November 2009
10 posts
Discontinuation.
I’m discontinuing this mini-blog in favor of:
Academic articles at h3h.net
Blogging at I Am Pedantic.
Tidbits at Twitter
Links at Pinboard
Shared news with Google Reader
…and geekery at Lusitania, along with my co-workers.
I have no immediate plans to unite these.
Have you signed the software craftsmanship manifesto? http://bit.ly/5ojt (via @unclebobmartin)
Come join us for tasty pizza, scaling Rails and winning the DARPA Network Challenge next Thursday at @causes in Berkeley: http://j.mp/1w5c3L
Common Objections to Capitalism: http://bit.ly/3SqiTp
Almost everything is annoying me, so I figured I’d share something that makes me happy every time I use it—MercuryMover: http://bit.ly/wH4EQ
Weddings are happy. http://twitpic.com/op6hj
20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. You should learn why that matters: http://bit.ly/WmYiU
RIP @djgraphite, 1980-09-13 - 2009-11-01.
Overwhelming to see the tributes to @djgraphite: http://tr.im/DRrI. He was always the happiest man in the room.
Just got word that @djgraphite went down hard. Headed to Stanford Hospital.
October 2009
14 posts
Simple desktops: http://simpledesktops.com/ I’m a fan. (via @rands)
Relaunched http://h3h.net/. Cleaner design, only quality content. We’ll see how this goes.
Sometimes you just have to close your eyes, take a deep breath, and close the file before your brain explodes. Bad code is sad code.
And San Francisco drowns in rain: http://www.twitvid.com/6DF88
Tests in Ruby are conspiring to drive me insane. Plus, the test output is ugly. The little things build up.
I cringe at 90% of my own past writing with its bits of pretense and naïveté. I tell myself I’m gaining wisdom and humility.
LaunchBar 5 has clipboard history built in. So. Awesome. http://j.mp/370Blm
http://10gui.com/video/ YES PLEASE (via @al3x)
Logged into Google Wave. Still waiting for it to amaze me.
Escaping the cold, ugly weather to work on side projects at @epicentercafe.
AirPort Express Base Station with AirTunes is magical. No more speaker wires tangling across the room to my laptop!
Really enjoying this sober department-by-department breakdown of how US federal spending should be cut. http://bit.ly/3JxBEs
Come see what our slave labor has produced: http://causes.com/ Blame all bugs on our completely unreasonable schedule. You can donate too.
Relief is dropping IE6 for good. Defeat is loading a page in IE8 and being genuinely surprised at how well it looks, then switching to IE7.
September 2009
13 posts
Footnotes are vastly superior to endnotes if the author actually wants you to read them.
It’s easy to react with contempt and negativity. It takes much more skill and effort to respond kindly, with perception and insight.
When playing “doctor” leads to exile from American society; an enormously important problem: http://bit.ly/NalAs
Facebook remains relevant by telling me when my cousins have new kids or are fighting deadly diseases.
Whoa, @gruber changed his URLs to use hyphens instead of underscores. Score for the good guys. http://daringfireball.net/
I wonder why some people maintain and even enrich their moral and philosophical tenacity as they age, while others slowly crumble and die.
Video: Balancing the US Budget With A Mandatory Gorilla http://tr.im/yneP (via @PoliticalMath)
Russia has a lot of trees. http://bit.ly/1SSav3
Sauntered around Noe Valley, ate a reuben and began reading Radicals for Capitalism.
“…where the U.S. would rank in life span…if homicides and accidents are factored out. Their answer? First place.” http://bit.ly/3ILO4P Huh.
Aflac CEO Daniel Amos personally donated $100K to the Aflac Cancer Campaign through Causes: http://bit.ly/1Ln6l
What I wouldn’t give for an office with a door that closes… http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fieldguidetodevelopers.html
August 2009
20 posts
Always re-examine your assumptions.
Read Dambisa Moyo’s “Dead Aid” for a wake up call on the economic circumstances of Africa. http://bit.ly/BfFwn
Am I the only one who found wear-your-pajamas-to-school days extremely awkward and unpleasant?
There are too many damn pennies. http://bit.ly/1HEL1C
Megan McArdle: “Fascism is a particular thing, not the amalgam of everything you happen not to like.”
The only thing worse than bureaucracy is non-profit bureaucracy. Nothing quite as easy as spending others’ money on bloated solutions.
I think the world might be ending: we made our bed. http://twitpic.com/f3x9b
I really hate the “new” (black) MacBook Pro keyboards. Like, a lot. Fire and death and endless gnashing of teeth. They’re terrible.
Mission Weather Report: Cold, overcast, dark, smelly.
The best ideas are never obvious and the best policies are never popular.
Breaking ground on a new version of my site. At 6am.
Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.
What if patents only lasted 5 years?