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2026 (10)

Oct 13
A New Favicon for zzamboni.org
Oct 12
Customize Web App Icon Link
Oct 6
Using Pages CMS alongside Org mode and Hugo
Oct 1
An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot · OpenAI Alignment Link
Sep 30
Pages CMS Link
Sep 28
Enabling two-finger swipe gesture for history navigation in Vivaldi on Linux
Sep 27
When a local timestamp pretends to be UTC
Sep 24
New posting workflow with Pages CMS
Mar 28
resume-toolkit: from personal CV pipeline to reusable toolkit
Feb 11
Porting my CV from Org+LaTeX to JSON Resume

2025 (5)

2021 (1)

Jan 21
New course: CISSP Training

2020 (7)

2019 (4)

Nov 18
New book: Literate Config
Aug 30
Nuevo libro "Utilerías de Unix"
Apr 16
Automating Leanpub book publishing with Hammerspoon and CircleCI
Apr 8
New release of "Learning Hammerspoon" is out!

2018 (4)

Oct 16
First release of "Learning Hammerspoon"
Jun 13
Using and writing completions in Elvish
Mar 21
Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs
Jan 8
My Hammerspoon Configuration, With Commentary

2017 (14)

Dec 17
My Emacs Configuration, With Commentary
Dec 4
Bang-Bang (!!, !$) Shell Shortcuts in Elvish
Nov 16
My Elvish Configuration With Commentary
Nov 1
Just Enough Lua to Be Productive in Hammerspoon, Part 2
Oct 21
Just Enough Lua to Be Productive in Hammerspoon, Part 1
Sep 20
Using Nix's "Single-user Mode" on macOS
Sep 14
Elvish, an awesome Unix shell
Sep 13
Limited Time Promotion! 50% off "Learning CFEngine 3"
Sep 11
Fixing the Outlook-to-OmniFocus Script
Sep 1
Using Spoons in Hammerspoon
Aug 30
New Release of "Learning CFEngine 3"
Aug 25
Hosting a Ghost Blog in GitHub - the easier way
Aug 21
Getting Started With Hammerspoon
Aug 8
The Big Website Reboot

2016 (3)

2015 (12)

Oct 13
Clicking on the MacBook Pro is entirely artificial
Jun 17
4-year-old’s first aerobatic flight
May 20
Using Multiple SSH Keys with Github
May 14
Fixing Emacs problems with the fish shell
Apr 30
The log: The lifeblood of your data pipeline - O'Reilly Radar
Apr 18
Whisky - Matt Gemmell
Apr 17
Moving files between git repositories, preserving history
Apr 17
The First Apple Homepage
Apr 17
Three levels of GIT config
Apr 16
Watching for changes (Polling notifications) in Evernote
Apr 14
How to create a new KVM VM using command line tools
Jan 14
Find all single-note tags in Evernote

2014 (8)

2013 (6)

Dec 16
Testing markdown support
Dec 15
Top 5 Recommended Google Font Combinations
Nov 20
Honest trailer: Man of Steel
Apr 25
Ellen on password security
Apr 14
Ignite talks
Mar 25
On the other side

2012 (34)

2011 (84)

2010 (130)

