OSS zealots love Samsung and hate Apple. Samsung’s contributions to OSS: nada. Apple’s: Webkit, LLVM, Clang, Darwin, MacRuby, zeroconf.

Lucasfilm is only worth four Instagrams.

People say don't re-invent the wheel. But the problem is, everyone else’s wheel is shit.

Half of programming is naming; half is figuring out responsibility boundaries; and half is rewriting because you named your god-object wrong

If you want to be able to QuickLook README, INSTALL etc. on OS X then here you are: http://whomwah.github.com/qlstephen/

I just hope Apple have taken a note from Facebook and decided to rewrite their shitty App Store app in objective-c rather than HTML for iOS6

LOL at developers who have only ever used Windows.

At one point this code I was writing was perfect. And then I made it work properly. And now it’s hideous.

Manage GUI .apps (like Chrome) with a Homebrew-like interface:  https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask …

Some ace Git tips: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2010/07/git-tips/ (notably, Xcode 4's git is already too old for a few off them)

Google instant. Times it has been useful: ZERO. Times I have seen the link I want as I was typing but then the page changed: FUCKLOADS.

You have to lol. The rest of the PC industry haven’t even caught up to the Air yet.

Why’s everyone making such a fuss about iOS uploading your address book when every desktop ever has been able to do the same forever?

If the Homebrew Kickstarter gets enough money, we'll build bottles of everything on every OS X and host it all on S3.

The dangers of tweeting about “shooting” when you are referring to film-making: http://t.co/t4wHSOf /via @abscond

Have you ever considered that office chairs consist of highly compressed gas under a spike that sits directly under your arsehole?

Xcode too big? http://t.co/1761juG

Cron: the tool that was carefully designed to ensure you have to read the manpage everytime.

With Git, the trick is to think of history less as “history” and more as a step-by-step description of your codebase.

Shame Apple didn't do cross-device Notification sync too. Once I’ve seen a notification on iPhone, please dismiss it on my iPad. Thanks.