March 2007
133 posts
Showdown is Markdown in Javascript →
February 2007
38 posts
“Because they’re not Ruby, they’re magic.”
– Amy Hoy re: why’s blog and RedHanded
“While you’re on my blog please take note of the latest Twitter comment I...”
– How to be a Geek Yep. That pretty much sums it up. I need to do some serious thinking about what my relationship with Twitter really means to me.
“Making it drop-dead easy to run multiple Rails applications in the same Mongrel...”
– DHH OMG…that’s what _why’s sandbox is for!
“But sure, I’d like free CPU cycles too. I just happen to care much more...”
– DHH
“Heck, I was just writing the other day about Apple’s Ben Stiglitz who...”
– DHH
(That’s not a testament to Rails’ genius, but to Ben’s)
11 Top Underground Transit Systems in the World →
Subways
I’ve always loved subways. I’ve ridden the NYC subway once and the DC subway once. Completely illogical.
“It turns out that there’s a huge correlation between using Macs and being...”
– Wil Shipley
“I’m often behind on the latest trends, because in 2000 I took a vow that I...”
– Wil Shipley
“Enjoy life. Enjoy my job. Have lots of sex. Die happy.”
– Phil
Burned →
“You have been scheduled for a communication experiment for this Thursday,...”
– an email from Lauren Kramer
# Pull a random line from a text file
quiz.inject { |choice, line| rand < 1/quiz.lineno.to_f ? line : choice }
— Ruby Quiz #113: One-Liners
“Lighttpd is also used by giants such as YouTube and Wikipedia”
– What the Web’s most popular sites are running on
“I wish they had chocolate-dipped communion.”
– Things I Would Often Think About While at Church
Things Heard During John Cage's Folsom Prison... →
Re: The Kegbot
Phil: Oh man! They got shirts!
Will: Of course they got shirts! Wouldn't you?
The Kegbot →
How to Make Square Corners with CSS →
http://beerlauncher.com →
“I see some teams that use the word “agile” when they really mean “chaotic”.”
– Dave Thomas
“Cornellians tend, I’ve noticed, to be quite elitist about any non-1st-tier...”
– Elliott Bäck
“There are, of course, cases where homonyms are semantically related but not...”
– The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
“Heroes” is 2.0, baby.
Two words: Indestructable. Cheerleaders.”
– William Mize
“Sperm is how the propeller eventually avoids death.”
– Ze Frank
“That’s called recursion, and that would lead to infine fear.”
– Ze Frank