Ryan Tomayko

Doh! —

Adelphia blocks port 80.

IBM Poopheads: "LAMP Users Need to Grow Up" —

That is to say, they don’t get it. This started out as a simple rant and turned into a decent sized essay on basic shared-nothing architecture and scaling down.

Cha-cha-cha-cha-changes... —

A reflection of my time at Sterling Commerce, the value of boring, laws of the web, and more.

Why RedMonk Must Succeed —

Praise for the anti-analyst firm analyst firm.

My last experience with amazon.com —

For a little while anyway.

Such precision —

Embracing brokeness.

Not to bring up an old topic but.. —

Who Owns Your Browser revisited.

Python and Peak Oil —

Everything has something in common on the blogosphere.

Insects and Entropy —

How complexity killed the best bug ever created in the whole world.

Joshua's Rule —

On the growing importance of del.icio.us.

Cats —

What the War In Iraq is really about.

Web Antipatterns Strikes Again —

Video on the web stick sucks.

Disproving Backward Time Travel (kind of) —

If it is ever discovered, we would have known about it a long time ago.

Knowledge and Power —

They have more in common than I thought.

The factors that led them to choose IE.. —

Microsoft is so completely out of touch with reality it hurts.

30 Pixels, 30 Lines —

How Emacs is extremely productive and horribly slow at the same time.

Really Hard Problems

Who Owns Your Browser? —

Are there restrictions on how local content can be modified (e.g. user stylesheets)? Should there be?

Why You Should Not Use Markdown —

It’s too good to be true. Avoid anything this simple and elegant.

Things I Regret Saying —

I am my own worst enemy.

Learning Python As You Go —

I never would have imagined a language with so much power could be so easy to pick up.