March 11, 2012
Hide the Spotlight Menu Icon in Mac OS X Lion

To hide the Spotlight icon:

sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search

killall SystemUIServer

To show the Spotlight icon again use:

sudo chmod 755 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search

killall SystemUIServer

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November 7, 2011
Yield Thought: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

yieldthought:

On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. This is the surprising story of a month spent working in the cloud.

It all started when I bought my first MacBook a couple of years ago. Frustrated by the inconsistent…

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November 2, 2011
“ Coders are special. We are expected to know how to do things we’ve never done before and estimate how long they will take.
@jaimeohm via @majstors. Same goes for designers, even more so. (via sprawsmblog) •
October 25, 2011
Use qprint to encode and decode quoted-printable mail

Usage: qprint -d encoded_file > output_file

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June 16, 2011
Mute/unmute app for Mac
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January 27, 2011
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Display log in Rails console:

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.instance_variable_set :@logger, Logger.new(STDOUT)
How can I see the SQL that will be generated by a given ActiveRecord query in Ruby on Rails - Stack Overflow •
November 4, 2010
How Science Saved my Soul [Video]
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October 16, 2010
Tech Support
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October 13, 2010
The MP3 Experiment #7
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August 13, 2010
Drop all tables in a MySQL database

Simple way to drop all tables in a MySQL database. Especially useful if you have a lot of tables and you don’t want to delete whole database.

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