Day Ten

… yep, we skipped ahead.

I decided to return the MacBook Air. Let me explain why.

Firstly, it’s (almost) nothing to do with the Air’s suitability as a development machine. For the time I had the Air, I used it almost exclusively and could only fault it when comparing directly with other clearly-more-powerful machines. Day to day, it was a great little machine.

The reason why I decided to return it was because I realised that the weight saving of the Air versus the Pro was actually negligible when you take into account the raw weight of the Boris Bike. Basically, it didn’t really make it significantly easier to cycling around.

So instead, I’ve bought a 27” iMac, and I leave my laptop at home. Ain’t no lighter laptop than no laptop.

Summary

So there we have it. I really love the 11” Air, and when it comes to replacing my actual laptop, I will give that form factor serious consideration. If you need a new laptop now, I highly recommend it unless you definitely need continuous, intense computational power, or you think it’s going to somehow make a Boris Bike magically lighter.

Yes, it looks different here, doesn’t it. That’s because I’ve flipped the switch, loosed the reins, unharnessed the wild boar and turned on Vanilla.rb. Here’s my work-in-progress tutorial: vanilla-rb-tutorial.

It’s going to be a bit broken around here for a while, but the idea there is to motivate me to fix things. You won’t be able to log in (since you can’t register), which means no creating or editing snips for you lot at the moment. You can, however, see what the raw contents of the snips are - just add .raw to the end of pretty much any URL

You can, of course, download vanilla an play about with it locally; the current authentication scheme is trival when you’ve access to the filesystem.

Some notable things that I need to consider in more detail:

• Feeds - an atom one is available at the moment, but it’s implementation is pretty crufty
• Commenting - (Ticket 5)
• Better internal parsing (Ticket 8)
• Muchos other stuff, including documentation about how other folks can use vanilla!

So - here we go!

Yes, it looks different here, doesn’t it. That’s because I’ve flipped the switch, loosed the reins, unharnessed the wild boar and turned on Vanilla.rb. Here’s my work-in-progress tutorial: vanilla-rb-tutorial.

It’s going to be a bit broken around here for a while, but the idea there is to motivate me to fix things. You won’t be able to log in (since you can’t register), which means no creating or editing snips for you lot at the moment. You can, however, see what the raw contents of the snips are - just add .raw to the end of pretty much any URL

You can, of course, download vanilla an play about with it locally; the current authentication scheme is trival when you’ve access to the filesystem.

Some notable things that I need to consider in more detail:

• Feeds - an atom one is available at the moment, but it’s implementation is pretty crufty
• Commenting - (Ticket 5)
• Better internal parsing (Ticket 8)
• Muchos other stuff, including documentation about how other folks can use vanilla!

So - here we go!

Yes, it looks different here, doesn’t it. That’s because I’ve flipped the switch, loosed the reins, unharnessed the wild boar and turned on Vanilla.rb. Here’s my work-in-progress tutorial: vanilla-rb-tutorial.

It’s going to be a bit broken around here for a while, but the idea there is to motivate me to fix things. You won’t be able to log in (since you can’t register), which means no creating or editing snips for you lot at the moment. You can, however, see what the raw contents of the snips are - just add .raw to the end of pretty much any URL

You can, of course, download vanilla an play about with it locally; the current authentication scheme is trival when you’ve access to the filesystem.

Some notable things that I need to consider in more detail:

• Feeds - an atom one is available at the moment, but it’s implementation is pretty crufty
• Commenting - (Ticket 5)
• Better internal parsing (Ticket 8)
• Muchos other stuff, including documentation about how other folks can use vanilla!

So - here we go!