Archive | October, 2008

recovered all my blog posts since 2000

Ah that’s just great. Through a tense but harmless procedure I managed to recover access to my entire blogging history since the beginning. In the records it appears that my first ever blog post is dated May 8th 2000. A long time ago! I’ll go even further and embarrass myself quoting it in full: Hello [...]

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running for ycombinator 2009 and having a blast

It’s been a crazy ride these past few weeks. My partner in crime – nocivus – and I have been working very hard on our submission for the 2009 Winter round of Y Combinator. It has been a lot of fun. Creative energy is like a drug. When you’re under its effect you can’t stop [...]

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Using gmail for outbound smtp on Mac OS X Leopard

I had problems setting up postfix to run properly on my macbook pro. Then I found this very clear, step by step how to. And now everything works like a charm. The only drawback is that I can now basically only send email from my gmail account. Well that will do it for now.

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one line search and replace in a folder [OSX]

Beautiful tip to search and replace all occurrences of a string in a given folder.  I had to change it slightly to make it work under OSX so here it is for future reference:   find . -type f -exec sed -i -e ‘s/Old/New/g’ {} \;

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