April 2010
Upgrading to Rails 3 →
Surprisingly simple, but the app was pretty simple to begin with, apparently.
Why Bicycles are Faster than Cars →
Hand-drawn maps from firefighters, club-hoppers,... →
By Julia Turner at Slate.
How to work with “stupid” people →
on Misdiagnosing People as Stupid. Great, simple article.
Fixie-shirt →
reflective apparel.
The math behind a neat calculator trick →
at Division by Zero.
The Daft Punk's Console →
by NAJLE.COM. Awesome time-sink.
Grease Your Suite →
by Nick Gauthier. Excellent presentation on making your specs fast! Very, very fast!
Staying the hell out of insert mode →
Objective-C for Ruby developers, un not-so-petit... →
“Shut your eyes and see”
– James Joyce (via 42andpointless) (via deadgirls)
WatchBLAKROC (by Jonah Schwartz)
Online Reputation Systems: How to Design One... →
2007 Iraq Apache Attack, As Seen from the Ground →
10 Tools To Add Some Spice To Your UNIX Shell... →
Liked the section on Bash socket programming.
Khan Academy →
pipe-layer - asychronous bi-directional http... →
HTML5 presentation →
Press 3. I bet you won’t.
Mike Burns Debugs Some Features
thoughtbot:
When /^I .*ing debug this .*ing thing$/ do
debugger
end
fiftyfootshadows.net →
Some quality background images.
The MessagePack Project →
The Man Who Would Be Queen →
The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism
Beetle →
High Availability AMQP Messaging with Redundant Queues
Every Time Zone →
Great visualization of the timezones RIGHT NOW.
“any language that makes you explicitly import an IO module to read a file or...”
– Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Despair and Anger