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Friday, 12th January 2007

MacFUSE: FUSE for Mac OS X. Mac support for user-space custom file systems, API compatible with those already written for Linux. Amit Singh runs kernelthread.com; I hadn’t realised that he had moved to Google.

# 9:47 am / amit-singh, filesystem, fuse, google, osx

Apple doesn't give a damn. Steve Jobs doesn't build platforms, except by accident. He doesn't care about your thriving metropolis. All you independent Mac developers: you're all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up.

Mark Pilgrim

# 9:51 am / open-source, osx, iphone, sharecropping, steve-jobs, apple, mark-pilgrim

Mac OS X and OS X are not the same thing, although they are most certainly siblings. The days of lazily referring to "Mac OS X" as "OS X" are now over.

John Gruber

# 10:29 am / apple, iphone, john-gruber, macosx, osx

Hacking Django, how Bazaar. This is a neat trick: use Subversion to track an upstream project, then create Bazaar branches to manage your own development against the trunk.

# 10:34 am / bazaar, django, subversion, version-control

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope (via) Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III. It turns out R2-D2 and Chewie were the most significant characters by quite a long way.

# 10:54 am / starwars

AJAX Debugging with Firebug. Great Firebug tutorial from creator Joe Hewitt himself. I didn’t know you could trigger profiling from your own code using console.profile() / console.profileEnd().

# 11:21 am / ajax, drdobbs, firebug, javascript, joe-hewitt, tutorial

Correo. New open-source OS X mail client, based on Thunderbird but with a Camino-style native interface.

# 11:36 am / camino, correo, mail, mozilla, open-source, osx, thunderbird