IEs4Linux
Whose going to get this running on OS X? I guess it doesn’t really matter. I can always X over to a Linux box…
Vienna
Nice looking Newsreader for Mac OS X (F/OSS with an Apache 2.0 license and public subversion repository).
Twelve Days
“For n = 12 we perform a total of 364 reps! Thank goodness there aren’t 13 days or we'd have to do 454.”
ngrep - network grep
“strives to provide most of GNU grep’s common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions”
The perils of avoiding heresy (or "What are Design Patterns")
In fact rather than being subtitled “Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”, it should have been “21 reasons C++ sucks; 1 embarassment; and an Abstract Syntax Tree”.
Reinventing the WS Stack
“Should machine-to-machine, multi-hop, RESTful communications expose a need for additional functionality, then, and only then, will the need be addressed. This is opposed to the WS style of standards creation where solutions are created that go in search
OpenID for non-SuperUsers [intertwingly.net]
Sam with a very simple, step by step tutorial on using your site as an OpenID identity provider.
Is anything ready for the enterprise?
“I would rather take an easily modifiable, open platform that I can make do what I need in a specific environment.”
Text email clients revisited [linux.com]
I've been using a fetchmail, procmail, and mutt setup on my Mac for a few months now in an attempt to get control over five different mailboxes and it’s working pretty well. If you've got some free time and lots of mail, consider playing around with one o
demoroniser - correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible Microsoft HTML
“The demoroniser keeps you from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when your Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft platform.”
CASEBUILDER™ SOA
This is too funny: “… provides you with the verbiage you need to explain SOA to non-technical people and ‘sell’ its long-term strategic benefits.”
JRuby w/ Full Rails Support in February... Of 2007?
Charles Nutter on the possibility of a Rails support announcement in February 2007.
Proposed Solution To Global Warming
Fix it at the source: “… Thus I propose that we turn off the Sun for roughly 0.2% of each solar day, or two to four minutes every 24 hours.” Brilliant!
The (Unofficial) Digg Soundboard
Cute. The latest Digg flames all in one place :) Kind of Digg zeitgeist, I suppose.
The Morning News - MetaFilter in the Ruins
“When the apocalypse comes, when the world ends as we know it, you can bet someone will be updating Metafilter.”
You write free software, therefore you... write free software.
“The thing that unites the free software developers, and the only thing that unites us, is that we make free software.”
What Mongrel Isn't (Or, Write Your Own Damn Web Server)
“All you have to do is change the internal processing, add 200 more methods to the HTTP parser, serve Bittorrent over Ethernet, and have it save Korean orphans while eating a Mango in the back seat of an El Camino driven by twenty midget clowns.”
Microsoft exec called software developers 'pawns'
“I mean, all through this presentation previously, I talked about how you’re using the pawns and you’re going to screw them if they don’t do what you want, and dah-dah-dah. You can’t let them feel like that.” and “So you can’t let them feel like pawns, no
Bill de hÓra: Mercurial, Part I
Nice look at one of the better distributed version control clients picking up mindshare.
An OpenID is not an account!
OpenID solves the identity problem, not the trust problem. When a user authenticates with OpenID, what they are doing is stating “I have the ability to prove my ownership of this URL”.
Everybody LOVES a math joke
“A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician were sitting in a street café watching the crowd…”
Lose, Lose, Lose
“You and I — private citizens not in uniform — are asked to do nothing but fret. The sacrifice expected of us is, once again, minimal. Enjoy your iPhones.”
TeleTech / Verizon Exit Interview
Q: Did you learn all you needed to know to be capable of doing the job? A: Yes, bullshitting through the interview provided me with the skills to effectively bullshit to customers…
Virtue
Some props for Mr. Governor.
New Ipod!!!!! (SNL) [youtube.com]
The original SNL / Steve Jobs skit. This is a classic as far as I'm concerned.
Lines From Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," Modified to Actually Make them Ironic
“A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break… at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco corporate offices in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.”
Martin Luther King "I have a dream" [youtube.com]
Completely, insanely, utterly, amazing. Every single time.
Can't save in Google Docs? Disable Firebug!
