http://ridiculousfish.com/blog serious code Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:44:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Buzz is leaving Apple, has already left. Buzz joined Apple two months after I joined, on the same team. He was the first candidate I ever interviewed, although I can’t remember what I asked him. Without Buzz’s encouragement and inspiration, I’d have never started this blog, and ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2007/04/25/buzz/ Guest blogger: Gollum (Smeagol) Where isst it? So it iss back - so fissh, the fish, raw and wriggling, he hasst brought its back! Angband, the Hells of Iron, yest, the ancient ASCII roguelike, child spawn of Moria and VMS, it iss here once more. We wants it! You hasst not ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2007/04/13/42/ "That’s a lot of cores. And while 80-core floating point monsters like that aren’t likely to show up in an iMac any time soon, multicore chips in multiprocessor computers are here today. Single chip machines are so 2004. Programmers better get crackin’. The megahertz free ride ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2007/02/17/barrier/ td.ahleft, td.ahright { padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; } td.ahleft { text-align: right; } td.ahright { padding-top: 20px; font-size: 15pt; padding-left: 50px; line-height: 30px; text-align: left; } tr.aheven { background-color: #DDEEFF; } tr.ahodd { background-color: white; } img.ahproduct { vertical-align: middle; } Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! Hair care!Digital audio! http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/12/11/logos/ Hex Fiend 1.1.1 is now available open source under a BSD-style license. Hex Fiend is my fast and clever free open source hex editor for Mac OS X. I hope you find Hex Fiend useful for whatever purpose, but if you are interested in contributing changes on an ongoing basis, ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/11/24/0xf4ee/ A Brief History Mac OS 9 and NEXTSTEP were like two icy comets wandering aimlessly in space. Neither was really going anywhere in particular. And then, BANG! They collide, stick wetly together, spinning wildly! Thus was born Mac OS X - or so the legend goes. How do ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/09/09/bridge/ Spiffy! Hex Fiend version 1.1 is ready. Hex Fiend is my fast and clever free hex editor for Mac OS X. New stuff: Horizontal resizing Custom fonts Overwrite mode Hidden files Lots more goodies (see release notes) Hex Fiend 1.1 May you find it useful! Wake up. Ssnsnrk. Wake up, he’s gone. Zzzz...wha? Oh, someone’s here. ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/08/24/hex-fiend-11/ Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time. "I’m going to beat grep by thirty percent!" I confidently crow to anyone who would listen, those foolish enough to enter my office. And my girlfriend too, who’s contractually obligated to pay attention to everything I say. See, I was ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/05/30/old-age-and-treachery/ The latest "OS X is slow" meme to impinge on the mass psyche of the Internet comes courtesy of one Jasjeet Sekhon, an associate professor of political science at UC Berkeley. The page has hit digg and reddit and been quoted on Slashdot. The article and benchmark is ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/05/16/36/ One of my side projects has borne some fruit. Meet Hex Fiend, a new hex editor for Mac OS X. (Hex editors allow you to edit the binary data of a file in hexadecimal or ASCII formats.) Click here to read more, see screenshots, or download Hex Fiend Hex Fiend ... http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/03/28/hex-fiend/