Tom H.

Recently I started moving my notes to Bear. It works on mac and iOS and syncs through iCloud. Looks really nice and the design is really neat and simple. It makes use of tags and mixes markdown with visual styles. 

Just discovered this little tool and it instantly simplified my workflow and the process of creating custom DMG images with custom backgrounds.

The app works perfectly and it’s easy to use. There is also a way to build the DMG file from the command line allowing you to make it part of the build process.

DMG Canvas can be downloaded here:

Looks like there is a way to test your code how it’s gonna behave on retina display (high DPI displays) without having one.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12124576/how-to-simulate-a-retina-display-hidpi-mode-in-mac-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-on

If Microsoft One Note fails to load on your Mac it means that you need One Drive to be installed.

The app shows weird and meaningless error message on startup. For some reason the app cannot detect the missing component and leaves the user wandering around the internet looking for the solution. Microsoft logic.

I use DEVONKThink Pro Office as my main file management program. Every file is searchable, every scan and PDF is OCR’ed. It’s where I keep virtually everything. 

Ulysses, on the other hand, is my writing program of choice. Now, I want to combine the two and be able to compose, edit and work on my documents in Ulysses but at the same time have the files stored in DEVONThink and being able to search through the files from there. 

What’s the solution? Keeping *.md files in DEVON, edit them externally in Ulysses. Works like a charm!

Looks like c++ 17 brings some interesting improvements in regards o the nested namespaces. We currently have to do it this way:

namespace A {     namespace B {         // ...     } }

In c++ 17 we can do it this way:

namespace A::B {     // ... }

I finally started using my iPad for processing my photos. 

Sync RAW files with Lightroom Mobile

Pick & Reject

Process RAW files within LR

Export to Snapseed for filters

Edit in Affinity Photo when needed more control

Save to iCloud library

Apple Pencil works great for the local corrections, inpainting, etc. I never thought it would be a good workflow, but for majority of the pictures this works great. 

I stumbled upon a line of code during the review. One of my colleagues wanted to cleat the std::queue and he did:

std::queue<int> empty; std::swap(my_queue, empty);

I asked him why he didn’t use my_queue.clear() and realized that std::queue doesn’t implement it. Looks like there are couple of ways to do it and I think the best one I found is the one that will work only in c++11:

my_queue = {};

I really like the One Dark color theme that ships with Atom editor. Luckily there is an option for the JetBrains products like CLion. This is my current setup and I’m loving it!

Still fine-tuning my Vim. Recently switched to a really nice theme inspired by the Atom default theme: one dark. This is how it looks when it’s applied in Vim & tmux:

I used to be quite fluent in vim years ago. At the University times when Linux was my main system I used on a daily basis.

Then I stopped using it and looks like I forgot most of it. Inspired by some presentations I decided to re-learn it again. Created a pretty nifty configuration with some plugins for fuzzy search and c++ autocompletion enhanced by clang compilation database and I feel like home. Almost. 

I’ve just stumbled upon a cool way of splitting a std::string separated by whitespace into tokens using c++11: