January 2011
20 posts
“The Obama strategy seems to be to drive a wedge between the responsible business...”
– The “New Centrism” and Its Discontents | CommonDreams.org Distinguishing reasonable business policy from conservative/libertarian crazies is an idea with legs
“Sixth, progressives have to get over the idea that conservatives are either...”
– The “New Centrism” and Its Discontents | CommonDreams.org Playing into these tropes just enables right wing ideologues
Read & Trust →
A curated list of awesome online writers. Awesome idea.
Watch“I Need a Dollar” - Aloe Blacc. So good.
What advice would you give to a graphic design... →
Punchy. Concise. Great stuff.
One Car No Car Series: 2011 1 day/52 week No Car... →
A handful of people in Dallas are trying to go 24 hours a week, no car. It’s a challenge, but not unrealistic. Love the idea.
Secrets of BackType's Data Engineers →
Distributed systems, custom databases, custom languages. What’s not to like?
“Distributed systems aren’t necessarily awesome just because they allow...”
– Why I Love and Hate Distributed Systems True dat.
A Sledgehammer Called OmniFocus →
Outstanding writing. Shawn Blanc has shown a wholly better way of thinking about OF.
The ear is connected to the brain →
Ruminations on how music fits into the puzzle of software, physical objects, and mental systems that aid my acts of software creation. For the record, I wrote it while listening to a Steely Dan Pandora station and edited it to the tune of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall.
Matt Webb on Wikileaks →
The best thing about 2011, three days in, is that Matt Webb is blogging again.
WatchAutomating Inefficiencies Zach Holman’s inefficiencies are <STRONG>.
Hotpants make you sure of yourself
Hotpants is a Ruby library I cooked up this weekend. I’ve been thinking a lot about how an application’s domain model should evolve when it comes time to scale an application beyond a few app servers. I’ve seen a few applications that have a CACHE global that gets used all over the place in a sort of ad-hoc fashion. Surely there’s a better way.
A few months ago I chatted...
For about a year, I’ve been using Notational Velocity (NV) to keep notes, jot down useful info and wrangle the miscellaneous scraps of knowledge that float past. Initially, I was using Writeroom and SimpleText to keep that data synced to my phone and iPad. This worked well and got the job done.
More recently, I decided to give SimpleNote a try. I didn’t think I’d like it, as...
