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I often repeat myself when I talk about a certain piece of software that is awesome and makes me happy. I’ll share a list of software that meets this criterion and a small explanation for each. I’m not considering web software here — maybe on another list.

TextMate - By far the best editor I have [...]

America has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were [...]

I joined the Philosophy Club at school this quarter. During one of the meetings we were talking about the roots of morality. The token Christian zealot declared that morality is ultimately objective and inherent, and is nothing more than what is good in the eyes of God. That’s obviously not a particularly lengthy or interesting [...]

After several months of using my PowerBook G4 and running OS X 10.4.3 now, I have compiled a list of the things that annoy me most about OS X or certain OS X apps.
General Interface (Cocoa Apps)

Triple-click to select line should not select newlines.

Finder

There’s no clean tree view like Windows Explorer. A dual pane interface [...]

After the "Ajax" explosion this past spring there’s been a growing trend: create a web framework! Now less than nine months later there are tens of different frameworks, all shooting for what I see as the same general goal. Let’s review just a couple of these frameworks, organized by their languages:

Ruby
Ruby on Rails, NARF
Python
Django, Pylons, [...]

I’ve been second guessing my decision to take on another major and stay in college for one more year. Not because of the all-too-common “What is philosophy useful for?” inquisition, but because I’m restless.
I realized that while most or at least some college students are timid about entering the “real world” after school, I only [...]