Ryan Tomayko

Adding and removing orders of magnitude.

I work at GitHub in San Francisco. We build software for people that build software.

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Writings

Things I've written about building software in the early 21st century.

Nov 19 2012: Your team should work like an open source project
Apr 02 2012: Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style
Apr 26 2011: AWK-ward Ruby
Oct 06 2009: I like Unicorn because it's Unix
Apr 27 2009: HTTP Caching Talk at RailsConf '09
Jan 27 2009: Why "require 'rubygems'" Is Wrong
Nov 16 2008: Things Caches Do
Oct 24 2008: Introducing Rack::Cache
May 30 2008: Moving Past BlueCloth
Apr 08 2008: The Thing About Git
Mar 17 2008: JavaScript Based Code Prettification
Mar 14 2008: Administrative Debris
Mar 08 2008: What does "HREF" stand for?
Mar 06 2008: On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles
Feb 26 2008: GitHub: My Kind of Social Software
Feb 03 2008: PrinceXML Is Extremely Impressive
Jan 29 2008: Browser Usage
Jan 18 2008: Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies
Jan 10 2008: Simplifying Web Framework Deployment on Shared Hosting
Oct 02 2007: Bazaar Project Templates
Apr 15 2007: Lesson #5
Apr 12 2007: Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases
Jan 23 2007: "Helpful" Thumbnails
Jan 18 2007: This word - "Web" - I do not think it means what you think it means.
Dec 29 2006: The Pending Ruby/Java Co-op
Dec 29 2006: Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!)
Dec 22 2006: Parallels Makes IE Testing Suck Less, Melts Power Cord
Nov 19 2006: Java in The Land of Make Believe
Nov 13 2006: Shackled But Free
Nov 11 2006: XML Templating in Python Evolves
Oct 27 2006: Vox Populi
Sep 12 2006: Gosling v. Greenspun
Sep 11 2006: Here's a Nickel, Kid
Sep 09 2006: Top.app
Sep 07 2006: Web Based Site Monitoring Tools
Sep 03 2006: I Hate This Place
Oct 27 2005: The Zen of Microformats
Jul 20 2005: Motherhood and Apple Pie
Jul 07 2005: Announcing lesscode.org
May 28 2005: Doh!
May 27 2005: IBM Poopheads: "LAMP Users Need to Grow Up"
May 24 2005: Cha-cha-cha-cha-changes...
May 17 2005: Who are they?
May 12 2005: Why RedMonk Must Succeed
May 12 2005: Roxio is Apple's Bitch
May 11 2005: OS X Network Location Support From The Command Line
May 06 2005: Turn HTML off completely in Mail.app
May 02 2005: Such precision
Apr 28 2005: Why I love Sean McGrath
Apr 22 2005: On HTTP Abuse
Apr 01 2005: Insects and Entropy
Mar 29 2005: The Battle of the Less Clueless
Mar 17 2005: Web Services: what is "success" and how do we get there?
Mar 12 2005: What WS-* got wrong
Mar 06 2005: Jonathon Schwartz on WS-Mess
Mar 05 2005: Netscape 8 - Setting the browser back two years
Mar 05 2005: Kid 0.6
Mar 01 2005: Yahoo! Launches REST-based Web Services
Mar 01 2005: WS-Sandwich
Feb 25 2005: Scary Rails vs Quixote Stats
Feb 18 2005: The Tool Vendor's Dilemma
Feb 17 2005: Web Dominated by J2EE?
Feb 02 2005: Tools for Democracy / Distributed Journalism
Jan 29 2005: Cats
Jan 26 2005: Kid by Example
Jan 23 2005: No Rails for Python?
Jan 22 2005: Web Antipatterns Strikes Again
Jan 20 2005: Getters/Setters/Fuxors
Jan 19 2005: IBM to Free Java - Next Week?
Jan 19 2005: Disproving Backward Time Travel (kind of)
Jan 12 2005: Experimental del.icio.us Posting Interface Thing Generator
Jan 12 2005: ElementTree on the come-up
