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How to get your RSS feeds out of Mail.app (and into NetNewsWire)

rob duarte — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:13:37 +0000

If you use Mail.app to read RSS feeds and want to export the URLs for those feeds (maybe you want to use some other RSS reader now?), you can use this command. perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m#(.*://[^

Solar Recipes

rob duarte — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:13:05 +0000

I’ve been cooking with the solar oven. Here’s a log of how it’s been going. Here are the pots that I’ve used in the oven so far Potatoes and Apples The first solar potatoes were amazing. I pierced 3 whole organic potatoes and put them in the big pot for 3 hours. It was a [...]

Solar Cooking

rob duarte — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:18:08 +0000

I made a solar oven last night and I baked some potatoes with it this morning. Two words: best baked potatoes EVER. I’ve been meaning to make a solar cooker for a while and I finally got around to it yesterday. I was as sloppy as possible because I wanted to see how quickly [...]

PHP Countries, States and Provinces

rob duarte — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:41:40 +0000

I modified my phpstates code include to display countries and Canadian provinces as well. The country codes come from the UPS developer’s API. This is another one of those snippets that I use often, so maybe it will help you out. Here it is → phpregions.php

Perl template for TextMate

rob duarte — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:54:00 +0000

Here’s how you can create perl scripts in TextMate, starting from a template instead of a blank screen. TextMate is well worth the money if you do any programming and you own a Mac. In case you use it and haven’t noticed that there’s a “New from Template” menu, take a look. You can [...]

Simple credit card number validation with PHP

rob duarte — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:32:26 +0000

I was looking for a quick and simple PHP function that would validating credit card numbers, but the code I found was mostly clunky and sometimes just wrong. I wrote this function and it seems to work correctly. Feel free to use it and leave a comment here if it works for you. Here [...]

Organic Butternut Squash Robot

rob duarte — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:46:16 +0000

I find things in my sketchbook that I don’t remember writing or drawing. I have no idea where I was going with this, but I like the way my alternate personality is thinking.

Toy Ingenuity

rob duarte — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:11:15 +0000

I like the little gems of ingenuity and economy of design found inside crappy toys. I was taking apart some electronic toys yesterday, as is my wont. This particular toy had a few neat mechanisms, but I thought this use of rotary encoders and cams was especially cool. The toy has these two cylinders [...]

ZoomBot

rob duarte — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:06:51 +0000

I created a circuit that zooms a camcorder in and out. This is the path I took. My friend needed a camera to repeatedly zoom in and out for her thesis work at UCSD. I made this device to do just that. Without going into the details of her video installation, the camera [...]

Free Mind

rob duarte — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:12:48 +0000

I’ve been using FreeMind for the past few days and it’s been amazing. I was a little skeptical but it’s been a great way of getting my mess of thoughts into visual form. I’m in the middle of writing essays for my grad school applications and this micro-revelation came up in one [...]