Dec 30
Annals of commerce « The Reality-Based Community
Dec 29
Dinner for One
Dec 28
December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse on Vimeo
Dec 28
Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
Dec 23
Setting up a global hotkey to add tasks to Outlook
Dec 20
GTD tip: clean up physical clutter using ziploc bags
Dec 16
Translation on the fly
Dec 16
Untitled 3
Dec 16
Filmography 2010 compilation
Dec 13
Nice day, also my first instagr.am shot
Dec 11
Day at the park with the girls
Dec 10
My home office, right now
Dec 8
Testing PicPosterous
Dec 6
Let it snow! - The Big Picture
Nov 24
Editing sshd configuration files with cfengine3
Nov 24
Symphony of Science
Nov 22
docco.coffee, Rocco, etc.
Nov 22
Want: “GTD Managing Projects” set
Nov 18
Pidgin cannot connect to MSN: the certificate chain presented is invalid
Nov 15
Running Shells in Emacs: An Overview | Mastering Emacs
Nov 11
2010 World Fencing Championships - The Big Picture
Nov 7
Knight Arts | Random Acts of Culture
Oct 28
The boiling, erupting Sun | Bad Astronomy
Oct 21
The most amazing WWF play I have ever seen
Oct 19
How high is space?
Oct 19
Science, Reason and Critical Thinking: A Handy Alternative Therapy Flowchart
Oct 18
Edward Horsford Creates Amazing Bursting Balloons Photographs
Oct 11
"It's just eating somebody's tree --- 10-4"
Oct 6
Homemade Spacecraft
Oct 2
Pac-Man Spotted In The Wild
Sep 28
Making cygwin, Windows and emacs understand the same symlinks
Sep 28
Website redesign and unification
Sep 28
Fall is in the air - The Big Picture
Sep 27
This is a news website article about a scientific finding
Sep 27
DGSCA se convierte en TIC
Sep 22
La UNAM cumple 100 años
Sep 15
Cool - Google's logo today is about Mexico's Independence Bicentenary
Sep 14
The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy « You Are Not So Smart
Sep 10
Woot: Refurbished Coffeenaker - Ewww
Sep 8
Cfengine3 lexer for Pygments
Sep 7
Google Scribe-generated prose (aka "Google Scribe channels Kanye West")
Sep 7
Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas. Internal CCTV footage.
Sep 7
The 7 habits of highly effective writers
Sep 7
Storing CFEngine configuration in CVS
Sep 5
GTD Tip: one-key opening of INBOX notebook in OneNote
Sep 3
@BadAstronomer The irony is killing me :-)
Sep 3
Pocketful of Dough - Tips on Tipping
Sep 3
On remembering and dealing with people's names
Aug 31
Science, Reason and Critical Thinking: Modern Science Map
Aug 30
GeekTyrant - News - Fan Made SUPERMAN: DOOMSDAY Trailer
Aug 27
Hierarchical copying with cfengine3
Aug 26
Trying out The Pomodoro Technique
Aug 26
The State of Open Source System Automation
Aug 25
Editing whitespace-separated config files with cfengine
Aug 25
cfengine Community Open Promise Body Library on GitHub
Aug 25
A sample cfengine policy
Aug 24
Detecting NICs that match certain IP addresses
Aug 23
Implementing "single-copy nirvana" in cfengine3
Aug 23
Installing cfengine on Windows 7 under cygwin
Aug 22
Pixar How We Do It
Aug 20
US Chamber: Equal Pay “a Fetish for Money,” Women Should “Choose the Right Partner at Home”
Aug 19
"West Wing" - Biblical Quotes
Aug 19
Grabcartoons v2.7
Aug 18
Emulate vi's % command (jump to matching parenthesis) in Emacs
Aug 17
Installing AucTeX on EmacsW32 on Win7/64bit
Aug 16
Updated server and service setup
Aug 13
Deploying multiple environments on Heroku (while still hosting code on Github)
Aug 11
Catharsis
Aug 11
West Lafayette on Failblog
Jul 30
10 big ideas from GTD
Jul 30
Anchoring Effect « You Are Not So Smart
Jul 9
Layer 8: The exception IS the rule
Jul 7
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Jun 29
Rands In Repose: How to Write a Book
Jun 25
Patent pending. NEW iPhone 4 antenna booster!...
Jun 21
Folders in iOS4
Jun 19
Site improvements
Jun 8
The Just-World Fallacy
Jun 4
A Services Menu for iPhone
Jun 3
D8 Video: Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Adobe Flash
Jun 3
The IBM Muppet Show
May 18
Deleting my Facebook account
May 18
Hail Storm Oklahoma City
May 12
A Moment in Time - Interactive Feature
May 11
My latest speedtest results
May 11
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook and why I'm dropping off
May 7
Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites
May 6
The Zomboni
May 5
Avatar Blu-Ray DVD on LG BD370 player
May 3
Starting VirtualCenter automatically when it fails to start
Apr 29
Thoughts on Flash
Apr 23
David Allen Getting Things Done | DCGTD
Apr 22
How important are the tools you use with GTD?
Apr 22
Know your tools
Apr 21
Gorgeous nightscape timelapse | Bad Astronomy
Apr 20
HTML5 presentation
Apr 19
Planes or Volcano?
Apr 19
octopus steals my video camera and swims off with it (while it's Recording)
Apr 13
Army Creates Fleet of Robots On Segways! | Singularity Hub
Apr 13
Meet The iPad Developers - Message To Mac Customers
Apr 9
Setting up my GTD system in Windows - links
Apr 9
Ross sisters - Solid Potato Salad (VHS quality)
Apr 8
Queretaro: Internet Cerca de Todos
Apr 7
Sachin's guide to buying an iPad
Apr 7
Installing Windows XP in Vmware ESX - "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer." | TechHead.co.uk
Apr 7
Tiobe Index: C back at #1
Mar 31
Capturing multiple matches in Ruby
Mar 30
Expose for Windows Vista/7 [Clone] : Divide By Zero
Mar 26
The Virtual Choir: How We Did It « SoaringLeap.com
Mar 25
NASA space shuttle missions get Hollywood-style movie posters - Telegraph
Mar 25
El auto de Google Maps Street View — Paola Villarreal
Mar 23
Solving hangs in Emacs on Windows
Mar 20
SolarBeat
Mar 18
Government Agency Apologizes for Evicting British Jedi - Lowering the Bar
Mar 18
My Head is in the Cloud
Mar 17
How’s that for a low price guarantee?
Mar 8
Shooting Stars Explained
Feb 23
How to Suck at Facebook - The Oatmeal
Feb 23
How to make the LG BD370 region-free
Feb 19
ShadyURL
Feb 17
Trying out Google Buzz + Posterous
Feb 17
Must-Have Windows Software (or Windows Programs that I use) - good coders code, great reuse
Feb 17
Rugged software
Feb 10
Fraser Speirs - Future Shock
Feb 8
Google's first Super Bowl ad. Awesome. Google search influences so many decisions we make in life - Sachin's web archive
Feb 3
Procrastination
Jan 28
The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother - thestar.com
Jan 27
I like the twittelator splash screen. Reminds me of the original Alien posters.
Jan 22
Trying out post.ly. I don't yet fully get what the difference is with just posting to my posterous blog.
Jan 8
Automatically cc myself in Outlook

