OS haX: Undocumented, inaccessible, and incredibly useful

As enjoy­able as Apple’s soft­ware is to use, they like to make us work.  Hid­den below the sur­face of most Apple soft­ware are hun­dreds of undoc­u­mented lit­tle “switches” which can be turned on to enable new sooper-seekrit fea­tures.  By the same token, these switches can be dis­abled to remove […]

More than just colors: My bash settings

bash_promptIf the title sug­gests to you either a party, or vio­lence, then per­haps this post isn’t for you. If instead you are imag­in­ing a blank win­dow filled with text, read on. If you are con­fused right now, but also strangely curi­ous, you may feel […]

Temporarily “pause” all Firefox processes

ff-stopIf you browse the web like i browse the web then that means you prob­a­bly have at least a dozen tabs open at any given time, and twice as many add-ons.  Now i <3 the Fire­fox web browser.  Hard!  But my main com­plaint about it is […]