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title: More on the Mac
teaser: I'm using Safari and TextMate for web development now.
tags: osx
author: Chad Pytel
published_on: 2006-05-12
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Ok, so I've finally convinced myself to use Safari. Now that I've gotten used to
it, with the native UI widgets and overall good performance I wonder what was
holding me back in the beginning – I'm still not sure.

For programming, I've been giving [TextMate] a try, but with the 30 day trial
eventually ending (funny how that happens), I've decided to give something else
a spin before purchasing it, so I've been using [JEdit], and I must say that it
is solid. It was key to turn on font smoothing (TextMate spoils you in that
department), and install some plugins before really being able to use it.

[TextMate]: https://macromates.com/
[JEdit]: http://www.jedit.org/