the speed of Perl file finders

January 23, 2013  🐫 🧑🏽‍💻

Sometimes you need to walk a directory tree, pick out files, and do stuff. If you’re working in the shell, you can use find — at least if you have GNU find. Those other finds… shudder.

workspaces in Google Chrome

January 22, 2013

I really liked using OmniWeb. Back before Safari existed, OmniWeb was, for me, a much better option than Firefox. It was very fast, did a good job saving my session, had per-site preferences, and had workspaces. I am stymied, deeply and daily, by the lack of good workspace support in every other browser.

iTunes 11 displeases me

November 30, 2012  💾

Okay, look, it’s really nice that iTunes is so much faster, now. I mean, it’s really nice. Most of the visual changes are nice. A lot of it, as usual, is just little changes that I don’t care about. The new context menus are okay. Super, okay? They’re great.

Horror Movie Month 2012

November 1, 2012  🎃 🍿

Horror Movie Month 2012 is done! Thirty-one movies in thirty-one days! (We missed one day but watched two on another.)

RPG Recap: Beyond the Temple of the Abyss, 2012-10

October 23, 2012  ⚔️

Still exploring the museum under the statue of Cosativa, the troop poked around the counter at the east end of the room, where they found an old green backpack. They catalogued its contents, argued a bit over who should take what, shuffled gear around, and then moved on to inspect the featureless black sphere floating over one of the display stands. Watching it, Red was transfixed and treated to a strange display proclaiming the broad scope of the now-defunct empire and the meaninglessness of his life. He kept it to himself.