My shared links for August 23rd through September 1st: Ragel State Machine Compiler – DSL for state machines in many languages The Kid Should See This. – Stuff on the nets that kids can get into that isn't dumb Zulkey.com – "They don't necessarily act like they're thinking, "get a load of my rad sock-shoes," [...]

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From Ted Dziuba: MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web Development. Textmate sucks Sooner or later, you have to face facts. Man up and learn Emacs. Ted’s probably the funniest person blogging about tech that I’m aware of. Take note of the filename of the image he used for this post… He just seems angry [...]

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I had an idea the other day that I shared on Twitter: @mikemccracken: It would be cool if there was a way for well-used & loved GUI software to gracefully show its age, like a good leather wallet… I still like this idea, and I loved the example that Bryan Knight replied with – the [...]

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I share what I’ve learned about writing a Launchd agent that is mostly written in Python. This includes a link to a sample project hosted on bitbucket.

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I just saw Brent’s post from a couple weeks ago about an App History App – I think that’d be really cool. I especially like the screen shot idea, since I love seeing posts from a developer showing what an app looked like along the progression. It’s too easy to forget to document that kind [...]

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I love it when I can guess how to do something new in a program. Skim just did this for me – I needed to figure out how big the rectangle of text in a paper I’m working on is, in inches. I looked for rulers, and then decided I’d just see if I get [...]

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I’d like to see a community-run version of the Apple Design Awards. Anyone could nominate an app, and the developer community would vote on who wins, in just a few categories. I’m thinking the categories could be a little more user-centric than Apple’s. For instance, I don’t really care about best adoption of OS X [...]

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TextShapeView was another Cocoa Text system hack project I started a few years ago. I made a view that displays a zoomed out view of a string from a text view, with indentation, along with a rectangle showing where the text view is in the file. You can click around in the view to move [...]

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Prompted by a thread on the ever-useful Sun internal mac-users alias, here’s a daemon that runs a script every time your network location changes: Mac OS X LocationChanger – TECH.inhelsinki.nl.

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From @spamsieve, I heard that BareBones’ Mailsmith has a new home: mailsmith.org. It’s freeware and will be under development. It’s great to see new life for one of the few alternative desktop mail clients for OS X, and while there’s no info on their plans for it yet, there’s some great discussion of possible features [...]

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