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  • Dealing with Asshole Customers

    March 31, 2014 2 min read

    I’ve always taken great pains to be exceedingly fair, responsive, and back-bending in the way I interact with my customers. I firmly believe it’s best for business long-term if you always give your customer the benefit of the doubt and treat them as you’d want to be treated. But recently, for reasons I don’t understand, […]

  • My Favorite Chair

    March 28, 2014 4 min read

    I’m a bit of a snob. I don’t just like nice things, I like the best things. That’s not to say I spend extravagantly or throw my money around, it’s just that when presented with buying a good product or saving my money a little longer and buying a better constructed, great product, I’ll usually […]

  • Importing Jekyll Posts into WordPress

    March 21, 2014 1 min read

    Nearly four years ago I switched my main site over to Jekyll. It’s been great. But late last year I decided to make that site and its blog purely about my software business and move all of my non-work posts over to my new.tyler.io/ domain so I could have a personal site again. To encourage […]

  • Switching from GitHub to GitLab

    March 19, 2014 7 min read

    I’ve been a happy paying customer of GitHub since early 2009. But yesterday, for a few different reasons, I deleted all of my private repositories and moved them over to a self-hosted installation of GitLab. I didn’t make that decision lightly, as I’ve been very happy with GitHub for the last five years, but here’s […]

  • Aaron

    January 1, 2014 1 min read

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  • Nostalgia – Rename Your Photos

    December 31, 2013 2 min read

    I have a problem. Half of my photos come from my iPhone (via the Dropbox uploader), which creates filenames based on the date they were taken. But all the photos from my awesome DSLR are named BLAHBLAH7001.jpg and BLAHBLAH7002.jpg. That annoys me. I want all of my filenames to be date based so I can […]

  • Journaling

    October 22, 2013 4 min read

    I’m a little obsessive about data collection and retention. I’ve written a number of times about all the different backup systems I have in place to protect my data. And over the last few years the amount of data I’m collecting about myself (and family) has continued to grow. We’re taking exponentially more photos, posting […]

  • Choosing the Right App

    October 14, 2013 1 min read

    Just a quick reminder that occurred to me today. Always remember to use the appropriate tool. Don’t be afraid to split your data across multiple apps and inboxes when appropriate. For example, I store all of my action items and tasks in OmniFocus. But last night I remembered I needed to buy water at the […]

  • Finding Related Messages in Apple Mail

    October 7, 2013 1 min read

    After migrating my company’s email away from Gmail a few years ago, I’ve become firmly entrenched with Apple’s Mail.app on the desktop. Everything works great, but I do miss having access to Rapportive’s Gmail extension. It’s great at providing extra information related to the person you’re emailing with. To make up for this lack of […]

  • Setting Up NSOutlineView Drag and Drop with Core Data in Cocoa

    September 12, 2013 3 min read

    Last week, I finally got around to building the number-one VirtualHostX feature request – groups/folders in the sidebar. I had put off implementing this feature for years because I never knew quite where to start when it came to Core Data and NSOutlineView. But, with VHX 5.0 coming out later this year, I decided to […]