January 2008
234 posts
dang.. second time I was linked by lifehacker this week… thank you lifehacker editors
The Music Industry Vs Net Neutrality →
U2, the world famous rock band, wants to turn all ISPs in to copyright police and have them stop all that darned piracy!
I want something like Amazon Kindle that has wifi and I can run my own software on — CBZ reader + Google Reader over home wifi ftw
#121 on Rating Burner . com
[RSS] Rating Burner →
What are the most popular blogs?
182 link_tos in my Rails app. Should I switch them to _url helpers? Can you set title tags in routes.rb?
“Richard Stallman’s beard is made of parentheses.”
[DESIGN] DOs and DON’Ts - Colour →
advice on choosing colours
[LEARNING] The Movie Director's Guide to Effective... →
how people learn
[GAMERS] Co-Optimus.com →
Blog devoted to co-op gameplay
[CODE] David Heinemeier Hansson step aside, Paul... →
The backlash against the new Arc LISP dialect
[WORKHACKS] 30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting... →
I recommend talking to coworkers — may improve your working conditions
oh wow, did Rotten Tomatoes ever screw up their new website search
[CODE] can lisp do what perl does easily? →
Ouch. Stinging roast of Perl.
30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored at Work →
Boredom driving you insane at work? Here’s 30 ways to keep yourself entertained, sane and rock-n-rolling.
[CODE] The Programmer’s Food Pyramid →
Good point. Instead of writing about code, we should be reading code or writing code.
The Movie Director's Guide to Effective Teaching →
How many “training sessions” have you sat through where you’re eyes started to roll into the back of your head and you couldn’t stay focused no matter how hard you tried?
[DESIGN] 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers... →
What programmers get wrong when they try their hand at web design. I found myself nodding my head.
It’s scary how hard it is to write good tech documentation that other engineers will take the time to read. Always takes multiple rewrites.
My Favorite Albums of 2007 →
10 Tips to Never Get a A Cold or Flu Again →
“There are many tips and measures that you can use to improve your immune system and reduce the chances of getting that common yet annoying cold. Some people can go for years in a row without getting this seasonal illness.”
[GAMERS] The Mass Effect →
from: âBefore the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said itâs like pornography,â she added. âBut itâs not like pornography. Iâve seen episodes of âLostâ that are more sexually explicit.â
Yahoo Pipe: Sub-Reddit Feed Filter →
@lazycoder: renegade was the BBS equivalent to using the Sandbox theme for WordPress.
@lazycoder: that was fidonet, and the software didn’t matter. The big deal about running Renegade was that you could customize the theme….
@gilesgoatboy: they should separate rails.reddit and ruby.reddit
@solotech: I love how “running renegade bbs” was a marketing feature for BBSes… I completely forgot about that
[LIFEHACKS] Applying Unix Philosophy to Personal... →
A decent read if only because it’s a good refresher on unix philosophy
still one of my favs… i should have done more at this size: http://tinyurl.com/24luxq
ugh, “i still really dig”
i still really did this one: http://tinyurl.com/2c367l
@codinghorror: holy crap to that ansi art archive… weird seeing my old stuff
[PHOTOS] 5 Image Resizing Tools to Die For →
Includes the resizer tool for GIMP/web that lets you resize only the non-important parts of images. Coolest resizer ever.
[RUBY] reddit for ruby hackers →
Reddit has a spot just for ruby posts
Play Downloaded Videos on Your iPod, Xbox 360, or... →
All you need is to learn more about the big, bad scary world of video codecs.
I want to go see There Will Be Blood tonight
How to Play Downloaded Videos on Your iPod, Xbox... →
I’m waiting for icanhascheezburger with cute baby pics: icanhastitty
Delicious Links - 20 links - writing, programming,... →
[WEBDEV] Web Developer's Field Guide - Your... →
Ok. That’s a ridiculous list of links. Everything you need to know if you’re doing anything on the web.
[GREASEMONKEY] Userscripts.org Popular Scripts... →
Updated my script for identifying the most popular Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org
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[PIPES] Filtered Technorati Recent Mentions →
My Filtered Technorati Recent Mentions pipe works again. It can give you an RSS feed of the latest blogs that links to your blog.
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@gilesgoatboy: “yarwaf” sounds like the big grocery store packing guy from Hot Fuzz. I vote him as the poster boy for yarwaf.
[TWITTER] Power Twitter by 30 Boxes →
Firefox extension for adding new features to Twitter
[CODE] Let The System Design Itself →
from: 1) runs all the tests, 2) contains no duplication, 3) expresses every idea you want to express, 4) minimal number of classes and methods. When you work with these rules, you pay attention only to micro-design matters.