February 2012
2 posts
The Art of Manliness: How to not be a wuss & learn... →
ilovetherun:
Good man-vibe! I wonder if someone can create a man-trest in running…send it off to the hipsters, they’ll get it rolling!
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
7 posts
“Working on the command line, hands poised over the keys uninterrupted by...”
– The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
“Rules are great. I love them and I hand them out as much as any other...”
– Rubies in the Rough | Doing it Wrong
“If that sounds like slicing a pie into more pieces to reduce the total number of...”
– Dive Into HTML5 | Detecting HTML5 Features | Local Storage
“The more technical debt you take on, the tighter your disciplines need to be....”
– A Mess is not a Technical Debt
“Technical Debt consists of liabilities incurred from decisions based on...”
– The Coding Wasteland | Virtuous Code
» Notes To Self Hacker Forge →
I need to revisit these everyday!
“With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of...”
– A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
October 2011
1 post
“taking design seriously is not about having a dictator fuss over seams and...”
– The Mythical Man-Month
September 2011
4 posts
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good”
– Why you should care about Typography?
“ultimately, for a lot of our clients, working with developers is like going to...”
– What I Learned
“In order to make something great, you usually have to make a lot of bad things...”
– John Mayer on Finishing Projects (even if they are awful)
August 2011
41 posts
“In good OO programming, we don’t make class hierarchies in order to satisfy our...”
– Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial
“Reflection is one of the most important parts of learning, and writing helps you...”
– Letter to a Young Developer by Avdi Grimm
“If the consequences of missing the deadline are fearsome, then you can expect...”
– The Perfect Deadline
“This is where modules shine. They allow some of the benefits of inheritance in...”
– Issue #2: Ruby’s method lookup path (2 of 2) of Practicing Ruby
“People invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off. And...”
– Warren Buffet dropping some wisdom backed by some facts in his New York Times article
“Practice is stimulating and rewarding, almost meditative. It’s a quiet...”
– Change of Subject: In praise of the lost art of practice
“In the face of the unknown—the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under...”
– Quoted from The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
“This is the problem with entitlements. They are only really entitlements when...”
– John Stewart on The Daily Show
“According to the ECFR paper published simultaneously this week in the...”
– Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory
Why Rubyists Should Care About Messaging (A High... →
I’m a n00b when it comes to Messaging (ok, fine! I’m a n00b when it comes to Ruby too) but this article does a great job of highlighting where messaging can fit in your applications architecture while making you aware of the potential pitfalls.
“Such is the danger of specialization, a horribly easy trap to fall into. It’s...”
– Keeping the Lights On
“When you’re an expert in something, the stuff you learn is subtle—often...”
– A business on the side …
“Ultimately, being a good open source citizen is about respecting what open...”
– 10 Tips For Open Source Citizens
“[S]top thinking in hours. Start focusing on making great things. It’s about the...”
– It’s not about how many hours you work
“go where people need your service, and have the money to pay for it.”
– This tree guy has good business advice
“Nil is a sad shell of an object, and it’s just not polite to hand a developer a...”
– If you gaze into nil, nil gazes also into you
“It’s probably human nature to like people who are like you, but learning to work...”
– Why Startups should try and hire women
2 tags
“git pull is equivalent to a git fetch followed by a git merge.”
– Git Immersion - Lab 44 - Pulling Changes
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“git fetch command will fetch new commits from the remote repository, but it will...”
– Git Immersion - Lab 42 - Fetching Changes
2 tags
“When to Rebase, When to Merge?
Don’t use rebase …
If the branch is public...”
– Git Immersion - Lab 34 - Rebasing
Life is so hard →
2 tags
TIL: how to set global gitignore →
2 tags
“Git focuses on the changes to a file rather than the file itself. When you say...”
– http://gitimmersion.com/lab_09.html#main_content
Watch“I did not go start a small business with my tax breaks & I don’t know anybody else who did” - Matt Damon