Grrrrr. This has been driving me crazy for almost two weeks. I don’t understand why the main google search doesn’t include google groups – I thought the whole point was to put everything behind a single search box. Bha.
Access localhost via name from Parallels Desktop [macosxhonts.com]
This is another thing that’s been driving me crazy for a while now. I'm going to try the bonjour technique mentioned in the comments.
Trapped in sobriety [dive into mark]
I beg to differ Stephen. Mark is clearly on his own planet, too!
Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style
Nice little style guide on the web and nicely indexed hyperlinked.
This word - "Web" - I do not think it means what you think it means.
Somebody pinch me; this must be a nightmare.
Are we gonna bash Restlet next? [brandonwerner.com]
I've been meaning to spend some time in Restlet for some time now. Looks like it’s gaining traction with the EE crowd. Err, well, uhh, some of the EE crowd, anyway.
subtlety : a remote subversion excursion
Put in a subversion URL and get back an RSS feed for tracking changes.
In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment
“… but I gave up after optimizing AWT, implementing drag and drop, and trying to make 1,200 pages of crappy APIs do the right thing on the Mac. Then I took a one-week Cocoa training course, and wrote the first prototype of iChat.”
Jan. 22, 1984: Dawn of the Mac [wired.com]
“But the company’s board of directors balked and ordered the ad withdrawn from its Super Bowl slot. Only the intervention of Steve Wozniak, who said he'd pay for the spot personally if the board refused to air it, saved the day.”
W3C Markup Validator Results for "You, me and the W3C (aka Reinventing HTML)"
Chairing the WG is one way to fix your validation issues! (yes, I'm just being mean now — ignore me. no but seriously.)
"Helpful" Thumbnails
Wherein Snap.com impresses me a great deal by allowing their service to be centrally disabled.
Baron VC
“Most of the sites that suffer from Digg are blogs that are trying to establish ongoing dialogue with their readers. The authors are more interested at developing ideas and sharing them with people that come across from organic channels.”
A Healthy Venus
On launching the Health Benefit News River.
Shysters
Talk about “close to home”
Tartar Sauce [cooks.com]
We’ll be giving this recipe a shot tonight at a fish fry. Nothing too crazy but the lime juice and garlic salt should add a nice touch.
Amos O. Olagunju / St. Cloud State University
This is the “home page” of a professor who teaches web design at St. Cloud State University. Don’t go there.
My Life As An RSS Junkie [medialoper.com]
Bob Saget: RSS is not a drug! I used to [expletives deleted] for coke. Other Guy: I saw him! Bob Saget: Now that’s an addiction, man. You ever [expletives deleted] for RSS?
3 pillars [dehora.net]
“the version control system is a first order effect on software, along with two others – the build system and the bugtracker. Those choices impact absolutely everything else. Things like IDEs, by comparison, don’t matter at all.”
HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST)
Nice activity diagram describing the resolution of response status codes given various request methods and headers. Full res GIF, JPEG, PNG, and SVG.
your clever screen name is not clever
“There’s a time and place for a penis decal on your forehead and the Monday morning staff meeting is not it.”
The End is Nigh: Help Squash Rails Bugs
The JRuby guys are real close to 100% passing Rails' unit tests. I think I'm going to sign up for PostgreSQL testing/hacking. What are you doing?
Implement getElementsByClassName [bugzilla.mozilla.org]
Awesome. Robert Sayre just checked in his document.getElementsByClassName implementation to mozilla trunk.
I don't know how I will tell my wife
“I know that there are those out there who would have me go AWOL or refuse to deploy. I cannot do that. I have a family to feed, and soldiers to take care of. I can do neither from prison.”
Aristotle Pagaltzis takes both sides of the XML 2.0 debate -- my feelings exactly
“There are cases where you really do want that. There are cases when you don’t. There are cases where it’s half this, half that; cases, say, where you only want charset sniffing. There are cases where you want a pony. Not every document has the same g
Lifecycle of a bad idea [dive into mark]
While not all bad ideas include a PowerPoint presentation, all PowerPoint presentations include at least one bad idea: PowerPoint.
Bill Gates (clearly on crack): "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day."
“Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”
Why do we still use C? [dadhacker.com]
“Maybe if we took away these PL theorists’ Emacs and LaTeX packages for a while we’d get better results.”
More Thoughts on The Renaissance, Agile and developers
“I tell you one thing for sure: Far more developers understand the business they work in than business people understand the technology that drives them forward.”
Gyre - The open source, web-based IDE and debugger for Rails
Interesting concept. I’ll have to check this out once it comes out of “pre-pre-pre alpha” (which doesn’t really make sense, btw. There’s nothing more alpha than alpha).
Vi Input Manager Plugin
“Essentially, this add Vi command functionality (albeit a small subset) to any (and all) text editors that use the Cocoa text system; e.g., Safari, TeXShop, XCode, etc.”
How much is inside Ramen noodles? [answered]
Great research like this is what I love most about the internet.
WS-* == Windows Services Dash Star?
It’s that bad.
The window.onload problem (still) [peter.michaux.ca]
Nugget of wisdom: “… developing for the web is frequently about accepting small compromises to big philosophical ideals.”
Web Developers: 13 Command Line Tricks You Might Not Know
Anyone who doesn’t know every single one of these probably hasn’t been developing for the web very long. Probably a useful crash course for newbies making their way over from FrontPage or ASP.net though.
Too much politics for programmers
Ian compares Pylons and TurboGears and makes a few interesting general observations along the way.
HBO turns 'Fire' into fantasy series
George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” is coming to HBO as a three-four year series. I'd be happy just to get my hands on the next book but this is outstanding (via tkington).
Please drop SVN
Oh wow. The concept of logical patches is something I never considered before. Darcs has a “record” command that let’s you split multiple changes to a single file (or files I assume) into logical changes (“hunks”).
Knowledge Acquisition
John Panzer: “Software development is a knowledge acquisition activity, not a manufacturing activity.”
The BileBlog: Good riddance, Marc Fleury.
“What Fleury contributed to the world of Java is a personality; love him or hate him, the man certainly deserved to be hated.”
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Aaron Swartz reviews a newish book on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. Insanely good topic, bad book?
Multi-Select Lists vs. Checkboxes
I'm real close to hating multi-select list boxes right now. Using an overflowed UL of checkboxes has some interesting pros (and cons).
Sun proposes to apply Web service standardization principles to REST
Elliotte isn’t pulling any punches :)
When You Wish Upon a Beard
Wow.I shudder to even observe the brilliance that is _why. There’s an actual Cut-out Adventure Beard here.
Fun with Vista's Speed Recognition [innoq.com]
Press caps locks. Press caps lock. PRESS CAPS LOCK! Press capital I. Delete I. Press capital I. DELETE I SCROLL THIS CONFLICT. DELETE ADULT SCROLLS CONFLICT FOR C … THANK YOU! Delete THINK YOU.
Less sucky multiple-select lists
Another interesting take on multi-select lists that uses checkboxes with labels and colors.
UNIX® Load Average Part 1: How It Works
Love it! This is less of an article and more of a minute by minute account of hacker seeing something he doesn’t understand and following the trail (man, code, calculus) to understanding.
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal [youtube.com]
Oh man. This song was not this horribly bad when I was a kid.
What's cooking for FreeBSD 7?
Lots of stuff from Sun (ZFS, dtrace), Linuxulator translates Linux syscalls to BSD syscalls with not performance penalty, lots of performance enhancements to the network stack from the card up, and a new malloc.
getopt and getopts
A complete look at the little used utilities for processing arguments in scripts.
How the vi editor would seem if it has been made by Microsoft
“It looks like you are trying to do a regular expression. Do you need some help with that?”
XRuby Already Faster Than Ruby 1.8.5?
“… the results for YARV/Rite are still streets ahead in terms of raw performance, and where I'm placing my bets for the next de facto Ruby interpreter.”
7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 [video.google.com]
Recent presentation by Mr. Bram Moolenaar on how to be a bad-ass with Vim.
PUT is not UPDATE [cafe.elharo.com]
Hence the multiple disclaimers in the article, such as, “I hesitated to include this table. … What I don’t want to happen is that you start thinking of web resources as SQL tables. Don’t do that.”
