Ghost in the Machine

If you’d like to display certain Unix directories within your Mac’s Finder, don’t use

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

which clutters your finder with every hidden file. Just use

SetFile -a v someFileOrDir

which lets you selectively display whatever you want in OS X’s Finder. (Restart Finder for the change to take effect.)

SetFile is in /Developer/Tools

Update: Sass CSS Reset has been revised.

An associate turned me on to Hampton Catlin’s Haml and Sass — terse, structured representation of xhtml markup and css rules. Not bad work for a guy who used to work with a Canadian vampire! If you’re working with Rails, I highly recommend it. I am a markup snob who is sensitive to white space, and after my initial rash-like reaction to Haml, the itching went away and I grew to like it.

For those that have embraced Eric Meyer’s css reset work, here’s a version of css reset in Sass.

Sass CSS Reset

download

// reset.sass
// Generated 10/1/2007
// yong joseph bakos
// This is a sassified version of Eric Meyer's reset.css
// http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/
//
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
  :border 0
  :outline 0
  :font-weight inherit
  :font-style inherit
  :font-size 100%
  :font-family inherit
  :vertical-align baseline

*:focus
  :outline 0

body
  :line-height 1
  :color black
  :background white

ol, ul
  :list-style none

table
  :border-collapse separate
  :border-spacing 0

caption, th, td
  :text-align left
  :font-weight normal

blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after
  :content ""

blockquote, q
  :quotes "" ""