Jan 11 2005: Kid 0.4
Jan 09 2005: Watching people watch stuff at the Magic Kingdom
Dec 15 2004: The Static Method Thing
Dec 15 2004: Fedora Project Shaping Up
Dec 12 2004: How I Explained REST to My Wife
Dec 11 2004: But the world doesn't work that way
Dec 10 2004: Transformation Templates in Kid
Dec 10 2004: Why isn't there a simple XSLT?
Dec 09 2004: The Day Tim Bray Saved Java
Dec 06 2004: FC2 to FC3 upgrade with Yum
Dec 05 2004: XML Pull-chaining with Python
Dec 02 2004: Kid 0.2 and a note on Template Design
Nov 29 2004: In search of a Pythonic, XML-based Templating Language
Nov 28 2004: Hello Pythonosphere
Nov 22 2004: The factors that led them to choose IE..
Nov 18 2004: Splice
Nov 18 2004: Adam Bosworth, Sloppy KISSes, and WS-Mess
Nov 14 2004: Java and Open Source
Nov 07 2004: Web Antipatterns
Oct 01 2004: Getting Rid of the Summary Field
Oct 01 2004: Dynamic Superclassing in Python
Sep 25 2004: Should Linkblogs Trackback and/or Pingback?
Sep 23 2004: Bosworth on WS-Mess
Sep 20 2004: Guido's 10-line Python Scripts
Sep 12 2004: Cleanest Python find-in-list function?
Sep 07 2004: Quick OS X (and Emacs) Keystroke Reference
Sep 07 2004: 30 Pixels, 30 Lines
Sep 05 2004: Python Inner Classes
Aug 08 2004: Persistent NFS Automounting Under OS X 10.3 (Panther)
Aug 08 2004: Del.icio.us Address-barlets
Jul 23 2004: Who Owns Your Browser?
Jul 18 2004: Disable horizontal wrapping in various textmode tools
Jul 13 2004: Per Site User Stylesheets
Jul 12 2004: Redhat 9 to Fedora 2 Yum Upgrade
Jul 09 2004: "Screen"
Jun 24 2004: Emulating ContentTypePriority in Apache
Jun 22 2004: Things I Regret Saying
Jun 10 2004: Gmail as Mailing List Aggregator
Mar 17 2004: URLGrabber Project Page Up
Feb 24 2004: My First Yum Commit
Feb 21 2004: IP Costs Millions of Information
Feb 17 2004: Learning Python As You Go
Nov 23 2003: True/False in Python < 2.3
Nov 15 2003: Minimal System Backups with rdiff-backup and Yum
Nov 11 2003: Experimental Firebird Extension RPMs Available
Nov 09 2003: RPMifying Mozilla Firebird Extensions
Nov 08 2003: Firebird Extension / Theme RPMs

Projects

I work on open source projects when I can. These are my favorites.

bcat (2010): A pipe to browser utility.
Ronn (2010): Builds UNIX manuals from a markdown-based text format. See ronn(1) and ronn-format(7) for usage.
Rocco (2010): A quick-and-dirty, literate-programming-style documentation generator for Ruby. It looks like this.
shocco (2010): A quick-and-dirty, literate-programming-style documentation generator for and in POSIX shell. It looks like this.
rpg (2010): Experimental package manager for Ruby with a strong focus on UNIX. Written primarily in POSIX shell and C.
Tilt (2009): A generic interface/API for a bunch of Ruby template engines. Sinatra's template system as of v1.0.
Shotgun (2009): Rack development mode server that uses a process-per-connection forking model for code reloading.
git-sh (2008): A git shell environment. It's really your bash(1) environment with a custom prompt, top-level git command aliases, and completion for everything. See git-sh(1) for usage.
Sinatra (2008): The Ruby web framework for perfectionists. I was a contributor and project maintainer through the 1.0 release.
Rack::Cache (2008): HTTP caching implementation in a Rack middleware component. Uses process heap, disk, or memcache for cache storage.