June 2011
2 posts
“Io is worth learning just to see what a clean prototype-based language feels...”
– hassy @ Hacker News
April 2011
2 posts
“One of my favorite examples, and one that I shared in my presentation, is that...”
– Intuition & Data-Driven Machine Learning - igvita.com
“Grok how the “class” pattern is just a special case of disciplined prototype...”
– Evolution of a Prototypal Language User
February 2011
2 posts
“Cucumber is simultaneously the most interesting and most useless thing...”
– Reddit thread on Cucumber
November 2010
1 post
August 2010
5 posts
“three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of...”
– Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email
Cloudant: Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters →
I can’t wait for the Cloudant software to be open sourced, it is a massive win for CouchDB.
Unlimited Novelty: Multithreaded Rails is... →
I have been doing a lot of EventMachine-based coding lately, and I am beginning to question the approach. Ruby is simply a bad fit for the model.
“One thing I really love about this is the guys are constantly shipping...”
– Corey Donohoe: Constantly Shipping Refactorings
April 2010
1 post
(((wide antenna))) →
Claus Dahl writes about the startup scene in the Øresund Region.
March 2010
2 posts
dwm on Mac OS X
The one thing I have always been missing on Mac OS X was dwm. Not anymore. Simon Rozet showed the way, and now I am the happiest Mac user in the world. And a productive one, as well. A bunch of small tweaks are needed to get the optimal experience, though, and I have started collecting those in a gist. Please do tell if you have anything to add.
Enjoy: Installing and configuring dwm on Mac OS X.
January 2010
3 posts
“Collaboration technology doesn’t need to be re-invented every six years....”
– Break My Concentration and I Break Your Kneecaps - Ted Dziuba
io-fans →
Finding information about the Io language is difficult. It doesn’t have to be that way, though.
“The state of Javascript is such a heartbreaking missed opportunity. If only the...”
– keithb on reddit
December 2009
6 posts
Typography for Lawyers →
I almost forgot about this one. It is a great typography primer, even for non-lawyers.
Hashidator!
I have been using MongoDB a lot recently, often using nothing but the low-level Ruby driver, and needed a way to validate input before passing it on to MongoDB. I give you: Hashidator. Example:
It can validate arrays and nested hashes and knows about duck typing and booleans as well. For full coverage consult the example.
Available on Gemcutter.
Red blood cell-mimicking synthetic biomaterial... →
a.k.a. synthetic blood. I can’t wait for the vampires to emerge.
Blink
→
Open source SIP client for Mac OS X. Seems decent. I’ve been looking for something like this for ages.
November 2009
8 posts
Give Up and Use Tables →
Yes.
“We’re not engineers. We build things iteratively using a computer science...”
– Cynos @ reddit
gochat →
I spent a few late-night hours hacking this stupidly simple chat server together in Go. While the code probably sucks, it was a nice and–almost–painless experience. Go, Go!
The Go Programming Language →
This is what Ken Thompson and Rob Pike has been up to lately. Quite interesting.
“I am Jason Fried. I say amazing and thoughtful things that are real. Get real by...”
– Friedisms (via threesome)
CappuccinoFlow →
The Cappuccino-equivalent of RubyFlow.
Quarter-life crisis on Wikipedia →
See, I told you it was a widely recognized phenomenon.
October 2009
10 posts
Mathias Meyer has written some good pieces on Redis. I agree, it’s awesome, and we’re happily using it in production.
Vimprobable →
A WebKit-based browser with vim keybindings.
isaac-formatting →
Danny Tatom has released an extension for Isaac. I better add a proper extension system now.
Publications by Googlers →
Interesting stuff.
Announcing Firmafon →
The last few months I have spent working on this cool project together with Niklas Stephenson, and today we are proud to launch. It is a simple, virtual phone system for companies. Think Google Voice for the commercial space.
Daily AWS Wtf and Alestic.com are my two favourite sources on EC2 and friends. What are yours?
September 2009
8 posts
Opscode Blog: Why we chose the Apache License →
Great, in-depth post on why Opscode chose the Apache License over MIT, GPL etc. It boils down to making sure contributions are not entangled in patents, copyright and the likes.
lambda v proc v Proc.new in 1.8/1.9 →
Some time ago I put together this little gist exhibiting the different qualities of lambda, proc and Proc.new in Ruby 1.8 and 1.9. It’s a handy little overview.
Roy Fielding on REST-* →
Don’t let ‘em get you, Roy!
Rooting HTC Magic
Today I finally did it. I rooted my HTC Magic. The hardest part was gathering the information, the rooting itself was painless. I followed the One-Click Root-guide and used the latest, experimental Cyanogen ROM, 4.1.7. Apparently there are two different versions of the HTC Magic, 32A and 32B. Mine is a 32A, so I had to get this patch for Cyanogen as well. So far it has been worth it. Tethering...
Ryan Tomayko →
This is one of the most valued feeds in my feedreader. A steady stream of interesting links, and the occasional writings by Mr. Tomayko himself are no less interesting.
