Category Archives: Nerdery

Items of interest to fellow computer nerds.

A simple way to keep your Mac awake

This is a meandering post that ends with a shell scripting tip. Images on this blog had been broken ever since I migrated to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET several months ago. I took some time today to fix them and tie up some other loose ends. I learned that PHP’s safe mode (as implemented by NSFN, anyway) won’t …

September 15, 2010 – 1:07 am | By Benjamin | Posted in Nerdery | Comments Off

Make Xcode nag you about unfinished TODOs

Add a simple Run Script Build Phase to your project and you’ll never forget another TODO again.

January 8, 2010 – 3:51 am | By Benjamin | Posted in Nerdery | Tagged , | Comments Off

Draw your own Disclosure Indicator

In which I share code for a function to draw an iPhone disclosure indicator.

January 3, 2010 – 10:21 pm | By Benjamin | Posted in Nerdery | Tagged | Comments Off

Nicer ways to view UNIX man pages

There is a wealth of information available in the UNIX manual pages, but it feels a little silly to be reading text out of a terminal window, especially since I paid so much money for all this fancy font rendering technology. Here are some alternatives: To view a man page in Xcode’s documentation window, simply …

November 29, 2009 – 9:38 pm | By Benjamin | Posted in Nerdery | Comments (1)