February 2012
2 posts
Zuckerberg: The Hacker Way →
You could do worse than to adopt this ethos.
Brand New Bag: Questlove on Don Cornelius →
Read this, then you’ll know a lot more about Cornelius and Questlove. RIP Don Cornelius.
January 2012
17 posts
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
I knew there was something about January 20th!
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Talib’s Musicians: Freedom of Expression →
Live-band hip-hop and musicianship++.
Flake: A Decentralized, K-Ordered Unique ID... →
I needed this in July.
“Solving real problems is hard. Changing real lives is hard. Making real people...”
– The World is Full of Real People
Does My Rails App Need a Service Layer? →
“The reason for this is simple: products are either date-driven or...”
– Estimating Tasks & Time Bucketing
Homebrew Cray-1A →
A Cray on an FPGA. Major respect to this dude.
Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden... →
What the hell is dubstep anyway? →
This is informative.
Tofu →
A pretty tiny web framework in C. I doubt I’ll ever darken its door, but I like what’s going on here.
The Word of Notch →
On the virtues and uniqueness of products built by tiny teams.
December 2011
24 posts
Go Slow to Go Fast →
Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way →
Yep, even though I switched from a first-gen Kindle to an iPad.
Deprecating a Legacy Subsystem in Rails →
Wherein the plane is rebuilt whilst flying.
Minitest Quick Reference →
How designers and engineers can play nice (and... →
Using JavaScript and ClojureScript →
On why it’s not straightforward and how to work with it.
ribbon/catchup: reading new commits →
Looks handy, trying it out.
Concurrency in JRuby →
Now you know. JRuby::Synchronized is new to me; it extends Java’s intrinsic object locks to Ruby classes. Neat.
Writing Ruby Scripts That Respect Pipelines →
Useful bits on properly coloring output and reading files from standard input.
Thrift: The Missing Guide →
Thrift made less cargo cultish.
Programming With Nothing →
Lambda, lambda, lambda.
Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing... →
More practical Java bits.
The key value store everyone ignored →
PostgreSQL’s hstore type, groovy.
The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or... →
I’ve been looking for a “practical way for Ruby weenies to use Java” guide for a while. And here it is.
November 2011
7 posts
WatchDonald Glover interviews Childish Gambino
8 Most Over-used Samples In Hip Hop History →
Step 11 in my quest for encyclopedic knowledge of hip-hop samples.
mio →
A minimalist Io clone in a couple hundred lines of Ruby. Way cool.
Etsy Activity Feeds Architecture →
Fascinating approach, very different from how Yahoo’s feeds work.
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution →
Ya dang right.