Blog Archive 2013 The One-Person Product May 20 2013 Is it time to change tools? May 16 2013 Every ‘The Best Programmers Editor’ Review May 14 2013 My Next Product May 13 2013 A Coda 2 Use Case May 12 2013 Octopress now has Footnotes May 08 2013 Avoiding the Blogger Trap May 08 2013 Reading the Archives May 07 2013 Hedge Fund Systems May 06 2013 Fix the Mac Function Keys with Palua May 01 2013 Instantly grab a high-res icon for any Mac app May 01 2013 Email before the Open Web Apr 30 2013 Hiltmonism - The Process is not the Product Apr 29 2013 My Workspace Apr 28 2013 Phone Etiquette Apr 27 2013 Make Perfectly Good Mistakes Apr 25 2013 Punctual Apr 25 2013 Analyst Expectations Apr 23 2013 Apple’s Scheduled Releases are a Mistake Apr 23 2013 Slogger after 6 Months Apr 23 2013 Have to Have It Just to Have It Apr 22 2013 The people who love something are its best critics Apr 19 2013 18 Months of Octopress Apr 17 2013 Add GA OS and Browser to Status Board Apr 17 2013 My TextMate 2 Setup Apr 15 2013 Hourly Analytics for Status Board Apr 15 2013 Natsukashii - iPulse Sighting Apr 11 2013 Top Pages in Status Board Apr 10 2013 Google Analytics for Status Board Apr 10 2013 Google Already Is Big Brother Apr 09 2013 Is this the end? Apr 08 2013 Sharing nvAlt Notes with Ulysses III Apr 05 2013 Go Home Apr 04 2013 Direct Marketing your App to Tip Lines Mar 28 2013 $60 million to aquihire me Mar 28 2013 Oldest Trace of You on the Internet Mar 26 2013 Bjango’s Photoshop Actions Mar 25 2013 Mixing Legacy and Modern Web Development on OS X Mountain Lion Mar 20 2013 RSS Address Change Mar 19 2013 Someone Else Did It Better Mar 19 2013 Long on Apple Mar 19 2013 I’m doing it wrong: Dropbox buys Mailbox Mar 19 2013 Windows Phone 8 support will expire before your phone contract does Mar 18 2013 Cutting down on Web Tracking Mar 18 2013 Premature BlackBerry Sales Analysis by Forbes Mar 15 2013 Also Destroyed the Ecosystem Mar 14 2013 Backup Your Online Life Mar 14 2013 Guessing the Wall Street Journal Agenda for Apple Mar 12 2013 Sharing Bash Profiles across Computers Mar 12 2013 Better Bash Shell Expansion Mar 12 2013 Gist.tmbundle Updates Mar 11 2013 Modular Mac Pros, the new Burroughs B20? Mar 09 2013 The diminishing relevance of MS Office Mar 07 2013 TimeToCall - After One Month Mar 07 2013 Defend your Livelihood Mar 06 2013 We unfortunately can’t pay you for it Mar 06 2013 Fix Copy Address from Mail on OS X Mar 06 2013 On Ihnatko Switching to Android Mar 06 2013 TimeToCall Demo Video Mar 05 2013 Better? Mar 02 2013 TimeToCall - First Updates Coming Soon Feb 28 2013 Have a Better Agenda Feb 27 2013 BuyReply: Email, Text, Tweet, Click to Buy Feb 26 2013 Using Twitter ADN and #xpost Feb 26 2013 Gist TextMate Bundle and Command Line Feb 25 2013 Multiple Themes in TextMate 2 Feb 22 2013 Glui - a better Skitch Feb 20 2013 CriticMarkup Bundle for TextMate 2 Feb 15 2013 Common Misconceptions about the App Store Feb 14 2013 TimeToCall - After One Week Feb 14 2013 Make iTerm 2 more Mac-like Feb 13 2013 Download Dreamhost Server Logs Feb 10 2013 Add Web Clip Icons to Octopress Feb 10 2013 TimeToCall - Shipping Feb 07 2013 TimeToCall - Dawdle to the Finish Feb 06 2013 TimeToCall - The MacGuffin Feb 05 2013 TimeToCall - Polishing the App Feb 04 2013 TimeToCall - Sweating the Details Feb 03 