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Jun 27 2011 Email Charters & Lists as Parties Jun 21 2011 “Squeezing a CS Research Idea” May 27 2011 Ivanka Majic on Working in Open Source May 25 2011 kickingbear» Regarding Objective-C & Copland 2010 May 24 2011 The redesigned message view in Postbox 2.5 May 11 2011 Coyote Tracks - Text Editor Intervention May 05 2011 Postbox 2.5’s New Addressing Widget Apr 26 2011 Handling Reference Emails Apr 26 2011 Austin Restaurants Apr 06 2011 Volatile and Decentralized: The death of Intel Labs and what it means for industrial research Apr 05 2011 Cram & Simple testing for shell programs Apr 05 2011 Merging mikechecksmail Apr 05 2011 Thunderbird Conversations - GitHub Apr 04 2011 Fresh Air: Stan Getz in the ’50s Apr 04 2011 Adam Engst on GMail at Tidbits Apr 02 2011 Early Days of Java in Sun Labs - Chuck McManis on HN, via Manuel Simoni Mar 30 2011 MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web Development Mar 28 2011 Introducing Overlay Scrollbars in Unity « Canonical Design Mar 04 2011 MailPerspectives Mar 03 2011 Quick note: MailMate Mar 01 2011 Maybe I should’ve called this “Mike Checks Out”. I’ve decided I’m going to be less ambitious about Feb 16 2011 Detailed Usability Review of Thunderbird Feb 16 2011 2010 Quote: Talking tools with Shawn Blanc Aug 12 2010 Short: Send shortcut Jun 23 2010 52tiger.net on new MobileMe webmail client Jun 21 2010 Filters: GMail Jun 01 2010 Filters: Thunderbird 3 May 27 2010 Dealing with High-traffic Lists and Filters May 27 2010 Software aging well vs. UI that triggers OCD May 25 2010 A quick note about Mobile Me Mail beta May 14 2010 I ran across this video in my bookmarks - this looks like the result of Yahoo acquiring [Xoopit](htt May 05 2010 Getting notes to work with LaTeX Beamer and Skim Apr 30 2010 New Ideas in Email: Kwaga Apr 28 2010 Just something I noticed in Postbox just now - when I select a thread, it marks every message as rea Apr 27 2010 Conversation View & Keeping up with Lists Apr 22 2010 Delight Innovation Apr 20 2010 Public List Tests: The Firehose Apr 16 2010 Postbox Apr 15 2010 Two way street Apr 15 2010 Mozilla Raindrop Apr 15 2010 The Workstation is not Dead Apr 14 2010 Send again Apr 08 2010 Brent Simmons, 2004: the RSS router Apr 07 2010 I have a minor obsession with email clie… Apr 02 2010 Unread counts Apr 02 2010 HTML mail is here to stay, so a client needs to handle it well. Since images in HTML mail are securi Mar 31 2010 Let’s talk some more email philosophy. An email client should help you quickly get through new email Mar 30 2010 Why mikechecksmail Mar 26 2010 http://is.gd/b0K5b Mar 26 2010 Let’s start things off with a key-shortcut gripe from Thunderbird 3. “Forward” is ⌘-L. Not ⌘-F ( Mar 19 2010 Snakes on Demand: How to write a Python Launchd Agent Mar 14 2010 How BibDesk generates Apple Help and a web manual Feb 16 2010 Tinkering in the Sideshow Feb 02 2010 2009 App History Nov 25 2009 Measuring PDFs with Skim Nov 06 2009 If your childhood memories include an SG… Nov 03 2009 I’d like to see a community-run version… Oct 26 2009 Email Death Link Dump Oct 14 2009 Etiquette for the resend ping. Oct 01 2009 Better SVN workflow in Emacs Sep 18 2009 TextShapeView Sep 17 2009 Stakeout info Sep 16 2009 An update on the incremental-search plug… Sep 15 2009 Tinkering Sep 07 2009 Just wasted a lot of time doing a clean … Sep 05 2009 Prompted by a thread on the ever-useful … Aug 20 2009 From [@spamsieve](http://twitter.com/spa… Aug 18 2009 Notifications and Distraction in Webapps Aug 11 2009 None Aug 10 2009 None Aug 06 2009 Visible bindings Aug 03 2009 New Release of EagleFiler Jul 28 2009 With all the news about web fonts lately… Jul 22 2009 SVN in emacs vs. TextMate Jul 15 2009 I was listening to the [Core Intuition](… Jul 13 2009 I wouldn’t normally post something abou… Jul 13 2009 Subversion Client Issues Jul 13 2009 Something Buckets Feb 09 2009 2008 iCal’s Text Field Jumble Nov 02 2008 go juggle — an attention callback Aug 28 2008 Two hours Mar 27 2008 VoodooPad 3.5 Feb 11 2008 PyObjC notes Feb 01 2008 What is Site Reliability Engineering at Google Jan 13 2008 Twitter Stats in SVG using gnuplot Jan 02 2008 2007 TaskPaper adds just enough to stick Nov 01 2007 The editing pass Oct 08 2007 That Windows feeling Sep 04 2007 Skim 0.7 Aug 31 2007 Processing Email Jul 26 2007 NSLocalizedString can set errno Jul 10 2007 Free advice about a pro email client Jul 06 2007 It could work: a 3rd party email client for OS X Jul 05 2007 The read-once email client and reference emails Jun 08 2007 HPC blogs and news