Primary sources? You don’t need ‘em. Trust us. [jonudell.net]
I'm surprised to see that any of the news sites linked to the original report.
CS 61A The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: CS 61A.
Using mutt on OS X [linsec.ca]
This is pretty darn close to my configuration but I used the mutt-devel port… Oh, and my ~/.procmailrc is pretty insane also :)
Agile Enterprise Architecture: Why I Can't Take Smalltalk Seriously
These people are still around? Amazing. Ooohhh, “tens of thousands of simultaneous users” — scary! scary!
ROA Maturity Model
How did we ever get anything done without superfluous quadrants and models. Bring ‘em on. The trick is making something every developer would know is a joke but that could make it past a manager or architect.
A Faster Ruby.
“Well if Ruby developers are so damn productive, why can’t they write a faster ruby?”
Block Helpers and DRY Views in Rails
I've been using this technique for some time with great success. Oh, and this site’s design is bordering on perfection.
mjt
Browser-side JavaScript template engine with concepts borrowed from Kid. Used by Freebase to drive formatting around JSON. Looks interesting.
You are kidding arent you?
“Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve.” :)
Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'
Wow. I'm nodding yesly to almost everything said by Gosling in this article. Weird. Here’s a good one: “The number one biggest threat to enterprises is the inherent fallibility and laziness of humans.”
have u seen an idea even billGates shouldn't hear Mr.Guido ? please read because it's important.
“also it could be disguised as a cancer research stuff should some disassamble its code. the use-free-computer-time type of thing they do on the net.”
Invasion Of The Dynamic Language Weenies [hacknot.info]
Wow. Pretty solid anti dynamic language advocacy piece. It’s been a while since I've written anything longish so maybe I’ll try to put together something of response to this.
Lecture 7b: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 2 - Google Video
“I consider being able to return a procedural value, and to have first class procedures in general, as being essential to doing very good modular programming.” — Gerald Sussman (PS: how come nobody told me you can link to specific time offsets in google
Blogger’s Code of Boring Irrelevance
“If I want to publish a picture that shows Ronald McDonald smoking a joint made out of the rain forests, I can.”
Blowing a raspberry [wikipedia.org]
“In the terminology of phonetics, this sound does not appear to have an official name, but might be characterized as a linguolabial trill. It is never used in human language phonemically, but it is widely used across human cultures and by other primates”
Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
Yes! I've been doing this for a few months now with the corp. assets and I won’t go back. You can really see the text snap into a vertical rhythm when you hit it.
ZFS Basics Screencast [opensolaris.org]
I haven’t had a chance to play yet but you can consider me on the ZFS bandwagon. It’s coming to FreeBSD 7.0, too. Oodalolly!
Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases
It’s not Rails’s problem.
What to watch out for when writing portable shell scripts
Nice look at techniques for writing portable sh.
Life Support: Let the children go on foot and on bike
“Although statistics show that rates of child abduction and sexual abuse have marched steadily downward since the early 1990s, fear of these crimes is at an all-time high.”
Sam Ruby: Genshi Filters for Venus
“In the remaining four templates, the translation from XSLT to Genshi markup is straightforward. And generally, the Genshi markup is both more compact and more powerful.”
YAGNI Considered Depressing
“I actually think YAGNI and Othello’s waiting moves embody the same concept. Both are brilliant, winning strategies. Yet, there’s a certain emotional side to YAGNI and software development. We tend to get attached to our good ideas.”
Koranteng's Toli: Crawl Before You Walk
On JSF: “Waiting 5 years before you adopt the native architecture of the web is almost inexcusable. The web won’t (and didn’t) wait that long.”
The Truth About Lisp
“Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in python just so that ordinary computers could understand it.”
Lesson #5
A long overdue request for maintainers on two potentially important Python projects.
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson’s Response to Alex Payne’s Interview [dive into mark]
Pppkkkeeeewwwww.. The happy universe explodes. This is turning into one hell of a discussion.