2013 TimeToCall - Good and Bad Times to Call Feb 02 2013 TimeToCall - Presenting the Clock Feb 01 2013 TimeToCall - The Biggest Design Decision Jan 31 2013 Clothes make the Man Jan 30 2013 TimeToCall - Building the Core Jan 30 2013 TimeToCall - The Effort and the Return Jan 29 2013 Time To Call - Coming Soon Jan 25 2013 Dog with a Bone Jan 24 2013 Surface Pro Pricing Madness Jan 23 2013 Browser Windows on all Desktops Jan 19 2013 Sanity Saver: NoMoreiTunes Jan 19 2013 Being Productive with Virtual Desktops Jan 17 2013 RVM in TextMate 2 Jan 16 2013 Back to TextMate 2 Jan 14 2013 Hit by a Bus Jan 14 2013 Priming the Pump Jan 14 2013 Workable Social Network Connection Heuristics Jan 12 2013 Ruby Tempfile Aggressive Unlink Jan 11 2013 Reprogramming my Brace Style Mind Jan 07 2013 The Entirety Of Information Jan 07 2013 Assembly Notes Jan 03 2013 2012 1GHz Titanium PowerBook Dec 31 2012 Mind hacks Dec 28 2012 Be Organized and Productive Dec 26 2012 2012 Year End iPad Essentials Dec 26 2012 CD to Current Finder Path Dec 21 2012 How to Flexify a Class Dec 19 2012 Free Instagram Ad Image for Advertisers Dec 19 2012 Premature Flexification Dec 19 2012 Depersonalize because you can’t quit Dec 18 2012 You’re the Advertisement Dec 17 2012 Gun Control does Work Dec 16 2012 De Fault with Default Dec 11 2012 On Customer and Developer Entitlements Dec 11 2012 Forced Arbitration and the Right to Sue Dec 05 2012 Apple, Please make a Touchscreen Laptop Dec 03 2012 Bills Doubled in 8 Years Dec 02 2012 Yahoo Finance Logger for Slogger Dec 01 2012 Inbox Kinda Zero Dec 01 2012 Back to Byword from iA Writer Nov 29 2012 Hiltmonism - Workflow is Functionality Nov 27 2012 Multi-Platform Editing is Sublime Nov 26 2012 Hiltmon.com - One Year Old Nov 24 2012 Vegemite Sandwich Nov 22 2012 Day One iCloud Sync Fail Nov 17 2012 No Sale: It does not have what we can and will not use Nov 16 2012 Python Zen Nov 15 2012 Google Analytics Logger for Slogger Nov 14 2012 Another Reason to love this Community Nov 12 2012 Linking to Bullshit Nov 08 2012 Adverse Apple Articles Nov 08 2012 Multiple Themes in Sublime Text 2 Nov 07 2012 Rarely Microsoft Office Nov 07 2012 Managing the Productivity Context Nov 06 2012 Reducing Inboxes Nov 06 2012 Surface Disk Free Space Nov 05 2012 AAPL vs AMZN Performance Madness Nov 05 2012 Grand Central Today Oct 29 2012 Surface RT is not a Duck Oct 27 2012 Marco and the Surface Oct 27 2012 Windows 8 Launch MIA Oct 25 2012 Apple vs Microsoft Launch Differences Oct 25 2012 Email Etiquette Oct 24 2012 The Big 5 Windows 8 Lineups Oct 24 2012 There’d be something called a mini Oct 23 2012 The myth of the wireless spectrum crisis Oct 22 2012 Huge Last Week in October 2012 for Tech Oct 22 2012 Solutions born from deep experience Oct 22 2012 45 Revolutions Oct 20 2012 Say NO to Spec Work Oct 19 2012 Why Windows Just Can’t Win Oct 19 2012 Too Many Menu Bar Apps? Oct 16 2012 Walled Gardens are Permeable Oct 15 2012 The Post-PC future, iCloud turns one Oct 14 2012 Fixing Open With in OS X Oct 13 2012 Scratched iPhones Oct 10 2012 Spent more on Patents than R&D? Oct 10 2012 Microsoft Lost its Mojo Oct 10 2012 BBEdit still Rules Oct 10 2012 Stop with the old Text Editors already Oct 08 2012 Hiltmonism - Minimize the Glue Oct 08 2012 Export to Excel is a Red Flag Sep 29 2012 Entitlement