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2017

July

Ensuring only one copy of a running program with abstract sockets (and no filesystem garbage). https://blog.petrzemek.net/201…about 11 hours
RT @keiko713: EPIC TIME! cc/ @hone02 and @brandur and https://t.co/nZGjIOmnGx4 days
eprintln! is a great idea. In practice, printing to stdout/stderr is what pretty much everyone really wants to do. https://blog.rust-lang.org/201…5 days
Implementing a decoder for “Rack-style” forms (map[key][]=…). Complicated enough to be the best argument for JSON input that I’ve ever seen.5 days
Stumbled across B's Berlin issue at Kinokuniya. Beautiful work. The city's is so amazing that even magazines on it… https://twitter.com/i/web/stat…9 days
We used to envy Riak’s technology. It was probably never a good idea, but even so, the future seemed brighter. https://www.theregister.co.uk/…12 days
Bitcoin is better than HBO. Still priced at $2400, but the cliffs are starting to materialize out of the fog. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…12 days
Portland might just be the best North American city. https://t.co/sk4cnS3jec16 days
In Chrome you can paste a screenshot into a GitHub issue/PR using the “Ctrl series” of shortcuts like ⌘-Ctrl-Shift-4 (for clipboard copy).23 days
The landscape photography in the “Fortitude” TV series is just ridiculously beautiful. (Filmed in Iceland of course… https://twitter.com/i/web/stat…23 days

June

Built on Rust and Google’s great CommonMark pull parser. So conducive to the problem that a safe implementation took just minutes to write.29 days
cmark2jira: A tiny Vim-pluggable program so you never have to type in JIRA’s needlessly divergent markup again. https://github.com/brandur/cma…29 days
Amazing. Again and again, the SFMTA demonstrates how to be committed to Vision Zero by way of hollow rhetoric only. https://twitter.com/Bob_Gunder…30 days
The soundtrack for Interstellar is exactly as epic as you might expect. https://open.spotify.com/track…about 1 month
I got a good chuckle from this piece on the confining shackles of relational data. https://www.mongodb.com/scale/… https://t.co/pVISVIlt3Pabout 1 month
From Pillar Point, where the Mavericks occur off the coast in winter. Beautiful area for day exploration. https://t.co/fJkvqrLrv0about 1 month
Great article on our bad habit of pushing problems into the future. Ask not when governments will default, but how. https://www.bloomberg.com/view…about 1 month
I spend more time formatting text in Confluence than writing it. It’s amazing how a tool this dull can become an industry standard.about 1 month
Compilation in Rust 1.18 is 15-20% faster; not bad for a point release. https://blog.rust-lang.org/201…about 1 month
Lets just hope that Wirth’s Law doesn’t catch up before release in December. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… https://twitter.com/sdw/status…about 1 month
But hailing iOS for productivity because it can sort of tile windows and access files now is crazy. Still looking for parity with 90s PCs.about 1 month
Yesterday’s Mac refreshes were the most encouraging thing to come out of Apple in years; hopefully a sign of return to undistorted reality.about 1 month
Gaiman's “Norse Mythology” is beautiful. Dark stories of gods who are heroic and wise, but also vengeful and childi… https://twitter.com/i/web/stat…about 1 month
John introducing Stripe Sigma. https://stripe.com/us/sigma https://t.co/gE8fXSnI7nabout 1 month

May

RT @craigkerstiens: Awesome summary of modern advanced cloud database: https://brandur.org/cloud-data…about 1 month
And when I say “can’t” I mean “shouldn’t”. Turns out the people talking about database atomicity in the 70s were onto something.about 1 month
In Mongo, you can’t have model validation. If it fails after state has been changed elsewhere in an operation, your DB is now inconsistent.about 1 month
RT @easiestnameever: A Comparison of Advanced, Modern Cloud Databases — thanks @brandur https://brandur.org/cloud-data…about 1 month
A month on Headspace: meditated 29 of the last 32 days. Even the light accountability from an app seems to work. https://brandur.org/fragments/…about 1 month
Rust’s inclusive range operator will be `..=`. `..` vs `…` was always unintuitive at best, and dangerous at worst. https://github.com/rust-lang/r…about 1 month
New York 2140 was the best sci-fi I’ve read in a while. Neat premise and interesting prose. http://www.newyorker.com/books…about 1 month
It looks like we can expect faster Spanner operations to come! This is some very cool technology. https://twitter.com/WAWilsonIV…2 months
Exactly what gridlocked SF needs: public transit even less competitive with private parking and Uber/Lyft. https://www.sfmta.com/about-sf…2 months
RT @jasondmoss: A Comparison of Advanced, Modern Cloud Databases A non-exhaustive primer of modern cloud database solutions @brandur https:…2 months
RT @grescoe: Need a vacation from traffic? 11 gorgeous car-free places around the world (incl. Leonard Cohen's Hydra). https://t.co/Rie4EiZ…2 months
My attempt to sway the conversation :) https://twitter.com/craigkerst…2 months
When talking databases, we spend a lot of time on surface veneer when we should be focusing on the foundations for operable software.2 months
RT @craigkerstiens: Always enjoy what @brandur writes, another nice read on ACID and constraints - https://brandur.org/acid2 months
I’m a little in awe at how well managed Rust is. Instead of problems being rejected or ignored by territorial core teams, they get fixed.2 months
Very exciting progress on Rust’s incremental compilation towards a faster edit-compile-debug loop. https://blog.rust-lang.org/201…2 months
An aspirational piece on reducing moving parts, retiring things, and KISS at Lockheed’s Skunk Works. https://brandur.org/minimalism2 months
The Atrium under LinkedIn is such a beautiful space. The walls slide open around midday and it becomes open air. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…3 months
Postgres is now available with HA on all three major clouds. No excuses left for using questionable databases. https://azure.microsoft.com/en…3 months
Fun walk up Mount Diablo last weekend. Looking forward to returning for tarantula season. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…3 months
RT @rdegges: YES. This is how you do technical management. https://t.co/g6Suq999tz3 months
I tried to summarize how Mongo came into its reputation of losing data (and how it can be durable today). https://brandur.org/fragments/…3 months
Excited to say that Stripe webhooks are now signed and most of our libraries provide helpers to easily verify them. https://stripe.com/docs/webhoo…3 months
The chasm between the places we all understand to be beautiful and the smoggy hellscapes we build is fascinating. https://twitter.com/AndrewAPri…3 months
At this point a collapse of Canadian housing is preferable to today’s rough trend — a generational caste system based on real estate access.3 months
Wasm/LLVM unlock access to real typed languages, and we could be spending time pushing forward on that frontier instead.3 months
TypeScript is an obvious improvement over JS, but why set the bar so low? Is it just for backwards compatibility?3 months

April

I’m interested in OS packaging, but clueless about it. Here’s the patch to get Alacritty building into a .app/.dmg. https://github.com/jwilm/alacr…3 months
Partitioning, indexes, a short anecdote of Mongo v. Postgres, and choosing good databases. https://brandur.org/fragments/…3 months
Zeit's CLI-based domain purchasing is neat. We talked about that at Heroku since circa 2011, but didn't execute. https://zeit.co/domains3 months
A few words to disspell the common misconception that GraphQL APIs are inherently non-performant. https://brandur.org/fragments/…3 months
And a great conversation about how apps exploit human weaknesses to hijack our attention, and what to do about it. https://www.samharris.org/podc…3 months
Great long form piece on why cascading makes CSS incredibly painful to scale (2016). http://mrmrs.io/writing/2016/0…3 months
gpg-agent/ssh-agent and shell env var injection, in theory: elegant example of the Unix philosophy. In practice: configuration nightmare.3 months
I started using ctrl-py-matcher for CtrlP matching in Vim. It’s a quantum leap forward if you’re in big repos. https://github.com/FelikZ/ctrl…3 months
Masterpiece from The Economist on how minimum parking rules and parking subsidization mandate terrible cities. https://www.economist.com/news…4 months
This 5-line POC was worth $10k. Lots of interesting lessons on why to avoid an overly permissive language in here. https://hackerone.com/reports/…4 months
After paying ~$480k for MRuby bug bounties, Shopify gave up, rolled out kernel sandboxing, and cut bounties 10x. https://hackerone.com/shopify-…4 months
Apparently at some point I took a wrong turn in life. https://twitter.com/dcurtis/st…4 months

March

I’m obnoxiously proud of my first patch to Postgres. Thanks @petervgeoghegan for some serious assists! https://github.com/postgres/po…4 months
RT @johnsheehan: This is required reading. Couldn't agree more with every bit of it. https://twitter.com/brandur/st…4 months
A few words on GraphQL and how to build the next frontier of compelling web APIs. https://brandur.org/api-paradi…4 months
Does anyone have an easy/fast way of getting new content like PDFs to iOS devices? I’ve been using Dropbox, but so many steps involved.4 months
Okay, I was wrong about AirPods. They’re great. https://brandur.org/fragments/…4 months
cURL’s author claimed that C wasn’t the cause of past security vulnerabilities. But then someone fact checked. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…4 months
Excellent discussion on maintaining an independent blog in the age of social media. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…4 months
Built my first flexbox layout today. Still can be painful to debug, but good enough that I never want to touch a “float” or a “clear” again.4 months
So hard to say how to handle this. The wealthy have no right to the city, but I’m not sure just being incumbent is as virtuous as portrayed.4 months
As prices soar in Berlin, the fight against entropy begins. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0…4 months
Genius, Zapier. A few years in the Bay with a net worth under 7 figures is enough to give anyone existential angst. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…4 months
Instead of lowering the bar everywhere to egregious WYSIWYG interfaces, we should be raising it by teaching the world Markdown.4 months
Confluence is a perfectly bad example of optimizing for a little discoverability over any possibility of being able to use it productively.4 months
To the detriment of us all, time will show that Wirth’s law is more robust than Moore’s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…5 months
I’m embarrassed to admit how much I learnt from this article on unicode. It’s so good that I read it twice. http://reedbeta.com/blog/progr…5 months
Yes! We’ll be seeing The Grid again. https://twitter.com/rands/stat…5 months
This level of self-awareness and reflection is vanishingly rare amongst programming language designers. Bravo Rust. https://blog.rust-lang.org/201…5 months
RT @anildash: Another excellent recent writing on tech architecture, @brandur on idempotency: https://stripe.com/blog/idempo… Lucidly explains key…5 months

February

Writing Ruby without tests is like doing 120 km/h on the highway with a blindfold on. Total catastrophe isn’t a question of if, but when.5 months
On the rare days that I wake up at 4 and experience the hour’s calm and clarity, I realize how stupid it is not to do it every day.5 months
RT @Runscope: Designing robust and predictable APIs with idempotency by @brandur: https://stripe.com/blog/idempo…5 months
“Innovation” is the wrong word given prior art like EC2 client tokens. Thanks for keeping me honest @danfarina :) https://twitter.com/brandur/st…5 months
RT @happywebcoder: Another great API technique from @stripe: Idempotency keys https://stripe.com/blog/idempo… If I could, I'd pay @brandur to write…5 months
Idempotency keys in particular are a favorite HTTP API innovation from Stripe. https://twitter.com/stripe/sta…5 months
From running Mount Tam this morning. https://t.co/TInF7UIqYg5 months
Advice for the 99%: don’t use the tech du jour. Do use an RDMS with ACID guarantees. Probably just use Postgres. http://blog.sagemath.com/2017/…6 months
Your database is the most important decision you’ll make in a tech stack. It will be a source of incredible leverage or profound sorrow.6 months
Foundational software written in software that’s safe, approachable, and extensible is an important idea, and Rust is making it a reality.6 months
I just landed my first patch into Alacritty, a Rust terminal. There are so many reasons to like this project. https://github.com/jwilm/alacr…6 months
Unreasonably excited about plugins, sort.Slice, and server.Shutdown in Go 1.8. All solutions for real problems.6 months

January

(Last Saturday) Beautiful terrain on the way up to Fort Point. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…6 months
RT @mattgreenrocks: Superb. We squander tons of technology and the user's time for eye candy. https://twitter.com/brandur/st…6 months
I wrote a contrarian piece arguing for user interfaces that are more like terminals, and less like the web. https://brandur.org/interfaces6 months
It’s sad to see such a vibrant ecosystem go. Once Firefox is on WebExtensions, you may as well just use Chrome. http://fasezero.com/6 months
Great talk on why lauding violence and silencing minute differences in opinion isn’t good liberal policy. http://5by5.tv/roadwork/546 months
RT @leinweber: @brandur look how many slack channels I’m in!6 months
Timely article on the nefarious effect of modern technology on attention span. Don’t romanticize interrupts. https://backchannel.com/how-i-…6 months
I’m really jealous of Paris’ mayor. SF would be a better place with someone even half as progressive at the helm. http://www.independent.co.uk/n…7 months
My brother doing some Canadian sunbathing near Hidden Lake. Ambient high: -15C. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…7 months
Some great timelapses of the new 35,000 metric ton Chernobyl sarcophagus being built and carted 300m into place. http://www.bbc.com/future/stor…7 months
My dad managed to capture the one second all day that my parallel looked decent too. https://t.co/c8jPIt9biK7 months
Backcountry ski trip up to Bow Summit yesterday. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…7 months
Glad to not the only one that notices this. I don’t go to movies in Canada anymore because the ads are so extreme. https://www.reddit.com/r/canad…7 months

2016

December

Browser-based interfaces like Electron and co. are being billed as the future, but they’re a future that’s distinctly worse than the past.7 months
I’d pay money for a Spotify client as fast and responsive as Winamp 2.* running on a 200 MHz Pentium in 1998.7 months
I’m very excited about Rocket. It’s Sinatra/Ruby with years more thinking to refine it to a far more perfect form. https://rocket.rs/overview/7 months
This would be an incredible tragedy for the interestingness of SF. I, for one, have resolved to spend more money. https://twitter.com/dnalounge/…7 months
Now that we’ll have AirPod reviews in about a week, here’s my prediction: they’re not very good.7 months
Going to check out the Rust Bay Area meetup tonight. https://www.meetup.com/Rust-Ba…7 months
It just hit me, but podcasts are now my vastly preferred media format when measured by consumption time. TV and books aren’t even close.7 months
I’m somewhat comforted by the nearly universal tepid reactions to the new MBP. Even Cupertino might have to pay attention this time.7 months
I’m also looking forward to assembling a write-up on how some of Rust’s memory safety features were hugely helpful in building it.8 months
It’s a huge honor for redis-cell to have been selected as the winner! What a fun project. Thank you Redis labs! https://twitter.com/itamarhabe…8 months
”Team Tetris” and “success theater” are my new favorite organizational anti-patterns. https://hackernoon.com/12-sign…8 months

November

Was pleasantly surprised to discover that rclone’s crypt module is powered by NaCL. https://github.com/ncw/rclone/…8 months
Not the driest day in Napa, but incredibly picturesque. https://t.co/7bUcdUmPtv8 months
RT @simonw: Smart description of great logging practice - I also learnt Heroku-style key=value logging has a formal name, logfmt https://t.…8 months
Wrote a piece on “canonical log lines”, a cool idea for operational visibility at Stripe. https://brandur.org/canonical-…8 months
5+ years into programming Ruby. Still awed by the sheer number of and breadth of ways this language lets you shoot yourself in the foot.8 months
“No Escape”, killing the Esc button habit in Vim: https://brandur.org/fragments/… (I went with Ctrl+C after all.)8 months
Retraining Vim muscle memory to use Ctrl+L to leave normal mode in case the no-Esc phenomena spreads. Stockholm syndrome dialed to 11.8 months
RT @itamarhaber: redis-cell: an API rate limiter as a Redis module - https://news.ycombinator.com/i… by @brandur <- first module to written in #Rus…8 months
Microsoft dominating the front page right now. What an upset compared to five years back. https://t.co/mcoDWLf9jV8 months
I put a few old Star Trek scenes through Primitive. This program is incredible. https://github.com/fogleman/pr… https://t.co/BgMJxDY77x8 months
Been way too long since I was up here. https://t.co/BhokTNige88 months
A+ commentary from Dan Carlin post-election. https://overcast.fm/+CxteFe09 months
Also, I’m loving the improvement in visual hygiene conveyed by the new `?` operator: https://github.com/brandur/red…9 months
A site dedicated to tracking compile time performance in Rust. This work is as important as tuning runtime speed. http://perf.rust-lang.org/9 months
For anyone on stripe-ruby: I’d recommend upgrading to 1.56.1. We just squashed a pretty vicious memory leak. https://github.com/stripe/stri…9 months
The ~30 lines of code that bootstrap a Rust program that’s about to be run. Quite succinct and readable. https://github.com/rust-lang/r…9 months
$1/month hosting if you can fit into 64 MB. So many possibilities! https://hyper.sh/pricing.html9 months
Cross-compiled binaries and automated CI-based releases to GitHub going in < 2 hours with rust-everywhere. https://github.com/japaric/rus…9 months
rustfmt check on line length is such a killer feature. It’s barely even possible to deviate from language conventions.9 months

October

The Esc key gets bumped and the Fn key gets to stay and continue eating prime real estate. Most disappointing Mac refresh of all time.9 months
Great seeing Rust take fast edit-compile-debug seriously. Of paramount importance day-to-day, but so often ignored. https://github.com/aturon/rfcs…9 months
It’s a little depressing how hard it is to make columns look good and be pragmatic on a screen. Not even The New Yorker will go near them.9 months
Just watched ”Oblivion” (2013). Maybe a little heavy on the sci-fi tropes, but still an A+ movie.9 months
Why walled gardens are bad: Mozilla changes APIs, breaking add-ons, then takes a week and half to approve a fix. https://github.com/vimperator/…9 months
Learn more about Redshift gotchas in 30 seconds than the official docs will tell you in 3 hours. https://github.com/open-guides…10 months
Imagine if Andromeda focused on native performance over web-based everything and function over form (animations, copious whitespace).10 months
Just finished Mr. Robot S2. I can no longer tell whether this show is genius or just preposterously dramatic.10 months

