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Recent projects update

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:54:12 +0300

I’ve been announcing new projects on LinkedIn and X, but forgot to update my own blog. Since the last update, I shipped:

RingBreak — a macOS menu-bar app for quick exercise breaks using a Nintendo Ring-Con.
Continuo — a macOS menu-bar app for moving coding sessions between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.
jst — a CLI that turns plain-English requests into shell commands and runs them.

All three are open source. Source links and a little more detail are on the projects page.

Claude Code sessions should be encrypted

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:07:08 +0200

Claude Code is exploding in popularity right now, and people are using it for much more than writing code.

Everyone should be using Claude Code more

PMs, marketers, designers, founders, parents. Everyone.

The trick is to forget that it’s called Claude Code and instead think of it as Claude Local or Claude Agent. It’s essentially a super-intelligent AI running locally, able to do… pic.twitter.com/F6iDwYPMRY
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) October 14, 2025

Whether it’s to manage your email, write peer performance feedback, or even be your Chief of Staff—people are putting sensitive, personal information into Claude Code. And the more we use it for non-coding work, the more the session files are valuable and private¹.

AI Sessions - an excercise in 0-to-1

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0300

A few weeks ago I released aisessions.dev, a site where you can share your Claude Code / Codex / Gemini CLI sessions with others. In some ways this is an extension of the MCP server of the same name I created.

This was a fun zero-to-one project and an opportunity to think through a number of challenges:

Safely accepting user generated data (security, PII scrubbing, etc)
Building a privacy conscious service
Designing for long-term low-maintenance operation
Developer experience - CLI tools, onboarding, and good defaults ()
UI, design, and simplicity
Keeping everything open source

The stack this time was next.js + postgres (neon) + redis (upstash) + GCP Sensitive Data Protection. Hosted on Vercel.

Sharing context between AI coding agents

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0300

I’ve been switching between Claude Code and Codex a lot lately, and losing context each time was getting annoying.

So I built AI Sessions MCP - a small local server that lets any MCP-compatible AI agent read your coding sessions from Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and opencode.

Install it once, point your agents at it, and they can all access your session history. Search past conversations, find solutions to similar problems, or resume work in a different tool.

pair.guide

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0300

I’ve been working with AI coding agents a lot lately, and learning a lot in the process. I’ve noticed patterns: things that work well, things that don’t, and small tricks that make the whole experience better.

This led to pair.guide (previously humans.md) - a collection of short, practical notes on pair-coding with AI. Just things I wish I’d figured out sooner.

If you’re working with Claude Code or similar tools, maybe you’ll find something useful. And if you have tips of your own, contributions are welcome.

You're absolutely right!

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:28:40 +0000

I had some fun a couple of nights ago creating a silly website that tracks how often Claude Code tells me “You’re absolutely right!” during coding sessions.

I open-sourced it (of course) and posted it to Hacker News, thinking some people might enjoy the joke.

Turns out I was absolutely right! 🤣

It hit number 2 on the HN front page and got over 100k page views in less than a day. I really enjoyed seeing how people noticed some of the small details I obsessed over.

Keeping tabs on visual changes in PRs

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:28:40 +0000

Being involved in projects with lots of PRs from AI coding agents, I realized that no matter how thoroughly I review the code, I still need a quick way to validate any visual changes.

Out of that need, I built a small GitHub Action now available on the marketplace: auto-pr-screenshots.

Once it’s set up, it uses Playwright to generate screenshots and post them as a comment on the PR.

Here’s an example of how that looks:

Six years off stage

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:33:29 +0000

I realized today it’s been six years since my last conference talk at WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. I used to make a point of speaking at least once a year – it took a lot of work to prepare, but the energy in the room and the conversations afterward always made it worthwhile. Covid interrupted that streak and I somehow never picked it back up. I really do miss it.

Comparing AI coding agents

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:30:04 +0000

I threw an issue from a side project at 6 AI tools today: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex (the CLI version), Factory.ai, Devin, Jules, and All Hands.

The task was a bug fix + feature. The tricky part: it required setting the browser to offline mode for testing.

Hiking in Andros, Greece

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:39:10 +0000

At the end of October 2021, I traveled to the island of Andros in Greece for a solo hiking trip.

The official Andros route covers 100km in 10 days. I took inspiration from this excellent variation posted on the “Hiking and Coding” blog and came up with a modified itinerary where I’d walk about 90km in 5 days. I eventually covered that distance but made some changes along the way. This post is a photo diary of my itinerary.

Farewell Mika

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 09:40:17 +0000

I’ll miss you so much Mika. Thank you for being our most loyal companion for fifteen beautiful years. 💔

The perfect music for cooking pasta

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 07:21:47 +0000

When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

Ride into the sun

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:31:28 +0000

Looking for another place
Somewhere else to be
Looking for another chance
To ride into the sun

The Velvet Underground

A Pattern Language – book recommendation

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:37:40 +0000

I stumbled on the Cool Tools review of the book “A Pattern Language” a couple of years ago. Knowing then that we’ll soon be planning and building our house, I was excited to learn of a book that could help me build-up some basic knowledge and understanding of architecture.

“A Pattern Language” is fantastic! The amount of practical yet easy-to-digest information is staggering, and the book’s structure makes it very easy to use. The authors describe 253 patterns with varying importance, spanning across three main sections (Towns, Buildings, Construction). Each pattern references the patterns it’s built on top of and the patterns it affects.

Thank you for paying attention, Grammarly

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 05:39:35 +0000

From Grammarly’s weekly insights email.

My Breakfast

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:43:04 +0000

When it comes to food, I’m not a person of habits. But this recipe has been my breakfast of choice for the last few months, and surprisingly, I’m still enjoying it very much.

Yoghurt with Tahini, Banana, Walnuts, and Honey

Breakfast Yoghurt with Tahini, Banana, Walnuts, and Honey

Servings: 1 | Prep time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

125 gr yoghurt (I use dairy-free plain yoghurt)
1 banana, sliced, diced, or smashed
A handful of walnuts
2 tsp raw tahini
1 tsp honey

Directions

Pour yoghurt in bowl
Add Tahini and mix
Add banana
Crush the walnuts in your hand (or chop to your preferred size), and add to the bowl
Drizzle honey on top

Personal Weather Station

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:38:09 +0000

I had fun installing a personal weather station on our roof. I’ve set it up to share data automatically to a number of online services. See the station’s live data on Weather Underground.

Sights of Kathmandu

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 07:51:42 +0000

These pictures were taken during a short trip to Kathmandu, Nepal, in March 2019.

Bhaktapur

Pashupatinath Temple

Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple)

Your first Gutenberg Block – WC Kathmandu presentation

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:07:22 +0000

I was fortunate to attend WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 last weekend in Nepal. As promised, here are my slides and the code for the “Nepali Date” block I created for my session “Your first Gutenberg Block”.

Here’s the code for the block javascript file:

Gender-fair WordPress: Fixing translation inequality at the core

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:24:52 +0000

At WordCamp US 2017, I took the stage to argue that it’s time that WordPress enables translators to add gender-variable translations, and that we can do this in a way compatible with our existing translation ecosystem.

The slides:

A couple of days later, during contributor day, I was joined by several amazing WordPress (and GlotPress) contributors, and we firmed the proposal which is now up on trac.

Right To Left in WordPress – The Right Way

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:18:20 +0000

Here’s the short talk I gave about languages written from right-to-left at WordCamp Europe 2017. I’m visibly nervous — this was the largest crowd I’ve ever presented to.

The slides:

While the slides make it clear that I go from talking about rtl.css — the file, used in WordPress themes, to RTLCSS — the node module, I realize that it’s somewhat hard to understand when watching the video. Sorry about that!

Greg Lake, Epitaph

Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:31:50 +0000

King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King is the album that made me fall in love with Prog Rock. Greg Lake‘s powerful vocals on the track Epitaph have much to do with this.

Written around 1969, the lyrics (by Pete Sinfield) are almost prophetic:

The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams

The half-life of WordPress code

Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:00:51 +0000

Inspired by Erik Bernhardsson post The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus, here are the results of running Erik’s scripts against the WordPress git repo.

Cohorts

Code decay over time

Tip: typing a long Google password into a new Android device

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 09:32:28 +0000

I use a password manager and create very long passwords where possible, including for my Google account. The problem? when setting up a new Android phone, I can’t download the password manager app until I’ve logged into my Google account, which is nearly impossible without the password manager app.

The workaround? Enable USB debugging on the phone, and use ADB to enter the password:

./adb shell input text "LONG COMPLICATED PASSWORD"

Is it safe enough? Probably not. Use at your own risk 🙂

A boy walking down the street

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 07:58:08 +0000

Today was Jonathan’s first day of Kindergarten. On the way home, as the radio played Eli Mohar and Yoni Rechter’s “As Long”, I burst into tears.

While it doesn’t do the original any justice, here’s my attempt to translate the lyrics to English:

A boy walking down the street
On a clear September morning
To the school the children go out again
A man walks behind him
Watches, sees – unseen
And only later he stands there, witnessing

I’m a WordPress fan!

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:32:13 +0000

WP-CLI live presentation, like a pro

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:31:34 +0000

I recently gave a talk about WP-CLI at WordCamp Israel 2016. I thought it would be interesting to actually demo WP-CLI in real time, rather than use boring slides.

I used OS X split screen mode, with a terminal window on one side, and a browser on the other showing the site I’m creating and editing:

The tricky part was to not have to type the commands I wanted to demo (which would be boring, and slow). Luckily, I’ve found doitlive, which takes a bash script and types the commands in a simulated window.

Trigger actions on OS X using NFC on Android

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 08:50:03 +0000

Having recently started using a treadmill desk, I wanted to automate actions on OS X as I switched from the regular desk to the treadmill. For example, turn on Bluetooth, switch the audio output device, etc. Sure, I can do that by creating an Automator script I’d run somehow, but I was curious to see if I could make it happen just by placing my phone on the treadmill desk.

From Runkeeper to Runtastic

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:06:17 +0000

I started running a few months ago, with Runkeeper as my running app. The UI made sense, the audio cues were useful, and I liked the fact that friends were using it too and sharing their efforts.

Yet, too often my runs appeared like this:

I can run on water

I’m inclined to blame the phone’s GPS, but I expect the app to be smart and average my position to figure out I didn’t make impossible jumps across the lake. This was especially confusing during runs when I was doing intervals.

Localization: beyond translation, WC Europe 2015

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:23:44 +0000

WordCamp Europe 2015 was a superb event, and I’m happy I was able to present. In this talk, I’ve tried to focus on things that are sometimes overlooked when dealing with localization and internationalization.

Video

Slides

Butterfly

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:19:13 +0000

New community translator launched on WordPress.com

Tue, 26 May 2015 16:05:11 +0000

Really excited about today’s launch of our new front-end translation tool for WordPress.com.

Old Neil Young and young Neil Young sing Old Man

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:49:19 +0000

From The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon:

Time Magazine Doing Open Source

Tue, 13 May 2014 09:09:33 +0000

A couple of days ago, Time Magazine published “How Popular Will Your Name Be in 25 Years?” – it’s a fun and interesting analysis of the US Social Security Administration’s baby name data. The part I loved most?

The source code for this project is available on Time’s GitHub page.

Amazing.

Spring time in the vegetable garden

Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:29:44 +0000

A few months ago I started a vegetable garden in our back yard. It took quite a bit of work, but it was a lot of fun and it’s incredibly satisfying to see the fruits (and vegetables) of your labor grow.

I originally planted some lettuces, broccoli, cress, carrots, rocket, and parsley, and later added some zucchini and green peas. Most of these have grown pretty nicely:

I’ve now started working on some new garden beds, where I’ll plant summer veggies like tomatoes and peppers.

Reverse engineering the leynew WF510 light bulb adapter

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:01:17 +0000

A few weeks ago I ordered some WF510 WIFI enabled E27 adapters. The WF510 is a device you place between your light fixture and your light bulb, that allows you to control the light with an iOS/Android app. At $56 per lot of 3, they’re the poor man connected light bulb.

The reason I bought those adapters was to see if I could find out how the app controls the device, and build a better (open source!) app or web service around that. I always wanted to get more experience with home automation and device control.

Making WordPress Better

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:55:25 +0000

Yesterday I helped someone write their first WordPress core bug report, and then someone else write their first patch to fix that bug.

It happened after I saw a thread in a Facebook group about an issue with WordPress 3.8.
Turns out this was a bug I was responsible for (doh!), but instead of just fixing it, I offered to tutor anyone interested in how to create a bug report and write their first patch.

Yair Lapid: Don’t bother protesting, we can’t hear you

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:39:16 +0000

I knew of course, that there were people protesting that we shouldn’t export our natural gas (I don’t want to hurt their democratic enthusiasm, but they should know that there isn’t any megaphone that can be heard in a cabinet meeting)

This is a translated excerpt from a Facebook status post by Israel’s Secretary of Finance, Yair Lapid.

What is he saying exactly? That it’s not worth protesting when a politician fails to be true to his promises? That we, as citizens, shouldn’t bother voice our discontent when the government sells the country’s limited natural resources for cheap, without proper discussion in parliament?

Same Ikea product, 30 years apart

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:20:16 +0000

While going through my Mom’s old toolbox a few weeks ago, I found this:

Probably from around 1980, it’s the Patrull drawer safety catch from Ikea. The funny thing is that just a couple days before that, I bought this:

Same product, 30 years later!

It’s so interesting to see the two products side by side: the differences in style, packaging, and in the product itself are really telling. For example, notice how the old packaging has a textual description in a few languages, which I guess made sense since Ikea was only active in Europe in the early 80’s. Imagine if the current packaging had a description for every country Ikea operates in now!

My office for the next few hours

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:58:52 +0000

In Netanya’s [Sergeants Grove][1]

And on that farm he had a hippopotamus!

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:02:24 +0000

I’m not sure what to think of this. Jonathan’s tractor toy has a hippo instead of a pig:

Here’s the original:

When you press the hippo, it still sounds like a pig though.

I guess we got the middle eastern version, pigs being considered impure and all.
I wonder if it’s also the version sold in large Seventh-Day Adventist communities.

Jonathan is one year old today

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:59:40 +0000

Time just flies, and the love keeps growing.

2006 Ferrari F1 Car in Tel-Aviv

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:11:04 +0000

Came across the Ferrari dealership in Tel-Aviv yesterday, and found out they have a 2006 248 F1 car on display. The car has Schumacher’s name on it, though I don’t know if it was actually ever driven in a grand prix. Still – I got excited like a little boy when I saw it!

Back in 2000

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:38:08 +0000

Rather randomly today, I remembered that I designed some fonts and put them on the web (on a free host, of course). That was 12 years ago.

This is how the site looked back then, via the Wayback machine.

How ‘Mad Men’ Landed The Beatles

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:06:58 +0000

This week’s Mad Men scene where Don sat down to listen to the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” was brilliant. The New York Times has some background information.

How ‘Mad Men’ Landed The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000) – NYTimes.com

How I Watched the F1 Race Today

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:37:44 +0000

To watch the opening race of the 2012 F1 season, I had to set up a VPN connection to a server in Italy (for Rai’s live TV feed), and a virtual machine running another VPN connection to the UK (for BBC Radio’s audio commentary). The VPN service only costs $10 a month, but I’ll pay 4 times that to get a proper legal direct feed, if anyone will sell it to me.

Can I be in the photo too?

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:50:46 +0000

I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:30:22 +0000

Great comic on the Oatmeal.
This is ten times worst if you don’t live in the U.S.

(Not) working from home

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:44:06 +0000

Working at the local college. These library cubicals are really helping my concentration. Props Paolo for the awesome [Foursquare -> WordPress ifttt recipe.][1]

Backing up iPhoto images to an external destination using Carbon Copy Cloner

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:54:40 +0000

When I started using iPhoto, I didn’t realize my images are all enclosed inside a single package file. This is annoying because I’m used to having all my photos on a network share for easy access from PCs and other devices.

It turns out directly accessing images from iPhoto in the finder isn’t too difficult – you just need to “Show Package Contents” on the iPhoto library file, and navigate to the “Master” folder. However regularly backing up those images is a little more tricky.

How France’s Free will reinvent mobile

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:57:35 +0000

I’m a huge fan of how France’s “Free” has been revolutionizing the french telecommunication market in the past decade. An article I wrote about them was published on Ynet back in 2006. Now they’re also getting into mobile.

TV Recommendation – Black Mirror

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:33:23 +0000

I recently watched the 3 part british mini-series called “Black Mirror“. Each part is a different brilliant simulation of a dark technological future. Just fantastic – don’t miss it.

Via Yuval Dror (Hebrew)

We Come to Expel the Darkness

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:24:54 +0000

We come to expel the darkness
In our hands is light and fire
Each one of us is a small light
Together we’re mighty bright

Away you darkness, Away the black
Run away from the light

This is the first verse of the israeli folk Hannuka song “באנו חושך לגרש”.

It’s also the name of the project my brother Kobi and singer songwriter Tamar Eisenman launched to try to raise a voice against obscurantism and women discrimination which recently surfaced in Israel, as women women were asked to move the back of a bus in Jerusalem, or forbidden to sing in official events in the army as to not upset religious soldiers.

Enough with the non-existing digital frontiers: Louis CK experiment a tremendous success

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:53:39 +0000

“I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58)”

https://buy.louisck.net/statement

Louis CK is selling a professionally produced show for $5 with no DRM or regional restrictions. Success.

I steal content when I’m not allowed to buy it legally. If I can, I make the effort to connect through a proxy to buy some music, or change the country setting of my phone to buy an app, but if it takes more than 5 minutes to work around some stupid rules, I’ll just get the torrent.

How Do People Use Apple TV?

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:47:09 +0000

John Gruber:

Only 30 percent? That seems crazy to me. 70 percent of Apple TV owners don’t rent any movies or TV shows?

From How Do People Use Apple TV?.

Well, in most countries movies and TV shows aren’t even available in iTunes. We (I) just use the AppleTV to run XBMC, my 2nd favorite open source project.

The Quicksort Algorithm, Hungarian Style

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:52:52 +0000

A rendition of the Quicksort Algorithm with Hungarian folk dance:

And there’s more.

Hat tip: Jorge

Cracking Mud

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:42:37 +0000

I just love how the mud curls up when it dries. Walking on it is the real treat though as it cracks beneath your feet with the most rewarding sound.

Ice Cream Sandwich on the Nexus S

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:45:25 +0000

I’ve been running Alpha 11 of CyanogenMod 9 (Android 4.0/ICS) on my Nexus S for the past few days and all I can say is wow. ICS feels like a whole new era for Android, and this build is rock solid.

While you’re at it, get the awesome new 2.0 beta of WordPress for Android.

The Future

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:46:52 +0000

So we bought this fairly difficult to assemble product the other day, and on the package was a big QR Code. I scanned the code with my phone, and Android detected a link to a YouTube video and offered a few choices for playing it. One of those was “Play on XBMC”, thanks to the XBMC remote app (XBMC is the software that runs on our living room HTPC).

TIL whale oil was used in car transmissions up until the 1970’s

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:11:41 +0000

The reason why so many whales were killed in the 20th century was the distant ramifications of replacement of whale oil by petroleum. It took another 100 years to find solutions to these ramifications, and only then it became possible to save the whales. Ecological activism did not play significant role in all of these developments; neither did the numerous well-meaning international treaties, moratoriums, and other chest beating displays.

From: Mobile Dick

Rampage

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:02:11 +0000

So apparently, the classic arcade game Rampage is being [adapted into a movie][1]. This brings back some memories: as a kid, my brother, a friend and I all sat together in front of the computer banging on the keyboard to bring those buildings down.

We ended up breaking the keyboard, and my father formatted the diskette.

Today, I paint

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:20:42 +0000

Fabrique en Tchecoslovaquie

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:07:36 +0000

Inscribed on a bubble level I found in my father tools.

Mac App Store Update Error

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:33:53 +0000

To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it.

If you’re signed in and still get this error message when trying to update an app in the Mac App Store, you can workaround it by removing the application completely, and doing a fresh install.

Santorini

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:39:56 +0000

Just came back from a trip to beautiful Santorini. It’s the first time I used a DSLR – my brother’s Canon 60D, and though I don’t know much about photography (yet), this is the first batch of pictures I think are interesting:

The Trilogy

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:17:08 +0000

Part of an amazing dinner at Selene, a restaurant in Pyrgos, Santorini

Amoudi Bay, Santorini

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:26:38 +0000

Concrete block with an attitude.

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:23:29 +0000

Macbook Pro SSD Upgrade

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:08:53 +0000

Today I replaced the 7200 RPM 250GB Hard Drive in my laptop with a 120GB SSD. Here are the Xbench Disk Test results:

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Before - Hard Drive

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After - SSD

More important though is how the system feels: blazing fast – I never expected this level of improvement!

Blogging is hard.

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:54:48 +0000

Really. I had a blog in Hebrew – and it got stale to the point I just closed it.
This blog doesn’t get updated very often either.

And yet – I’m trying again. This time, it’s all about WordPress, in Hebrew. And not only that, I’ve committed to a post a day.

Laptop and Multiple Displays: Window Management on OS X

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:47:54 +0000

This is a followup to a previous post about window management tools for OS X.

I’ve recently started using a 2nd external monitor connected to my laptop (using Plugable’s DisplayLink Adapter). Since I was switching from laptop only to laptop + 2 external displays at least once a day, I needed to figure out a way to save/restore applications and windows positions.
I was really happy to discover Stay, a pretty good app that does just that (30 day trial, $15 for the full version).

Collage Album Art

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:05:15 +0000

I was ripping some old CDs today, and these two were right next to each other on the shelf.

WordCamp Jerusalem

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:32:05 +0000

I’m really excited to be giving a talk at WordCamp Jerusalem in a couple of weeks – the third Israeli WordCamp and the first in Jerusalem.

My talk will be an in-depth overview of WordPress i18n and RTL – a topic I already addressed in a quick 7 minutes presentation at WordCamp SF 2010. I’ll be speaking in Hebrew this time, but the slides will be in English and I’ll share them here afterwards.

Broken MicroSD card

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:23:10 +0000

I’ve put my phone’s 8GB MicroSD card in an adapter the wrong way, and this is what happened when I tried to pull it out:

Then I remembered how my father was excited they got a 40MB hard drive in the computer training center where he worked, 20 years ago. It was huge!

Two hundred times that in a plastic card smaller than my thumb nail? I admire who ever had the imagination to dream that.

Great window management tools for OS X

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:27:38 +0000

It took me some time to find these great apps, so I figured a mention might help others:

Shift It enables easy moving and resizing of windows using the keyboard (expands the concept of Aero Snap)
Afloat will let you keep windows on top, adjust window transparency and much more.

In case you’re wondering, they’re both free and open source.

What to do when the MacBook battery drains in Sleep

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:37:51 +0000

A couple of weeks ago my MacBook battery started to drain heavily when the computer was in sleep (standby) mode. This was really troubling – and while I was still getting a decent enough run on a full charge, a “Service Battery” notice also appeared on the power menu.

The fix? A reset of the System Management Controller:

In some cases, resetting the SMC may be the only correct method to resolve the issue, however, an SMC reset should only be attempted after all other standard troubleshooting has been performed.

Unrest

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:11:10 +0000

And so many questions.

It’s been a week since the “Flotilla” events.
I can’t remember when news, any news, perturbed me so much.
Not because of what happened, but because of why, and how.

How did it get to be this way?

Why do I believe one side or the other?
Is there a truth?

With so much hate and violence, can it ever end?
And how can you not lose hope?

