Author Archives: Sharpy

Changing SmartyPants’ default behavour in TextMate

I recently mentioned that I am currently trialling TextMate, as a possible alternative to Bare Bones Software’s eminently capable BBEdit. Here’s one of the issues I initially had with Markdown in Textmate, and how I solved it.
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Another text editor?

I’ve been a BBEdit user for around 6 months now, and I can tell you that I am very happy with it. There are probably many who would say my love of text editors and plain text is a little crazy, or at least odd. I’d probably agree with them. It must be an insatiable [...]
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Unable to delete Header or Body styles in Pages ’09

Found an interesting bug (feature?) in Pages '09 which makes you unable to delete Header or Body styles, and creates up to Header 9 by default in every document.

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Where have all the minutes gone?

Last week my body decided it didn’t like me very much any more. That made me sad.
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Now you can Subscribe2

Hey there all. Spent a little time browsing the WordPress.org plugin site the other day and now I have some shiny new additions to tell you about. Subscribe2 me The major addition is the Subscribe2 plugin which has officially moved in at this site. Why do I care? you ask. Well, if you’re at all [...]
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Setting Xcode’s default compiler for a project

A simple how-to for changing the default GCC compiler version in Xcode, and also for use from the Mac OS X Terminal.

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Safari just got better

I’ve spoken before about the reasons I like OS X so much. But who am I kidding? I’m sure the real reason is that Apple just knows how to make things look pretty. Therefore, an entire post about font smoothing. When will Microsoft catch up?

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Donald Knuth, the Mac, and practical typography

You could call me any combination of fussy, perfectionist, OCD or just plain anal when it comes to matters of typography. I wasn’t always this way—at least not about matters of type. I think the root cause of my problem is that I’m an intuitive learner. I can’t stand to learn things by rote and [...]
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What’s happening? Change is.

I have not been this excited in a long time. You know what’s caused this sudden, unanticipated precipitation of passion? Change. Some people hate it. Some people have an extreme dislike of it. Some even loathe it. And yet, the prospect of simple, profound change in my church and the extraordinary opportunity to be one [...]
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A simple name

Wrestling with the decision of whether or not to buy a domain. I need something that makes my site about me, that doesn’t limit my creativity or my ability to express my meaning. I originally called my site And Then Some, but though it communicated something of what I wished to communicate, it did not [...]
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