September

I totally missed that CloudFront added support for HTTP/2. That’s awesome. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a…10 months
Death Guild has playlists going back to 1995. Amazing. http://www.deathguild.com/play…10 months
I’m absolutely loving GitHub’s new code review feature. Easily the best implementation of this idea I’ve ever seen.10 months
The new “Projects” feature is really fun to use too. With just a little luck, this could be the end of Trello and JIRA.10 months
GitHub Universe’s announcements were a lot more exciting than anything Apple did in September. https://github.com/blog/2256-a…10 months
A beautiful night in Calgary. https://t.co/u56hwpl4gG10 months
Hopefully we’ll see Salesforce go next :) http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/…10 months
DB migrations at scale (20 PB!) are nearly impossibly difficult, but laudable when pulled off. Bravo Yandex! https://news.ycombinator.com/i…10 months
The problem with being at home: too many treats. Even with a daily 10+ km I can’t stay calorie neutral.11 months
From the bucket of things I never expected to see, the Magic: The Gathering World Championship final. https://t.co/YE0sRidBGl11 months

August

Living through years of Monday to Saturday (and often Sunday) 8 AM to 7 PM next door construction is enough to NIMBYize anyone.11 months
And the (currently hypothetical) talk of replacing libpq and pg gem in Rails with a Rust package is exciting to say the least.11 months
There’s a great discussion on the Postgres wire protocol in this episode of ”The Bike Shed”. https://overcast.fm/+DuasjJ0Bc11 months
Another eel: https://news.ycombinator.com/i… But seriously, I hope good alternatives appear before I end up rolling my own NaCL-based vault.11 months
Repost of a 2014 article on housing in the Bay Area. Though slightly dated, it’s still the best ever written. https://techcrunch.com/2014/04…11 months
GItLab’s slash commands are a game changer. https://gitlab.com/help/workfl… More of this and less clicking on little boxes please.11 months
Around here, you can tell that a new Tartine has opened without even looking at the sign. https://t.co/FRmI8QL6yI11 months
Goroutines and channels are perfect primitives, but there’s room for a worker queue abstraction in the language. https://gobyexample.com/worker…11 months
“taxpayers are subsidising housing borrowers to the tune of up to $150 billion a year, or 1% of GDP” http://www.economist.com/news/…11 months
Check out our new docs: https://stripe.com/docs Features a great new design, fast XHR loading, rich code snippets, and contextual API keys.11 months
Building a robust state machine to run cloud servers by @danfarina. https://www.citusdata.com/blog…11 months
I just realized today that Splunk uses Highcharts for their visualizations. What a great library.11 months
Had a great run across the bridge today, then immediately undid by getting a fully loaded coffee at Philz. https://t.co/hJcpf3QXHS12 months
Reddit points out that Mr. Robot used real code from Metasploit (modulo the indentation catastrophe). Well done. https://github.com/rapid7/meta…12 months
The only reason we don’t have drivers doing this in San Francisco is that there aren’t any pedestrian-only paths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…12 months
Very sloppy indentation from Mr. Robot. They didn’t quite manage to capture the OCD of real hackers. https://t.co/fXQOh5wAXL12 months
RT @leinweber: Problem: I want to add/drop/change a column or index on a live db https://t.co/IObTrMLmVU12 months
The best pro-Postgres article you’ll read this year: http://githubengineering.com/g…12 months
I get nostalgic when reading engineering documents written as Gists. Their page layout and formatting is perfect.12 months

July

Like you needed another reason to never use Comodo, but here’s one anyway. https://thehackerblog.com/keep… Previously: https://letsencrypt.org/2016/0…12 months
A measurably more informed meta-explanation of Uber’s Postgres article earlier this week. http://use-the-index-luke.com/…12 months
Picked up the idea of verifying env vars in CLIs (liked Etcd) off a CoreOS talk at HeavyBit’s DevGuild this week. https://brandur.org/fragments/…12 months
A few words on the unbalanced nature of hype when it comes to new technology. https://brandur.org/fragments/…July 20, 2016 14:35
Proof that it’s possible to build a compelling case for any idea. Jar Jar Binks is Supreme Leader Snoke: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarW…July 19, 2016 18:57
Beautiful magazine of the week: “Cereal”, a travel and style publication out of the UK. https://t.co/R7NXgMA2KBJuly 18, 2016 03:12
Great article on Lionhead. http://www.eurogamer.net/artic… ”Molyneux's other directive: Fable 2 must have a dog. And that dog must die.”July 17, 2016 23:39
Imagine a city built with pedestrian paths through protected tree-lined groves. Not conventional, but possible. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/…July 15, 2016 18:43
Wow, collapsable comments on Hacker News. I never thought I’d live long enough to see the day.July 15, 2016 16:22
Interesting take on underlying Marxist themes in “Spirited Away”. https://np.reddit.com/r/pics/c…July 13, 2016 01:42
A beautifully laid out page for Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design. https://www.vitsoe.com/us/abou…July 7, 2016 22:56
The SF dilemma: don’t really want to carry around a coat all day, but kind of want one for later tonight.July 7, 2016 13:48

June

An example of a C to Rust rewrite largely for reasons of security. Hopefully the first of many. https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech…June 30, 2016 17:37
An Apple employee tried to convince me today that the Watch was a big surprise when it landed. Reality distortion field still at full power.June 30, 2016 05:54
Catching up on what’s possibly the only series more epic than “A Song of Fire and Ice”. https://t.co/3iSnZYe9szJune 28, 2016 05:41
AFK while I go get my Icelandic flag and Brennivín.June 27, 2016 22:20
“Roy Hodgson, who gets paid £3.5 million a year, just lost to an Iceland manager who is a part time dentist.” https://www.reddit.com/r/sport…June 27, 2016 22:20
Picked up “Amazing Layout Design” today. It’s an absolutely amazing resource for design inspiration. https://t.co/Om6Cs5lPA9June 26, 2016 22:16
It’s time. https://t.co/6m0ONgZ5SIJune 24, 2016 04:54
Totally understandable though. Who could’ve known that putting up “we live here” ads in SOMA wouldn’t be an effective speed deterrent!June 23, 2016 06:02
Two dead bicyclists in two separate incidents in SF today due to excessive speed. Vision Zero is just a hair’s breadth out of reach!June 23, 2016 06:02
I enjoyed “Food Rules“. If there were rules this succinct for all good habits, we’d all be a lot more healthy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…June 23, 2016 03:22
8 years of < 0.5% interest, yet all but one member calls for +1-2% in 2017. Fantasy or dishonesty; take your pick. http://www.economist.com/blogs…June 21, 2016 20:55
It took four years to make even minor incremental progress on this deranged behavior. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/iss…June 21, 2016 19:25
Do members of the Java community have feelings about Lombok? We’re considering its use in Stripe’s Java bindings. https://github.com/stripe/stri…June 20, 2016 22:16
I’m convinced that many savvy couples are buying artificial diamonds for each other and no one else has a clue. http://www.racked.com/2016/6/1…June 18, 2016 02:20
It turns out that like many other things, drawing up a meditation calendar was the easy part. Actual meditation has so far been elusive.June 15, 2016 14:21
Just what the world needed: annoying effects on text messages. Next up Apple will be announcing the revival of the <marquee> tag.June 13, 2016 18:37
Ran a short Calorie counting experiment last week. Conclusion: my eating habits are terrifyingly bad. https://brandur.org/fragments/…June 13, 2016 16:38
Apple, don’t totally compromise usability for perceived aesthetics. There’s still time to avoid this catastrophe. http://www.xda-developers.com/…June 13, 2016 15:56
One day I hope to see even _one_ North American city making efforts on this scale. http://www.citylab.com/cityfix…June 12, 2016 22:35
Japan is going to show the world the limits of debt-fueled growth. It’s more of a question of where the ceiling is. http://business.financialpost.…June 7, 2016 15:59
With masterful use of promises and callback abstractions, you can almost get back to readable source code. https://github.com/heroku/hero…June 1, 2016 16:39

May

RT @paulg: How journalism became "Go troll Twitter for something to get mad about." http://goo.gl/IBTCxHMay 29, 2016 11:48
America’s saved. https://twitter.com/ped/status…May 28, 2016 22:06
A dozen Lambda users; a dozen different frameworks to manage it. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…May 23, 2016 16:49
RT @Michiel_DeWilde: Nice article of @brandur about static sites on AWS http://buff.ly/24OhXlu https://t.co/Y4ARt3qftZMay 20, 2016 12:03
“You are no longer half-human half-camera … wonderful if you want candid, real photographs.” http://www.newyorker.com/tech/…May 13, 2016 17:08
There is no team on Earth better at finding Kindles and iPads than Copenhagen airport security.May 7, 2016 08:40

April

Think long and hard about whether you actually have big data before leaving that RDMS behind friends. It’s tempting to think you’re Google.April 23, 2016 19:35
A 2300-word document on how to build a 2-phase commit in Mongo to get consistency beyond the document level. https://docs.mongodb.org/manua…April 23, 2016 19:35
Head over to https://stripe.com/docs/api and bask in its newly ~instantaneous load time. Brought to you by @michaelvillar and @romainhuet.April 19, 2016 01:41
You couldn’t ask for a more beautiful day in SF yesterday. https://t.co/2T3YQBAqbqApril 18, 2016 15:03
RT @gudmundur: New version of Pliny out (https://github.com/interagent/pliny), now with @rollbar goodness (https://github.com/interagent/pliny/releases/tag/v0.16.1).April 16, 2016 08:54
This episode of Surprisingly Awesome really helps to concrete the basics of musical theory. Highly recommended. https://gimletmedia.com/episod…April 15, 2016 03:36
This should've happened fifteen years ago. But as they say, better late than never. http://revolutionizehaight.org…April 15, 2016 02:49
RT @apiaryio: 4/16 @github offices: World’s first ever hackathon focused on #APIDesign. Co-organized by our @manp. Join us! https://t.co/pj…April 12, 2016 19:48
A very informative article on Kubernetes and its predecessors at Google. https://queue.acm.org/detail.c…April 12, 2016 07:17
If you’re in SF, you should considering coming to join us next Saturday at GitHub to talk about APIs! http://www.meetup.com/API-Craf…April 10, 2016 22:34
Using AWS Lambda as an online, serverless cron machine. https://brandur.org/aws-intrin…April 10, 2016 17:29
RT @gavingmiller: .@brandur great post on static sites: https://brandur.org/aws-intrin… Appreciate the SSL & CD part, was the missing piece for me.April 9, 2016 23:10
RT @yann_ck: Always great to read notes on languages from great developers: https://brandur.org/go Thanks @brandur.April 7, 2016 18:58
RT @tair: Excellent notes on #golang from a seasoned #ruby dev @brandur 👍Language features, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly https://t.co/KCR…April 2, 2016 23:03
RT @rwdaigle: logfmt is still the most pragmatic, functional, and concise log output format I’ve seen. Keep it simple, folks! https://t.co/…April 1, 2016 05:30

March

Amended this article for the first time in years. logrus-style logfmt with a human-readable message is a good idea. https://brandur.org/logfmt#hum…March 30, 2016 22:34
This is the single most concise example of the Go team’s “only we can be right” philosophy that I’ve found to date. https://github.com/golang/lint…March 27, 2016 22:26
It’s like Christmas every time a new Hardcore History episode is released. King of Kings, episode II. http://www.dancarlin.com/hardc…March 20, 2016 18:34
I’m so used to printers failing in every creative way imaginable that when one is “just” out of paper, it takes time to realize it.March 18, 2016 19:32
GitHub’s `ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md` is atrocious for anyone that writes commit messages.March 3, 2016 22:42
Great “Common Sense” episode featuring its usual measured take on the Supreme Court's Justices and Apple encryption. http://www.dancarlin.com/produ…March 1, 2016 07:26

February

“This Must Be the Place” isn't a good movie, but its rendition of the Talking Heads song of the same name was great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…February 26, 2016 08:13
API Craft SF is holding an IoT event next week. You should come check it out! http://www.meetup.com/API-Craf…February 17, 2016 05:12
I’m always surprised to see the low ratings of ”Pandorum”. It’s one of the best sci-fi *and* one of the best horror films of all time.February 17, 2016 04:49
After two hours of native extension compilation problems, I now know more about Bundler and Nokogiri configuration than I ever wanted to.February 10, 2016 20:01
Trying https://github.com/Homebrew/ho… for service management on OSX today because the interface of `launchctl` is still trapped firmly in the 80s.February 8, 2016 21:59
RT @obfuscurity: So many feels and fond memories of an amazing engineering culture recalled via @brandur’s take on Heroku Values. https://t…February 1, 2016 19:54

January

First major UI error I’ve seen GitHub make: tabs changed to arrow thing on the PR view … but only from the code tab. https://t.co/eJWJQb8lh5January 28, 2016 15:05
World’s most awesome club event: “We're dressing up DNA Lounge as Cyberdelia, the club from Hackers …” https://www.dnalounge.com/cale…January 26, 2016 20:44
Have been ignorant of CSS3’s “rem” (root em) unit all these years. It’s a far more sustainable way to build styles. https://github.com/brandur/org…January 25, 2016 14:13
I seem be the only person who didn’t like Star Wars VII, but by the time Disney releases episode XVII in 2025, I’ll have company.January 25, 2016 02:19
Never thought I’d see the day: I was just issued a wildcard certificate for free. AWS Certificate Manager is amazing.January 21, 2016 20:36
There is so much Canadian schadenfreude for Alberta despite the CAD’s value suggesting that all the country’s eggs were in one basket.January 19, 2016 18:19
Bitcoin: better than fiction. https://medium.com/@octskyward…January 18, 2016 23:05
There’s nothing better for improving humility than attending your local Haskell meetup. First talk lost me in ~5 minutes.January 14, 2016 05:56
In memory of Bowie, the Lohner mix of Disco King, the only good thing to come out of the Underworld film series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…January 11, 2016 21:56
Clever Jaws parody poster. https://www.behance.net/galler…January 10, 2016 23:50
What you always suspected but could never confirm: the changes in T-short width/height by wash cycle. http://www.threadbase.com/unra…January 6, 2016 21:55
Crazy. You still can’t have both HTTPS *and* index documents when hosting a static website on AWS. https://brandur.org/fragments/…January 4, 2016 18:00
Food for thought on alternatives to moving the social responsibility of contract-level workers to corporations. http://timharford.com/2015/12/…January 4, 2016 05:08
How to get Vim to stop adding two spaces between sentences when you realign with `gq`: `set nojoinspaces`. https://stackoverflow.com/ques…January 4, 2016 01:07
After missing the target for a few years, finally ran 1000 miles in 2015. https://brandur.org/runsJanuary 3, 2016 07:14

2015

December

With the Rotten Tomatoes rating system applied to TV, you need to be wary of anything rated < 98%.December 30, 2015 18:05
Elk Valley and the Fernie townsite viewed from the top of the Great Bear. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…December 24, 2015 17:37
Excellent article on the effect of sensor size on ISO and aperture. http://northrup.photo/gear-bas…December 19, 2015 07:48
The company X-mas party is roughly the one time a year that I regret not having a tailor.December 12, 2015 03:32
Or for creativity/WTF value, try Prophet. Set 10,000 years in the future after the rise and fall of a space empire. https://drop-brandur.s3.amazon…December 11, 2015 07:00
Comic recommendation: Tokyo Ghost. Start reading for the art. Stay for the contemporary themes. https://drop-brandur.s3.amazon…December 11, 2015 06:44
Classic Haskell documentation technique: throw you straight into the deep end. Or maybe the Mariana Trench. https://hackage.haskell.org/pa…December 10, 2015 22:36
Breguet’s Marie Antoinette watch, designed to include every complication known at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… https://www.flickr.com/photos/…December 6, 2015 21:43
Kramer preparing to enter a scene (via Reddit). https://i.imgur.com/jKgvheE.pn…December 3, 2015 07:47

November

Scala has the special distinction of being the only language that makes Objective-C look beautiful in comparison.November 11, 2015 22:03
A rare view of what technology inside a technology company is really like. http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flo… (via @muyfine)November 9, 2015 18:59
Go’s ast package is worth taking a look at. Surprisingly digestible considering that it’s a non-trivial problem. https://github.com/golang/go/b…November 4, 2015 23:05
Nothing makes you appreciate how hard it is to write fiction like NaNoWriMo.November 4, 2015 05:44

October

How to prevent that thing where OS X makes the dubious decision to disconnect your wifi when you lock your screen. http://apple.stackexchange.com…October 30, 2015 23:58
Winning comment of the Internet yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/i… https://t.co/snHiJChnuNOctober 30, 2015 21:02
The power of low interest rates: major recession and widespread layoffs; < 5% change in real estate prices. http://www.creb.com/Seller_Res…October 29, 2015 16:05
From 2002: the technology may have been worse, but the *nix desktop had a brighter future. https://anders.unix.se/2015/10…October 29, 2015 12:07
The major differences between Dreamforce and OpenWorld are one month and that one is red and one is blue. https://t.co/jhhufXhLWZOctober 28, 2015 04:50
A chilly evening up on Twin Peaks yesterday. https://t.co/Lg0T7oFwEWOctober 22, 2015 14:50
Amazing work by Oslo and Madrid. http://www.techinsider.io/oslo… Meanwhile we’re fighting to raise two blocks of bike lane on Market by two inches.October 21, 2015 17:11
Daily tool sharpening: if on OS X, download Karabiner, and drop “Key Repeat” down to 20 ms. Changes everything.October 12, 2015 19:29
In honor of the Rick & Morty finale (which was genius), here's the Johnny Cash cover of “Hurt.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?…October 6, 2015 04:10
“It is now impossible, reckons Dr Zerbo, to test even a small nuclear weapon in secret anywhere on Earth.” http://www.economist.com/news/…October 5, 2015 04:35

September

Patrick Collison, Alan Kay, and Stewart Brand sitting over a copy of the Whole Earth Catalog. http://t.co/WS8fls1d2CSeptember 29, 2015 15:14
Daily tool sharpening: ripper-tags (more accurate ctags for Ruby). https://github.com/tmm1/ripper…September 28, 2015 19:57
Daily tool sharpening: github.vim (open in browser or get a URL for selected lines). https://github.com/solars/gith…September 23, 2015 22:23
Also, Starbucks went through with it and killed La Boulange. Bummer. Best duck confit ever. http://t.co/UBnYxQaerbSeptember 21, 2015 09:34
And all of it is yours and mine. So let’s ride and ride and ride and ride. http://t.co/nsrCu69uZXSeptember 21, 2015 09:31
Today's tool sharpening: set-option -g allow-rename off (Have Tmux windows keep the same name you set for them.)September 18, 2015 22:24
Great rendition of La Malagueña (in the style of “Once Upon A Time In Mexico”). https://www.youtube.com/watch?…September 18, 2015 18:37
Not to mention that every frame of the movie is beautiful enough to print and hang on a wall. http://t.co/7qQDlCkfRHSeptember 17, 2015 00:11
And related: despite a formulaic story, Tron Legacy stands the test of time. Visuals, dialog, soundtrack, aesthetic, ideas; all top notch.September 17, 2015 00:09
Re-post, but this article on the UIs and effects of Tron Legacy by @jtnimoy is still one of favorites. http://jtnimoy.com/blogs/proje…September 17, 2015 00:08
Day one of week between jobs: tennis, writing, and running. http://t.co/BuwzXpEVuRSeptember 15, 2015 00:22
Tool sharpening today: textobj-rubyblock. http://www.vim.org/scripts/scr…September 14, 2015 19:26
The “important questions” section in RbNaCl's README is a classic: https://github.com/cryptospher…September 10, 2015 21:05
Ported RbNaCl's simplebox wrapper to Golang (simple API to fast crypto using XSalsa20 and Poly1305): https://github.com/brandur/sim…September 5, 2015 19:16
I'm incredibly excited to announce that I'll be joining the talented engineering team over at @stripe.September 4, 2015 21:47
Added pull request links to the bottom of my articles in the hopes of pity-driven contributions of grammar corrections.September 1, 2015 05:46

August

Breaking down compost at the community garden. This is the most San Francisco thing that I’ve done in months. http://t.co/HxBAgT4m8tAugust 30, 2015 21:15
I was really starting to feel like I was the only person on Earth who felt that way about Slack/HipChat/whatever. Phew. @ here @ here ^^^August 30, 2015 04:26
“We lose control of our time and what was once creative, intentional work turns into a constant stream of noise.” http://www.guilded.co/blog/201…August 30, 2015 04:25
I never cease to be amazed by the energy (and tolerance for pain) of the Haskell community. http://blog.ezyang.com/2015/08…August 29, 2015 15:53
Dropped today: a new GCRA-based (genetic cell rate algorithm) rate limiting implementation by @agmetcalf. https://github.com/throttled/t…August 29, 2015 00:44
RT @blakegentry: AT&T provides a great example of why every site should use HTTPS, even personal blogs. Just use free @CloudFlare TLS! http…August 26, 2015 20:57
RT @yann_ck: Great article on alerting by @brandur https://brandur.org/alertingAugust 26, 2015 12:42
RT @dmathieu: Awesome blog post from @brandur on designing alerts. https://brandur.org/alertingAugust 26, 2015 12:42
I really like the concise wording and unusual flow of this article on John Isner from the New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/news/…August 23, 2015 16:41
Finally jumped ship from Rdio. This bug was the straw that broke the camel’s back. http://t.co/dnTKRgCFVIAugust 23, 2015 15:42
Slightly disappointed that Thrift generates language bindings exactly how you'd expect that it would. https://github.com/apache/thri…August 22, 2015 22:28
Four paragraphs on “The End of the Tour”. https://brandur.org/fragments/…August 22, 2015 16:48
Really interesting article on the Academy of Art University (privately owned post-secondary) in San Francisco. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka…August 20, 2015 01:40
"She said, 'Infinite Jest. Every guy I've ever dated has an unread copy on his bookshelf.'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…August 17, 2015 04:29
Never thought I'd see the day. A Bond Seamaster without a tacky tiled 007 background or "gun" second hand. http://www.omegawatches.com/ne…August 14, 2015 17:51
A few words on how to improve legacy code. https://brandur.org/fragments/…August 14, 2015 05:52
Monodraw's diagrams look better than any text to SVG programs that I've tried. Plain text continues to dominate. http://t.co/zmNGr1ATSSAugust 12, 2015 15:57
Trying OmniGraffle right now, but so far with mediocre results.August 12, 2015 13:40
If anyone has any leads on software to create low-effort, beautiful, retina-enabled flow charts and diagrams, I'd love to have them.August 12, 2015 13:39
The next version of iTerm2 can display images! https://iterm2.com/images.html http://t.co/1kN5YMpHn1August 10, 2015 01:52
Finally got around to reading “The Everything Store” about Amazon/Bezos. That’s one well-written book.August 9, 2015 18:39
The most concise description of the tax implications of exercising start-up options of pretty much all time. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…August 7, 2015 02:15
Someone needs to tell Nike that there’s such a thing as too much branding though. I have the physical equivalent of a popup ad on my feet.August 3, 2015 14:16
Where have these Lunar 3s been all my life. Great look, quality build, and amazing to run with. http://t.co/duYJPV7L3rAugust 3, 2015 14:14

July

RT @patrickc: Inefficient waste of what could be a bustling riverside freeway, like FDR Drive in NYC. #urbanplanning http://t.co/rSu3wgdHunJuly 31, 2015 17:53
RT @patrickc: One of the coolest urban design projects I've ever seen: http://gardenbridge.london. http://t.co/hfjn8EYgNYJuly 31, 2015 17:53
Nice article on SV and the Bay Area from the Economist this week. “To fly, to fall, to fly again” http://www.economist.com/news/…July 25, 2015 18:07
Top knot inspiration album from /r/mfa. http://imgur.com/a/pSrlyJuly 21, 2015 06:15
Love the tweak to GitHub's build/merge section today. The subtle updates from their design team continue to impress. http://t.co/pdxmpC0zj1July 20, 2015 20:58
It's so hot these days that I've started breaking the cardinal rule of SF: carry a hoodie or jacket with you everywhere.July 20, 2015 14:18
vim-go is incredible. It's like being back in Visual Studio but without the multi-second lag on every action. https://github.com/fatih/vim-g…July 19, 2015 20:02
Write-up on what it's like to be doored, and how the motorist in question is at no risk regardless of negligence. https://nowtoronto.com/news/me…July 18, 2015 04:48
Excellent article on Canada's recent economic transition into a recession. http://www.macleans.ca/economy…July 17, 2015 06:27
Was lucky enough to get a comprehensive tour of the @hello offices yesterday. Those people are doing some amazing things.July 14, 2015 12:57
Used upsert for the first time in an app today. So, so convenient.July 13, 2015 21:31
US infrastructure design: “... between 2009 and 2013 pedestrian deaths jumped by 15% as the economy recovered” http://www.economist.com/news/…July 10, 2015 08:58
Furious 7 throws so much utter unapologetic nonsense at you that your mind eventually shuts down and you become free.July 3, 2015 20:36

June

At the behest of @danfarina, decided to see how much the Ed25519 paper would hurt my head. A lot, as it turns out. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…June 30, 2015 16:35
[Spoilers] Same thread. Some insight into how Ted in HIMYM may have narrated unreliably to justify the series ending. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskRed…June 28, 2015 06:15
Nice write-up on Reddit comparing the endings of the comic and movie versions of the Watchmen. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskRed…June 28, 2015 05:48
"Garden of Words" is one of the most beautiful movies that I've seen in recent memory. http://i.imgur.com/oeoQ6Tj.pngJune 22, 2015 00:15
We talk about REST and Hypermedia a lot, but something like GraphQL may be closer to a future of more powerful APIs. http://facebook.github.io/reac…June 21, 2015 16:57
At long length, the great reopening. Those are some nice looking tennis courts. https://flickr.com/photos/bran…June 21, 2015 15:08
TIL that `.\{-}` gets you a non-greedy Regex wildcard in Vim. http://stackoverflow.com/quest…June 18, 2015 21:50
Looking at the sizes of iOS apps is downright scary. For example, Facebook's almost hit 100 MB, and that's not particularly exceptional.June 18, 2015 17:44
My gods, it's happening. Hello again Midgar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…June 16, 2015 15:18
Impressed by both the magnificent amount of effort has obviously gone into so many guitar tabs, and the total inaccuracy of so many of them.June 16, 2015 02:38
Everything in San Francisco is for sale right now.June 8, 2015 12:18
“Think of our saints, Tito. Two faces. Always, two.”June 7, 2015 14:18
The good news is that they gave me their formula.June 5, 2015 09:01
I was just schooled at the Coffee Collective in the use of the AeroPress. Maybe the best cup of coffee that I’ve ever had.June 5, 2015 09:00
A solid step towards helping to unravel the "microservices EVERYTHING" craze. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/…June 3, 2015 19:11
Copenhagen looks like a city from the future. Water, glass, and hard lines. http://t.co/JP4qg5z1SeJune 3, 2015 12:37
The Danube at twilight. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…June 1, 2015 11:47

May

Also accidentally discovered both Aquincum's ancient military and civil amphitheatres. https://www.flickr.com/photos/… https://www.flickr.com/photos/…May 31, 2015 08:15
The ruins of Aquincum (modern Budapest). Marcus Aurelius wrote part of Meditations here while fighting the Quadi. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…May 31, 2015 08:12
Selfie sticks are banned from events and places as diverse as Coachella, Wimbledon, WWDC, and Rome’s Colosseum. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki…May 30, 2015 15:53
This Berlin apartment has a park on its roof (six stories up) complete with bench. Well done. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…May 27, 2015 10:52
Incredible show by Eluveitie. Turns out that not even in Germany do they know the words to Inis Mona though, haha. http://t.co/SWl1gXEwk8May 26, 2015 05:57
Arkona has one of the most epic live shows that there is. http://t.co/DeTYCvpPGoMay 25, 2015 17:25
Jo Quail may have been my favorite performance at WGT 2015 so far. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…May 24, 2015 23:22
A write-up I did after investigating degraded behaviour in our job queue, and a shallow dive into Postgres MVCC. https://brandur.org/postgres-q…May 20, 2015 15:19
RT @craigkerstiens: Awesome post by @brandur in @PostgresWeekly this week around Postgres Job Queues and some semantics of them - https://t…May 20, 2015 15:18
I hope that in twenty years we’ll all be able to look back at the state of the telecom industry today and laugh about it.May 19, 2015 12:32
Discovered Ludovico Einaudi from a rain simulation program. Beautiful work. https://soundcloud.com/ludovic…May 16, 2015 21:24
Congrats @geoghegan86! It's been a long time coming. http://git.postgresql.org/gitw…May 8, 2015 05:33
A simple article on thoughts about Amazon Kinesis after a month in production. https://brandur.org/kinesis-in…May 3, 2015 21:19
Unfortunately, SQL code is the most clever and the least documented.May 1, 2015 21:07

April

Received a Sprig delivery in less than three minutes from order. Someone's got the traveling salesman figured out.April 24, 2015 01:47
The site of Waza 2 in the modern day. San Francisco is changing fast. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…April 20, 2015 05:50
Ex Machina wins for the least Hollywood ending ever. So refreshing.April 19, 2015 04:37
Pretty much best case scenario as far as a serendipitous experience that might fall out of a watch interest. http://www.reddit.com/r/Watche…April 18, 2015 17:27
The SFMTA has now posted people at busy intersections to yell at drivers that run red lights. Nice job guys, hit ‘em right where it hurts.April 12, 2015 20:52
RT @ped: the eagle has landed http://t.co/ZuowzG8QT9April 9, 2015 18:28
New guitar weekend! The Martin LX1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…April 6, 2015 14:21

March

400 concurrent threads/connections in ActiveRecord 2.3 (and stable). Not bad Rails, not bad.March 27, 2015 04:56
$5 rides for a long time to come. http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL…March 12, 2015 06:30
Going paperless with your evil US healthcare megacorp: okay. Unsubscribing from unsolicited mail from your local symphony: impossible.March 11, 2015 00:45
Apple either just made Yubikeys and all port-eating peripherals obsolete, or they'll be backtracking inside 2 years like with the 2010 MBA.March 9, 2015 18:24
“Our field selects engineers using a process that is worse than reading chicken entrails.”March 7, 2015 17:41
This may be the best article on hiring that’s been written. http://sockpuppet.org/blog/201…March 7, 2015 17:40
The Interagent HTTP API design guide is now available in Simple and Traditional Chinese. Incredible community work. https://github.com/interagent/…March 5, 2015 02:16
You have to appreciate the comedy though. By inbox zeroing, I’m compromising other inbox zeroes, so we all have to inbox zero harder.March 4, 2015 00:45
Some kind of crazy Gmail bug. http://t.co/x34h8q1iBOMarch 4, 2015 00:36

February

Preferred denim: Uniqlo → J. Crew.February 27, 2015 07:46
RT @SpotifyEng: Elegant APIs with JSON Schema @brandur https://brandur.org/elegant-ap…February 27, 2015 06:40
Manufacturing lab at Autodesk. I wouldn’t know what to do with it if I had one, but very cool. http://t.co/Bp0Y34JKp6February 27, 2015 06:39
Remember to come down and check out API Craft #9, with a talk on API longevity. Held at Creative Market on Pier 9. http://www.meetup.com/API-Craf…February 24, 2015 15:49
“Hacking involves mashing your keyboard until code appears, ... just like in real life.” http://theinstructionlimit.com…February 18, 2015 21:15
JWZ may provide one of the few honest narratives of what it's actually like to bike in SF. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/0…February 17, 2015 05:42
And also the Source-based “Accelerated Back Hopping” which you really have to see in action. http://wiki.sourceruns.org/wik… http://youtu.be/NV-AWxqYAgc?t=…February 16, 2015 21:25
Bunny hopping in the Quake/Source engines: there is a window of exactly 1 frame where ground friction is not applied. http://flafla2.github.io/2015/…February 16, 2015 21:20
Overcoming the instinct to over-engineer and go all in on speculative technology. Every developer should read this. http://jasonpunyon.com/blog/20…February 13, 2015 17:41
Optimistic fire hydrant. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…February 13, 2015 08:06
Great article on React's virtual DOM differencing algorithm. http://calendar.perfplanet.com…February 11, 2015 20:46
The most civilized Metallica concert. http://t.co/APATrFexx3February 10, 2015 09:14
RT @bradfitz: We need a hip acronym like REST which means "like REST without religious pedantry": SITU? Stuff in the URL? And "situ" ~ "in …February 9, 2015 16:19
Shout out to “can I use” for being a resource that provides clear, definitive answers rather than more questions. http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexb…February 9, 2015 03:47
Read “To Kill a Mockingbird” after the big Harpee Lee news. Excellent book, but one that probably doesn't need a sequel.February 6, 2015 16:59
Yesterday, the powder finally came! http://t.co/yULUsdTFvbFebruary 6, 2015 16:54

January

The V2 AWS Ruby SDK is refreshingly solid software. https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk…January 28, 2015 18:13
Candid, low-star, and well-written book reviews on Amazon are some of the most useful user contributions on the Internet.January 27, 2015 05:22
µBlock now has a Firefox release! https://github.com/gorhill/uBl…January 21, 2015 02:26
Too many pull requests. Talk about a good problem to have.January 20, 2015 15:18
RT @leinweber: Microservices will bring us a 5-10 year dark age of instability, complexity, and debt.January 13, 2015 00:46
Where did we go wrong? http://i.imgur.com/VqoN5CJ.jpgJanuary 9, 2015 21:45
Very interesting notes on iOS app and App Store viability in the Panic 2014 report. http://www.panic.com/blog/the-…January 6, 2015 16:03
In case anyone missed it on HN, this article on software quality is excellent. “A Generation Lost in the Bazaar” https://queue.acm.org/detail.c…January 4, 2015 05:36
I need those new 12″ MBA’s to come out soon. http://t.co/S8QDJsfalRJanuary 2, 2015 18:07

2014

December

“Roads in Sweden are built with safety prioritised over speed or convenience.” Imagine trying to sell that one in North America.December 31, 2014 19:54
Unlike San Francisco, Sweden's taken steps toward Vision Zero that are known to work, with incredible results. http://www.economist.com/blogs…December 31, 2014 19:53
This “my year, deconstructed” style of blog post is a great idea. http://blog.fogus.me/2014/12/2…December 30, 2014 00:40
I love Strava’s new “matched runs” feature. They have one of the few apps out there that continues to impress. http://t.co/1W42teuzkBDecember 30, 2014 00:38
Goth ninja clothing/inspiration guide. http://www.reddit.com/r/malefa…December 27, 2014 19:19
Now reminisce on what ye have lost. http://vimeo.com/115309653 [OSX UI performance regressions.]December 24, 2014 05:55
Apple, we're three months into the release of iOS8. I will trade you handoff, instant hotspot, and SMS relay for keyboards that work.December 19, 2014 02:19
$0.86. Perfect timing for my return. https://www.google.com/finance…December 16, 2014 03:45
The biggest risk to Rust's success is incredible complexity to accomplish modest tasks. http://stackoverflow.com/quest…December 14, 2014 17:52
A collection of emotive scenes from Miyazaki films. https://imgur.com/a/rX8wsDecember 14, 2014 16:40
This week's Economist cover nails it. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-guNx…December 6, 2014 21:04

November

“50 years ago, real prices started to climb ... If this is a bubble, it’s been inflating for two generations.” http://timharford.com/2014/11/…November 26, 2014 02:36
Randomly walked by a Brian Vaughan signing. http://t.co/ROVyhpJ6dnNovember 23, 2014 04:21
Q4 project. Overran Q3. http://t.co/UiUtJUBYIANovember 20, 2014 17:54
Thinking back, it's incredibly embarrassing how much time I spent getting really good at building table-based layouts in HTML.November 16, 2014 19:06
A powerful image of America. http://i.imgur.com/FY6zI4a.jpgNovember 15, 2014 06:12
Hah, the fight over the addition of ASCII art on Redis start-up. https://github.com/antirez/red… (I kind of like it.)November 13, 2014 07:57
Best part of the .NET OSS announcement today: the source code wasn't released to CodePlex.November 12, 2014 20:30
Now might be a good time to start planning the trip to Japan that you so far have never quite gotten around to. http://www.economist.com/news/…November 9, 2014 02:53
RT @manp: I look forward to hosting another API Craft SF Meetup this coming Wednesday http://www.meetup.com/API-Craf… cc @smarx @lhazlewood @brandu…November 8, 2014 20:00
No matter what you read online about Vim best practices, I'd very much recommend not using the Ctrl+Z/fg workflow, and not rebinding ';'.November 2, 2014 13:54

