After years of using curl to test web interfaces, like cavemen did, I've finally started using more sophisticated tools.
There are a couple of applications for Google Chrome that I like:
They have similar feature sets. Postman is prettier and a bit easier to use, but …
I was supposed to run the Berry Half Marathon today. This would have been my first half marathon, and I've been training for the past two months to run it.
Unfortunately, the event was cancelled due to lightning and poor course conditions after several hours of thunderstorms. So all I …
After I published my OS X Automator Service for Reformatting JSON Text, one commenter said that he always uses http://jsonformat.com/. I have used that, but I hate the output it produces. Its output is more readable than JSON with all the whitespace stripped out, but not by much …
Note: This is an old post. I now use jq (http://stedolan.github.io/jq/) instead of the formatjson Node script described below, and I recommend that you do too.
I had some JSON files that were not indented consistently. I edit these files by hand, so I wanted a …
I have recently evaluated a few Git GUI apps for OS X. Here are my impressions.
Pros:
Cons:
I have just learned about Apple's UI Automation testing framework. Unfortunately, I don't have an iOS project to work on at the moment, so I am probably going to forget all about it. This is my cheatsheet. It may not help you at all.
I recently bought my wife a coat from an Amazon Marketplace seller. We are happy with the coat, but I was troubled when I saw this notice bundled with it:
Leave a 5-Star, Positive Review ~ Receive a Free One Year Warranty!*
Dear Valued Customer,
If you are COMPLETELY SATISFIED with …
There is one hot-button issue that will always draw me into a rant: the assertion that anyone who draws a paycheck from the government is a "taker" rather than a "maker".
My wife is a science teacher in a public school. She worked her way through college and obtained a …
This past weekend, two of our DirecTV satellite receivers failed. The failures were unrelated: one stopped working after the magic smoke leaked out of the vents; the other kept rebooting itself and scanning its disk, without ever actually starting up.
My wife called DirecTV and told them about the problems …
Another year behind me. Not a bad year.
I picked up a new client this year, and reduced my time spent working with the client I've had for the past couple of years. The new client provides opportunities for more interesting work. I've been able to do more mobile and …