Type Inference: Another Bad Idea for Java 7 [cafe.elharo.com]
“Type inference actually makes some sense in languages like JavaScript and PHP that are built around this, and had this feature from day 1. It makes no sense in a language that’s built around the opposite. It makes Java look weakly typed, but it isn’t
Running Ruby in the browser via script type="text/ruby"
I no longer think applet support should be dropped from all major browsers. I've got links for anyone who produces a Jython version.
highlighting "weird" characters... (in vim) [nabble.com]
Find all non-printable characters in vim (and I assume with any regexp engine) using the following: [^ –~] (that’s a char range between space and tilde). How convenient. I never noticed that the printable range ended at tilde.
Douglas R. Hofstadter Explains GEB
“… let me try one last time to say why I wrote this book, what it is about, and what its principal thesis is.”
These are the systems and peripherals [Michael S. Dell] is using right now. [dell.com]
Michael Dell runs Ubuntu 7.04 on his personal laptop :)
Coprolitic Programming [thecodist.com]
‘The next time you think to sigh, “this code is such a pile of crap” imagine what your grandchildren will say some day when they work on it.’
National Survey Reveals More than 70% of Americans Don't Know Plastic is Made from Oil
Everything is made from oil. It’s crazy.
Streisand effect [wikipedia.org]
“Streisand Effect is a category of Internet phenomena in which an attempt to censor or remove a certain piece of information instead backfires, causing the information in question to receive extensive publicity…”
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 [google.com]
“Results 1 – 10 of about 283,000 for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0” – This is officially the craziest thing I've ever seen on the internet (with the exception of the Hasselhoffian Recursion).
Silly season [diveintomark.org]
“Sigh. I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases. Seriously? Seriously? Do I really have to explain why this is a bad idea?”
Why the 09ers Are So Upset [freedom-to-tinker.com]
“Giving a private party ownership of a number seems deeply wrong to people versed in mathematics and computer science.”
Fielding’s Dissertation [docunext.com]
Section by section interpretation and notes on Fielding’s Disseration on REST.
Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" [slashdot.org]
Slashdot has become a horrible discussion forum for most topics. Disk theory and UNIX sysadmin type stuff is an exception, though. This story on ZFS might have the most informational comments I've seen in years.
How to make a Ninja Mask with a shirt
This should immediately supercede your present Ninja Mask technique.
Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall [macdevcenter.com]
Awesome look at using advanced features of ipfw(8) on OS X.
Pop Quiz on the situation in Iraq [truthdig.com]
I've been looking for a essay-sized historical account of the Shiite/Sunni conflict for a long time now. A former Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector lays out what appears to be a fairly comprehensive story over three pages.
A New Way to look at Networking
PARC’s Van Jacobson (traceroute(8), tcpdump(1)) on, well, everything that matters. Hands down best talk I've seen in years. I'm going to watch it again tomorrow.
Memorial honoring fallen soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan runs out of room [fortwayne.com]
“In a grim sign of the times, the ‘Wall of the Fallen,’ set up by House Republican leaders in June, is almost full. The mounting death toll has forced U.S. House staffers to study how to reconfigure the display to squeeze in more names.”
Silverlight trumps Web Standards (and Flex)…
“As for me, I’ll take some more Microsoft kool-aid, please.” — I said almost exactly those same words in 1997 regarding Microsoft’s OS/Browser integration (I'm quoted in an article on C|Net as proof). There’s nothing I regret saying more.
A Chat with Aaron Swartz
Q: Are you working for Reddit as full-time programmer? A: No, I left reddit several months ago. Q: Why did you leave? A: My boss asked me to.
Iraq War Hampers Kansas Cleanup [kcbs.com]
“The Kansas National Guard has about 40 percent of the equipment it is allotted because much of it has been sent to Iraq.”
Dell joins the Microsoft-Novell alliance, hopes for Windows / Linux harmony
I've read the following line five times but it refuses to compute: “… and now it sounds like Dell will be buying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft …” Huh? Looks like I should have further researched the MS/Novel deal.
Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX?
Is anyone actually falling for this crap? “‘The goal is to make it so people never have to see code’, said Gosling.” — Gag Me!