October

The expedition continues. No burning buses so far.October 30, 2014 04:09
A magnificent showcase of circa 1990's color cycling in HTML 5 (from games like Loom). http://www.effectgames.com/eff… http://www.effectgames.com/dem…October 23, 2014 18:27
“Crash Course World History” by John Green. Incredible work. https://www.khanacademy.org/pa…October 20, 2014 05:49
That said, hopefully the integration with upcoming iOS 8.1 will make Yosemite shine.October 19, 2014 18:28
Yosemite summary. Wins: Nice background photo. Losses: Shallow interface, less readable type, 4+ hours fixing install.October 19, 2014 18:27
git-getpull is a really useful tool that finds the pull request for a given commit hash. https://github.com/a-warner/gi…October 14, 2014 23:36
Good earphones, but they fail so consistently that you could use them to track the calendar year.October 12, 2014 18:14
Sennheiser made good on about a year and a half worth of CX 300's. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…October 12, 2014 18:13

September

Absolutely *fantastic* work by CloudFlare today. These people know how to ship. https://blog.cloudflare.com/in…September 29, 2014 15:30
Great article containing some history on the Omega Seamaster. http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/a…September 29, 2014 15:22
RT @doctorow: Wendy and Richard Pini's Complete Elfquest http://boingboing.net/2014/09/… http://media.boingboing.net/wp…September 28, 2014 21:54
`set-option -g renumber-windows on` in Tmux will renumber your windows as you close them. It's a great micro-optimization.September 28, 2014 20:04
A small article on shell exit statuses: http://brandur.org/exit-statusSeptember 28, 2014 18:25
RT @craigmod: “Multi-tasking moves the pleasure of procrastination inside the period of work.” —@cshirky https://medium.com/@cshirky/wh…September 27, 2014 21:48
I'm a big fan of Go's RPC. I've never had two processes talking to each other so quickly. http://golang.org/pkg/net/rpc/…September 26, 2014 17:03
I love GitHub consolidates multiple levels of directories if it detects that some of them are empty. Is that new? https://github.com/heroku/hero…September 22, 2014 22:21
Scenes from Star Trek: TOS stitched together into widescreen panoramas. Astounding work! http://cargocollective.com/nic…September 21, 2014 19:21
Do any experienced Gophers know of a better way to tackle conditional error recovery in Go? https://github.com/brandur/her…September 21, 2014 18:30
A proposal for type annotations in Ruby. I want this yesterday! https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/iss…September 21, 2014 15:21
More reason to love SO. http://sf.eater.com/archives/2…September 19, 2014 19:42
Tim Harford on Hyperbolic discounting. http://timharford.com/2014/09/…September 15, 2014 16:11
I love it when you start using an API and your Curl commands work on the first try. I just had that feeling with Dropbox's.September 15, 2014 03:34
RT @ID_AA_Carmack: It pains me to hear about GHz class systems with only 320x480 screens being sluggish and unresponsive. It is all a soft…September 15, 2014 03:13
cping: A tiny Go program to update CloudFlare-based DNS with your Dynamic IP. https://github.com/brandur/cpi…September 13, 2014 16:58
So much for amazing cross-platform support. https://github.com/mitchellh/g…September 13, 2014 16:43
CloudFlare makes a really great DNS host.September 12, 2014 23:00
My best hope for the Apple Watch is that it gives us a window to buy discounted Omegas.September 9, 2014 19:12
I'm still hoping for the big announcement that the Apple Watch is automatic.September 9, 2014 18:24
My semi-quarterly repost from /r/HistoryPorn: Hunter Thompson writing at Big Sur c. 1961. http://i.imgur.com/lTSL5AL.jpgSeptember 5, 2014 18:33
RT @craigkerstiens: Awesome tool by @brandur for better exploring your structured log data - https://engineering.heroku.com…September 5, 2014 17:33
Six hours later, I already can't live without this. https://github.com/blog/1884-i…September 4, 2014 00:14
Amazing write-up on the survival of Marcus Aurelius's “Meditations” over the last 1800+ years. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHis…September 3, 2014 19:33
I don't want to comment too much until I'm a few months in, but so far Sony XBA-1's feel like a good alternative to Sennheiser CX 300 II's.September 3, 2014 02:40
The Chihuly museum in Seattle is a photo enthusiast's dream. Beautiful work. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…September 2, 2014 00:56

August

I almost thought that I’d found a panel without a lineup, but actually there was a dedicated “queuing room” that I hadn’t seen before.August 31, 2014 00:31
Line ups for PAX are worse than for brunch in San Francisco.August 31, 2014 00:28
RT @charleshooper: @brandur Hey right now the API Craft meetup page has 404 members #httpstatushumorAugust 30, 2014 20:28
Learned today that (1) an asymmetrical cord on earphones is called a J-cord, and (2) most people hate them. There are dozens of us! Dozens!August 28, 2014 06:13
Simple shell-fu for disowning an already running command. http://stackoverflow.com/quest…August 27, 2014 17:19
Great talks by @vinibaggio and company at @Medium tonight! https://www.flickr.com/photos/…August 20, 2014 04:00
RT @johnsheehan: #apicraftsf This Thursday. I’m giving a talk. How about “Crafting a great webhooks developer experience?” @brandur @manpAugust 19, 2014 20:18
Nuget is now available on OSX! http://www.mono-project.com/Re…August 12, 2014 23:40
RT @stolt45: My @heavybit talk on Support for developers is up. http://www.heavybit.com/librar…August 8, 2014 17:28
Dead on: “bike lanes were little more than paint on the ground for the cyclists to help protect the parked cars lining every street.”August 5, 2014 19:34
A letter from Danish tourists to Canadians regarding our singular focus on automobiles and horrific sprawl. http://news.nationalpost.com/2…August 5, 2014 19:33
An amazing photographed deep dive into Rolex's 3135 caliber (and bonus disassembly of a helium escape valve). http://www.chronometrie.com/ro…August 4, 2014 17:07
A $4 X100S filter ring hack. http://brandur.org/x100s-hackAugust 3, 2014 17:31
Found this guy outside the office yesterday. A little over two inches long by my estimation. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…August 3, 2014 16:38
And I thought I was the only one annoyed by sidewalk faux pas. Introducing NY pedestrian etiquette: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07…August 2, 2014 20:29
Pro-tip for pushing to GitHub from a network where port 22 is blocked. http://stackoverflow.com/quest…August 2, 2014 17:48

July

Great article on the implementation of lists in CPython. http://www.laurentluce.com/pos…July 31, 2014 19:05
A reminder about Pacman's “kill screen”, one of the greatest integer overflow bugs ever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P…July 28, 2014 01:14
“Buying something made in Detroit, in this calculus, is not much different than buying a fair trade Andean sweater.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08…July 25, 2014 17:36
Stack Overflow uses static methods and IL to squeeze out performance. Somebody should tell them about C/assembly. http://highscalability.com/blo…July 23, 2014 22:39
Also, Scala's `???` predef might be the most important programming language innovation of our time. http://www.scala-lang.org/api/…July 23, 2014 17:53
I love the idea of a future, but in practice they seem to compose a lot like callbacks (which could be better).July 23, 2014 17:44
This post on different ways to update attributes in ActiveRecord is on an incredibly niche subject, but very useful. http://www.davidverhasselt.com…July 17, 2014 05:04
Let's hope this fad launches, flounders, and blows over quickly so we can start thinking about the next thing. http://nymag.com/daily/intelli…July 14, 2014 15:51
At 4 inches, my phone is already awkwardly small for many interactions. I can't think of a single reason that I'd want a smart watch.July 14, 2014 15:50
New York looks and feels exactly how it's supposed to. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…July 13, 2014 03:46
A tribute to the visual style of the 80's. The view of the future then was one of both optimism and pessimism. http://uzicopter.tumblr.com/July 5, 2014 21:25
The world just tilted a little. https://medium.com/code-advent…July 4, 2014 16:40
One day there will be a major design trend to drop interface animations in favor of instant feedback, and it's going to look revolutionary.July 2, 2014 21:37
Go Eugenie!July 2, 2014 17:29

June

“As long as driving on the roads remains easy and cheap, people have an almost unlimited desire to use them.” http://www.wired.com/2014/06/w…June 30, 2014 19:30
A great photo gallery of abandoned places and objects in Iceland. http://structor.pixu.com/galle…June 30, 2014 17:36
A type-safe `printf` written in Haskell. https://github.com/chrisdone/f…June 25, 2014 17:51
It’s funny to read about vi being described as “an editor with a roguelike interface”. (Which it is when compared to ed.)June 21, 2014 15:54
I just read Cat’s Cradle for the first time. Simultaneously notably amazing, and completely crazy.June 16, 2014 15:42
There are some great talks from Lang.NEXT up now. Including pieces from Bjarne Stroustrup and Erik Meijer! https://channel9.msdn.com/Even…June 14, 2014 03:29
An amazing set of illustrated movie posters. http://abduzeedo.com/splendid-…June 13, 2014 16:23
Law of API Idealism: all API discussions eventually devolve into highly speculative echo chambers on hypermedia.June 13, 2014 03:01
I just noticed that Tmux 1.8 can "zoom" a pane out of the box (try `prefix`-`z`). This is a great addition to core.June 12, 2014 17:42
The scale of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig is breathtaking. Straight out of Middle-earth. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…June 10, 2014 19:05
This is one of those life changing tricks: get Vim splits co-operating with Tmux splits. http://robots.thoughtbot.com/s…June 4, 2014 13:12
I wrote a few short words on Swift, despite being completely unqualified to comment on the subject. http://brandur.org/fragments/s…June 3, 2014 10:39
Very cool that Swift draws heavily from Rust and C#. http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org…June 3, 2014 09:48

May

My slides from yesterday, "The Story of a Thousand Services." http://thousand-services.herok…May 31, 2014 06:52
The Neues Museum with its huge ancient Egyptian collection. I would have killed to see this place when I was five. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…May 26, 2014 15:06
Also, Leicas sure haven't changed their styling much over the years. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…May 26, 2014 11:11
The German Museum of Technology in Berlin. Managed to see a Z1 replica, V-2 rocket, and flying wing. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…May 26, 2014 11:10
Apparently missed the last ever Spreepark tour by five days. It’s been sold. The world’s changing.May 4, 2014 14:19
In San Francisco, your edgy graphic tees proudly proclaim Berlin. In Berlin, they proclaim San Francisco.May 3, 2014 13:30
RT @naaman: really proud and excited to release the builds endpoints on the @heroku platform api https://devcenter.heroku.com/a…May 1, 2014 20:56

April

“... that you imply rather than speak; that if you speak something, you make it less.” http://theholenearthecenteroft…April 27, 2014 19:40
Wow. The original plan for “Star Trek: The Experience” in Vegas included a 1:1 scale model of the Enterprise. http://drop.brandur.org/star-t…April 26, 2014 19:07
“I’m a space pioneer. My mission is to transform industrial ruins into cultural spaces. I could save Detroit.” http://www.newyorker.com/repor…April 24, 2014 15:55
RT @Annasnova: What would Harry Potter look like as an ’80s Anime Version? Awesome! http://www.wired.com/2014/04/h…April 24, 2014 14:08
His gallery is well worth browsing as well. http://www.simonstalenhag.se/April 23, 2014 03:44
Great piece by Simon Stålenhag of Sweden — a beautiful mix of the mundane and the extraordinary. http://www.simonstalenhag.se/b…April 23, 2014 03:43
A colorized photo of the Lower East Side in NYC from the 1890's. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi…April 22, 2014 16:06
Between normal Sunday JFK closure and other 4/20 road closures Golden Gate Park is a bit less like a highway today. Great time to go see it.April 20, 2014 19:41
Interesting piece on the Collision brothers, with a great bullet on why the Stripe office is no longer in SOMA. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2…April 20, 2014 02:27
RT @hirodusk: The Role of APIs in a Hackable World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?… (20m video) — in which I talk about smarthome, nmap, and “the c…April 20, 2014 02:16
Simple instructions force a GH pull request to reset its diff against your target branch. https://gist.github.com/brandu…April 16, 2014 17:59
By far the best article on SF housing and policy that I've ever read on the subject. http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/…April 15, 2014 15:37
At our office you have to take the elevator because the stairs are broken. Surely this must be a unique problem.April 15, 2014 02:06
RT @github_rb: pliny - Base Sinatra app for writing excellent APIs in Ruby https://github.com/12-oz/plinyApril 14, 2014 14:08
I always know when Giants games are letting out because inevitably it’s exactly when I’ve chosen to go for a run.April 13, 2014 23:14
The Chinese are aiming to have a Thorium reactor built by 2015, and the Japanese by 2016. Exciting times.April 13, 2014 16:10
The term “lost generation” is attributed by Hemingway to Stein, who attributes to the owner of a French garage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…April 13, 2014 05:29
When someone commented that Stein didn't look like her portrait, Picasso replied, "She will". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…April 13, 2014 05:17
Great Heartbleed article including details on both the commit that introduced it and the patch that fixed it. http://blog.cryptographyengine…April 9, 2014 16:14
Heartbleed, the most metal name for a security vulnerability to date. At this point, I'm just waiting for the power riff.April 8, 2014 05:45
Related, Firefox is fast now. Who knew.April 7, 2014 20:40
Just spent ten minutes closing hundreds of Firefox tabs that I'd accumulated over the last year. It was like time travel.April 7, 2014 20:39
I wonder what percentage of fmt.Println errors are handled in Go code. http://golang.org/src/pkg/fmt/…April 6, 2014 15:10
You have to hand it to Microsoft: their conferences still have the best swag.April 2, 2014 17:50
Wrote a few words on “microservices” and 200-500 LOC micro-microservices. http://brandur.org/microservic…April 1, 2014 13:17

March

If you're a Heroku user, you should check out hk and its new shell completion. Easiest productivity boost ever. https://github.com/heroku/hk#s…March 29, 2014 16:22
An interesting thought by Felix Salmon on the over-aggrandizement of small ideas in modern web design. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix…March 29, 2014 16:14
“I can guarantee that you are wrong about where your code is spending its time if you haven't run a profiler on it.” https://code.facebook.com/post…March 29, 2014 05:36
Iceberg, an absolutely beautifully designed black and white newspaper by Socio in London. http://abduzeedo.com/editorial…March 29, 2014 03:52
Incredible (and quite subtle) illustration of your favorite Community characters. http://kyendo.deviantart.com/a…March 29, 2014 03:48
RT @sternocera: What I think of jsonb: http://pgeoghegan.blogspot.com…March 25, 2014 14:16
“The most dynamic economies of the 20th century produced the most miserable cities of all.” http://www.theguardian.com/soc…March 24, 2014 05:36
It bothers me that the @ doesn't have a better name than “at sign.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A…March 21, 2014 16:54
Connection draining on ELBs is finally here! I've been waiting for this feature for two years. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aw…March 21, 2014 16:46
“Please note, all HTML-formatted email will be merrily rejected” http://eudyptula-challenge.org…March 20, 2014 18:02
A meticulously detailed analysis damning Newsweek/Goodman's conclusion that Dorian Nakamoto created Bitcoin. http://www.mikehearn.com/Hoste…March 18, 2014 06:51
It's great to see that a first-rate Bundler-like package management system is being built for Rust. https://mail.mozilla.org/piper…March 18, 2014 06:12
Rust has the distinction of being the only language I've found harder to get compiling than Haskell. Ownership move semantics are not easy.March 17, 2014 01:08
Spend my PLIBMTTBHGATY building an ultra-simple proxy in Rust. https://github.com/brandur/umb… https://stripe.com/events/plib…March 17, 2014 01:05
“Why are functions in Rust not pure by default?” https://mail.mozilla.org/piper…March 16, 2014 18:25
Just assembled my first Dockerfile for Ubuntu + rbenv + Ruby 2.1.1 + Nginx + Passenger + blog. Very cool experience. https://github.com/brandur/hek…March 16, 2014 06:56
This article does a great job of articulating the strong arguments for Docker. “Why Docker? Why Not Chef?” http://blog.relateiq.com/why-d…March 16, 2014 02:15
Another API Craft meet-up come and gone. There's no subject like Hypermedia to get passions flowing. Thanks @mamund! http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…March 14, 2014 08:10
My great aunt's place in Austin is one of my favorite examples of home design. Here's her outdoor "grotto." http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…March 12, 2014 20:47
I applaud the griefing ability of whoever started the Lady Gaga @ SXSWi rumor tonight.March 12, 2014 08:14
The mediator pattern, or the interactor by a different name. https://brandur.org/mediatorMarch 11, 2014 15:44
The panel on start-ups in Berlin at the German Haus. It sounds like a pretty solid ecosystem out there. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…March 11, 2014 01:57
Some great concept art for China’s new pedestrian-first city being built outside Chengdu. http://www.businessinsider.com…March 10, 2014 15:19
Austin's been seeing a bit of rain this year. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…March 9, 2014 04:55
Great show by @madidiaz on the rooftops of Austin. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…March 8, 2014 08:19
I'm really jealous of people who are holding film badges right now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…March 7, 2014 17:19
Google search suddenly looks so much better.March 5, 2014 03:17

February

RT @jxnblk: also have vim invites, hit me upFebruary 27, 2014 03:06
House of Cards season 2 was pretty solid. As a technologist, I wish they hadn't dragged computers into it, but what can you do.February 24, 2014 08:45
I am never going to get over these giant novelty discount cards. So much win. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…February 24, 2014 02:34
“I can tell you everything about the Windows API, yes, even secrets those of Redmond have half-forgotten.” http://www.catb.org/~esr//writ…February 23, 2014 16:35
Master Foo discourses on the graphical user interface. http://www.catb.org/~esr//writ…February 23, 2014 16:12
RT @hirodusk: My journey into the Berlin startup scene: https://medium.com/wandering-c…February 21, 2014 23:58
Dark Tranquility. https://www.flickr.com/photos/…February 21, 2014 08:30
RT @dhh: So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich. He taught me and many others so much. He will be dearly missed.February 20, 2014 08:17
Gravity is a truly incredible movie with an even better soundtrack.February 20, 2014 08:14
We're proud to host API Craft no. 3 at Heroku. Mike Amundsen is speaking about building clients for Hypermedia APIs! http://www.meetup.com/API-Craf…February 17, 2014 18:03
RadioLab about an old magic show and a trick lost to time ... until Penn Jillette dispels it in ~3 seconds. http://www.radiolab.org/story/…February 17, 2014 16:01
I don’t know how to feel about Hemingway App. Hemingway is one of my favourite authors, but I don’t want everyone to write like Hemingway.February 17, 2014 01:30
And on that note, I finished Hardcore History's "Wrath of the Khans" series recently. Really amazing stuff. http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.…February 17, 2014 00:55
The guy who did the History of Rome podcast has a new one: Revolutions, currently covering the American Revolution. http://www.revolutionspodcast.…February 17, 2014 00:53
I forget all too often that I can go and see the ocean every day. Glorious. http://t.co/5t3aNNWnzuFebruary 16, 2014 20:50
I love the concept from Asana that Markdown is minimum required skill to contribute web content. http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/s…February 16, 2014 02:03
RT @dcurtis: A sad story about a CEO's aspiration and desire, and how it manifests itself in his company, Abercrombie & Fitch: http://t.co…February 16, 2014 01:01
Mission and 3rd in SF sometime after 1978. Just similar enough to be recognizable (photo by Janet Delaney). http://drop.brandur.org/mercan…February 15, 2014 20:49
This photo of the Mission has 200+ upvotes. Some say gentrification (negatively), I'd say it's San Francisco in 2014. http://imgur.com/PgjJfW8February 15, 2014 05:44
About four months into ownership, the iPad Mini (Retina) is now the only medium on which I will read a paper. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…February 13, 2014 16:16
Interesting thought from meetup: Webhooks may be difficult for enterprise as setting up an HTTP receiver may be bureaucratically expensive.February 13, 2014 04:13
RIP Jade Rabbit.February 12, 2014 20:26
Haha, "Bloodlines of Conquest". Community is pure genius (s05e06).February 10, 2014 03:17
This is some really great data viz and D3 work. Kepler's Tally of Planets. http://www.nytimes.com/interac…February 9, 2014 17:41
RT @mtrifiro: A beautiful and thoughtful paean to the "page" as a design element /by @brandur Lamenting the Death of the Page http://t.co/h…February 8, 2014 17:44
I've been using Mosh so much lately that when I rebooted my local computer, I forgot that I was supposed to open Tmux on my remote.February 7, 2014 20:33
Slightly disappointed to see that I couldn't publish Marvel comics using their new API, but it's cool nonetheless! http://developer.marvel.com/do…February 7, 2014 01:58
Healthy Anti-patterns. https://brandur.org/antipatter…February 6, 2014 15:58
I wrote an article entitled, "Why I don't want your SDK in production". http://brandur.org/sdkFebruary 4, 2014 15:58
Very practical novel writing advice from somewhere in /r/writing. http://www.reddit.com/r/writin…February 3, 2014 16:31
Preview.app's tendency to save your files as you make changes is sociopathic.February 1, 2014 18:25

January

VOID's first shot at a mechanical movement watch. Elegantly minimal. http://voidwatches.com/store/w…January 26, 2014 17:20
Beautiful concept art by Flavio Bolla. http://flaviobolla.deviantart.…January 26, 2014 17:15
Well, just watched Eraserhead. You won't hear me complaining that Mulholland Drive is too weird again anytime soon.January 25, 2014 16:46
Mining Gitcoins.January 22, 2014 22:10
RT @hirodusk: A treatise on modern web design: http://motherfuckingwebsite.co…January 20, 2014 21:50
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”January 17, 2014 19:00
Holy crap, I just started using Mosh today and it’s incredible. I want the last two years of my life using vanilla SSH back.January 6, 2014 21:01
“the Apple aversion to ‘its’ rivals the MS Word paperclip for intrusive AI non-help.” https://discussions.apple.com/…January 5, 2014 21:18
Awesome surf video from our very own Ocean Beach! http://vimeo.com/83332142January 4, 2014 05:19
Strava finally has an API! I made a simple dashboard to track my runs. http://brandur.org/runsJanuary 3, 2014 18:41
Webkit's scaling model compared to Firefox's. Webkit stays proportional, allowing a large screen to be approximated. http://t.co/u1g0HDJqAAJanuary 2, 2014 17:43
A cool hack for an element in that resizes proportionally in CSS. http://wellcaffeinated.net/art…January 2, 2014 16:08

2013

December

Although it looks like the @ viewport CSS rule will make it in eventually. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-de…December 30, 2013 22:55
First iPhone released June 2007 and the "viewport" meta tag is still the de facto real world standard. Real standards are hard.December 30, 2013 22:54
My great aunt's Tumblr containing her art pieces. Amazing work. http://lindafriedmanartist.tum…December 30, 2013 19:07
Months after Google Reader's shutdown, I feel much better about the decision. It got me off of it and onto superior/maintained alternatives.December 30, 2013 18:08
Amazing article on Diffie-Hellman, RSA, and forward security, explained in very simple terms. https://www.imperialviolet.org…December 28, 2013 01:35
We released the Heroku API 525 times in 2013. How'd you do? https://gist.github.com/brandu…December 27, 2013 21:20
From 2010, but still one of the best articles on SSL/TLS and its performance considerations out there. https://www.imperialviolet.org…December 27, 2013 19:45
The greatest drinking game. OF ALL TIME. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b…December 22, 2013 06:19
Bitcoin's Gini coefficient. https://bitcointalk.org/index.…December 19, 2013 08:27
RT @hirodusk: “Engineers hate being micromanaged on the technical side but they love being closely managed on the career side.” http://t.co…December 16, 2013 20:27
And Felix Salmon's bigger picture view of the situation is pretty intriguing as well. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix…December 14, 2013 19:27
SF Streets' take on the Google bus protest situation nails it. http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013…December 14, 2013 19:27
In case anyone else was wondering about the boulders on 6th Street, they're a sidewalk extension pilot project. http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013…December 14, 2013 19:23
Five sections of the Berlin Wall in Paley Park, NYC. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9…December 5, 2013 19:22
You too, Brutus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E…December 4, 2013 18:48
"... the dominant use case of bitcoin seems to be speculation, with a secondary use case for illegal transactions." http://blog.samaltman.com/thou…December 1, 2013 21:27

November

Ah yes, my old friend and favorite Golang error: "too many errors"November 26, 2013 05:20
Bullet point summary of the history of Detroit. http://www.reddit.com/r/explai…November 22, 2013 16:46
The beautiful and unfortunately named Federal Center South Building 1202 in Seattle. http://www.aiatopten.org/sites… http://www.aiatopten.org/node/…November 18, 2013 23:16
RT @ped: THE OCTOTROPHY IS COMING BACK HOME http://t.co/NMb99N47VsNovember 18, 2013 02:47
I keep on telling myself that this paper on Raft is going to be a lot easier to process once I have an iPad Mini Retina.November 17, 2013 19:12
I’m on the map in JRuby! :) https://github.com/jruby/jruby…November 17, 2013 17:51
The SF-based game jam to build ideas from Molyneux’s parody Twitter account was called "What Would Molydeux?” Genius.November 17, 2013 16:48
Awesome API Craft turnout tonight. Thanks @harmophone and @mashery! Stay tuned for session #3. http://t.co/Xmv0H1CLAONovember 15, 2013 05:47
My favorite slide from Holman’s deck. Can we immortalize this with a meme or something? http://t.co/PpN1us6vwDNovember 14, 2013 21:34
Amazing talk on scaling GitHub (organizationally). There’s no video yet, but the slides say a lot. https://speakerdeck.com/holman…November 14, 2013 19:29
An account producing sci-fi plot ideas on an overvalued messaging service produces the best social commentary of its time.November 14, 2013 17:19
RT @tmaher: https://blog.heroku.com/archiv… More companies need to open source their auth systems. Pull requests welcome.November 14, 2013 06:35
Story from the perspective of a first time BART/Caltrain user. It reads so well because it’s all true. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…November 13, 2013 23:37
I appreciate Sightglass. They could operate in 1/10th the space and make everyone less comfortable (see: every Philz ever), but they don’t.November 13, 2013 16:13
Kyle Johnson's talk @ Google. Learned that there was even more that I missed in Inception, and about philosophy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…November 12, 2013 18:10
Join us Thursday at API Craft SF #2, and let's talk about APIs. Our guest speaker is @harmophone! http://www.meetup.com/API-Craf…November 12, 2013 16:01
The “Unpleasant Design” book that has a jacket made of sandpaper so that it destroys books that it’s shelved with. http://we-make-money-not-art.c…November 11, 2013 15:24
RT @krarick: Is it O.K. to kill cyclists? Is it O.K. to give humans absolute control over 2-ton 60-mph death machines in the first place?November 11, 2013 07:45
RT @raulbleon: Had a great dinner w/@_ko1 @tenderlove @brandur @ebiltwin @schneems @yukihiro_matz among others. Thx @hone02 for organizing.…November 11, 2013 04:38
The JRuby birds of a feather at RubyConf was inspiring.November 10, 2013 04:08
Venue550, a new gaming space opening up in SOMA. What a phenomenal space. http://www.venue550.com/November 9, 2013 02:40
RT @igrigorik: secrets of the world's happiest cities: http://bit.ly/17zvhBc - hint: no, not more highways.. US planners, take note! great…November 2, 2013 18:59

October

RT @blakegentry: Wow, the FAA has instantly retrofitted all airplanes to be safe from interference by portable electronics! o_O http://t.co…October 31, 2013 22:50
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem is exactly as epic as it sounds.October 31, 2013 15:51
Went to the symphony. Wore a blazer. Feel strangely cultured.October 31, 2013 06:47
Messages.app'ing people on iPhones is the IM equivalent of an aimbot.October 31, 2013 02:02
Great video on how bicycling infrastructure evolved in the Netherlands. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…October 27, 2013 16:58
Backstory and future of the "defenestration" building (old SRO on 6th with furniture coming out the windows) in SF. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/…October 26, 2013 19:54
Direct contradiction over HATEOAS between keynote speakers. This conference is looking up.October 24, 2013 17:35
Two menu bars for two screens?! Mavericks is so much win.October 23, 2013 17:28
Mavericks, the App Nap API, and the energy "hall of shame". This is so, so good. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2…October 22, 2013 20:24
Really enjoying Drudkh right now, a secretive Ukrainian black/folk metal band that's never given an interview. http://www.rdio.com/artist/Dru…October 22, 2013 14:53
Hoping for a Nenshi loss tonight so that we can import him down here and have him run San Francisco. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N…October 22, 2013 02:48
Photograph of San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 quake. Best experienced on a huge screen. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi…October 21, 2013 17:09
RT @TheBatman: When Banksy comes to Gotham I’m going to buy one of his pieces for the cave, then break his arm for vandalism. I’m tough but…October 18, 2013 23:20
Your periodic reminder that /r/HistoryPorn (historical photographs) is pretty much the best subreddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/Histor…October 18, 2013 18:01
*top speedOctober 18, 2013 18:00
The 1930s era Schienenzeppelin ("Rail Zeppelin") with a top of ~230 km/h. http://i.imgur.com/j29CpIc.jpgOctober 18, 2013 17:58
Alright! Calgary's on the map for something besides excellence in drilling holes in the ground. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2…October 17, 2013 07:10
Have Git take you back to the last commit before a particular time. git checkout `git rev-list -n 1 --before="2010-12-07 13:37" master`October 17, 2013 03:45
Wes Anderson. Trailer in three days. I'm officially excited. http://i.imgur.com/7WceGSs.jpgOctober 15, 2013 14:28
RT @jeresig: You know how they use dynamite to blow up an oil well to stop a fire? I wish that existed for runaway reply-to-all email threa…October 11, 2013 19:04
Think I could -1 min going early AM, -1 min by avoiding afternoon beers, -1 min eating properly. So, to win only need another -7 min, lol.October 7, 2013 05:44
I was just demolished in a virtual race. For a city of geeks, San Francisco is pretty fast.October 7, 2013 05:44
RT @jonathangrubb: Lesson from Silk Road: even the owner of an international drug cartel can't live in San Francisco without having housema…October 3, 2013 17:40

September

Configuring your JRuby Ruby version. http://stackoverflow.com/quest…September 29, 2013 19:12
That said, I wonder if these guys could play at the permanent chess emplacements at Yerba Buena, which I've never seen in use even once.September 29, 2013 06:33
The villainous mid-market chess culture has been shut down. http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013…September 29, 2013 06:23
Transforming the old Bay Bridge into a park for adventure tourists. Great concept photos. http://gizmodo.com/transformin… http://img.gawkerassets.com/im…September 29, 2013 01:49
Playing an FPS so old that by default, A/D are not strafe.September 29, 2013 01:05
RT @leinweber: Current status http://cl.ly/Rcas/image.jpgSeptember 26, 2013 06:27
Brian Vargo's absolutely beautiful HighLink. http://www.brianvargo.com/September 24, 2013 20:33
RT @heroku: Try Ruby 2.1.0 Preview 1 on Heroku right now: http://bit.ly/18lx3CY http://bit.ly/19uyduoSeptember 23, 2013 21:32
git-cal: GitHub-style activity calendar for your terminal. https://github.com/k4rthik/git…September 23, 2013 19:07
I tried to buy two of the biggest ICBMs in the Russian fleet in 2001 and 2002. https://www.khanacademy.org/ec…September 23, 2013 03:31
In short, erosion resistance is hard.September 22, 2013 21:00
Just updated my Facts suite. Amazing how much broke in about a year: default Ruby version, CDN URLs, and changes in foreign APIs.September 22, 2013 20:59
I'm pretty impressed by TweetDeck. It's still a web view, but feels fast, and doesn't bleed out battery life like the old Adobe AIR version.September 22, 2013 20:38
`attr_accessible` is an anti-pattern to facilitate an anti-pattern.September 19, 2013 17:31
The classic reference for inventions that are "too secret" to allow 3rd party audit. Newton's 3rd Law of Motion? Bah! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D…September 17, 2013 16:23
My 5+ year old IRC channel seems to have been reborn as a multi-person Google Hangout. Call me old, but I don't like it.September 17, 2013 04:25
What it actually means for a ship to "warp out" of harbor. Sounds fast, but is in fact horribly slow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W…September 16, 2013 20:26
The beautifully designed 1931 map of the history of the world. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the…September 16, 2013 06:30
None of the major prizes offered by the British government for solving the "Longitude problem" were ever claimed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…September 15, 2013 23:53
Queen Elizabeth I's ROI from Sir Francis Drake's 1577 expedition was 4700%. £47 for every £1 invested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…September 15, 2013 23:40
This is not our office anymore. Such a weird feeling meeting the current tenants. http://t.co/06aaB41HwqSeptember 14, 2013 06:04
San Francisco in the mid-1800s from the Smithsonian. Mission Bay is a bay. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/…September 13, 2013 20:00
Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E… 1 lbs. purple-dyed silk maxed out at 150,000 denarii, the same price as a lion.September 12, 2013 17:17
Props to Go for first class CLI and local web support for docs. After years of working with Ruby, successful use of `ri` is still rare.September 12, 2013 16:43
Proposed futuristic architectural projects in SF. http://www.theatlanticcities.c…September 9, 2013 16:29
RT @ghempton: So let me get this straight: bower just dumps a git repo into a folder for you and calls itself a package manager for the web?September 6, 2013 15:36
I was just sent "Scala for the Impatient". I fit the target audience perfectly. http://logic.cse.unt.edu/tarau…September 5, 2013 16:39
Was pleasantly surprised to discover that rename scripts are no longer needed for Bitlbee's Facebook support. http://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoF…September 3, 2013 23:07
RT @hirodusk: Black Rock City 2013 as seen from a drone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… (4m video)September 3, 2013 22:59
They found that the most common emotion aroused by using Facebook is envy. http://www.economist.com/news/…September 3, 2013 16:34
Good HN comment describing why exceptions are kind of bad, but good in the real world. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…September 1, 2013 16:34
Developer accessible APIs. https://brandur.org/accessible…September 1, 2013 16:05

August

Not sure if this place is empty due to the long weekend or if burners and hipster climbers are a perfect overlap. http://t.co/obB9fLSAmgAugust 30, 2013 19:20
Scrivener attempts to make non-HipChat XMPP clients somewhat workable by converting soft mentions to hard mentions. https://github.com/brandur/scr…August 30, 2013 17:22
An API for M:tG. Amazing. http://mtgapi.com/ `curl http://mtgapi.com/api/v1/fetch…August 30, 2013 03:59
RT @gregburek: This is how we deal with database corruption, from @deafbybeheading: http://www.bitrotincarnate.com…August 28, 2013 21:33
Once again, Blomkamp nails it with Elysium as an amazing sci-fi movie and not-so-thinly-veiled social commentary.August 25, 2013 07:22
Took ~2 min on Android to remember how much I miss Swype. The sooner Apple is willing to admit that its keyboard is wanting, the better.August 25, 2013 06:08
I just replaced a dozen Memcache addons. https://gist.github.com/elliot…August 22, 2013 16:51
Beautiful and mysterious landscapes. http://500px.com/KarezoidAugust 19, 2013 15:48
RT @friism: The cause to make San Francisco safe for bicyclists requires many martyrs: https://medium.com/p/1456bbd01… What do you think @mayoredle…August 16, 2013 21:19
There's a plan on the books to reshape Folsom into a pedestrian, bike, and transit friendly 2-way street. http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp…August 16, 2013 01:44
Let's let Elon build a Hyperloop please.August 12, 2013 21:34
I started drawing a troll in the bottom corner of all my Draw Something art. He's a troll both literally and figuratively.August 12, 2013 03:12
RT @BoingBoing: Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down http://t.co/nFk2J4htj4August 8, 2013 20:16
Large refactors in Ruby are just the worst.August 6, 2013 16:24
Great (and lengthy) article on the past, present and possible futures of petroleum, and the nature of reserves. http://www.theatlantic.com/mag…August 6, 2013 15:12
Dutch disease, where a country's increase in exploitation of natural resources leads to a decline in other sectors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D…August 6, 2013 15:09
Back from the Midwest. API Craft was a great gathering, and Detroit is great. It may be the Berlin of North America.August 5, 2013 15:06
Land torpedo. http://t.co/lqyTh2EbztAugust 1, 2013 05:35

