Stop using autocomplete. People no longer think about what they say, what they type, and how they spell it. Especially for programming, autocomplete is a sin.

Hey, everyone!

It has recently come to my attention that some of the code that I was using in my website rendered Zombie Zen and a couple other sites I’ve been working on completely un-viewable in Internet Explorer 8. Ironically, it was the part of my code that was supposed to make HTML5 render better on Internet Explorer.

Though I’d like to put some distance between myself and Tony Hayward, I still think it is proper that I say: I’m sorry.

I wanted to paste a text file with my homework assignment into Gmail. Unfortunately, said text file was on the school server and I really didn’t want to permanently download the thing to my hard drive. So this is what I did:

This connects to the school server, retrieves graph.txt from my home directory, and copies it to standard out. I then piped the text into pbcopy, which is the Mac utility for manipulating the clipboard. After that, I switched to Gmail and did a paste.

Unix/bash is cool!