Guard is a cool ruby library for automatically performing tasks every time a file changes. But if you’re not sure what to expect, it can be hard to set up. Here’s the quickest possible setup for Guard.
In this case, I’m making a quick website prototype in haml. I want to make sure that, whenever I modify one of my haml files, ruby immediately produces the equivalent html file for me in the same directory.
Rubyfocus is a pure ruby bridge to OmniFocus. It’s something I’ve been working on for a while, and I’m finally able to release a version that, at the very least, functions without crashing (as far as I can tell) anywhere along the way.
Rubyfocus started as a natural offshoot of a previous project, JROFBridge. JROFBridge is an objective-C/Cocoa library that accesses OmniFocus through ScriptingBridge, collects data on projects, tasks and folders, and outputs it to an SQLite database. It’s a handy way of collecting everything you need to know about an OmniFocus document, working through OmniFocus itself. I used it for a web-based Kanban frontend to OmniFocus, which let me view all my projects (and my current workload) at a glance.
I really don’t know if I should put this under “coding” or “gaming”. Like a good number of things I enjoy immensely, it’s a combination of two equally geeky subjects.
The process of building a constructed language (or “conlanging”, as it’s also known) is something that I consider integral to the whole world-building process. It’s easy enough to throw down some consonants, put a couple of apostrophes, exclamation points, or dashes in the mix, and call it a day, but that will just leave you with a hodgepodge of badly-formed words with no unifying character, like you’ve just raided the remains of your Scrabble game.
