January 2012
21 posts
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Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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Ask me ALL the things!
batkin.tumblr.com/ask miss-diana-marie: Please miss-diana-marie.tumblr.com/ask
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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“Candidly, those who count on Hollywood for support need to understand that this...”
– Chris Dodd, speaking on behalf of the MPAA
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 13th
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two awesome programming book lists
A list of free, online programming books, by Zed Shaw A list of programming books written in 2011, by Antonio Cangiano
Jan 12th
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Sending Notifications Using Decorators Instead of... →
An approach to take methods that don’t belong in models out of models, which should be useful for other things as well.
Jan 11th
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“Simply put, it comes down to this: We’re not in the business of developing...”
– From the SilverStripe CMS page on why they use the BSD license.
Jan 11th
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HTML5 Soundboard →
From ‘09!
Jan 6th
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breaking on Ctrl-C in ruby-debug (doesn't yet...
To break on Ctrl-C, launch the debugger, and use the catch command to catch the Interrupt exception. (rdb:1) catch Interrupt Catch exception Interrupt. (rdb:1) Now I know the command, but when I hit Ctrl-C when running Ruby On Rails, it doesn’t break into the debugger. It just stops the program. I asked for an answer on Stack Overflow.
Jan 5th
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Vintage Modernism: A Quick Examination →
I enjoyed this for the collection of images more than for the text, though I liked that too. Among the images is one from my hometown, Flagstaff, right before the conclusion!
Jan 5th
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PageDown →
PageDown is Stack Overflow’s markdown library for the browser and node.js (doesn’t appear to be in npm yet). It is based on Showdown and WMD. It includes sanitization to prevent XSS attacks (very important to Stack Overflow). Should be useful for many different kinds of web apps!
Jan 4th
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“10-year JavaScript veterans that never threw in the towel”
– The Node.js Rap by Marak
Jan 3rd
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“Believe in no technology religion”
– Raghavendra Kidiyoor’s Short Bio on Quora
Jan 3rd
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“I miss the lack of melody [in current music] as well. I mean, a lot of people...”
– Ozzy Osbourne
Jan 3rd
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google docs edit link: no undo history
A person with an edit link has no access to the undo history in Google Docs. I found this out by opening one of my links in Chrome’s Incognito Mode, and hitting the Undo button. This is good IMO, because sometimes things can be added during the process of creating a document that I’d rather not share. Share away!
Jan 2nd
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“Comfort zones are toxic, but safety nets are a valuable ace in the hole.”
– @jeremyckahn
Jan 2nd
Jan 2nd
December 2011
6 posts
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DIY Book Scanner →
This is clever: two digital cameras (one for each page showing in an open book), a device for holding the book and cameras in position, a human to turn the pages and hit the camera buttons, and post-processing software to turn the photos into a PDF eBook.
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
Dec 27th
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“Of course, never lie. Telling the truth is better because then you don’t have to...”
– Thomas A. Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators
Dec 23rd
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“The courteous person will choose to not recline their seat for the entire...”
– Lizzie Post (exactly my thoughts)
Dec 22nd
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In my defense, I was quite good at reading Usenet. I tried every new release of every NewsReader on an eternal quest for the one that would enable me to read the most articles in the shortest amount of time. I actually did benchmarks. I could whip through articles like you wouldn’t believe. Seriously—other Usenet aficionados would watch me and ask for tips. Then one day I came up with the most...
Dec 20th
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November 2011
2 posts
there should be a documentary about people who are hooked on watching documentaries and keep seeking out weirder ones
Nov 28th
richardlog: Pretty-printing JSON and XML on Mac... →
I’d also use this in conjunction with pbcopy. pbpaste | python -m json.tool | pbcopy. Formatting this: {"this": {"is": "a", "nested": "json"}, "object": [true]} As this: { "object": [ true ], "this": { "is": "a", "nested": "json" } } Nice! richardlog: Like my colleagues at Avisi I’m an avid OSX user. One of the reasons I like OSX is it gives you...
Nov 13th
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October 2011
5 posts
http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip →
Oct 7th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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September 2011
17 posts
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Sep 28th
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Sep 25th
Sep 24th
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Sep 22nd
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Old Man Clemens Hates Shit →
Sep 18th
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Sep 18th
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Eternal September →
There’s really only one. Sorry, but pre-2010 Quora isn’t anything like pre-1993 Usenet. I know because I caught a whiff of Usenet after September 1993 but long before now and thought it was great. I can only imagine the Usenet that spoiled Dave Fischer. You and I missed out.
Sep 18th
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Kvetch! →
Sep 18th
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monospace, text transform... →
…hover color, animated gif. I love this theme. Also, a rage comic character in the post. :)
Sep 17th
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Sep 17th
6 notes
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Sep 17th
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Sep 12th
120 notes
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Brian Posehn - Nerd Rage →
Sep 12th
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homebrew-alloy-macvim →
I could have used this when I installed alloy’s MacVim, so I put it online in case anyone else is interested in the same kind of solution.
Sep 7th
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Java's Cover →
One of my favorite old Paul Graham essays. Quite relevant today, not in regard to Java as much as PaaS companies with full-time developer evangelists.
Sep 7th
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makes sense
Sep 7th