Ryan Tomayko
Mostly blood and techno.
I work at
GitHub
in
San Francisco.
We build stuff for people who build stuff with computers.
Writings
Things I've written about building software in the early 21st century.
- 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.