July

Epic elevator. http://t.co/6wgu6BCe9DJuly 30, 2013 00:55
Scoping and OAuth 2. https://brandur.org/oauth-scop…July 23, 2013 15:10
We're very pleased to announce Heroku OAuth. https://blog.heroku.com/archiv…July 22, 2013 17:24
Half of Iceland now wants the old centre-right parties back; a purely nostalgic vote – like voting for the year 1997. http://www.newstatesman.com/po…July 22, 2013 04:24
From the ridge up to Grotto yesterday. http://t.co/1mO38AgwnqJuly 21, 2013 16:28
The curious story of the novel "The Cuckoo's Calling" makes a fascinating case study. http://rdd.me/9c8npc59July 21, 2013 05:24
Cthulhu's type signatures (Yesod in Production). http://joelt.io/entries/yesod-…July 20, 2013 06:35
The intro sequence to "Vikings" is pretty epic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…July 19, 2013 15:53
Puma's source is beautiful.July 18, 2013 06:32
Is there a way to easily send private GitHub docs to Readability, or do I need to build an API mash-up?July 15, 2013 19:59
Or more likely, we'll use them to extend surburbia to previously unimagined proportions.July 9, 2013 04:26
A possible utopia that could be come about by driverless cars. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…July 9, 2013 04:26
Owl City's "The Midsummer Station" album art is great. http://umrg.edgeboss.net/downl…July 2, 2013 16:57

June

rss2imap, a project that could be the answer to the problem that we'll probably never have an RSS syncing standard. https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2…June 25, 2013 15:20
Zeus is amazing, and customizing it is much simpler than expected. https://github.com/burke/zeusJune 24, 2013 18:06
Perceived service quality accounts for two percent variation in tips. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/f…June 23, 2013 20:52
Here are easy steps to get a Twitter OAuth 2 access token for direct API access. https://gist.github.com/brandu…June 23, 2013 18:23
Every subsequent version of Twitter's API is a little more restrictive. I miss the non-authenticated user_timeline endpoint (gone in 1.1).June 23, 2013 18:19
I never expected my home city to be the cover child for extreme weather, yet there it is. http://www.calgaryherald.com/n…June 21, 2013 16:40
As per usual, the new GitHub UI changes freaked me out at first, but are growing on me quickly.June 21, 2013 04:06
RT @ped: doors open for the Heroku API hackathon! there's beer, food and secret features :} http://herokuapihackathon.even…June 21, 2013 01:07
The family tree of Indo-European languages. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi…June 15, 2013 16:00
There isn't a new retina MacBook Air, but there is a new Hans Zimmer soundtrack on Rdio.June 10, 2013 19:57
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (on an ancient coin). http://www.forumancientcoins.c…June 6, 2013 21:12
Discriminating input. JSON vs. x-www-form-urlencoded vs. query params in Rack. https://mutelight.org/paramsJune 5, 2013 14:44
Tip 2: It's possible to have Firefox reset a site's HSTS setting by entering history and asking it to "forget about this site."June 5, 2013 13:27
Tip 1: Firefox doesn't display the "I understand the risks" section on its invalid SSL page if the site has HSTS enabled.June 5, 2013 13:26
SOA and Service Stubs. https://brandur.org/service-st…June 4, 2013 16:12
Any protips on how to build a minimal ACL implementation? I'm terrified of overdesigning such a thing.June 3, 2013 17:27
A refreshingly objective look at Go. http://dehora.net/journal/2013…June 3, 2013 13:15
Tracing request IDs. https://brandur.org/request-id…June 2, 2013 18:11
Incredible article on why the right maintenance option for your local city-based highway is demolition. https://medium.com/changing-ci…June 1, 2013 18:03

May

The scarcity of Magsafe 2 adapters makes them a more tenable currency than Bitcoin.May 31, 2013 19:58
Check out Heroku's brand new V3 API. https://devcenter.heroku.com/a…May 30, 2013 21:42
Tests that depend on an obscure edge case in a third party library to function are the best kind of test. Keeps upgrades interesting.May 29, 2013 06:30
No one ever personally feels like they're contributing to bad traffic.May 26, 2013 21:58
One day we'll be telling our kids how we had IM clients that could log into more than one chat network. https://plus.google.com/116276…May 26, 2013 01:18
By stubbing/mocking absolutely everything, all you're really testing is your double graph.May 24, 2013 22:15
Great article on verbose mode in Ruby. http://mislav.uniqpath.com/201…May 24, 2013 17:40
5k loc, 4 if statements, 0 exceptions. http://mth.io/talks/haskell-in…May 22, 2013 15:59
I'm no Apple apologist, but they just replaced my iPhone 5, for free, with zero hassle. If only other retail experiences were this good.May 21, 2013 02:04
ShawOpen is pretty much the greatest thing ever. Every city needs this. Especially SF. (For non-Calgarians, it's fast city-wide wifi)May 15, 2013 20:18
Beautiful fantasy landscapes. http://abduzeedo.com/fantasy-l…May 11, 2013 16:45
Finished the Diamond Age. Neal Stephenson's best work (IMO). There's even a scene where a character develops and applies a Turing test.May 9, 2013 15:33
Upstream Color doesn't actually seem all that complicated after you remove the obfuscated cinematography. Spoilers! http://www.slate.com/blogs/bro…May 9, 2013 15:28
Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was pithy and made heavy use of parentheses. -- The Diamond AgeMay 8, 2013 02:35
I'm pretty used to the standard Git interface, but Tig is pretty amazing. I'll try to get it into my workflow. http://blogs.atlassian.com/201…May 7, 2013 15:38
Finally read Fight Club. Every memorable line from that movie is taken verbatim from that book. The screenwriters had an easy job.May 5, 2013 12:06
Inked by an octopus underwater in Mexico. Divemaster also spotted us a seahorse.May 5, 2013 12:03

April

Railsberry was a marvellous production. Sad that it's over. Here is a photo of an empty Krakow street. http://t.co/j7kNB6SY3RApril 24, 2013 11:36
Unbounded queues, capacity planning, and alarms. Railsberry. http://t.co/ODiPnroDn9April 22, 2013 22:52
The Satoshi blocks are valued ~$100M at current exchange. None have been traded. https://bitslog.wordpress.com/…April 19, 2013 07:01
Reminder that in 2008, a JRPG starring Charles Barkley in post-apocalyptic NY was made. The trailer is amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…April 19, 2013 06:52
"A quick survey of the carriage I was in found about 80% were holding an Apple iPhone." (Japan) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl…April 17, 2013 15:38
Epic finale episode of Spartacus. Just makes you want to read about Roman history all night.April 17, 2013 05:55
The genesis blocks. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…April 14, 2013 08:10
We all know that tail calls are a virtuous language feature. https://mail.mozilla.org/piper… [Rust]April 11, 2013 02:50
The Hobgoblin. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013…April 8, 2013 15:03

March

When I look at the implementation and security options available on http://blockchain.info, I'm embarrassed for every bank ever.March 31, 2013 17:55
Probably the real reason that banks have such weak password restrictions: IBM mainframes. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…March 31, 2013 17:15
"Oil is a metaphor for winning the lottery," said Ivar Froeness, a sociology professor at the University of Oslo. http://www.reuters.com/article…March 28, 2013 16:39
Alibaba thus sits at the heart of “bamboo capitalism”. http://www.economist.com/news/…March 28, 2013 01:37
Without RSS readers, the long tail would be cut off. http://www.marco.org/2013/03/2…March 26, 2013 20:50
Went running with no technology. It was freeing. But now I'll never know whether I would've taken the top stop on that Strava segment.March 21, 2013 07:59
It was more of a "ski by feel" day yesterday, but the 20 cm of fresh snow made it all worthwhile. http://t.co/ul1AgN3EYZMarch 15, 2013 16:05
I love using the expression, but did not know that Timbuktu is in Mali, West Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…March 13, 2013 18:35
A site linked on HN today hosting an article about lousy web design trends, has mouseover dropdown menus, complete with submenus. META.March 13, 2013 16:06
At one point in the past, big rigs and custom hardware were for gaming. Now they're for mining. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Min…March 12, 2013 07:03
Plain English explanation of today's Bitcoin block chain deviation. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…March 12, 2013 05:38
Yep. That's pretty much the reason that I stopped signing e-mail. http://xkcd.com/1181/March 9, 2013 17:00
I remember how bright the future looked when Microsoft launched OData. The Netflix OData API will be gone in a month. http://developer.netflix.com/b…March 9, 2013 01:52
Call me late to the game, but Ruby 2's shorthand definition for lists of symbols is nice. SYMBOLS = %i[conditions limit offset]March 8, 2013 17:06
Triumph of the City is the best, and most important book that I've read in quite a while. It's about urban economics. http://books.google.com/books?…March 8, 2013 16:50
A clever trick for required named parameters in Ruby 2.0.0. http://stackoverflow.com/quest…March 8, 2013 16:27
The Hugh Ferriss collection of drawings. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lib… Mostly renditions of what future urban environments could've looked like.March 7, 2013 21:30
For anyone pining for a new epic by Clint Mansell, "Becoming..." from the Stoker soundtrack may be what you're looking for.March 1, 2013 21:10
Irssi protip: Alt+A will cycle through "red highlighted" windows first (messages + mentions), then through windows with any activity.March 1, 2013 17:57

February

TIL that ISO 8601 specifies how to define a recurring time interval. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I…February 28, 2013 03:13
window_switcher.pl for irssi will change your life. My days of typing in window numbers is over. http://wouter.coekaerts.be/irs…February 27, 2013 22:49
I don't find ag's leap over ack to be speed, but rather its handling of file types that it's not completely familiar with. Ack uninstalled.February 26, 2013 17:15
Also, I want to live in a city modelled after this campus. Paradise for walkers, bikers, and longboarders alike.February 24, 2013 22:11
Stanford costs 10x as much as where I went to university, but I must admit, it really is 10x as nice. http://t.co/v5YvcJ4e7wFebruary 24, 2013 21:59
The Ruby on my projects is pretty clean these days, but the JavaScript still looks like the cat dragged it in.February 24, 2013 17:33
To be clear, UUIDs *are* random. Just as long as they're V4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U…February 19, 2013 22:56
Reconsider that Vim Ctrl+Z / fg pattern. Terminal multiplexers are around for good reasons.February 19, 2013 17:24
Gwern strikes again. An absolutely amazing in-depth article on Silk Road. http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Ro…February 19, 2013 06:28
psql + gnuplot (without leaving psql). Incredible. http://news.ycombinator.com/it…February 14, 2013 04:14
Reading about Cocoa Auto Layout. The fact that there are alternatives to Interface Builder is (good) news to me. https://bit.ly/XNkRUyFebruary 14, 2013 03:57
My Irssi to Growl pipeline has more moving parts than a Swiss watch. VPN + Irssi + Perl plugin + SSH RemoteForward + Growl.February 12, 2013 00:15
Spoiler: the ending to The Wheel of Time is incredible. SoT down. WoT down. Now all I can do is hope that GoT will get an ending.February 9, 2013 19:09
The multiple Instagram quips really made the talk for me.February 9, 2013 04:10
"Now I will render your books unreturnable." - DoctorowFebruary 9, 2013 04:09
PSA: Cory Doctorow is at Borderlands tonight at 7 PM, and Brandon Sanderson is there tomorrow at 3 PM.February 8, 2013 17:32
What's the tool that will provide me the same quantum leap over Sed that Ack did for Grep?February 7, 2013 22:01
iOS should track personal autocorrect stats so users can decide whether they should turn it off. Strongly suspect it's detrimental overall.February 5, 2013 20:40

January

Kelly Slater's donut-shaped pool for surfing in circles. Forever. http://www.neatorama.com/2013/…January 31, 2013 19:45
I thought they'd invent their own DCVS before giving into an open alternative. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visual…January 30, 2013 18:27
Great story on a recent super battle in EVE Online, a game where in-game items have direct value in real world money. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming…January 28, 2013 02:49
The final book (finally). Started this series on the back of a bus in elementary school. http://t.co/5JIwcUvnJanuary 27, 2013 15:37
Two letter find in Vim. This is huge. https://github.com/goldfeld/vi…January 27, 2013 00:02
However, consensus seems to be that an Alberta buyout isn't quite as positive as an event as a Silicon Valley buyout.January 26, 2013 17:22
The first company I worked at out of university was acquired yesterday. https://research.tdwaterhouse.…January 26, 2013 17:21
Install the original Half-Life on my Mac. The day has come!January 25, 2013 16:06
env['rack.hijack'].call http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01…January 25, 2013 07:15
Just re-read this excellent article today explaining why you should pick JSON or XML for your API, rather than both. http://www.mnot.net/blog/2012/…January 23, 2013 19:23
Reviews on Goodreads are so broken. "Norwegian Wood" is rated more highly than any of the best non-fictions I've read in the last few years.January 23, 2013 17:19
The lake. http://t.co/xb1HNHK8January 18, 2013 18:36
Found this comic I owned as a kid in an antique store. I'm officially old. http://t.co/pmyTJaSjJanuary 13, 2013 19:55
I don't mind cold weather, but I do miss daylight.January 4, 2013 07:19
/r/music is jokingly going through a metal phase. http://www.reddit.com/r/musicJanuary 2, 2013 05:45
The JavaScript Problem. http://www.haskell.org/haskell…January 1, 2013 17:08

2012

December

The scariest situation. https://d27b09pbxmowkb.cloudfr…December 30, 2012 21:35
All I see here is a Dead Like Me tribute (Homeland). https://d27b09pbxmowkb.cloudfr…December 29, 2012 20:36
11" MBA + full-screen Plex + transparent full-screen (not the Lion kind) Plex + Tmux.December 29, 2012 20:09
The proper combination of Sinatra settings to have errors raised to the terminal while using rack-test. https://mutelight.org/sinatra-…December 29, 2012 19:49
(Then consider whether Sinatra is actually so different than Rails.)December 29, 2012 19:04
Exercise: step out of a Sinatra route, and through all the middleware it's added to protect you from your imperfect knowledge of HTTP.December 29, 2012 19:04
Experimenting with Rack::Cache patterns. Love the idea of implementing client HTTP caching, and getting server side caching for free.December 28, 2012 21:23
In Rack::Builder what you pass into a `use` is auto-instantiated, but what you `run` is not.December 28, 2012 19:10
`brew install youtube-dl` A great answer for anyone who doesn't install Flash or use Chrome. Works on Vimeo too.December 27, 2012 20:04
Running today, hit the floor of my iPhone 5's operational temperature. ~-17C.December 27, 2012 00:31
Between Gmail and Gmaps, Google is better at Apple's operating system than Apple. (Had to use Mail.app for something. It was frustrating.)December 18, 2012 02:43
My internal server errors are causing internal server errors.December 17, 2012 19:55
X-Cascade. The answer to all my Sinatra composition problems. http://stackoverflow.com/quest…December 14, 2012 23:58
All APIs seem great until you try to do something with them. It's a recurring problem in the industry.December 10, 2012 16:59
The History of Rome. http://thehistoryofrome.typepa…December 9, 2012 21:45
Advice from Dad: always start with a book's 1-star reviews. http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-At…December 4, 2012 20:43
The location of the world's tallest tree has never been revealed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H… (via Know I Know)December 4, 2012 16:26
Law of 2-factor authentication: your 30 day computer authorization will always expire the day you're late to a Google Hangout.December 3, 2012 19:38
OH from noob/troll at Grove: "You know what I hate using? Vim! I'm part of the Sublime generation." I laughed.December 3, 2012 04:13
Finally figured out what the tuxedo collars are called. http://imgur.com/a/UlfIuDecember 1, 2012 04:07

November

San Francisco ranks 18th in per capita funding to bicycle and pedestrian projects. http://www.sfbike.org/main/cit…November 28, 2012 06:30
For years I assumed that Ruby profilers were bad because the debuggers are bad. Turns out the profilers are actually awesome.November 27, 2012 18:18
Bolinas. http://t.co/E6zCacTeNovember 25, 2012 07:28
Sinatra's last_modified behaves in exactly the right way.November 24, 2012 16:28
Cross-section of Kowloon Walled City. https://d27b09pbxmowkb.cloudfr…November 23, 2012 07:44
Even DNA Pizza is closed. It's either Thanksgiving, or the end of the world.November 22, 2012 17:44
Simulacra & Simulation. Neo's hollowed out book in the Matrix. https://d27b09pbxmowkb.cloudfr… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…November 20, 2012 09:19
Kreuzberg, Berlin. AirBnB neighborhoods are the best new thing I've seen on the Internet in a while. https://www.airbnb.com/locatio…November 19, 2012 18:54
So angry that this isn't a real product. http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff…November 19, 2012 06:54
Post-rock Tuesday. http://postrocktu.es/day/2012/…November 16, 2012 04:22
The asset pipeline in Sinatra. https://mutelight.org/asset-pi…November 10, 2012 23:50
http://IsNateSilverAWitch.com concludes: “Probably.”November 9, 2012 07:43
Run `bundle update <gem>`. Version goes from 1.7.0 to 1.4.4.November 5, 2012 18:30
*the help of aNovember 4, 2012 23:30
The British, with a help of a Canadian (!) task force, invaded Iceland in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I…November 4, 2012 23:18
They also brought along an old Apple signed by the Woz. http://t.co/hXq7pAwXNovember 4, 2012 03:08
A small, but working, version of the Babbage Difference Engine from the Computer History Museum. http://t.co/yzrEzZLFNovember 4, 2012 03:06
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.November 3, 2012 16:39
Just got a guy in a Bane costume to say, "When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die."November 1, 2012 05:45