2009 (46)

Dec 23
Keep being AWESOME!
Dec 23
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World | The Onion
Dec 22
The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See
Dec 19
Nieve en Coyoacan
Dec 17
Musical DNA
Dec 15
Israeli Security Opens Fire on a MacBook. Thrice. - Tom's Hardware
Dec 15
One more reason I'm happy to be back in Mexico
Dec 15
2009 in photos (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture
Dec 15
Change blindness experiment
Dec 14
My new business card
Dec 13
The Passenger
Dec 11
CopperExport development paused
Nov 29
National Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009 - The Big Picture
Nov 16
After the move
Nov 16
Server-less does not mean service-less
Nov 2
Character interactions charts (xkcd)
Oct 21
Walking to work
Oct 19
Packed and ready to go
Oct 12
Drives On What Side?
Oct 9
xkcd - A Webcomic - Scary
Oct 6
Terminator - How It Should End
Oct 6
Tango - The Big Picture
Oct 5
Gyrowheel by Gyrobike interbike 2009
Sep 28
Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile
Sep 28
Crash test: 1959 Bel Air vs 2009 Malibu
Sep 28
Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)
Sep 27
A fresh start
Sep 26
Brau-huus cheeseburger
Sep 26
Waedenswiler beer.
Sep 25
The Webcycle « Tom Scott
Sep 24
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines « Smashing Magazine
Sep 24
Windows 7 Party
Sep 24
30 Bad Practices of Web Designers
Sep 24
Huge dust storm in Sidney
Sep 23
Fix MacFusion on Snow Leopard | Racker Hacker
Sep 22
STS-128: Burritos in Space
Sep 20
At the Tufi fest in Adliswil
Sep 7
Going home
Aug 14
Send to Posterous directly from Google Reader
Aug 6
Hiroshima, 64 years ago - The Big Picture
Jul 24
Untitled 2
Jul 23
Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona)
Jul 22
Toothpaste For Dinner - Antidextrous
Jul 12
Posterous keeps getting better
Jun 30
Mate
May 8
Untitled 1

2008 (9)

Oct 22
How to trick an RHEL5 client install to use server RPMs
Oct 10
Easy video conversion in Mac OS X
Sep 29
Synchronizing 1Password data between two local accounts (howto)
Sep 8
Adding growl notification to Raymond Page's bash prompt code
Sep 8
Updated script for defining a new wallet item in 1Password
Sep 2
Fixing Mail.app's recent mail addresses problem
Sep 1
Markdown support
Sep 1
My GTD system
Aug 28
Testing posterous