Sep 28 2012 Windows 8 Preview on a Tablet Sep 27 2012 Bye bye Skitch, Hello LittleSnapper Sep 27 2012 New iOS6 Cached Maps Sep 24 2012 The best Sushi Sep 20 2012 Buying a new Suitcase Sep 19 2012 Text Editor Addict Aug 25 2012 Thwarted by Patents Aug 25 2012 Care Aug 22 2012 Where is the International News Aug 20 2012 AT&T effs users again Aug 18 2012 Hipstamatic fires its devs Aug 17 2012 RIP Twitter Aug 17 2012 My Sublime Text 2 Setup Aug 14 2012 Choosing Sunglasses Aug 13 2012 App.Net Funded Aug 13 2012 Textmate 2 is now Open Source Aug 09 2012 Expect the Unexpected Aug 08 2012 Well Managed Scripts better than Platforms Aug 07 2012 No competition in Carrier space Aug 06 2012 Mischief Managed: Update Tools, Learn New Aug 06 2012 Mischief Managed: Archiving Aug 06 2012 Mischief Managed: Google 2-Factor Authentication Aug 06 2012 Mischief Managed: Clean Inbox Aug 06 2012 New Site Font Aug 05 2012 Change is Good - New Applications replacing Old Ones Aug 03 2012 Moom Corners Aug 03 2012 Setting up BBEdit for Markdown Aug 03 2012 Day One updated to v1.7 Aug 02 2012 My first computer - Sinclair ZX81 Aug 01 2012 Hiltmonism - Lead the Business Aug 01 2012 If the NBC Olympics team did the NFL Jul 30 2012 The value of Apps Jul 24 2012 Low app prices unsustainable Jul 23 2012 How many 99c apps it takes to afford that guy Jul 23 2012 Talent Acquisitions and Product Casualties Jul 22 2012 Joining the SSD Club Jul 22 2012 The 10-year rule Jul 19 2012 Two kinds of innovations in tech Jul 19 2012 7 Reasons Why I Can’t Do “Free” Jul 19 2012 Software will always trump Hardware Jul 19 2012 International Terpstra Day Jul 19 2012 Octopress Post and Publish Jul 18 2012 Estimating Software like it is Jul 18 2012 Kinds of Files in a Project Folder Jul 16 2012 TextExpander in Terminal Jul 15 2012 Cheap programmers cost more and ship less Jul 14 2012 Kifu v1.0 Released Jul 12 2012 Building and dismantling the Windows advantage Jul 11 2012 Great since day one Jul 11 2012 The unreasonable man Jul 11 2012 Slicy Photoshop Artwork Jul 11 2012 Target the Forward Fringe Jul 06 2012 Carriers are the biggest threat to innovation Jul 05 2012 Project Folder Layout Jun 30 2012 iPhone is 5 today Jun 29 2012 Syncing the Desktop and the Laptop Jun 29 2012 Data presentation at its best Jun 28 2012 On the Nexus 7 Jun 28 2012 Someone is coming to eat you Jun 28 2012 Compete to maintain, Disrupt to succeed Jun 22 2012 Non-upgradable Smartphones Jun 20 2012 Single-pay, Ad-pay or Both-pay? Jun 20 2012 Learn to Automate Jun 20 2012 Markdown Metadata Jun 18 2012 Unrepairable Jun 17 2012 The care and feeding of software engineers Jun 17 2012 I love my lawyers Jun 15 2012 My WWDC 2012 Scorecard Jun 11 2012 Sandboxing and Productivity Utilities Jun 11 2012 My WWDC 2012 Predictions Jun 09 2012 Hiltmonism - No more than Five Jun 09 2012 Shuttle on the Hudson Jun 06 2012 How support via Twitter works Jun 06 2012 The Demo Bag Jun 05 2012 Annual Apple WWDC Disappointment Jun 05 2012 Notice of Revocation of Independence Jun 03 2012 Screw the Power Users Jun 03 2012 Mac App Store vs Buying Direct Jun 03 2012 The Last of the Workstations Jun 03 2012 Using Mission Control Desktops Jun 03 2012 Project Specific Data May 27 2012 The Missing Feature Fallacy May 26 2012 Old Farts Know How to Code May 25 2012 Please Learn to Write May 25 2012 Stylizing my Services Agreement May 22 2012 Distributed Note Taking May 22 2012 Zombie email May 18 2012 My own support call line May 18 2012 Apple Cinema HD Display circa 2003 May 16 2012 Automatically Managed Files May 16 2012 US Aircraft Embarkation Etiquette Failures May 16 2012 Recent Travels and Tech May 15 2012 Application Context Packs Apr 26 2012 My iPhone Home Screen Apr 26 2012 Why Scope Creep is your fault Apr 25 2012 This Industry Is Full Of Crap Apr 25 2012 Microsoft did not always suck Apr 22 2012 US Dining Etiquette Failures Apr 21 2012 Spike UI Teaser Apr 19 2012 The news routine Apr 19 2012 Augmented Paper Apr 16 2012 Another view of the TSA problem Apr 16 2012 Text Notes - Going Electronic Apr 15 2012 Don’t Panic - Flashback Trojan Apr 12 2012 Marked 1.4 Apr 09 2012 The Candle Problem Apr 09 2012 Explaining the Internet to Old Powerbrokers Apr 09 2012 Spike Solutions Apr 06 2012 Adjusting the Cap Apr 04 2012 And this is why Apr 01 2012 I love debugging Mar 31 2012 Photoshop Etiquette for Web Designers Mar 31 2012 Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule Mar 31 2012 The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades Mar 27 2012 On Digital Hoarding Mar 27 2012 You’re being stalked Mar 27 2012 iPad 4G Misleading Mar 27 2012 Freemium Simulation Games prove Stupidity Mar 25 2012 Giving yourself away with a Facebook Login Mar 24 2012 Clarity Mar 22 2012 Markdown Quick Look Mar 22 2012 2012 iPad Essentials Mar 17 2012 With In-App Coins, We’re all Losers Mar 17 2012 First impressions of the new iPad Mar 16 2012 My Blog Writing Workflow Mar 15 2012 Get to read quicker Mar 14 2012 Not Your Free Tech Support Mar 13 2012 Top of the Line Mar 09 2012 Writing on the iPad Mar 09 2012 iPad - On Two Years of Use Mar 09 2012 The Markdown File Extension Mar 07 2012 You Are Not Ruthless Enough Mar 05 2012 The 10 commandments of good source control management Mar 05 2012 Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money? Mar 05 2012 Presenting a Professional Indie Image Mar 05 2012 Serious and Snark Mar 05 2012 Thank you for a great February Mar 01 2012 The End of Advertising Mar 01 2012 TSA:Fail Mar 01 2012 Quick and Dirty Rails Performance Profiling Feb 27 2012 iPhone Data Plan Follies Feb 25 2012 Text Editing Fonts and Colors Feb 23 2012 Apple and Facebook Feb 22 2012 The Markdown Mindset Feb 20 2012 The 4G deception Feb 17 2012 All to Octopress Feb 16 2012 The App Store playing field Feb 16 2012 Taking down my old iPhone Apps Feb 13 2012 Hiltmonism - Fix instead of Blame Feb 11 2012 Speculative Developers Feb 07 2012 Design needs an Advocate Feb 07 2012 Structure First. Content Always. Feb 07 2012 Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway Feb 03 2012 Cheap iPhones, Wealthy Workers, Pick One? Feb 03 2012 News Logic Feb 03 2012 The paradox of choice Feb 01 2012 Childlike Wonder Feb 01 2012 Fragility of Free Jan 29 2012 Test Driven Development Really Works Jan 26 2012 Where the light is better Jan 26 2012 Less Wasting Time Jan 26 2012 Trade Trade Secrets Jan 24 2012 Understanding ACTA Jan 23 2012 Hiltmonism - Operations by Exception Jan 23 2012 Bread crumbs in Day One Jan 23 2012 Developers, A Love Story Jan 23 2012 A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Jan 23 2012 Make