sites May 04 2007 The TRIPS processor Apr 25 2007 Hack Like a Champion Today Apr 12 2007 Goodbye, Kurt Vonnegut Apr 12 2007 Announcing Skim: Stop printing - Start Skimming. Apr 02 2007 A script for text placeholders in VoodooPad Mar 28 2007 Stallman at UCSD Mar 01 2007 “BibDesk, BibTeX and Subversion” from Terrell Russell Feb 28 2007 Fran Allen to receive Turing Award Feb 23 2007 Share how you use BibDesk Feb 22 2007 Red Sweater’s MarsEdit Feb 22 2007 Linking the OS X Clipboard and XTerm’s selection Feb 19 2007 “New Assembly?” - native apps in Python and Ruby? Feb 16 2007 Mac programming collaborative bookmarks? Feb 07 2007 Quick n’ Dirty OmniOutliner to MediaWiki Applescript Jan 30 2007 Take Control of OS X Backups Jan 30 2007 BibDesk and the hCite Microformat Jan 25 2007 BibDesk OpenURL script workflow Jan 14 2007 BibDesk 1.3 Highlights Jan 14 2007 Leopard Tech Talk, Jan 19: LA Jan 09 2007 iPhone multitouch-screen Jan 09 2007 2006 Leopard Developer Technologies Dec 12 2006 Burnout Dec 08 2006 Midnight Inbox Dec 06 2006 GTD Habits Nov 15 2006 Universal AddressService Nov 08 2006 NHL on Google Video Nov 07 2006 iTunes Skip Count Oct 30 2006 Supercomputing 2006 BOF: “Is 99% Utilization of a Supercomputer a Good Thing?” Oct 30 2006 Back it up Oct 30 2006 Dear GMail spam filter Oct 06 2006 More Windows Sep 29 2006 MyDreamApp Finalists Sep 21 2006 Windows User Sep 20 2006 Step back: why laptops? Sep 06 2006 Portable gut check Sep 06 2006 AutoFill: BibDesk and DC-HTML Aug 28 2006 TextStructure screencast Aug 18 2006 3 more text hack projects on leverage.sourceforge.net Aug 18 2006 FlexTime 1.0 Launches Aug 17 2006 XCode 3.0 Aug 07 2006 Take me to WWDC! Aug 03 2006 Universal build of PCRE? Aug 02 2006 Script Dictionary Documentation Aug 01 2006 Instant replay in QuickTime Player Aug 01 2006 Zoomr, Yellow Tree Jul 18 2006 Pacific Beach Night Photos Jul 10 2006 Photos, Buzz, 4th Jul 05 2006 MacResearch.org: BibDesk “killer app” Jun 28 2006 Browser history: take the user’s perspective! Jun 22 2006 Supercomputers as art and cultural artifacts May 30 2006 NHL playoff series “season pass” on iTunes May 24 2006 Part-Time Development and Money May 24 2006 XCode 2.3 Hidden Gem: Interface Builder 2.5.4 May 23 2006 Webmail.app follow-up May 16 2006 Webmail is not web browsing. May 10 2006 Full Screen Focus Apr 19 2006 Dear Innovative and Revolutionary Management School Apr 10 2006 Ingredients: prunes, salt. Apr 01 2006 Buying my TV from the iTunes Music Store? Apr 01 2006 VoodooPad life Mar 22 2006 Matt Pond PA Mar 19 2006 What a relief. Mar 19 2006 MarsEdit 1.1.2 Mar 17 2006 Static Bug Checking in Open Source software Mar 13 2006 Tomorrow’s Professor Blog Mar 07 2006 Really could’ve used a MagSafe plug today Mar 07 2006 Concurrency is about to be everybody’s problem Mar 02 2006 Applescript Hooks everywhere? Mar 02 2006 Mail message to iCal Todo script Mar 02 2006 O’Reilly ETech Conference Feb 27 2006 Voodoopad lines to iCal todos Feb 27 2006 Locations and Travel Time in Calendar apps Feb 24 2006 UCSD nixes Google Desktop Feb 23 2006 Introducing LENS Feb 14 2006 Car art, UCSD Feb 13 2006 NewerTech Battery Feb 13 2006 Jorge Cham and “The Power of Procrastination” Feb 08 2006 Curious pasting in Mail.app Feb 08 2006 What’s hot in CS Feb 04 2006 Talk: Bart Miller and Dyninst Feb 03 2006 State of the Union Jan 31 2006 Yojimbo, hit and miss Jan 26 2006 PLDI Papers I’m interested in, part one Jan 26 2006 PLDI 2006 Papers Jan 23 2006 On Reviewing Jan 19 2006 Focus Jan 19 2006 Universal I-Search Jan 13 2006 Sending large files? Jan 12 2006 Lapwarmer Jan 10 2006 Universal Jan 10 2006 Takk… etc. Jan 04 2006 2005 Bounty County Dec 28 2005 Reading CHM files on OS X Dec 28 2005 Terrapass Dec 25 2005 Discontinuing Blapp Dec 25 2005 Macsbug in GDB Dec 25 2005 With the times Dec 25 2005
Volatile and Decentralized: The death of Intel Labs and what it means for industrial research Apr 05 2011
Maybe I should’ve called this “Mike Checks Out”. I’ve decided I’m going to be less ambitious about Feb 16 2011
I ran across this video in my bookmarks - this looks like the result of Yahoo acquiring [Xoopit](htt May 05 2010
Just something I noticed in Postbox just now - when I select a thread, it marks every message as rea Apr 27 2010
HTML mail is here to stay, so a client needs to handle it well. Since images in HTML mail are securi Mar 31 2010
Let’s talk some more email philosophy. An email client should help you quickly get through new email Mar 30 2010
Let’s start things off with a key-shortcut gripe from Thunderbird 3. “Forward” is ⌘-L. Not ⌘-F ( Mar 19 2010