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Been trying to get the carbs tuned on my chopper. It's not easy. I have a bunch of jets and I'm trying to figure it out. Lots of manuals out there so it shouldn't be too hard. I think one more time and I'll have it running again. Then it will be fine tuning. Hope to get it solved this weekend.
Had a great time with family this year. No snow, so driving was easy. Got everything I wanted.
TextMate 2 Alpha was released to the public recently for evaluation. It's been a long time coming. It is alpha, so a lot of things will probably change. But, I just hate it for some reason. Maybe when it finally hits beta it will be better. There are things that I feel should have been much further ahead by now with all the time that has past. Some things feel like they have gone backwards in usability.
And I don't like the new icon.
But, maybe things will change next year.
Got new parts for my bike on monday and haven't had time until today to get into the garage. New jets for the carb are in and the bike is now running awesome!
I just need to finish up the wiring and fender struts so I can ride it!
For a few months now I've been checking out old school choppers, bobbers and such. Thinking about biking. Last month I was given a Honda CL350 all in parts. It got me thinking more about biking. Last weekend I got my motorcycle license and now I'm looking for a bike.
The Honda would have been a pretty cool little bike, but it has no title. Can't register it and when I went to DMV they just gave me the run-a-round. Looks like it will be a PITA to get a title for it, so I'm going to dump that idea.
So there are these cool sites. http://xs650chopper.com and http://chopcult.com
I've been checking out all the photos and stuff and I've decided that I want a Yamaha XS650. Fixed up they are really sweet bikes. So I've been scouring Craig's List for one. I really didn't want to spend over $1000, but I've found a few that are mostly built already and just need to be finished up. Most of them are in AZ and TX.
Found one in Vacaville area that looks like a really sweet deal. Getting more info right now on it.
Just spent way too much money on my front Dana 44 axle. New cromo shafts and 300M u-joints. New Ford big bearing outers, and drive flanges.
I better not break any axles after this all gets setup. I sure hope I'm wheeling next weekend too. Takes forever to get this stuff done.
I've also put the rig up for sale. !!OH NOES!!
Yep. Just getting tired of sinking money into it I guess. We are talking about moving also. So if we move back to the Bay Area it will be a PITA to go wheeling.
My plans are to buy a Santa Cruz Blur TR Carbon mountain bike and get back into that. I used to have a lot of fun riding. I'm also way, way out of shape from sitting around for the past 10 years. The last 3 being the worst. No exercise at all.
So the rig is up for sale for $14,000. That's about half of what I have into it. No hits yet, and probably won't get any for a long time. I'll just keep wheeling it until it gets sold.
We've been talking about putting together a real hack-a-thon in Reno for some time now. Something with sponsors and prizes. Bring your ideas and compete to win the 24 hour hack off.
We now have an event coming soon to create something from Reno local city data. Talks are underway for the event. You can get more news by signing up at: http://hack4reno.com/
This is going to be really good for Reno. We need more Reno developer recognition and getting the Reno developer community together for this event will certainly do it. Lets put Reno on the map and show the world that good developers are not only in San Francisco.
In the past the only good editor was BB-Edit, not that I personally ever thought of it as a "good" editor. Then came along TextMate and that redefined the Mac Text Editor.
Before TextMate I was using VIM. I liked VIM, but I wanted something more Mac like. So when TextMate came out I jumped on it. I loved it for many years, but the author seemed stuck on his next version —TextMate 2 where are you?— while the current version with its many bugs got stale.
Many other people grew tired of the bugs in TM and wanted something better. A lot of people moved to MacVIM. Others started working on new text editors for the Mac.
Here is my list of new Mac Editors (work in progress):
Last weekend I was invited to the Hack For Change competition / hackathon. It was a real awesome experience. I've been to all night hackathons before, but this was different. The reason why it was different is because this one was in San Francisco. The mecca of startup land.
I left home at 4:30AM on Friday morning. The event didn't start until Saturday morning, but I had an interview that morning with a really cool company. I got there about an hour early though. They were nice enough to let me work at a desk until my interviewers were ready. The interview went really well, but I didn't get the job. No problem, I still have a job.
I spent the day in SF walking around checking things out. Had lunch with Jason, visited Engine Yard (nope, they didn't have a desk for me to work at), and basically wandered around. It was a pretty good day.
The morning of the hackathon came. I found a place to park my car for the weekend and signed in. Met a few people while waiting for the presentation and ate some breakfast. Several companies presented their APIs to use in the competition. SimpleGeo, Twilio, and Sunlight Foundation were a few.
After the presentations we paired up into groups to start hacking. I didn't really have a project to work on, but I had an idea. A few others had similar ideas so we joined and started hacking. The app turned out to be What's About My City http://mycity.heroku.com. It turned out pretty good. We finished all the features we set out to have in the 24 hours of the competition. It was fully functioning with nothing missing. We even have an iOS app that works with it. It's pretty awesome.
I worked with Jay, T, and Emerson on the MyCity project. They are awesome. We all worked very well together and had a good time doing it. Emerson and I stayed up all night hacking on the code.
Well, we didn't win, but we had a great time. I met a lot of really cool people, and picked up a few possible job openings. I stayed up for 36 hours straight, and proved that I still have it.
It's been five years that I've been using Textmate. Although I really like it, I am just too annoyed by the few bugs and UI issues it has. The features are not unique enough for me to continue to work around the problems.
Before Textmate I used VIM. I have used VIM since the late 90's. When I was using Linux as my desktop, I used GVIM. It worked really well. But after moving to the Mac platform in 2001 I wanted something more Mac like. I continued to use VIM until Textmate came out.
A few of the problems with switching away from Textmate is the awesome Project Drawer (enhanced to a sidebar with a plugin). It makes working on my projects much easier because I can see the whole directory structure. It is also nice because it does not save project files all over the place. You can launch it from the command line, pointing to a directory, and it will load all the files in that folder into the project drawer. It's just so perfect and simple.
Fast forward to today. I've been back on VIM for the past month. MacVIM actually. It's more Mac like than the old version that I used, but it still has a ways to go. Specifically NerdTree. It's a project drawer plugin. I really don't like it. It works, but I still just don't like it. I see that others feel the same way. So much so that someone has taken on a project to build a real project drawer for MacVIM. I can't wait.
There is another project being worked on right now called VICO. It's a brand new editor using VIM style editing and commands mixed with Textmate plugins. It's really nice. I will definitely switch to it when it starts to be more stable.
So, today, I say byby to Textmate. It's been really awesome. I kinda wish you didn't go stale while your creator builds the next version.
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