April 2009
4 posts
Obscured
I loved to have some blurriness in my transparent terminal consoles under Linux. This allow to have some see-through, yet not having the background be distractive. Since I moved to Leopard, I’ve been dying to find that. And I’ve found it. I do prefer a blur radius of 1.2, with full black 80% opacity background color.
Change
Tumblr is definitely great. You can change both your log URL and your account name (in fact, email address). This is simply brilliant, not technically because it’s fairly trivial, but tumblr just has that grok feeling.
Certified
If you ever happen to have to import a PEM certificate file (foo.crt) containing only a public key together with a private RSA key also in PEM format in its own file (foo.key) into MAc OS X Keychain, here’s a tip. Although you can just click on foo.crt it will just import the public key, and Keychain Access won’t handle foo.key alone. Don’t bother to convert, regenerate, whatever...
Removal
John Gruber asks:
Gall’s law raises hard questions. Where do you start? How small? How simple? Where do you draw the line between simple enough to make it work and complex enough to be interesting? That’s the magic.
Well, the answer is just so simple:
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de...