RESTful Web Services (Paperback) : by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby [amazon.com]
A site for sore eyes :)
Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about [osxdaily.com]
About half of these will be well-known to the UNIX hacker but there’s a couple I've not seen elsewhere: lsbom, softwareupdate, screencapture, and lipo.
The future is yesterday [plasmasturm.org]
I saw this same note on rest-discuss the other day and thought it struck a chord. :) Jon Hanna on SOAP, Web 2.0, other stuff…
Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice [studentprintz.com]
“It’s easy to make, unpatented and could be added to drinking water. Imagine, Gatorade with cancer control.”
Charles Nutter - Big Plans [headius.blogspot.com]
“And yes, I've seen the Microsoft news … If Sun did something like this I'd resign.”
Gonzales proposes new crime: "Attempted" copyright infringement [news.com]
“Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including ‘attempts’ to commit piracy.”
Relevance: Silverlight, the DLR, and thee
“The general thrust of this argument is that having a full-fledge rich-windowing experience in the browser is going to put a stop to all that amateurish mucking around with JavaScript and the DOM. … that’s hogwash.”
Microsoft 'evidence' turns against them [tectonic.co.za]
“The market needs to understand that the study Microsoft is citing actually proves the opposite of what they claim it does.”
sog’s (Unconventional) Highway Etiquette [redmonk.com]
Beautifully done, sir. This should be required reading before anyone is allowed to hit an onramp.
Udell Interviews Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby on "RESTful Web Services"
Ugghh, this is 7 days old now and I still haven’t had a chance to listen… It’s the best interview ever when I imagine it in my head :)
HTML Entity Character Lookup
Oh wow. I've been trying to find a single page that has every unicode character on it with its hex counterpart but this is pretty fantastic.
E-mail is not a platform for design [zeldman.com]
“But when I say HTML mail still sucks, I don’t mean it sucks because support for design in e-mail today is like support for standards in web browsers in 1998. I mean it sucks because nobody needs it. It impedes rather than aids communication.”
Ruby Unroller: A Ruby script execution tracer [rubyinside.com]
Nice. This is going to save me some serious time.
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
“One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman…” — need I excerpt more?
Philosophy of numbers
“So there you have it — lack of units in programming languages and the war in Iraq have a common cause: the lack of correct philosophy on numbers taught in schools.”
Words to Live By
“Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a maniac serial killer that knows where you live.”
Understanding Engineers: Feasibility [fishbowl.pastiche.org]
Programmer definitions of impossible, unfeasible, trivial, non-trivial, hard, very hard, and distinctly non-trivial.
Bill de hÓra: Design for the web
“… on Java, too many web frameworks – think JSF, or Struts 1.x – consider the Web something you work around using software patterns. The goal is get off the web, and back into middleware…”
A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds [wincent.com]
“…. But after closely studying Git I'm a little bit awestruck; Torvalds is a frickin' genius, a true visionary, and somehow managed to just "get it” and instantly, in a flash of insight, come up with “the solution” for version control."
3D Mailbox - FREE 3-Dimensional Email Software. Bring e-mail to life! (And put spam to death!)
This just ruined my day. I'm going home. Absolutely horrible. Just horrible.
Last Harry Potter leaks online [boingboing.net]
“With the last book, the publisher was so freaked out about ebook piracy that they refused to release an official electronic edition. The result? Fans made their own electronic text in 24 hours. And other fans translated the book into German in 45 hours.”
David Heinemeier Hansson says No to Use of Rails Logo
I must say, I'm a bit bummed that we’re having this conversation at all.
Prohibition Politics
“Americans in 1920 embarked on a noble experiment to force everyone to give up drinking. Alas, despite its nobility, this experiment was too naive to work… This popular belief is completely mistaken. Here’s what really happened…”
Sci Foo 2007 Gossip Liveblog [aaronsw.com]
WTF is going on here? Neil Stephenson, Martha Stewart, The Dyson Family (as in vacuums), The President of The Royal Society, Sergey Brin, Nat, and Aaron kicking it on Google campus? This is apparently actually happening right now.
Hiring Programmers and The High Cost of Low Quality
“There’s no one programmer who does the work of ten other programmers. One uber-programmer does just as much work as one ordinary programmer. It’s just that the results solve ten times as many problems.”