You make some good points here, which I completely understand. Hopefully the future will bring better options for us all.
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I've preferred Mac systems for longer than most of the HN crowd has been alive, so I understand what it's like to feel ignored and in the minority. For years, Mac users were treated as pariahs. The tables have turned, and as someone who has been in your situation, I should have great empathy for your predicament.
And I do, but your tone in general -- and your last sentence in particular -- makes it very hard to empathize. Microsoft used its near-monopoly status to stifle innovation for years, and many of us have figurative scars that will never heal. You seem to think that they are making great strides (while I see them as half-hearted overtures), but either way I'm not about to "throw them a bone." Their decades of misdeeds, in my eyes, will not be expiated so easily.
Perhaps Microsoft will someday be worthy of forgiveness, either from the perspective of morality (e.g., Mozilla) or product excellence (e.g., Apple). Until that day, Microsoft will continue to reap what they have sown, given no more attention than they have earned.
Fish shell users can take advantage of the Extract and Compress plugins I wrote, which utilize Pixz if installed: https://github.com/justinmayer/tackle/tree/master/plugins/ex...
That said, parallel XZ is even better: https://github.com/vasi/pixz
My most recent talk was two weeks ago at PyCon Japan. Following are my slides for that talk, in case that's useful for anyone who wants to get a better understanding of SSG history and advantages/disadvantages: http://justinmayer.com/talks/
Also happy to answer any questions here, of course. (^_^)
Moreover, the majority of plugins in the repository do not, in fact, come from OMF.
If you'd like to try a Fish shell framework with a bit less drama, my I suggest my alternative? (^_^)
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Just thought I'd mention it here in case others are thinking of trying this out on Mountain Lion.
Edit: CamHenlin has already committed a fix for this problem. Nice work!
[1]: https://nixos.org/wiki/Hosting_providers_%26_NixOs
[2]: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...
http://justinmayer.com/bpg-test/
Size of PNG before conversion: 186K
Size after conversion to JPEG: 52K
Size after conversion to BPG: 9K
I took the liberty of submitting a Homebrew formula, so hopefully this will soon be a quick "brew install libbpg" away. (^_^)
I wrote a tutorial on how to install it on Mac OS X and Ubuntu: http://hackercodex.com/guide/install-fish-shell-mac-ubuntu/ For me, the chief advantage to Fish is that you get more functionality out-of-the-box than with most other shells, including zsh.
I also published two related projects for easily sharing Fish shell enhancements — Tacklebox https://github.com/justinmayer/tacklebox and Tackle https://github.com/justinmayer/tackle) — because I wanted a way for folks to be able to have access to multiple plugin repositories and easily share their favorite shell snippets.
(1) Don't use words like "badassify" — they make you sound immature and reduce your credibility. (c.f. "rockstar engineer", "coding ninja", et cetera)
(2) Invest an afternoon in switching to a static site generator — your site's current server appears to be on fire due to excess traffic. As a member of the getpelican.com dev team, I'm clearly biased, but any static site generator will be better than an uncached Ghost instance.
(3) Try Fish :^) http://hackercodex.com/guide/install-fish-shell-mac-ubuntu/