Author: farhan

I have published an updated version of the Play Button iTunes Patch that now correctly kills the remote control daemon after patching it. Thanks to @quicksnap for helping troubleshoot. Here is a link to the issue on github.

I am a big fan of the tmux terminal multiplexer when SSH’ing into any hosts. Definitely check it out if you don’t know about it. By default tmux is pretty bare, but you can use my current .tmux.conf as a reference. The configuration file below will essentially create labels for each terminal showing the currently running program.

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set-option -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"
#set-option -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

set-option -g status-fg white
set-option -g status-bg black
#set-option -g status-bg white

set-option -g prefix C-a
bind-key C-a last-window

#set-window-option -g mode-mouse on

setw -g window-status-current-attr underscore

set -g status-keys vi
setw -g mode-keys vi

Lol, I saw this Samsung ad shared on numerous websites. Seriously, is Samsung promoting stalking now? This is a waste of marketing dollars.

Yesterday I got a package from Amazon that I had requested overnight shipping on. At first sight it wasn’t anything unexpected, but when I opened the box I was surprised. I was surprised because along with the overnight shipped item, in a different session, I had also ordered another item with regular Amazon Prime shipping. To my surprise both the items were shipped overnight in the same box. Now that’s just awesome! Go you, Amazon!

OK, one more Apple event scheduled for October 22nd. I am really hoping that we’ll have new MacBook Pros announced this time. New iPads are pretty much guaranteed, but come on Apple, I want to upgrade my MBP (need Haswell)!

Apple has released the Golden Master OS X Mavericks to developers. I am hoping that this means that the new MacBook Pro will be released soon. I have been waiting for too long to upgrade my MBP!

Lately I have had to preview a lot of JSON files. Apple’s QuickLook is a great feature for that, but, unfortunately, the base OS X doesn’t come with any QuickLook plugin for JSON. After a quick search online I found a free plugin that works fairly well. Not only does it preview the contents of the file, it pretty prints and supports folding. So, here is my shout-out to quick look JSON

There is also a website, quicklookplugins.com, dedicated to QuickLook plugins.

Thanks to user48986 at AskDifferent I was able to update Play Button iTunes Patch to support OS X Mountain Lion. Head over to the project page for the updated download.