June 2010
3 posts
Am glad @unclebobmartin plugged SICP at RailsConf keynote. I’ve been trying to push it for a while now but everyone goes “ewww parentheses!”
!!maxwell.silver_hammer
Why does your web-app limit my password length if you’re just digesting it anyways? Ugh! linkedin.com and partnerup.com I’m looking at you.
April 2010
2 posts
Realizing I actually really like answering regular expressions questions, but nobody wants to listen; they just want my (?:[^/]+)/)+([^/]*)$
Totally falling down the emacs rabbit-hole today. Talking about org-mode, baby.
March 2010
8 posts
switching from vim to emacs is basically the best tool choice i’ve made since switching to ruby. before that was switching to mac os x.
Considering using Emacs Muse for writing a book. Downloading MacTeX.mkpg and just realized it’s 1.3GB. Jeeeeeeeesus!
Using Gpicker w/ Emacs for better-than-TextMate-cmd-T style file picking. Truly awesome! http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Gpicker
Actual ticket in our Trac: “986: WOPR- Child missiles don’t appear after origin missile reaches San Francisco” Sometimes work is fun.
CloudCrowd spot on NBC this morning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjx0Uu0kqWI&feature=player_embedded
Thank you, `dtruss -p`
When you have multiple user accounts with a service, it’s a weird experience seeing getting A-B tested…
We’re looking 4 Ruby devs here at CloudCrowd. Ninjas & Wizards preferred. Will consider Minotaurs. http://www.cloudcrowd.com/company/careers
January 2010
1 post
Vim + Mac users: copy visual selection into your Mac’s clipboard <ctrl>+c: echo “map <C-c> gv:!pbcopy<CR>ugv” » ~/.vimrc
October 2009
10 posts
Anyone know how to remove/hide the scroll bar from Terminal.app in OSX (Snow Leopard) ? #lazyweb #mac #osx #help #beahero #helpmeouthere
Seriously loving me some DataMapper auto upgrade. AR schema migrations be damned.
You might expect Ruby to work this way, but I didn’t. Would really much preferred if B.new.a == 2 http://gist.github.com/203525
Just remapped my Caps Lock key to control. My pinky is grateful.
Need a quick command-line util to validate (x)html and (x)html *partials*. Sure would be great if that existed… #lazyweb #lazytwitter
Finding myself back in Vim now. If you use Vim, you should check out the Screen plugin http://bit.ly/44Lo28
Why is HTML entity encoding *NOT* a standard function for Javascript — at least available when in the DOM? There are so many hacks for this
I love that it took me 10 minutes to download and install Sun’s VirtualBox and be up and running with an XP virtual machine for IE testing.
New job. New work laptop. New .bashrc file— Lots of new todos. Finding this alias is helpful: “alias todo=’echo $1 » ~/todo’”
First gripe of the day is a small one: Indent level for Ruby files should be 2 spaces, not 4 :-p
September 2009
55 posts
RT @stringbot: Palm is doomed. You really can’t afford to alienate your developers before you even have users. http://bit.ly/2JEMI
As much as I like TextMate, it seriously has the most horrendous system halting “Search/Find in Project” feature in the history of software.
So is this what whytheluckystiff is up to now? Way cooler than Shoes (maybe not as cool as Bloopsaphone though) http://www.why-yachts.com/
Which best describes using the Visitor Pattern with Flow-Based Programming in a functional paradigm? Nomadic Monads or Monadic Nomads?
Had to go to a command-prompt in Windows today. “ls” FAIL. “cat” FAIL. “tail” FAIL. “ln” FAIL. “grep” FAIL. This feels so alien to me now.
Am about to go medieval. Just discovered that there is actually something worse than PHP. That is PHP on Windows. 3 more crap-filled days
I know pear has mirrors, but none of them seem to mirror the pear installation script. :-p Which means I still can’t use them.
pear.php.net has been down for a day now. Kinda messing with the final deployment we’re trying to do. Talk about crap de grâce. #php
Lexical Scope and Class Name assignment http://gist.github.com/192949
10 Awful IE Bugs and Fixes http://bit.ly/4MHXu (useful bookmark) (via @joe_carney) Really useful stuff. Pop em all in a file called ie.css
Why does Windows 7 have a “shake” gesture for mouse users? Accelerate your repetitive stress injury with Windows 7!
EXTREMELY looking forward to starting my new job at CloudCrowd.com on October 1st.
Actually, I *will* consider coding PHP again, but only for $10,000 an hour.
Okay, If not elitest, the @rubyconf capacity of 440 is, at best, stupid. Monthly SFRuby meetup is 60-120 people, and that’s just one meetup
This years @rubyconf == FAIL. There is no excuse for limiting the size of the conf to 440 people. It’s elitist and doesn’t help Ruby.
I learned to code BASIC on my TRS-80 Model III so I could get Group6 access and emancipate the systems of the world from the MCP #selftaught
Am I the only San Franciscan who is pissed off at #RubyConf because there isn’t even room to register for the waitlist? Get a real venue!?
Who thought switching MySpace from CF to .NET was going to make it better? Like getting healthy by switching from McDonalds to White Castle.
My javascript implementation of the super keyword for overloading/around_methods http://gist.github.com/189370 Is there a better way?
RT @noradio: “Facebook has nearly no overhead.” @NPR on how Facebook is able to be profitable. I consider $.5billion a yr in costs overhead.
If your programming language doesn’t support implicit-virtual-lazy-multi-continuation-macro-meta-monad-closures, then you FAIL!
I find it sad that someone is just squatting on imgonnaletyoufinish.com without at least the equivalent of a http://rubyonrails.ytmnd.com/
The worst thing about JavaScript, really, is the name.
Just spent a couple minutes looking for a color theme for syntax highlighting that could make PHP not look like crap. fg:#000 bg:#000
Adobe really shouldn’t have added persistence to Flash aka Flash cookies that circumvent browser policies without considering privacy issues
Doing something only once is *actually* more efficient than doing something 1000 times, 1000 times faster.