Dave's Notes

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier for individuals. Its support for automated linkages across professional activities is particularly useful for researchers. More.

A drive from Tucson to Reno, in July, via Death Valley.

Eastern Standard Time is the designation of the timezone of the eastern seaboard of the United States.

There’s a lunar eclipse starting at 2018-01-31T10:51:13Z which equates to 05:51:13ET.

Validating XML against the cited schema makes sure that the XML is at least structured correctly, and helps ensure that consumers of the XML have some guarantees about what to expect.

How much roof area do I need to catch my own water?

QuickLook is the thing that lets you quickly preview content in finder, spotlight, and various apps. It is also easily used from the command line.

Postgres 9.2+ supports JSON. Sweet.

Looking into the file utility and having it detect file types.

A tool to add comments to files on OS X in a way that contains both plain text and structured data. This is preferred over adding custom extended attributes as the spotlight comments have a better chance of being preserved with file transfers and synchronization tools like DropBox.