My name is Brendan Baldwin and this is my weblog of ideas relating to the design and development of software. I have been a professional coder for about 15 years, though my love of programming goes back to 1982, when I learned BASIC on my TRS-80 Model III. I have a more personal blog at brendanbaldwin.com. I’m available for contract and consulting gigs (Ruby/Javascript preferred, though PHP still happens.) My resume.Tumblr (3.0; @usergenic)http://usergenic.com/<p>Am glad @unclebobmartin plugged SICP at RailsConf keynote. I’ve been trying to push it for a while now but everyone goes “ewww parentheses!”</p>http://usergenic.com/post/698487757http://usergenic.com/post/698487757Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:26:41 -0400<p>!!maxwell.silver_hammer</p>http://usergenic.com/post/658271872http://usergenic.com/post/658271872Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:06:57 -0400<p>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.</p>http://usergenic.com/post/654116486http://usergenic.com/post/654116486Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:47:00 -0400<p>Realizing I actually really like answering regular expressions questions, but nobody wants to listen; they just want my (?:[^/]+)/)+([^/]*)$</p>http://usergenic.com/post/501633745http://usergenic.com/post/501633745Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:33:12 -0400<p>Totally falling down the emacs rabbit-hole today. Talking about org-mode, baby.</p>http://usergenic.com/post/492338669http://usergenic.com/post/492338669Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:36:49 -0400<p>Considering using Emacs Muse for writing a book. Downloading MacTeX.mkpg and just realized it’s 1.3GB. Jeeeeeeeesus!</p>http://usergenic.com/post/486122607http://usergenic.com/post/486122607Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:44:53 -0400<p>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.</p>http://usergenic.com/post/486122550http://usergenic.com/post/486122550Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:44:53 -0400<p>Using Gpicker w/ Emacs for better-than-TextMate-cmd-T style file picking. Truly awesome! <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Gpicker">http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Gpicker</a></p>http://usergenic.com/post/482195427http://usergenic.com/post/482195427Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:52:54 -0400<p>Actual ticket in our Trac: “986: WOPR- Child missiles don’t appear after origin missile reaches San Francisco” Sometimes work is fun.</p>http://usergenic.com/post/482195444http://usergenic.com/post/482195444Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:52:54 -0400<p>Thank you, `dtruss -p`</p>http://usergenic.com/post/475475509http://usergenic.com/post/475475509Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:33:02 -0400<p>CloudCrowd spot on NBC this morning: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjx0Uu0kqWI&feature=player_embedded">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjx0Uu0kqWI&feature=player_embedded</a></p>http://usergenic.com/post/475475515http://usergenic.com/post/475475515Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:33:02 -0400<p>We’re looking 4 Ruby devs here at CloudCrowd. Ninjas & Wizards preferred. Will consider Minotaurs. <a href="http://www.cloudcrowd.com/company/careers">http://www.cloudcrowd.com/company/careers</a></p>http://usergenic.com/post/472096315http://usergenic.com/post/472096315Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:48:54 -0400<p>When you have multiple user accounts with a service, it’s a weird experience seeing getting A-B tested…</p>http://usergenic.com/post/472096321http://usergenic.com/post/472096321Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:48:54 -0400<p>Vim + Mac users: copy visual selection into your Mac’s clipboard <ctrl>+c: echo “map <C-c> gv:!pbcopy<CR>ugv” » ~/.vimrc</p>http://usergenic.com/post/346637106http://usergenic.com/post/346637106Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:14:54 -0500<p>Anyone know how to remove/hide the scroll bar from Terminal.app in OSX (Snow Leopard) ? #lazyweb #mac #osx #help #beahero #helpmeouthere</p>http://usergenic.com/post/207652727http://usergenic.com/post/207652727Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:41:45 -0400<p>Seriously loving me some DataMapper auto upgrade. AR schema migrations be damned.</p>http://usergenic.com/post/207119218http://usergenic.com/post/207119218Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:50:54 -0400<p>You might expect Ruby to work this way, but I didn’t. Would really much preferred if B.new.a == 2 <a href="http://gist.github.com/203525">http://gist.github.com/203525</a></p>http://usergenic.com/post/206295641http://usergenic.com/post/206295641Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:16:43 -0400<p>Just remapped my Caps Lock key to control. My pinky is grateful.</p>http://usergenic.com/post/206180246http://usergenic.com/post/206180246Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:40:51 -0400<p>Need a quick command-line util to validate (x)html and (x)html *partials*. Sure would be great if that existed… #lazyweb #lazytwitter</p>http://usergenic.com/post/205350068http://usergenic.com/post/205350068Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:09:08 -0400<p>Finding myself back in Vim now. If you use Vim, you should check out the Screen plugin <a href="http://bit.ly/44Lo28">http://bit.ly/44Lo28</a></p>http://usergenic.com/post/205350067http://usergenic.com/post/205350067Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:09:07 -0400