Next week, barring unforeseen events, I will be the owner of my first (real) house.
Continue reading post "#1415"Toby's Log page 82
Focus Mac OS X dialog with keyboard
Found an answer to a long standing Mac OS keyboard navigation question: How to focus a dialog window when it has lost focus.
Continue reading post "Focus Mac OS X dialog with keyboard"I’ve been using cssnano for compressing my CSS on some projects recently. Apparently, it rebases z-index values, ie reduces them to the minimum values that have the same stacking context within the file.
Was worried when a Markdown formatted post preview was rendering all messed up. I use the Jetpack Markdown plugin for this blog. Apparently, a bug was introduced recently
Continue reading post "#1406"Farewell Adium?
Apparently, AOL Instant Messenger is changing their authentication method, which will break support for some existing clients. Adium is among them
Continue reading post "Farewell Adium?"Stranger Things
Finished watching Stranger Things. I liked it fairly well.
Continue reading post "Stranger Things"Dreamhost 200 status log conclusion
I decided to contact Dreamhost about my Apache logs showing 200 statuse codes for all mod_rewrite responses. It took seven back-and-forths to get across what was happening, discuss options, and conclude that “DreamHost systems are configured with a default environment meant to meet the most common webapp and customer requirements”.
Wow, Marc’s is finally accepting credit cards other than Discover.
I have now passed the inspection + renegotiation stage of the home buying process. As long as the loan goes through, the house is mine.
Continue reading post "#1367"Barring unforeseen events, I will be buying a house. The seller has accepted my offer and signed the agreement. This will be my first “real” house, though I did own a not-very-good mobile home for a while. It is contingent on inspection, which I will be lining up as soon as possible, and then getting a mortgage. I’m kind of excited, though a bit worried at the same time.