Archive 1. January 2010

Daring Fireball: The Tablet - "I am not predicting that Apple is phasing out the Mac. (On the contrary, I’ve heard that Mac OS X 10.7 is on pace for a developer release at WWDC in June.) Like all Apple products, The Tablet will do less than we expect but the things it does do, it will do insanely well. It will offer a fraction of the functionality of a MacBook — but that fraction will be way more fun. The same Asperger-y critics who dismissed the iPhone will focus on all that The Tablet doesn’t do and declare that this time, Apple really has fucked up but good. The rest of us will get in line to buy one."

hgsubversion - since you occasionally encounter SVN and often get annoyed that you can't switch the working directory between releases, you can simply use hgsubversion. This mirrors a complete SVN repository into a local Mercurial repository from which you can easily populate your working area using Mercurial tools. Also useful if you want to manage patches for an SVN project, as Mercurial's patch queue is superior to all SVN-based techniques.