Ryan Tate - The Hack

Posted over on my Tumblr (an extended quote from Coders At Work )

I'm very much interested in emerging Web publishing ping systems like Google's PubSubHubBub and Dave Winer's rssCloud . I call ...

If someone can take one of our fonts, put it in a freely accessible directory on their server, that’s a violation of most of our license agr...

A companion piece to " Features Firefox should steal from Safari ." (Follow link for the backstory.) Remember last tab(s) closed (...

I switched from Firefox to Safari about 6 months ago due to frequent crashes in Firefox 3 RC 3 . Now I'm switching back due to a longsta...

Google is asking for feedback on the redesign of its "Reader" RSS aggregator. Here's some: It's still too hard to assign ...

Just spent an hour trying get my damned Mac to install a font. The system is smart enough to identify both the PostScript and TrueType files...

Right now I'm watching Bill Clinton's DNC speech for about the fifth time, because OS X has yet again crashed. This time, in the mid...

A note on the new version 2 of del.icio.us: We actually use it extensively at work as a professional tool, to share links with one another (...

Even with these directions, I couldn't make it work. And Barbara Brundage/Dave Pogue/Tim O'Reilly's "Missing Manual" i...

Hey iTunes: If I'm halfway through an hourlong podcast, please don't delete it off my iPod because you think I'm done with it. I...

My iPod freezes multiple times per week. (Most recently, five minutes ago, as I tried to rest after a night of paperwork.) I use it strictly...

I've been cleaning out my physical home office inbox, and importing to my Mac a bunch of mix CDs given to me by other people. Every time...

Speaking of the ways in which Amazon sucks, I have probably spent upwards of $2,000 on that site so far this year. I wanted to send them fe...

No, the checkout would be the wrong place to tell me your partner store is entirely out of stock of what I ordered, Amazon. Thanks for wasti...