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"A few month back, Apple quietly slipped a very nice Objective-C to Javascript bridge into WebKit."

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:33:22 -0400

“A few month back, Apple quietly slipped a very nice Objective-C to Javascript bridge into WebKit.”

- http://www.steamclock.com/blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-javascript-bridge/

Some beautiful lupines I found on the side of a quiet little...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:19:16 -0400

Some beautiful lupines I found on the side of a quiet little road in Maine.

I’ve created a widget to display the current status of a...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:58:16 -0400

I’ve created a widget to display the current status of a Pingdom check on your Status Board.

Gauges Widget for Panic's Status Board

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:57:00 -0400

I’ve created a widget to pull traffic data from the excellent Gauges service by GitHub and display it in your Status Board. If you haven’t heard of Status Board yet, it’s a dashboard for showing all sorts of data on your iPad (or big screen TV) developed by Panic, Inc.

Setting Custom Icon on Folders in Mac OS X from the Command Line

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:38:48 -0500

While working on creating the distribution script for packaging the Singly iOS SDK, I ran into a number of issues trying to automatically assign a custom icon to one of the distributed folders. I searched and found a myriad of solutions, but they all suffered from one or more problems:

the embedded icon was not high-resolution, so it looked terrible when scaled,
or you could not use an ICNS bundle directly without extracting an image from it,
or most of the command examples did not function properly on Mountain Lion.

So after much trial and error, I finally came up with a solution that would address all of the above issues. The following assumes that you already have an ICNS bundle containing your icon at various resolutions.

Step 1 — Create Folder w/Custom Icon

The first thing we need to do is create a temporary folder in Finder and set our ICNS bundle as its icon via Finder’s Inspector:

Create a new folder (for this example we’ll use “tempfolder” as the name) in Finder.
Right-click on the folder and select “Get Info” from the context menu.
Drag your icon file and drop it onto the standard blue folder icon at the top left of the Inspector window.

Step 2 — Extract the Icon Resource

Now that we have a folder with our custom icon set correctly, we will need to extract the resource fork containing our icon. Open the Terminal and execute the following command:

DeRez -only icns path/to/tempfolder/$'Icon\r' > MyIcon.rsrc

This will extract the properly formatted icon resource into a separate file that we will use later. You can now trash the temporary folder we created in step 1.

Step 3 — Apply the Icon Resource

Once we have the extracted resource file, we can apply it to any folder (or file) of our choosing at anytime from the command-line (or a script). This is useful if you need to automate the process of setting a custom icon on a generated folder, such as when you are packaging a new release.

To apply the custom icon to your folder, execute the following in Terminal (or from a script):

Rez -append path/to/MyIcon.rsrc -o path/to/folder/$'Icon\r'
SetFile -a C path/to/folder

That’s it!

Be sure to keep your extracted resource file around so you can use it in the future.

_.sum for Underscore.js

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:27:00 -0400

A simple convenience function for adding together an array of numbers.

//
// Iterates over an array of numbers and returns the sum. Example:
//
//   _.sum([1, 2, 3]) => 6
//
_.sum = function(obj) {
  if (!$.isArray(obj) || obj.length == 0) return 0;
  return _.reduce(obj, function(sum, n) {
    return sum += n;
  });
}

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Sushi Sunrise (Taken with Instagram at Uchiko)

Wed, 18 May 2011 20:19:47 -0400

Sushi Sunrise (Taken with Instagram at Uchiko)

Beef Noodle Soup (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 11 May 2011 15:02:55 -0400

Beef Noodle Soup (Taken with instagram)

Crab Cake (Taken with Instagram at The Front Room)

Wed, 11 May 2011 14:42:27 -0400

Crab Cake (Taken with Instagram at The Front Room)

Photo

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:48:57 -0400

"Good pixel art strikes the perfect balance between appreciable craftsmanship and the gestalt. A..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:19:00 -0500

“Good pixel art strikes the perfect balance between appreciable craftsmanship and the gestalt. A single pixel out of place, one too few or too many, ruins the illusion.”

- Mimeo and the Kleptopus King // ShaunInman.com

Holy mother of Shipley! Twitter is not a chunk-encoded blog!

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:58:10 -0500

Holy mother of Shipley! Twitter is not a chunk-encoded blog!

Took a few minutes out of my afternoon today to make some small...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:58:00 -0500

Took a few minutes out of my afternoon today to make some small cleanups to the site for MatrixView. I redesigned the header and included an inline example to the top of the page.

Still need to clean up the rest of the page (below the blue header), but that will have to wait for another day.

Sneak peek of new Adobe Photoshop CS5 technologies - www.CS5.org...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:53:48 -0400

Sneak peek of new Adobe Photoshop CS5 technologies - www.CS5.org (via CS5ORG)

10/GUI : The Video

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:38:17 -0400

10/GUI : The Video:

Want.

Audio Analysis of the Beatles Multitrack Masters

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:13:40 -0400

Audio Analysis of the Beatles Multitrack Masters:

This is really interesting… be sure to listen with headphones! (via @shauninman)

Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for creating Web...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:53:58 -0400

Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for creating Web Applications by Francisco Tolmasky

pushdialer: Version 1.0 submitted to the App Store! Today I hit...

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:12:11 -0400

pushdialer:

Version 1.0 submitted to the App Store!

Today I hit a major milestone.

"If you’re going to set up a system with this many requirements, you’d damned well better be able to..."

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:52:00 -0400

“If you’re going to set up a system with this many requirements, you’d damned well better be able to handle it efficiently. 30 days to approve a simple update is not efficient.”

- Maniacal Rage: App Store Complaint #23,493

The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version. Watched in...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:09:28 -0400

The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version. Watched in anticipation for LebowskiFest on Saturday!