Hiltmon.com - One Year Old
On Nov 22, 2012, the revamped hiltmon.com turned one year old. And I missed it as I was too busy guzzling turkey. Thank you all for reading, sharing and responding to my writing. Stats from the First Year 287 posts. 67,536 pageviews. Taking the HN/Reddit outliers out, hiltmon.com is averaging 4,278 page views per month. Over the year, 41.66% of visitors used Chrome, 20.82% used Firefox and 20.07% used Safari.
Vegemite Sandwich
It’s Thanksgiving here in the USA today and all us good Aussies are making our own comfort food, Vegemite Sandwiches. If you have listened to the Men at Work song Down Under, you’ve heard of this magical foodstuff. Here’s how to do it right. The Ingredients 2 x slices of bread (most prefer fluffy white, I prefer a wholegrain brown). One is never enough, and more than two is only allowed after a vigorous rugby game.
Day One iCloud Sync Fail
This post seems to have become popular. To clarify, the problem is with iCloud, Day One is just plain brilliant and you should all be using it. I use the Day One journalling program a lot, especially to log commits and all social activity using Slogger. But today I noticed that the Journals on all my devices were out of sync, and new entries created were not passed on to other devices.
No Sale: It does not have what we can and will not use
As a buyer of software, I always focus on what the software does do. If it does what I need to do well, and the price is right, I buy it, I use it and I gain the productivity benefits from it. As a seller of software, I find potential customers focus on what the product does not do, and use this as a reason to avoid purchasing. That’s fine as long as the missing feature is something they can and do or will use.
Python Zen
After reading Federico Viticci’s Automating iOS: How Pythonista Changed My Workflow, I think its time I added the Python Programming Language to my repertoire. The first thing I learned about Python is the Zen of Python by Tim Peters: Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts.
Google Analytics Logger for Slogger
This article explains how to set up Brett Terpstra’s Slogger with a new plugin to journal your daily Google Analytics site stats. This plugin supports: Multiple web properties as long as they are under the same Google login. Multiple dates so you can skip a few Slogger run days and catch up (or back fill). Only logs a full day’s worth of stats, so if it runs now, it logs up to yesterday’s stats.
Another Reason to love this Community
Friendly competition, another reason to love this community. The gang at App.Net just released their new integrated stream marker feature. The first response I see (at the top) is from Manton Reece (TW: @manton, ADN: @manton), the maker of Tweet Marker that competes with this feature, congratulating them on their implementation. Screenshot off App.Net using Wedge.
Linking to Bullshit
While I was working on my Adverse Apple Articles post this morning, Marco Arment was writing this: Linking to bullshit: If you truly dislike bullshit writing and don’t want to support it, hit the publishers where it hurts: don’t read it, and don’t link to it. I only partially agree. If the site and the article is truly link bait, then sure, we should ignore it and not send others to it.
Adverse Apple Articles
As part of my research into AAPL vs AMZN Performance Madness, I noticed a lot of negative press on AAPL’s share price. So I decided to wait until after the election, then sample the press again to see whether it was a blip or a trend.
In short, the evidence points to a concerted effort to create a negative impression of Apple and push the stock price down. Lets take a look, shall we.
Multiple Themes in Sublime Text 2
One thing I like to do is to have different themes for different file types in my text editor. That way, at a glance, I can guess what kind of file a text-filled window contains, especially when zoomed out using Mission Control. I’ve been using Custom Language Preferences in BBEdit preferences to set up the color scheme for each file type there. TextMate 2 users, check out Multiple Themes in TextMate 2.