Dear President Obama,

Today, December 15, 2011, two things are being discussed by our elected officials, the 2012 NDAA and SOPA.

Today I changed an opinion I never thought I’d change; I changed my support for you and your administration.

More importantly, the recent actions of our elected officials and your administration have made me completely lose faith in our government. I was almost always appalled by the Bush administration’s actions, but this time it’s different. Not just because you promised otherwise, but because what you will potentially sign in to law is much more dangerous to the long-term success of this country.

Compromising freedom of speech in this time in our world equates to compromising our ability to innovate, evolve, and compete in the world market.

Aside from violating the basic principles of American democracy, I feel like we, the people, are being punished. Our freedoms are being removed based on closed-door government discussions. Maybe it’s lobbyists? Maybe it’s a known threat of terrorism? Maybe unemployment will spike? Maybe rabid mutant pandas? We don’t know because we haven’t been told.

Our rights are being taken away, we haven’t been given any explanation, and legislation has been pushed through in a secretive manner.

Why are the American people being treated like children?

This country, represented by our elected officials, is spending the majority of its efforts fighting change. The world is changing faster than our senators can get words out of their mouths.

Please don’t compromise our country’s future to retain an antiquated status quo. Incentivize education, innovation, forward thinking, and let’s focus on making America the admirable country it once was.

Respectfully, Linus Graybill

I’ve been a Textmate user since 2004. I loved it then and I have a strong fondness for it now. Textmate converted me from an IDE to a text editor. Before Textmate I was using…wait for it…

Dreamweaver.

So Textmate was like huge. But like a lot of folks I’ve been frustrated Textmate hasn’t changed in seven-ish years.

I’ve recently become a quick convert to Sublime. If you’re a heavy Textmate user, I have 10 good reasons you should take a look at Sublime.

1. Directory specification for ⌘T

In Textmate, ⌘T opens a file browser. Say I’m looking for group_admin.spec, I can hit ⌘T and type ‘gro spec’ and then can jump to that file from a list. I use it tens of times every day.

There’s one big pain point with ⌘T: multiple files with the same name, such as this table.haml file that might exist in 16 different directories in this project.

Sublime solves this problem by adding directory specification. The file that I really want is in the software_requests directory. In Sublime I can do ⌘T and type ‘sof /table.ha’ and the results are much more manageable: