http://www.meowfishies.com/ 2010-09-05T12:10:48-07:00 http://www.meowfishies.com/ http://www.meowfishies.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-09-04T07:07:59-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/writing/things_i_hate?rev=1283609279&do=diff Time for some hopefully cathartic ranting… * When a webpage displays a “thumbnail” version of an image with a link purportedly allowing you to magnify the image, showing it in a pop-up window, a full-page overlay, or opening it in another tab in your browser, only to reveal that the full-size image is actually… ‘’the same size as the thumbnail’’!!! Why?!?!? Often they add insult to injury by adding a caption saying, “No larger version of this image is available.” Hold on just a second… if… text/html 2010-07-04T16:57:58-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/software/missingtracks?rev=1278287878&do=diff * Creates a list of all iTunes tracks for which the backing file is missing. * Based on the “List MIAs” script by Doug Adams, but outputs to stdout instead of writing to a file. I found that Doug's script made too intensive use of AppleScript to be used with my entire library. text/html 2010-04-24T17:50:55-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/software/xbelld?rev=1272156655&do=diff XBellD XBellD is a small daemon for replacing the standard X Window System terminal bell with a more interesting set of sounds. This is useful for systems where the terminal bell is handled by the “PC Speaker,” or where different sounds are desired for different classes of X clients. text/html 2010-01-07T13:23:20-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/software/style?rev=1262899400&do=diff Braces Placement Open and close braces are always placed on lines by themselves, so that they are vertically symmetrical: class CClass { // ... } int func(void) { if (cond) { stmt; // ... } } @interface MyObject : NSObject { } // ... @end text/html 2009-12-17T18:58:00-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/blog?rev=1261105080&do=diff Coding Journal text/html 2009-12-17T18:56:15-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/blog/itunes_remote_speaker_applescript?rev=1261104975&do=diff iTunes Remote Speaker AppleScript Have you ever wanted to set your iTunes remote speaker output to an AirTunes server using AppleScript? I haven't, but this guy I know wanted to, so here we go: At first pass this seems like it might be a little bit difficult as iTunes doesn't seem to expose this setting through either its application preferences or AppleScript dictionary. This is okay though, because iTunes uses a conventional Aqua user-interface and therefore we should be able to access … text/html 2009-11-16T19:18:24-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/quotes?rev=1258427904&do=diff Quotes This is where I collect quotes that I find pertinent or interesting. If you have attributions for any of these that I haven't found, please tell me. Self-referential In theory, theory matches reality. --- Unknown Tradition is a tradition. --- Some Everything2 User text/html 2009-07-07T23:25:31-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/software/fix3r?rev=1247034331&do=diff Fix3r Fix3r is a small utility for re-converting text in ID3 tags that were improperly converted to UTF-8 from something other than ISO 8859-1. This happens often with MP3 files containing only ID3v1 tags, since the specification states that only ISO 8859-1 is allowed for textual fields, leaving no option for the encoding of languages with non-Latin characters. The phenomenon of garbled text that results when these tags are displayed is called wp>mojibake. text/html 2009-06-17T17:44:19-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/about?rev=1245285859&do=diff About Me Seth Kingsley is a software engineer living with his two cats in Redwood City, California, a location notable for being the filming location of Harold and Maude. Additionally, here are some xkcd comics people say remind them of Seth: #439: Thinking Ahead, #575: Tag Combination. text/html 2009-06-16T08:12:20-07:00 Seth Kingsley http://www.meowfishies.com/blog/rbosa?rev=1245165140&do=diff Ruby Bindings for the Open Scripting Architecture I was really hoping something like this existed. Recently I wrote a bunch of AppleScripts for managing iTunes tracks, sanitizing the ID3 tags, relocating them into my own file-system organization scheme, that sort of thing.