips

April 13, 2007. Tagged Gmail.

TV sleep timer can be used for a reminder

April 10, 2007. Tagged Hardware.

Bookmarklet to post page to del.icio.us as "toread"

April 5, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Firefox, Bookmarklets.

Greasemonkey bundle syntax highlighting

March 31, 2007. Tagged Greasemonkey, OS X, TextMate.

Transform all text nodes (excepting elements) with Hpricot

March 28, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Hpricot.

Gmail Greasemonkey scripts: bottom posting, plain text formatting

March 26, 2007. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

TextMate command to toggle writing deltas

March 24, 2007. Tagged OS X, TextMate.

Ruby wordwrap method

March 24, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

TextMate Greasemonkey bundle in official repository

March 20, 2007. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, OS X, TextMate, Firefox.

My evil ROT-13 twin

March 19, 2007. Tagged Interesting.

Key binding for vertical ellipsis

March 17, 2007. Tagged OS X.

Improved bookmark to batch link Flickr images

March 10, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Firefox, Bookmarklets.

Major update to the TextMate Greasemonkey bundle

March 5, 2007. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, OS X, TextMate.

Using gsub with blocks to strip attributes from HTML tags

March 3, 2007. Tagged Ruby.

osascript, shell scripts and Unicode

March 3, 2007. Tagged OS X, AppleScript, Shell scripting.

Print-debugging scripts with Growl

March 1, 2007. Tagged OS X.

Dollars²

March 1, 2007. Tagged Interesting.

Snippet-power templates in TextMate

February 27, 2007. Tagged OS X, TextMate.

Bookmarklet to get page from Google cache

February 23, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Bookmarklets.

YouTube thumbnail animator

February 14, 2007. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

iCalTV 0.7 released, and an AppleScript date object gotcha

January 31, 2007. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Nike+ Challenge widget with kilometers

January 28, 2007. Tagged OS X, Dashboard widgets.

Sinfest RSS feed with images

January 26, 2007. Tagged PHP.

Automatically open incoming URLs with Adium

January 22, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, AppleScript, Adium.

YouTube comments next to videos

January 20, 2007. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

Importing legacy data into Core Data with the find-or-create (or delete) pattern

January 18, 2007. Tagged OS X, Cocoa.

ScrollToY

January 16, 2007. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Bookmarklets.

Set ID3 track numbers from filename prefixes in iTunes

January 14, 2007. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Twitter status update keyword shortcut for Firefox

January 13, 2007. Tagged Firefox.

del.icio.us Bookmarks extension and Firefox bookmark keywords

January 13, 2007. Tagged Firefox.

WTF-8

January 5, 2007. Tagged OS X, Cocoa.

iCalTV 0.6 released

January 2, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Reversing the Photo Booth twirl effect with Photo Rebooth (or: The two-way fun house mirror)

December 30, 2006. Tagged OS X, Cocoa, Quartz Composer.

Automatically import (and tag) Photo Booth photos into iPhoto

December 29, 2006. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Eniro.se telephone number large type

December 28, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

Customizing the colors of the RSS Visualizer screen saver

December 21, 2006. Tagged OS X, Quartz Composer.

Scroll window when dragging Scriptaculous Sortables to edges

December 12, 2006. Tagged JavaScript.

Changing channel order in WinTV2000

December 10, 2006. Tagged Hardware, Windows.

Re-uploading Nike+ iPod run data

December 9, 2006. Tagged OS X, Hardware.

MySpace CSS odds and ends

December 6, 2006. Tagged Annoyances, CSS.

Digital cameras display infrared light

November 26, 2006. Tagged Hardware.

Colors different when saving images in Photoshop CS2 on MacBook

November 12, 2006. Tagged OS X.

Prototype Ajax class to evaluate response text

November 8, 2006. Tagged JavaScript, Ajax.

Taming booklets

November 2, 2006. Tagged Physical reality.

Rexpolotl – simple regexp engine in Ruby

November 2, 2006. Tagged Ruby, Regexps.

TextMate LaTeX bundle and compiling to PDF via PS

October 31, 2006. Tagged OS X, TextMate, LaTeX.

Fix for Bloglines breaking WordPress RSS feeds

October 25, 2006. Tagged PHP, WordPress.