October

New York as the center of the Universe. 1976. https://d27b09pbxmowkb.cloudfr…October 31, 2012 05:35
I'm perfectly okay with Star Wars episode 7! Between episodes 1-3 and the Expanded Univerise, things really can't get any worse!October 31, 2012 04:05
Technique for a very loud whistle with no fingers. http://www.reddit.com/r/IWantT…October 29, 2012 05:45
x4.October 28, 2012 08:06
3x Daenerys costumes so far tonight. Love it.October 28, 2012 06:50
Please connect to the Internet before continuing to use offline playback. Makes sense, Rdio.October 26, 2012 16:51
Launched Puma. Felt great. Then realized I'd been working with Unicorn so long that my code was no longer thread-safe.October 24, 2012 20:09
The Nicoyans in Costa Rica use the term _plan de vida_ to describe a lifelong sense of purpose. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10…October 24, 2012 18:17
Hardcore history. The latest series is on Genghis Khan and the Mongols. This is amazing stuff. http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.…October 23, 2012 21:07
Windows RT. "The RT acronym does not officially stand for anything." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W…October 22, 2012 03:36
Clay Shirky is a great speaker. http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_…October 19, 2012 06:27
Imperative Reaction at DNA; music I discovered in 2007. Taste doesn't change much. http://t.co/oFaMQcIHOctober 18, 2012 07:48
The Bay. You could take this shot from your Motorola Rzr and it would still look amazing. http://t.co/E36GlFlrOctober 18, 2012 07:41
The average employee of the SF Parking Authority commits more parking infractions in single shift than most people will in their lifetimes.October 15, 2012 04:18
Just noticed that Twitter killed RSS. At least the user timeline API can be accessed without authentication. For now.October 14, 2012 06:16
Hold fast or die. http://t.co/kNbcpytLOctober 13, 2012 20:13
“We never talk about closing the streets,” said Gil. “We talk about opening them to people and closing them to cars.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com…October 8, 2012 18:57
Killing my experiment in S/MIME signing e-mails. Provides little practical benefit, but adds a lot over overhead to every e-mail sent.October 8, 2012 16:10
In case you missed it from last week, by far the best guide on how to get Mutt up and running that's ever been written: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012…October 8, 2012 15:46
There's something very satisfying about sending mail from Mutt. It feels like you're in a Neal Stephenson novel or something.October 8, 2012 15:45
Giving Strava a shot. (because apparently nothing in Runkeeper has improved in the last three years)October 7, 2012 20:21
What’s happening in Iceland’s metal scene? http://www.ghostcultmag.com/20…October 5, 2012 12:22
Market Street is no place for cars. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…October 5, 2012 12:22
Beggars and track stands. I must be back in SF.October 4, 2012 16:43
The Vasa, 226 feet long, 1210 tonnes displacement, sunk < 2 km into its maiden voyage. My favorite tourist trap ever. http://t.co/G3A9D2YTOctober 1, 2012 13:42

September

I actually can't tell whether the majority of people on this boat are speaking Finnish or Swedish.September 27, 2012 19:10
The GitHub drink up in Helsinki was by far the most epic I’ve ever attended. (Thanks for organizing @demonbane + @danishkhan!)September 23, 2012 05:54
Haha. Ruby "stabby procs".September 21, 2012 14:34
The talk on refactoring by @kytrinyx at Frozen Rails does an astounfing job of articulating the good coding habits of an advanced Rubyist.September 21, 2012 14:00
Slides for my talk, Composable Applications with a First-class API: http://composable.herokuapp.co…September 20, 2012 14:35
I have a bad feeling that I might be missing a Red Hot Chili Peppers performance right now.September 20, 2012 05:26
Helsinki. http://t.co/Bq7ETbPCSeptember 20, 2012 05:20
Affinity's Metropolitan, the bike ridden by Wilee in Premium Rush: http://affinitycycles.com/fram…September 17, 2012 05:11
Eluveitie + Wintersun 2012 north American tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…September 15, 2012 08:05
You'd never expect it, but the ING Direct cafe on Post and Kearny is hacker central.September 13, 2012 22:29
Just another one of San Francisco's exclusive parties. http://t.co/4LfVc8GwSeptember 12, 2012 16:06
The Game of Thrones board game is equal to the book series in raw epicness.September 11, 2012 07:21
With surf and skateboards featured on the roof, the bars of San Diego are exactly what you'd expect. http://t.co/4dUbXjmOSeptember 8, 2012 06:46
Had a difficult reminder today that surfing is hard.September 8, 2012 02:22
Just read "Gmail as a Facade". You could do all that, or go a bit further and learn Mutt, and you've got a good mail client for life.September 5, 2012 02:13
I want to see a sequel to Tron Legacy that presents an alternate timeline in which CLU & co. made it off the grid and conquered the world.September 4, 2012 03:38
Had a problem: needed to pick up beer so went to Bevmo for maximum selection. Now have two problems. http://t.co/eOxrTHddSeptember 3, 2012 20:10
1 SSL Endpoint, N Apps: https://mutelight.org/1-endpoi…September 3, 2012 18:47
I love the simplicity of DNSimple's metrics system for a domain: > Over the last thirty days we've answered about eighty thousand requests.September 3, 2012 17:31
slabText for jQuery: http://www.frequency-decoder.c… Absolutely love it.September 3, 2012 07:39
Seriously enjoying Reamde. Certainly Neal Stephenson's easiest read to date.September 3, 2012 06:48
Simultaneously love and hate the syntax that CoffeeScript lets you get away with: https://gist.github.com/358908…September 1, 2012 22:11

August

"Revolver" explained in two parts: (1) http://www.reddit.com/r/movies… + (2) http://www.reddit.com/r/movies…August 31, 2012 15:27
Best part about dropping Ctrl-A as your Tmux/Screen prefix is that it’s freed up for the Emacs style go to start of line shortcut.August 27, 2012 18:41
Still puzzling over the fact that the croissants at Vega (a cafe in a garage) are better than those at La Boulange.August 24, 2012 15:27
Fixation -- a beautiful documentary on fixed gear in SF and LA. It's crazy seeing your own streets in this kind of production.August 21, 2012 05:33
Get caps lock working for you. Caps lock as Tmux prefix: https://mutelight.org/caps-loc…August 19, 2012 15:48
Experimenting with Caps Lock as Tmux prefix. So far so good.August 18, 2012 15:21
Premium rush: one stupid stunt movie that I *will* go see. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…August 17, 2012 21:48
So next week someone will invent another DSL that makes Twitter easier to use, but your bank will be writing new COBOL. http://blog.jelastic.com/2012/…August 13, 2012 12:06
Clive Owen is a wearing a London 2012 sweater in the siege scene of Children of Men (a 2006 film). Nice touch. http://drop.brandur.org/childr…August 13, 2012 04:37
Just re-read Neil Gaiman's American Gods. This time around I had new appreciation for the settings in San Francisco and Reykjavik.August 13, 2012 03:52
The indispensable ability to switch to the perspective of your reader. http://www.stevenpressfield.co…August 12, 2012 23:41
RT @ekryski: with @brandur @markhazlett @TheEricAnderson @joshuapinter at the top of Sparrowhawk. #yyc http://t.co/vxhwB6m8August 12, 2012 05:37
Ensiferum’s new video for “In My Sword I Trust”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… (warning: metal)August 9, 2012 16:46
Amazing climb up Rundle East yesterday w/ @markhazlett, @BryceMEvans, and co. Easy to miss Alberta in the summer. http://t.co/KgoAY3iEAugust 6, 2012 16:30
Nexus application successful. FYI Canadians, Nexus also qualifies you for Global Entry for quick access from countries that are not Canada.August 2, 2012 18:41
Nexus interview today. This should be interesting.August 1, 2012 15:12
A couple great passages from Philip K. Dick: https://the-surf.org/philip-k-…August 1, 2012 13:48
Inglewood is such a great community. Additions like Gravity continue to make it even better. http://t.co/8Qz5rrDaAugust 1, 2012 05:41

July

to_xml(:dasherize => false, :skip_types => true) I’ll be proud to own an API that no longer returns XML.July 30, 2012 23:03
Reasonable `time` formatting for Zsh: TIMEFMT=$'\nreal\t%E\nuser\t%U\nsys\t%S' via: http://superuser.com/a/71890July 30, 2012 17:20
The Olympics overrun their budget with 100% consistency. Largest overruns were Montreal 1976 (796%), and Barcelona 1992 (417%).July 28, 2012 02:20
A random photo capture. BBQ Dev Ops: http://www.flickr.com/photos/m…July 28, 2012 02:19
Sunday Streets is a guaranteed win every time. http://t.co/faIJx1IQJuly 22, 2012 22:47
PATCH is not safe, nor idempotent, and allows full and partial updates and side-effects on other resources. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/…July 20, 2012 22:11
Microsoft will open source Entity Framework: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/…July 19, 2012 20:57
MathJax looks amazing anywhere: http://facts.brandur.org/harmo…July 18, 2012 16:11
Improvements to Vim setup: ctrlp.vim >> Command-T. Vundle >> Pathogen.July 16, 2012 05:50
Disappointed that there wasn’t a track on the Sherlock Holmes soundtrack called “Discombobulate.”July 13, 2012 22:22
Good read from Linus on reverting a faulty merge: http://www.kernel.org/pub/soft… The important part involving a `git rebase --no-ff` is near the end.July 9, 2012 21:01
Tech now accounts for 1.6% of Canada's benchmark stock index. http://www.theglobeandmail.com…July 8, 2012 02:30
Pier 39. http://t.co/VS3b2QxgJuly 5, 2012 05:28
San Francisco drivers attempted to solve the gridlock problem via their primary competency: honking a lot; with shockingly poor results.July 5, 2012 05:24
Complete gridlock along the Embarcadero tonight. It's good being a bicyclist.July 5, 2012 05:24
People in San Francisco are ridiculously fucking good at trivia.July 3, 2012 04:28
The mist/rain droplets today are the perfect cooling for biking. Also good for keeping the crowds off the beach ;)July 1, 2012 18:55
That said, configuration through config vars exclusively doesn't always feel like the final answer. http://www.12factor.net/configJuly 1, 2012 15:45
In hindsight, experimenting with staging/production config in separate branches of my project was a pratical failure.July 1, 2012 15:44

June

The only company that does packaging better than Apple. http://t.co/Ot9MwcSRJune 28, 2012 00:47
Afraid to upgrade to a faster laptop. Now I can tell exactly when Firefox starts chugging/devouring battery and kill it. Not so on i5/i7.June 26, 2012 21:43
Microsoft may do bad things. But, lambdas + method chains in Java 8 are a perfect recreation of a product that has worked well for 5 years.June 25, 2012 04:13
SF protip: if you have an engagement on the other side of market street today, cancel and stay home.June 24, 2012 20:05
Also, switched to Inconsolata-dz. A lot more clear than Monaco.June 23, 2012 19:34
iTerm2 has a feature that allows ascii and non-ascii to render differently. Easy to enable unintentionally, and can lead to visual glitches.June 23, 2012 19:30
Played around with iTerm2 to see why antialiasing + unicode doesn't seem to mix. Finally got that fixed.June 23, 2012 19:28
Evening project: installing and de-branding tires. http://t.co/DAXpUCOsJune 23, 2012 06:18
At the risk of being a peon in a tide of net rage, the idea of Craigslist C&Ding Padmapper is absurd. +1 this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/it…June 23, 2012 03:10
Workers who used a hot cell trained to use its mechanical manipulators by threading a needle with string. http://www.wired.com/wiredscie…June 21, 2012 20:32
How does CloudFlare work? http://www.quora.com/How-does-…June 20, 2012 20:51
Why is it so common to see Enumerable#inject used when the alias #reduce is available?June 20, 2012 03:07
Building an API with .netrc: http://mutelight.org/netrcJune 20, 2012 03:05
Returned $3 tire levers that broke while levering a tire. It was satisfying.June 19, 2012 21:46
How?! http://i.imgur.com/QR7iI.jpg (via @exdevlin)June 19, 2012 16:06
Julian Assange's commits to Postgres: http://git.postgresql.org/gitw…June 17, 2012 16:44
Meet PagerDuty co-founder at party. COMPLAIN ABOUT UI.June 16, 2012 06:12
Barely made it back into the country. As a people, I wish us Canadians hadn't developed such a questionable reputation.June 14, 2012 20:53
Just heard Germany score a Eurocup goal, kilometers from any working television.June 13, 2012 19:19
I'd try to take some photos, but this guy already nailed it: http://www.ottsworld.com/blogs…June 13, 2012 18:59
Staring into Spreepark is like looking into an exclusion zone. Very quiet. Can only nothing but birds chirping.June 13, 2012 18:58
Link: http://swaaanson.tumblr.com/po…June 13, 2012 08:53
Jobs hosted “Top 100” meetings every 12-18 mo. where he invited his 100 favorite, not highest ranking, employees to discuss Apple’s future.June 13, 2012 08:52
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!June 12, 2012 07:51
tl;dr Retina, but on the wrong computer.June 11, 2012 17:59
Oh man, is ARGF ever cool.June 11, 2012 09:31
Consider adding a bin/console to your Ruby app: http://mutelight.org/bin-conso…June 10, 2012 13:59
Is there justification for why Sinatra uses the `at_exit` hook to start up? https://github.com/sinatra/sin…June 10, 2012 13:17
Most badass climbing wall ever. http://t.co/mCqZ8dPpJune 10, 2012 07:37
Watched the latest Game of Thrones on my 11" MBA. Felt very guilty for doing so. It deserves better.June 9, 2012 23:06
Great blog: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/ A lot of advanced stuff on here about Vim and the like is downright hard to find out.June 9, 2012 14:33
Kind of a nice debug pattern if you're still stuck maintaining code that needs to be both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 compatible: http://mutelight.org/ruby-debu…June 9, 2012 14:25
American top 40 domination internationally is beyond impressive.June 8, 2012 23:51
Typical day for me --> Me: Ein Kaffee bitte. Barista: Okay, did you want anything else?June 8, 2012 11:21
Authbind (for people who dislike man pages without usage examples): http://mutelight.org/authbindJune 8, 2012 11:19
In case, like me, changing an app over to heroku-postgresql:dev wasn't the most obvious thing in the world for you: http://mutelight.org/heroku-po…June 7, 2012 13:25
Unfortunate how much I depend on Rails' monkey patching just to make certain portions of Ruby reasonable. e.g. Time.June 6, 2012 07:54
Whoah. All roommates in bed by 1 o'clock. For a Berlin hostel, to say this is statistically improbable is an understatement.June 5, 2012 23:18
Having only recently discovered the hard way that making a good stencil is hard, I was extra appreciative of this one. http://t.co/fhRkIWMPJune 4, 2012 17:20
The gentlemen's agreement for graffiti in Berlin is only paint over something if you can do better. http://t.co/5KcaYU6pJune 4, 2012 17:18
Love it. People actually say "Gesundheit" here when you sneeze. We'd always use it in our family half-jokingly.June 4, 2012 17:05
Had a sudden Starbucks carving, so searched for one in Berlin. Results not promising.June 4, 2012 13:12
This club has four floors so that one of them can play Depeche Mode full-time.June 3, 2012 01:23
After many years of Twitter, my username has finally changed from IRC handle @fyrerise, to @brandur. Thanks @jdarrellg for releasing it!June 2, 2012 22:53
In Berlin, urban exploration is still a real thing. http://t.co/JlZxqJgSJune 2, 2012 19:13
Huh. Expedia's mobile site is significantly better than their web version.June 2, 2012 10:39

May

Writing on paper would sure be great if it weren't so slow. It's hard to beat the novelty of journaling into a moleskine.May 31, 2012 20:52
Just saw a guy in Berlin riding a fixie and carrying a Chrome messenger bag. For a second I thought I was back in SF.May 31, 2012 19:17
The good part about OpenSSL is that it works. That's it. The complete list of its positive qualities.May 30, 2012 16:05
You just don't see this kind of thing in the Western Hemisphere.May 27, 2012 13:20
Imagine a gothic ball full of Victorian gowns, cravats, and top hats, accompanied by this music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…May 27, 2012 13:20
Berlin ping pong. http://t.co/3BS2MgluMay 24, 2012 09:42
Sifted through a lot of confident-sounding bad diagnoses on camera Q&A sites though. Like Stack Overflow without a "right answer" mechanism.May 24, 2012 09:03
Blurry viewfinder on the d90. Turns out my diopter wheel had been knocked out of place.May 24, 2012 09:01
Workspace for the next few weeks. Great light. http://t.co/mdyAOgllMay 24, 2012 08:44
[America's] not-so-friendly neighbor: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05… (via @josephbreihan)May 24, 2012 07:23
The most accurate depiction of apartment hunting in San Francisco I've seen to date: http://avnergeller.blogspot.co… (via @michellegreer)May 23, 2012 09:19
Agora Collective in Berlin. http://t.co/mZnJ2nIoMay 22, 2012 05:46
Amazing. Sex Bob-omb / Garbage Truck just played at DNA pizza. I pretty much come here for the music videos.May 17, 2012 06:28
Wow, seriously, Netflix doesn't even have the Matrix? Final straw.May 15, 2012 05:08
How Weird is on today! Why am I down here. http://howweird.org/May 13, 2012 21:35
Walking into a Starbucks now feels like an artifact from a past life.May 13, 2012 21:29
Elsewhere, you time your sprinklers to water your lawn. In SF, you time them to water your pavement. http://t.co/jf886oewMay 12, 2012 10:03
Oh, and forgot to tweet this. Check out our new SSL endpoints: http://blog.heroku.com/archive…May 5, 2012 21:12
Finding the Wiggle, a route that nearly became a park, but didn't because this is North America and roads are better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F…May 5, 2012 21:10
First K&L wine club shipment is in. Now waiting for a special occasion. http://t.co/FIh1mUHbMay 5, 2012 18:49
That's a sizeable messenger bag. http://t.co/3h013UDeMay 5, 2012 17:55
SF Bike Party is so much win. I wanted to post some photos, but nothing I took could possibly do it justice.May 5, 2012 06:46
http://nzbs.org redesign. Brutal.May 4, 2012 06:17
Can't get past 30% average core usage on a c1.xlarge with Handbrake.May 2, 2012 07:09
Nice. Putting `bind -v` into your `~/.editrc` gets you Vi-mode in programs using editline, like IRB.May 1, 2012 17:52
Great article on event matching in Upstart: http://netsplit.com/2010/12/03…May 1, 2012 02:23

