Here’s a quick tip for git-svn users struggling to find the perfect Google-foo for git-svn usernames.

It seems like an unlikely candidate, but I’ve recently started using .ini files for iOS app configuration. I know what you’re thinking: “Wait - are you talking about those text files on Windows?”

Yesterday, the Macintosh celebrated it’s 30th birthday. To honor the beloved machines, aficionados shared stories that lead to their love for the platform, including the history of machines they’ve owned over the years. I included a picture of two Mac minis, declaring them as the first Macs I owned.

On Friday, FedEx dropped of my wife’s new iPhone 5s (gold). She graciously offered to wait for me to finish working before we unboxed it.

Favd is a new iPhone app by the fine folks at YourHead Software. I’ve been beta testing the app since WWDC, and it’s great. ^[1]

Now that the iPhone 5s is in our hands, the public FUD about its new finger print scanner (branded Touch ID) has begun. This piece from Ars raises the following questions:

If you’re interested in building apps for ADN, I’d recommend giving the latest episode of Core Intuition a listen. Manton Reece gives some really great insight on building an app for ADN, and how critical leaving Twitter was for him to build his latest project.

There has been lots of speculation that the iPhone 5 was Steve Jobs’ last major project at Apple. That has always felt pretty shallow. The iPhone 5 was a significant redesign, but certainly not the groundbreaking kind of release that would consume a visionary’s thoughts.

Florian Friedrich built a really nice Alfred workflow for httpcode.info. It takes my original idea and makes it even easier to use. I love it.

I recently wanted a quick way of looking up HTTP status codes while working with a REST service. I thought it would be great to type this on a command line: