Andreas Diesner’s `#spiffy` [Fit2Tcx](https://github.com/adiesner/Fit2Tcx) command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT [FIT](http://www.thisisant.com/resources/fit) files to [TCX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Center_XML) for further processing. On a linux system, installing it is as simple as: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andreas-diesner/garminplugin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fit2tcx On a Mac OS X system, you’ll need to first grab the `tinyxml` package from… Continue reading
Post Category → OS X
Change The Default “Shell…” Action In RStudio for OS X
RStudio is my R development environment of choice and I work primarily on/in Mac OS X. While it’s great that Apple provides a built-in Terminal application, I prefer to use [iTerm 2](http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home) when I need to do work at a shell. The fine folks at RStudio provide a handy `Shell`… menu item off the `Tools`… Continue reading
Send Mac OS Notifications From RStudio *Server*! (via Growl)
Having received a couple follow-ups to the OS X notifications on RStudio Desktop for the Mac post, I was determined to find a quick hack to get remote notifications to OS X working from (at least) RStudio Server instances running on the same network. It turns out the hack was pretty straightforward just by using… Continue reading
Use Fluid On MacOS To Build Per-RStudio Server “Dedicated” Clients
I’m jumping around analytics environments these days and have to leave the comfort of my Mac’s RStudio Desktop application to use various RStudio Server instances via browser. While I prefer to use Chrome, the need to have a “dedicated” RStudio Server client outweighs the utility of my favorite browser. This is where Fluid (@FluidApp by… Continue reading
“Show in Finder” Broken? Here’s One Potential Way To Fix It
I’m not entirely sure what happened to cause it, but the “Show in Finder…” feature of a plethora of OS X apps broke on me just over a month ago. I poked around a bit, deleted a preference file here or there and un-tweaked some tweaks to see if it would help and nothing resolved… Continue reading
Building Jytter On OS X (tested on Mountain Lion)
Dan Kaminski (@dakami) tweeted a cool, small (11 instruction) TRNG generator called Jytter Friday: http://t.co/ar74sHcv 11 instruction TRNG. wow — Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) August 25, 2012 The authors have Windows & Linux ports but no OS X port (and, I play mostly on OS X when not in virtual environments). So, I threw together a… Continue reading
Tweet From Mountain Lion Notification Center
If this feature was in Mountain Lion Developer Previews prior to revision 4, I didn’t notice it, but you can now tweet directly from the Notification Center “pane”. You first need to make sure said feature is enabled in System Preferences (note the use of the “old” Notification Center icon in the preference pane icon… Continue reading
Slopegraphs in Python
(NOTE: You can keep up with progress best at github, but can always search on “slopegraph” here or just hit the tag page: “slopegraph” regularly) I’ve been a bit obsessed with slopegraphs (a.k.a “Tufte table-chart”) of late and very dissatisfied with the lack of tools to make this particular visualization tool more prevalent. While my… Continue reading