Drums Mics Shootout

Thu, 13 May 2010 16:32:16 +0000

If you’re into either drumming or music recording, check out this great series of drum mics shootout by my brother Kobi. Watch on YouTube for the HD versions

WordPress 3.0 code sprint

Mon, 03 May 2010 22:24:43 +0000

WordCamp San Francisco 2010

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:51:54 +0000

I’m doing a short talk about right to left language support in WordPress themes and plugins this Saturday, at WordCamp SF 2010.
See you there!

WordPress 2.9 RC1 is out

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:43:42 +0000

~~Get it here.~~
Get it here.

Google Tasks as a desktop app

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:53:40 +0000

Here’s how to set up Google Tasks as a desktop app:

Get Prism (pc) or Fluid (mac)
Set up a new app using the following URL: https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas
Get a fancy icon

If you’re using Android, download gTasks from the market.

Wall painting at the kindergarten

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:31:59 +0000

Spent the day at the kindergarten where my family is sponsoring after hours activities for kids from a rough neighborhood . We’ve repainted most of the outdoor equipment and helped Liron Ben-Arzi draw a huge wall painting:

Getting Automattic!

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:51:48 +0000

For the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to get to know a wonderful company and an amazing team, which I’m really excited to join. So, with a blink to my previous job (thanks Blink), I’m truly happy to write that today is my first official day as an Automattician!

Add pictures to your contacts in Gmail and Outlook

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:36:26 +0000

A few tools to add pictures to your contacts in Gmail and Outlook

From Gravatar to Gmail: Arikfr’s Gravatars to Google Contacts Importer
From Facebook to Gmail: GoogleFacebookSync
From Facebook to Outlook: OutSync

Great apps for Symbian s60v3 smartphones

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:33:14 +0000

Keeping track of all the apps I’ve got installed on my phone is not an easy task. Here’s a quick list of the most important ones:

amAze GPS - Worldwide GPS Turn By Turn navigation
Fring - IM and VOIP with skype/gtalk etc.
Gmail - Useful when I need to make a search for an old email message.
Gravity – The best symbian twitter client.
Mecanto – Streams all your music collection.
Mobbler - Couldn’t live without it. Scrobble and streams music to and from last.fm. Good review @ symbian-guru.
Nokia Location Tagger - Tags the camera phone pictures with location data.
Nokia Messaging - Push mail from my Gmail account.
Nokia Sports Tracker - Great combination of mobile app and web service. Uses the GPS to track speed, distance and course while running/walking etc.
Opera Mini - While the phone native web browser is quite good, Opera Mini is useful for a quick Wikipedia search from time to time
Qik - A great video stream that’s really easy to install and run.
Skyfire - Another web browser, but the only that can display flash/silverlight/whatever on a symbian phone. Hopefully will get faster and more stable with future releases.
Telmap Nav - Another TBT navigation app. I’m currently beta testing the new version. Really cool stuff.
WirelessIRC - A prefect IRC client.
Wordmobi - Awesome WordPress blog editor.

(Updated: August 2009.)

Wordmobi – WordPress on your symbian mobile phone

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:49:56 +0000

Finally, a free mobile app for WordPress that works on my E71. This post is written with Wordmobi a great and full featured WordPress client and editor.
It even snaps pics and includes them directly into your posts.

Posted by Wordmobi

Using Google for OCR

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:52:10 +0000

Amit Agarwal has posted a tip on his blog about using Google to convert PDF to text. For some reason, he suggest putting all your PDFs documents on the web:

Create a folder in your website (say abc.com/pdf) and upload all the PDF images to that folder. Now create a public web page that links to all the PDF files. Wait for the Google bots to spider your stuff.

Once done, type the query “site:abc.com/pdf filetype:pdf” to see the PDF documents as HTML.

Business Books for the Poor

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:36:50 +0000

CC License. Photo credit: Marcus Q

Read, Read, Read. That’s probably the best piece of advice I ever got. Recently it’s all about business books and unfortunately, these are quite expensive around here.

So, how did my business bookshelf grew from a handful to more than 30 books in less than a year? One word – BookMooch.

It’s an amazing book swapping site where you list books you want to give, get points for mailing them to others and use those points to get books you want. I’ve mailed and received books from almost 20 countries around the world, Including Tahiti.

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