Is there a statute of limitations on blog post followups? I’ve been meaning to write a continuation of my last post for at least four weeks, but between work, the NBA playoffs, and just general laziness, I haven’t gotten around to it. Today, I settle of all family business. | Continue reading
I don’t like programming in AppleScript in general, but there is one construct that I’ve always liked. Because I’m not a computer scientist, I don’t know what to call it,1 but I can give an example that came up recently: | Continue reading
I’m years into my attempt to use JavaScript for Automation (JXA) more than AppleScript, but Apple and its crummy JXA documentation keeps getting in my way. | Continue reading
A couple of days ago, Federico Viticci tweeted his wish list for a new or updated Reminders API and asked for other people for theirs. Stephen Hackett answered with this: | Continue reading
Back in 2009, I wrote a post about various (mostly unsatisfying) ways of viewing manual (man) pages on the Mac. Many of the commands and apps in that post are either dead or abandoned, and some years ago I returned to a system that’s not much different from what I used when I was … | Continue reading
Picking up from the last post, let’s think about how and why a parabola could be a good approximations to a catenary. | Continue reading
Last week, John D. Cook wrote a post in which he calculated the area under an inverted catenary curve. As part of the post, he estimated the area under the catenary by calculating the area under a parabola with the same width (41″) and height (39.5″). I’ve reproduced Cook’s plot … | Continue reading