You know, there are times where developing on your local box is much nicer than on a remote box. Sure, OS X has this nice ~/Sites/ directory. We could just create a sub folder for each project and we are almost ready to go. Start up apache/nginx/whateverwwwserver and

Sometimes it is calming to watch your server logs scroll by, mh, a wonky IP wants to ssh into my box, oh a new email is coming in, hehe no spammer, this email is going to be rejected.. But some log entries are just an annoyance. Oh, my email client

While using tmux daily makes your life easier and more colorful you have to admit that creating your default working environment sucks. At least if you use windows and panes. CTRL+V CTRL+H CTRL++ CTRL+- galore Stop growing grey hair over it, Tmuxiantor [file:///Users/fabian/Projects/octopress/

fabian@heartofgold $ gem install somecoolgem ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'somecoolgem' (>= 0), here is why: Unable to download data from http://gems.rubyforge.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/

As you can see at the date below, this post is quite old, but was not published until now. Perhaps someone can still use it.. Today Manu [http://manuelgrabowski.de/] spend about five minutes to hook me up on Octopress [http://octopress.org/]. After playing around with it for some

Just a quick tip on how to shrink an existing CoreStore volume and create a new volume inside the free space. Since the gui Disk Utility won’t offer this feature you have to jump the shell again. diskutil corestorage list diskutil corestorage resizeVolume 953ED8ED-4373-4A2E-AA0B-747D3EEC1FDE 710G diskutil corestorage createvolume 953ED8ED-4373-4A2E-AA0B-747D3EEC1FDE

Why another alfred [http://www.alfredapp.com/] screenshot extension? Crawling the web for the right extension takes about the time to write a new one. Why I wanted a screenshot solution that is not Skitch [http://skitch.com/]? When using a custom server you have to click the share button,

* Schritt 1: Wir öffnen das Terminal (über Spotlight oder im Dienstprogramme/Utilities Ordner zu finden) * Schritt 2: Devicenamen vom Datenträger finden. Diesen findet man in der Identifier Spalte diskutil list /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.0 GB disk2 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1

Since I could not find a way to get screen [http://www.gnu.org/s/screen/] working with split screens and different windows I switched to tmux [http://tmux.sourceforge.net/]. So far, after setting up the same look and feel as my screen configuration, I quite like it (the

I extended my AppleScript [https://fabianfranke.de/google-chrome-flashfrei-mit-flashfallback/] to surf the web with a flash free OSX, but have a flash chrome user as fallback handy. Now it automatically grabs the URL from the active tab of the foremost browser (Camino, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Webkit), closes the tab and