My two year old just blasted past between my laptop and the plug. The mag adapter dropped off my MacBook Pro in silent fashion. My two year old kept quietly running (a rare thing — the quiet part). I was happy. It’s the tiny details like this where design shows its true colors. Is your app built for your users’ reality? Do your programmers need a reality check? How many “two year old” problems exist in their workspace, that you should handle beautifully instead of try to put those problems in a straight jacket?
Macs Are Made For Real Life - Is Your App?
Automate the Tiny Things
I don’t know how many years I’ve used the following command chain to add all my unknown files to Subversion:
svn st | grep ? | sed -e “s/? *//“ | xargs svn add
Inevitably I occasionally end up using that string on some directory where I have a space in the pathname, and everything bombs. So I finally got around to adding it to my ~/.bash_aliases file today, with the additional -e "s/^\(.*\)$/\"\1\"/". Simple, really (just make sure that something sources that file):
alias svnaddall=‘svn st | grep ? | sed -e “s/? *//” -e “s/^\\(.*\\)$/\\”\\1\\”/” | xargs svn add‘
I may still play with the actual alias name to see what sticks in my every day practice. Maybe I totally missed a way simpler way to do this. Seems like I’ve done something like this since back when I started using Subversion at release 0.18 or 0.19. Maybe I haven’t kept up, so I’d be happy to be enlightened.
Do you have anything tiny hanging around that should be automated right now?