October search phrases

October 23, 2006. Tagged Interesting.

Passing several statements as argument to a method in Java

October 19, 2006. Tagged Java.

RSS for Cyanide and Happiness (with images), WorldOfWar.se, Handdator.se

October 17, 2006. Tagged PHP.

Autologin script gets extraction tool

October 15, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, OS X, Firefox.

Helgon.net new visitor awareness

October 10, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

"Helgon.net avatars in user listings" rewritten

October 8, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

View source from Firefox with TextMate

September 28, 2006. Tagged OS X, TextMate, Firefox.

Exporting Adium log message bodies for Markov Chain fun

September 28, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X, Adium.

Converting integers to Swedish

September 27, 2006. Tagged Ruby.

Del.icio.us bookmarklet that opens in new tab (or window)

September 24, 2006. Tagged JavaScript, Bookmarklets.

Associate commenters with comments on Feber.se

September 20, 2006. Tagged Firefox, CSS, Userstyles.

Transferring data from Windows to an HFS+ formatted disk

September 16, 2006. Tagged OS X.

Wikipedia on Braille

September 15, 2006. Tagged Facts, Interesting.

Wikipedia on the Hippocratic Oath

September 14, 2006. Tagged Facts, Interesting.

Removing formatting from the clipboard

September 14, 2006. Tagged OS X.

iPod music not a first-class citizen of iTunes

September 13, 2006. Tagged OS X, Annoyances.

Wikipedia on referers

September 11, 2006. Tagged Facts, Interesting.

Fixing the flap pocket of the STM Small Alley

September 11, 2006. Tagged Physical reality.

Bookmarklet to blog all images from a Flickr page

September 11, 2006. Tagged JavaScript, Firefox, Bookmarklets, LiveJournal.

Preview images from within LiveJournal cuts

September 10, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox, LiveJournal.

The curious incident of AppleScript activating apps in unrealized branches

September 8, 2006. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Minor updates to Greasemonkey bundle

September 8, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, OS X, TextMate, Firefox.

Renaming Party Shuffle in iTunes

September 7, 2006. Tagged OS X.

Wikipedia on Regular expressions and Unicode

September 6, 2006. Tagged Facts, Interesting.

Installing Firefox extensions with less coddling

September 3, 2006. Tagged Firefox.

iCalTV 0.5 released

September 3, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Getting the current UNIX timestamp with AppleScript

September 2, 2006. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Improved Greasemonkey bundle for TextMate

August 31, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Ruby, OS X, TextMate, Firefox.

Fixed-size scrollable quotes in LiveJournal comment notification mails

August 31, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox, Thunderbird, LiveJournal.

Wikipedia on the 24-hour clock

August 28, 2006. Tagged Facts, Interesting.

Scrobbler (Last.fm) sidebar module

August 20, 2006. Tagged PHP, WordPress.

Quick keyword tagging in iPhoto

August 14, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X, AppleScript.

Currently playing song in iTunes on command, revisited

August 14, 2006. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Retain metadata when exporting and reimporting iPhoto pictures, hackishly

August 12, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X, AppleScript.

Currently playing song in iTunes on command

August 12, 2006. Tagged OS X, AppleScript.

Colloquy privacy issue

August 12, 2006. Tagged OS X, Annoyances.

World of Warcraft Europe auto-fill parental controls password

August 11, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

Userscripting for the new deviantART

August 10, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

iCalTV 0.4 released

August 7, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Bookmarklet to split BBCode quoted replies into parts

August 6, 2006. Tagged JavaScript, Firefox, Bookmarklets.

Navigate anything like Bloglines

July 27, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Firefox.

iCalTV: iCal reminders for favorite TV shows through XMLTV

July 27, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Adapting the iCal Events widget for iCalTV

July 27, 2006. Tagged JavaScript, OS X, Dashboard widgets.

Partial wrapper for libxml with REXML fallback

July 24, 2006. Tagged Ruby.

Modifying the Transmit widget to copy URLs to clipboard

July 21, 2006. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, OS X, Dashboard widgets.

TextMate: "Copy undented" command

July 16, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate.

Batch-open URLs from clipboard

July 16, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X.