March 2009
libdht2 →
Distributed Hash-Table based on libevent. Like, absolutely no documentation or tangible documentation (and I was kinda lazy to not read the C code).
iPhone on Rails and ObjectiveResource →
Making communication between the iPhone and a Rails web-service pain-free.
Funkcyclopedia →
Electronic stimulus face test →
Do watch!
MessagePub Helper Libraries →
Semi-interesting service but the API is kinda meh. Too much like the Java counterpart.
Ruby Algorithms: Sorting, Trie & Heaps →
by Ilya Grigorik on the Google Summer of Code 2008 work done by Kanwei Li and Austin Ziegler (who I met at RubyFringe in Toronto). Good stuff!
Ruby IRB tip, load files faster →
by Momoro Machine. You can also use $LOADED_FEATURES and a background thread to reload files that get changed.
Talks →
at Pivotal Labs.
List of All Java Specification Requests →
on The Java Community Process Project page.
Machodis →
a Mach-O annotating disassembler by Robert Klep
CZ Rimfire Rifles →
“I ALSO BLOG”
– Noah Stokes
“With the infrastructure to generate machine code comes the possibility of...”
– Project Plan for Python’s Unladen-Swallow optimization branch
Buddhist Phenomenology →
by Henk Barendregt. Detailing the religious, philosophical, psychological, and other aspects of Buddhism.
The Dharma is a Big Tent, Welcome to my Tiny Tear... →
The site of Dr. Franz Metcalf, author of Just Add Buddha!, a book my mother is reading. Today, I opened it to a random chapter and read in the middle something wise about drug use: if it blocks/impairs your awareness, at least be aware of the awareness you have. Or something like that. :)
Command-line Fu →
The best UNIX commands on the web. Pretty good UI, some really interesting examples, etc.
“You don’t get psyched by a mic check. You at least want to see the fog machine...”
– Goodbye, Cruel Hello World on hackety.org
“If you flip a penny infinite times, yes, it will be tails half the time. But if...”
– Hybrids and Their DPS Tax. An interesting statistical attribute of RNG.
isitruby19.com →
Community-powered gem compatibility for ruby 1.9.
Six-Word Reviews of 1,302 SXSW Mp3s by Paul Ford →
I listened to (lots of) the MP3s from the last time he did this, which was very cool. Looking forward to listening through these as well!
“Not a list of peoples’ jokey internet names, not a moldy hillock of...”
– Conferences, Friends, and Stuff That Really Matters
“It’s easy to make something incredible. All you do is, don’t let what you’re...”
– Rory’s.
Valgrind →
Gist #80097 →
Setting your Rails Asset Cache ID to the latest commit hash of your JS or CSS files so caches don’t need to be expired if a new deploy is sent out.
Great Moments in Logic →
HTML Evolution →
Headph0ne Phet1sh →
For pictures of women wearing headphones, helicopter headsets, earphones and hearing protectors / ear defenders. Haha, interesting.
The C REPL. →
Hirb →
Irb On The Good Stuff. Looks promising!
Writing ejabberd Modules: Presence Storms →
at metajack. Damn good introduction to writing ejabberd modules.
Atlanta Clojure Learning Group →
THRU YOU →
Kutiman mixes YouTube. This is fucking amazing. Lots of different audio tracks on YouTube all mixed together to make an amazing song.
Rails Custom Validation →
at Peter Marklund’s blog. Good overview of writing good custom validators.