a better product Jan 18 2012 Software is Eating the World Jan 18 2012 Stop SOPA and PIPA, a personal request Jan 18 2012 Hollywood Accounting and SOPA Jan 17 2012 Google’s Schmidt Solution to Android Jan 16 2012 Products define you Jan 16 2012 Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users Jan 16 2012 How Google failed to fix the mobile market Jan 16 2012 It should only take you a few hours… Jan 11 2012 Why patents are a big problem Jan 11 2012 Hiltmonism - Always Be Selling Jan 09 2012 Childlike Wonder Jan 07 2012 Does money even exist anymore? Jan 06 2012 Bandwidth caps never necessary Jan 06 2012 My Favorite Mac Apps of 2011 Jan 05 2012 Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking Jan 02 2012 The coming war on general computation Jan 02 2012 2011 The definition of open Dec 30 2011 Get it brilliant Dec 30 2011 The difference between drivers and passengers Dec 30 2011 Creating games in genres you hate Dec 30 2011 Lodsys still trolling Dec 30 2011 Bogus copyright claims under SOPA Dec 30 2011 Not secret subpoena Dec 30 2011 Ridiculous Gizmodo Dec 29 2011 Reviews should advise Dec 28 2011 Textmate 2 Tips Dec 28 2011 Is America Giving Up on the Future? Dec 26 2011 Programming polytheism Dec 26 2011 2011 Platforms - Ruby on Rails Dec 26 2011 2011 Platforms - Objective-C and iOS Dec 26 2011 The whole world is watching while the USA collapses Dec 23 2011 You’re the product Dec 23 2011 The cartoon villain behind SOPA Dec 23 2011 Hiltmonism - One version of the truth Dec 23 2011 Smoke Screening Dec 21 2011 Adam Savage on SOPA Dec 21 2011 The missing feature Dec 19 2011 Developer and Power Tools Dec 19 2011 Hiltmonism - If it ain’t broke, break it Dec 17 2011 Bring in the nerds Dec 17 2011 On the topic of talent Dec 16 2011 Speculative work hurts Dec 16 2011 Machine-driven Dec 16 2011 Design is Horseshit Dec 16 2011 Seek the Criticism Dec 14 2011 Don’t give up on your techs Dec 13 2011 The usage lifecycle Dec 13 2011 The lost art of the print statement Dec 12 2011 Hiltmonism - Write code for someone else Dec 12 2011 Kindle Fire lets kids charge up a storm Dec 07 2011 Hiltmonism - Information, not Data Dec 06 2011 Don’t be a free user Dec 06 2011 Good news - online retailers do not hate their customers Dec 06 2011 Zittrain misses the point Dec 04 2011 The argument for coding standards Dec 04 2011 Hiltmonism - Automate or Die Dec 04 2011 The best Steve Jobs quote Dec 04 2011 The four hour rule Dec 03 2011 e-reader roundup Dec 02 2011 No Service Competition in New York Dec 02 2011 Data caps don’t work Dec 02 2011 Explain the Problem - Not your Solution Dec 02 2011 Hiltmonism - Close to the Business Dec 01 2011 On Designing Web Applications balancing Identity, Usability and Familiarity Nov 29 2011 VC tries to sell a con Nov 29 2011 Hundreds of sites ordered deindexed Nov 29 2011 The readable future Nov 28 2011 Copycats Nov 28 2011 Almost no-one changes their settings Nov 27 2011 If your site does …, you hate your Customers Nov 27 2011 Should I wait? Nov 25 2011 I just want a Hamburger Nov 25 2011 You are not your Customer Nov 24 2011 F*ck You, Pay Me Nov 23 2011 Signing up for Everything Nov 23 2011 The Pummeling Pages Nov 23 2011 The Way of the Code Samurai Nov 23 2011 Four Keys to Apple’s Success Nov 22 2011 Migrating to Octopress Nov 22 2011