Is there any chance get this into Homebrew for an easier installation on Mac?

HTTPie has just been added to Homebrew:

    $ brew install httpie

I just installed it on my mac by doing $ sudo pip install httpie

It was not too tricky

Sure, but i dislike installing other tools like pip just for a single tool.

As a python dev, I use pip all the time. My first thought was, "nice, just use pip." I appreciate your comment because it helps remind me that people approach problems from different frames of mind.

Play didn't invent the iteratee concept, Oleg Kiselyov did (http://okmij.org/ftp/Streams.html). I asked myself the same question, as I'm doing the reactive programming course on Coursera, where Rx was the topic of the last couple weeks. I came to the conclusion that Rx focuses on side-effects while iteratees concentrate on iterative calculations. Iteratees calculate a result while Rx-observers just perform side-effects. Maybe someone else can further elaborate on this topic.

James Roper wrote a comment describing why Play's iteratees are so complex in comparison: http://brikis98.blogspot.de/2013/11/play-scala-and-iteratees...

For those who don't know, James Roper is one of the Play contributors.

I really like the extension but what I'm missing is auto refresh and opening links in new tabs (both comments and articles). That functionality is offered by another extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackemup/abjhkncpe...) but sadly both extensions seem to be incompatible (after browser restart).

Why is the number of tabs limited to eight (in this browser and in Safari; Chrome doesn't have a limit AFAIK)?

To make you happy (in case you weren't aware before): Safari on iOS 6 can open up to 24 tabs! (and before, IIRC it was limited to 9 not 8) - You can't imagine how wonderful it is to have more than 9 tabs!

That is already on my todo list for the next release.

The command line version of it (mdfind) seems to search the entire file system.

Why does it open a new Safari window after the installation? That's pretty annoying but besides that I'm happy about every new version.

Because Apple's installer framework has the option to open a document after installation is complete: We have it open the start.html page. Alas, Apple's framework always opens web pages with Safari, no matter what the user has set as their default browser. I don't know why, since it is just the standard "open" action - suspect it has to do with the Installer running as root. If anyone knows a work around, I'm all ears!

I haven't used Xmonad myself but with all the talking why hasn't someone ported it to OS X (Cocoa) yet?

It's not just a question of porting it to cocoa. To really do its job, it needs to take control of every other window. So you need to hack Apple's existing window manager.

FWIW, you can easily compile and run it on OSX, under X. But of course it can't reach out and control any of the native applications.

Ressources about programming which are not primarily meant for programmers are always interesting to read/watch. The recipe metaphor reminds me of this (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/0429/122429...) article which distinguishes between cooking recipes and mathematical formulae.

I tried MacRuby once a few months ago (https://github.com/tilltheis/fullscreenclock) and I have to tell you the Cocoa parts lacked some essential features (like correct syncing of Ruby and Cocoa setters). But the nice thing about it is that you can intermix Obj-C and Ruby code freely to write the low level parts of your app in C/Obj-C if you want to. There is even a bridge between C/Obj-C and Ruby which enables you to call native functions from your Ruby code.