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mutewinter

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Building https://x.com/quests_dev.

Contact me on X: https://x.com/mutewinter

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mutewinter··on Claude Opus 4.5
Some early visual evaluations: https://x.com/mutewinter/status/1993037630209192276
mutewinter··on Show HN: I made a new Vim icon
So good. Can't wait for the icns.
mutewinter··on Fish shell 2.0
I've often wondered that too. Console2[1] is the best alternative I've found for cmd.exe. Mintty[2] is a decent alternative to Cygwin.

[1]: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Console2ABetterWindowsCommandP...

[2]: https://code.google.com/p/mintty/

mutewinter··on Scrub values in JavaScript live
I did something like this in my presentation[1] about Ember.

It uses Ember.js to maintain the state of the code samples and proved to be very stable. I don't have interactive sliders on specific values, but the code is parsed and run after every character the user types. e.g. you can change the size of the squid on this page[2] and see it reflected immediately on the right.

[1]: http://mutewinter.github.com/why_ember/#/slides

[2]: http://mutewinter.github.com/why_ember/#/slides/data-binding

mutewinter··on Want to learn Rails? Start here.
Here's another good list, and it takes contributions on GitHub. http://iwanttolearnruby.com/
mutewinter··on Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle
The suggested criteria for selecting a framework fails to ask the most important question, what are you building?

The lightweight libraries have their place in weekend-long hack projects. The larger frameworks lend themselves to multi-view, complex applications.

mutewinter··on Twitter Worm on the Loose
I've got a few friends who are affected by this who haven't tweeted in months. All posts come from the web interface. Can't find any news or security sites with more info.
mutewinter··on Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review
A new feature in Jellybean allows you to download city maps for offline usage.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-maps-offline-andro...

mutewinter··on A day in the life of a startup founder
s/Velocipede/Vooza

http://www.vooza.com/

mutewinter··on Bookmarklet to see YC / Reddit thread of any URL
Same experience for me with HN Thread http://kaspa.rs/hn-bookmarklet/. This seems to work much better.

Let's take this url as an example http://daneden.me/animate/.

With HN Thread I get one page.

With Hacker Panel I just get the submission screen.

With this bookmarklet I get all three times the page was submitted to Hacker News.

Thanks OP.

mutewinter··on Show HN: Moki is a recruiting platform built on Twitter
Those avatars look familiar http://eightbit.me/.
mutewinter··on Bushi.do is now Cloudfuji.com, launches Kandan - beautiful open source chat
The source code is a treasure trove for those looking for an example of a larger Backbone.js application with a Rails backend and Faye for push notifications to the browser.

Backbone code - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/tree/master/app/assets/j...

Faye (on the Backbone side) - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/blob/master/app/assets/j...

Faye (on the Ruby side) - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/blob/master/app/models/a...

mutewinter··on Introducing the New GitHub Graphs
I built http://gitego.com a few months back to keep track of watchers, forks, size, and issues over time. I'm glad they're enhancing the code-related graphs. Stats for those would be much harder to gather externally.

Edit: Looks like Metior was tracking code stats externally from GitHub as well http://metior.herokuapp.com/.

mutewinter··on When Will The Social Sharing Button Madness Stop
Apropos.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_likes

mutewinter··on The GitHub Styleguide
Scanning through the Ruby styleguide for GitHub-specific changes I found this gem:

"The and and or keywords are banned. It's just not worth it. Always use && and || instead."

sad trombone

mutewinter··on Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages
Surprised the default content of the page isn't set to the readme, if one exists.
mutewinter··on Sublime Text Plugin: Activate & reload Chrome with a keyboard shorcut
Yes. A thousand times yes. I used to have a vim plugin[1] for reloading Chrome also. LiveReload[2] is far and away the way to go.

[1]: https://github.com/mkitt/browser-refresh.vim

[2]: http://livereload.com/

mutewinter··on Ask HN: What do you listen to while coding?
A while back I wrote a post about what I listen to: http://pileofturtles.com/2010/12/music-for-programming/. tl;dr Electronic Music / Podcasts.

After listening to music while programming for so long now, I actually find it hard to program without music.

mutewinter··on Dear Github, please fix the Watch-Button
I run a website that tracks watchers on GitHub projects, http://gitego.com.

What I see is that it is incredibly rare for a project to lose watchers. It seems that people are using GitHub's watch feature as a bookmarking service.

On a side note, GitEgo tracks two[1,2] of paulasmuth's GitHub repositories, and neither of them has "lost lost around 30 watchers by the evening." He may be referring to other projects on GitHub, but even Twitter Bootstrap[3] (the most popular GitHub project), almost never loses watchers. Granted, these projects could all be gaining just a few more watchers than they are losing per hour, but the net effect is almost always a gain each day.

I think the real problem is that watching a repository doesn't engage a user in its contents. Watching commit messages fly by isn't as entertaining as reading 140 characters someone groomed for public consumption.

[1]: http://gitego.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric#watchers?interval=b...

[2]: http://gitego.com/paulasmuth/recommendify#watchers?interval=...

[3]: http://gitego.com/twitter/bootstrap#watchers?interval=by_hou...

mutewinter··on Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after Ruby on Rails
GitHub Repo - https://github.com/viatropos/tower

Source for towerjs.org (written with Tower.js) - https://github.com/viatropos/towerjs.org

mutewinter··on Tumult Hype 1.5 is out with major improvements to the HTML5 builder for Mac OS X
I was not a fan of the old icon[1], but the new one isn't better. Way too much detail on the new icon at smaller sizes.

[1]:http://static.tumultco.com/press/media/HypeIconShadow.png

mutewinter··on Opinionated dotfiles for vim, zsh, git and OS X
No way that I know of. I tend to leave my buffers open indefinitely for the entire session. I work in splits and am constantly rotating buffers using Command-T, NERDTree, and LustyJuggler.
mutewinter··on Opinionated dotfiles for vim, zsh, git and OS X
I'm down to 47 plugins[1]. Only 27 if you don't count the language additions and Vundle. I've whittled it down over many months of scrutiny. I do actually make use of almost all of the plugins daily.

[1]:https://github.com/mutewinter/dot_vim

mutewinter··on RubyMine 4 is Here to Make You Feel the Productivity
There's a fairly decent vim plugin for all of the JetBrains IDEs called IdeaVIM. Here's a post from the same blog about it:

http://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2009/08/rubymine-for-vim-addi...

And here's the direct link to the plugin:

http://plugins.jetbrains.net/plugin/?ruby&id=164

mutewinter··on MusicForProgramming();
I wrote a blog post about this a while back, I'll just leave that right here.

http://pileofturtles.com/2010/12/music-for-programming/

mutewinter··on Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility
Nice. Looks prettier than status.vim too.
mutewinter··on Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility
Looks like a nice replacement for status.vim https://github.com/dickeytk/status.vim. Just needs syntastic support https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic.
mutewinter··on The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript
This is a better explanation of the problem than the blog post. Thanks!
mutewinter··on Show HN: GitEgo.com - GitHub Stat Tracking
Good point, I plan to allow users to log in with their GitHub account which will then import all of their repos. I could make a page that aggregates all of the gains for a specific user. Thanks for this fantastic idea :)
mutewinter··on Two New Vim Plugins
Agreed. Vundle is amazing. I'm using it my vimrc (https://github.com/mutewinter/dot_vim/blob/master/vimrc#L18).