April

Schneier / Prisoner's Dilemma on a game show: https://www.schneier.com/blog/…April 30, 2012 02:54
See that hipster d-bag walking his fixie up the last hill towards the Panhandle on Page St? That was me.April 28, 2012 23:06
Pool. http://t.co/BTbTyncBApril 27, 2012 10:44
.NET Entity Framework automatic migrations made it to HN front page! http://blog.appharbor.com/2012… Nice work by the good people of AppHarbor.April 25, 2012 03:33
Decommissioning my old running shoes. They've been around the block a few times. http://t.co/D0UQqaGxApril 24, 2012 01:28
PG&E service deposit required because I'm Canadian: $90.00. Actual bill for last 30 days of usage: $4.63 Deposit/reality ratio: ~20April 23, 2012 19:21
Sausalito is like a different, more tropical, country. http://t.co/WcisTkqOApril 23, 2012 01:11
Biking Golden Gate Bridge with only one side open is like flying the trench run.April 23, 2012 00:59
Offlineimap running as a long-lived process is kinda fail. Use cron.April 22, 2012 07:51
The Revival Tour. http://t.co/pcYBmeygApril 22, 2012 07:27
Delores on a nice Saturday is a San Franciscan's version of going to the beach. http://t.co/wDw34w8FApril 22, 2012 01:24
Don't like crazy Gmail redesigns? Try Mutt.April 22, 2012 01:11
Improbably nice today in SF. At Westfield buying emergency shorts.April 21, 2012 17:24
Terrible website, amazing posters: http://clubnocturne.com/April 19, 2012 03:18
Yesterday, creating a new repository on GitHub was the single most annoying thing to have to do. Today, that's been completely overturned.April 19, 2012 03:12
JUSTICE. http://t.co/2cBzHvIaApril 18, 2012 07:46
Today I learned that I didn't really understand git submodules very well.April 17, 2012 22:45
Knowing how the stereo is wired is the worst kind of incumbent knowledge.April 16, 2012 07:54
Yoga on the labyrinth. If this can't get me into yoga, I don't know what can: http://www.gracecathedral.org/…April 15, 2012 17:43
There isn't any furniture that I can buy for which I won't experience buyer's remorse.April 15, 2012 01:45
Flow my tears, the policeman said.April 13, 2012 07:11
In an event of heroic outlandishness, I went running and lost my key chain .. but not my keys.April 12, 2012 02:54
Death to Word: http://www.slate.com/articles/… Authors are on the right track. I anxiously await the day they discover Markdown and Git repos.April 12, 2012 02:50
+1 37Signals: 6. Don’t use Cucumber unless you live in the magic kingdom of non-programmers-writing-tests http://37signals.com/svn/posts…April 11, 2012 19:01
The day I leave SF, I'm taking this sign with me. http://t.co/cX3xYUgMApril 8, 2012 01:20
I take back what i said about there not being enough Pho in SF. Just had the most delicious bowl of it ever in the Tenderloin.April 7, 2012 19:39
Commenters on National Geographic might just give YouTube commenters a run for their money: http://photography.nationalgeo…April 5, 2012 16:01
Used offlineimap to sync 4GB of e-mails. Then disk/CPU/battery started disappearing. Culprit: Spotlight workers.April 5, 2012 06:34
9.8G /Users/fyrerise/.Spotlight-V100April 5, 2012 06:29
Switching from Mutt's built-in IMAP to Mutt + offlineimap is a 100 fold improvement. Fast e-mail browsing becomes instantaneous.April 5, 2012 02:26
Okay, it was moved out of the AUR and is now called `passenger`. Chasing after these things is annoying, but this is pretty nice.April 3, 2012 14:11
`nginx-passenger` gone from the AUR without a trace. I guess this is why people use Ubuntu LTS.April 3, 2012 14:00
This 8-bit Google Maps prank gives me renewed hope for the feasibility of a Maps command line client ;)April 1, 2012 04:29

March

TIL that `/stats p` in IRC doesn't just list network staff, it notifies them as well.March 30, 2012 18:39
OH: I'm in F.A. ... U.X.March 30, 2012 06:18
I use Aurora over Minefield so that when Mozilla breaks Vimperator, the community is caught by Aurora release. Also, Aurora? Way cool name.March 29, 2012 18:07
If you're looking for a tiling window manager for OSX, the answer is Tmux.March 29, 2012 04:12
If you're on OSX, get BreakTime. It's a much healthier way of using a computer.March 29, 2012 04:10
Switched back to a keyboard with a real Ctrl button and it didn't work. Entirely dependent on crazy Apple Fn/Ctrl setup now.March 27, 2012 19:45
Paged just after 5 this morning. Can't pay for a better way to wake up.March 25, 2012 13:04
Optimized the tool set a bit more by switching from Bash to zsh this morning. It took watching @leinweber use it for a week to convince me.March 23, 2012 13:03
Paganfest on Apr. 17th (including Turisas, Arkona, Alestorm): http://www.dnalounge.com/calen…March 19, 2012 07:13
It's unnatural that I still can't order IKEA furniture online.March 19, 2012 02:30
PG on writing and speaking. http://paulgraham.com/speak.ht… "Any given person is dumber as a member of an audience than as a reader."March 18, 2012 19:02
As a Canadian living in the US, it becomes your sacred duty to receive Amazon .com shipments and forward them to relatives up North.March 16, 2012 10:06
Okay Austin, you win. http://t.co/49RxGoA6March 15, 2012 16:34
Slate magazine's "Where’s _why?": http://www.slate.com/articles/… (Heroku mentioned on page 2!)March 15, 2012 15:22
(That is, during the times of a year that you don't feel like you're being roasted alive)March 15, 2012 06:33
Didn't see it coming, but it turns out that Austin is a beautiful place for running. http://t.co/VmCHpD8fMarch 15, 2012 06:30
No music badge. Feel like an outsider.March 14, 2012 22:35
So many great articles on patents hit HN's front page, and not even one will ever be read by a single legislator.March 14, 2012 15:23
Guy just walked in with a farmer style suspender thing going on .. and it actually kind of worked. SF hipsters have nothing on Austinites.March 14, 2012 04:08
It's passed 11 PM and I'm still in a cafe coding. Austin is a great place.March 14, 2012 04:06
Jonathan Stark has issued a second community shared Starbucks card. Nice. #sxfreecoffeeMarch 12, 2012 16:35
Is that a Duck Duck Go circle? Club #fail. /cc @SaraD http://t.co/rSdlkYYkMarch 12, 2012 05:28
Still have yet to attend any large event with reliable wireless. No number of fancy looking Cisco base stations help.March 11, 2012 19:00
Lytro session made SXSW worth it. This technology has a strong potential to shift the entire industry.March 11, 2012 18:37
Robots?! http://t.co/pzXtbcrCMarch 11, 2012 03:02
OH: there's a real life flash mob out there! http://t.co/z9cF6JmuMarch 11, 2012 02:44
Ghostland Observatory. http://t.co/B14dXjxhMarch 10, 2012 04:56
Staying sober was worth it. The head of Xprize makes it on stage. http://t.co/FBSTaXmTMarch 10, 2012 03:23
Seems impossible, but we're still talking about startups well into drinking hours at #sxswi. http://t.co/0uALfxUGMarch 10, 2012 03:18
Great turnout for the MIT Media Lab's session. Still hoping one day it will produce results worthy of such a great concept.March 10, 2012 00:07
This rain is making prospects for food trucks and beer gardens pretty grim.March 9, 2012 17:41
Nothing like wondering why a Ruby repository is taking so long to clone, then realizing that somebody dropped a .WAR in there.March 5, 2012 18:28
First quake! M4.3: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear…March 5, 2012 13:45
Nice. AT&T Park has valet bike parking during games.March 4, 2012 19:04

February

Ah yes, the stuff you read on the Internet. Apple at $500 Billion is *not* worth the same as Poland: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti…February 29, 2012 20:54
Wholesale .com/.net registrations are $7.85 (from $6) after the last price increase built into Verisign's contract. http://blog.easydns.org/2012/0…February 29, 2012 18:25
Harmy's Star Wars Despecialized Edition HD (actually a real thing): http://originaltrilogy.com/for…February 28, 2012 18:30
Why isn't PostgreSQL using my index? http://www.revsys.com/blog/200… (Answer: because it's probably too smart)February 24, 2012 19:43
Guy next to me at cafe is unboxing a new iPad. At the end of February. Can I tell him to return it without coming off as a hipster d-bag?February 24, 2012 17:20
Quite possibly the best bar ever conceived by mankind. http://t.co/58daK4W6February 23, 2012 04:31
Simultaneous Flash + specs proved a little too much for my C2D Air.February 22, 2012 22:15
Last post in reference to big money Agile (contractors + conferences + dogma) as opposed to being agile. Great article.February 22, 2012 02:51
Agile evades criticism using standard tactics like the two above: embracing anything good, and disclaiming anything bad http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co…February 22, 2012 02:44
Always surprised to find Starbucks croissants still suck. They should be able to invent a way to do them better than a boulangerie in Paris.February 20, 2012 18:34
Of course the first time I ever accidentally delete my local Gem cache is at 30,000 ft. somewhere over Oregon.February 20, 2012 08:51
Have been using the California library system for only two weeks now and library funding needs defending already.February 19, 2012 04:48
Where to sleep in Paris: http://www.pret-a-voyager.com/… (Could have used this 3 months ago!)February 18, 2012 01:13
"Frostbeard" the Viking. http://t.co/rCBJD78PFebruary 17, 2012 06:54
SNOW DAY! Skied open to close. http://t.co/fwTR0PZeFebruary 17, 2012 06:30
RE: Mountain Lion Gatekeeper. How long will that 3rd option be around? https://s3.amazonaws.com/rando…February 17, 2012 05:17
Blue skies make for some nice pictures, but we could use a nice 20 cm snow dump up here. http://t.co/9T8hjjumFebruary 15, 2012 16:26
It's Unicorn philosophy not to support persistent connections: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/PH… Luckily, swapping one Rack server for another is easy.February 14, 2012 07:07
Sequel's filter expressions take Ruby black magic to a new level.February 13, 2012 01:35
The simplicity of logging to $stdout is quite beautiful.February 12, 2012 18:16
Well, at the very least, being able to say you live in San Francisco makes a good talking point on ski lifts.February 12, 2012 00:48
The key proficiency of any travel writer is the mastery of hyperbole.February 10, 2012 06:15
No one is frivolous in the future. No one exhibits poor or mediocre time mgmt. All are paladins of self-organization. http://www.antipope.org/charli…February 10, 2012 03:07
Thanks @markhazlett for organizing #CoffeeAndCode tonight. Crazy turnout. Interesting things brewing in #yyc.February 9, 2012 09:15
Awesome. Code haiku! RT @ethicfailblog: @fyrerise if i equals 5 print error in I O file system dot exitFebruary 9, 2012 09:00
A promising alternative to Mutt: http://sup.rubyforge.org/February 8, 2012 19:44
s/borrowed from/loaned by/February 7, 2012 20:23
Working off of desk space kindly borrowed from @acceleratoryyc in Inglewood. Thanks guys!February 7, 2012 20:21
First time ever at LAX and the only memento I'll be taking away is duty free.February 6, 2012 21:58
... and since I just that back to myself: rotary telephone is not a euphemism. There was actually a rotary telephone mounted on his bike.February 6, 2012 10:26
... I don't even know where to start. #onlyinsfFebruary 6, 2012 10:19
Saw a guy biking down Market in an American flag bikini at 2 AM. He had to stop riding because his rotary telephone fell out of its cradle.February 6, 2012 10:18
Used Airdrop to transfer a file for the first time. Effective.February 6, 2012 08:05
Adobe's building is beautiful. http://t.co/0fDHQ1uwFebruary 6, 2012 00:35
Switched from Vmail to Mutt and threaded sorting. I think I finally understand how Tom Lane is doing it.February 5, 2012 22:27
United just freaked me out telling me that my flight was tomorrow. Then I realized it was just a classic time zone bug.February 5, 2012 03:13
And if I'd said that last line out loud, it would've come out PRO-cess rather than PRAW-cess ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C…February 4, 2012 23:50
SF PL's process for getting a library card is pretty streamlined. Beautiful library too.February 4, 2012 23:47
House party @ HQ.February 4, 2012 11:01
Blue skies in SF today. http://t.co/AICkLw7ZFebruary 4, 2012 05:48
Emilie Autumn last night. Her style is billed as "Victoriandustrial". http://t.co/Yr60FNJIFebruary 3, 2012 20:57
Firefox's page up/down is far better than Chrome's because it's not animated, and therefore faster and less distracting. Do less, get more.February 3, 2012 03:42
Placards were entertaining though: one claimed that a buyer had bid $70M for this styrofoam rock, but the Buddha politely declined.February 3, 2012 00:10
So, as it turns out, the museum was a front for an organization headed by a self-proclaimed Buddha. 80%+ of the pieces inside are by him.February 3, 2012 00:07
Free admission to the International Art Museum of America today 1100 to 1900. Going to check it out while battery charges.February 2, 2012 21:42
Successful core deploy from a coffee shop. If my previous employer would've seen this, they'd have gone instantly mad. Lovecraftian style.February 2, 2012 21:35
Just saw @kch execute his trademark move of getting into an Uber (outside of Philz).February 2, 2012 20:20
Jazz @ Revolution Cafe. Really chill cafe/bar in the Mission. http://t.co/76H724EZFebruary 2, 2012 06:54
Power outage at Heroku HQ! No effect on the cloud platform though :)February 2, 2012 03:40
`display: inline-block` is a hack at best, and not a real substitute for `column-break-inside: avoid`February 2, 2012 02:09
.vimperatorrc --> `map <M-f> /` Open Vimperator find when you hit Cmd-F by accident (instead of FF quickfind with no close shortcut).February 1, 2012 19:06
San Francisco could benefit from more establishments selling late night food. Possibly poutine.February 1, 2012 07:04
GitHub's one click logout is so nice. UIs are trending towards the anti-pattern of hiding logout in a menu. Take Gmail for example. Or us.February 1, 2012 06:35

January

Good to know: an older version of a gem executable can be run like this: `heroku _2.18.1_ list` (compared to just `heroku list`).January 31, 2012 23:56
Pentadactyl definitely not a clear win over Vimperator.January 30, 2012 16:00
"Emerald Forest and the Blackbird" by Swallow the Sun: http://soundcloud.com/inferno-… Really nice new #metal (if you're into that kind of thing).January 30, 2012 04:01
Subject of best surf magazine came up on /r/surfing. The answer is the Surfer's Journal. Sold at Hollister. http://t.co/qcrcT4t2January 29, 2012 22:10
The Great Gatsby @ Noir City as shown by Castro Theater. Best part was audience dressed as if from the earlier 1900s. http://t.co/k8InwxBrJanuary 29, 2012 11:55
Added monthly headers because these days I tweet with what can only be described as obnoxious frequency: http://brandur.org/twitterJanuary 28, 2012 22:47
For a month now my TODO list has been a basic text file open in Vim inside a dedicated Tmux window. Works beautifully.January 28, 2012 21:43
`for` loop inside IcedCoffeeScript's `await` block. Nice! Brings Node that much closer to practicality ;) http://maxtaco.github.com/coff…January 28, 2012 21:34
Hm. Just saw an error on GitHub's side when doing a push .. for the first time ever.January 27, 2012 16:05
Ruby meetup at Heroku. There's a keg. http://t.co/jvO1EyNwJanuary 27, 2012 04:43
Printed and scanned both a .doc and a .xls, and the scanned .jpg's were half the size of the original docs. MS Office is truly a marvel.January 26, 2012 01:45
I was just told by @exdevlin that this guy's hair reminds her of mine: http://img3.lln.crunchyroll.co… That explains the reactions of a lot of people.January 25, 2012 22:47
TIL that `?`, `+`, and `|` are extended POSIX regex.January 25, 2012 22:13
Empty commit and push for testing buildpacks: `git commit --allow-empty -m 'Iterating'` (thanks @ped!)January 25, 2012 21:58
The divergence of `sed` on GNU vs. on Darwin is so unfortunate. People say that `brew install gnu-sed` is the right answer.January 25, 2012 20:01
How does Google Voice capture outgoing texts from non-Android phones? It's like magic.January 25, 2012 16:42
San Francisco is at its nicest in the early AM.January 24, 2012 13:55
Troll field gas is extracted by trolls A, B, and C. "A" platform is the largest structure ever moved at 656k tons and 472 m tall.January 23, 2012 17:57
Norway's largest gas field in the North Sea is called the "Troll field". Metal.January 23, 2012 17:56
Priceline, Hotwire, and Better Bidding turn a monotonous task into an interesting hobby.January 21, 2012 19:39
I (finally) have an American bank account. So baller.January 21, 2012 18:12
I've finished reading exactly one book since arriving in SF. Living here is giving me ADD.January 20, 2012 20:10
Rails 3.2: `ActiveRecord::Relation` now has a `uniq` method for selecting distinct values. Nice.January 20, 2012 17:45
The Volcano. Smuggler's Cove, San Francisco. http://t.co/LJhEvzCfJanuary 20, 2012 08:23
#vim: Map F1 to Escape to make it less obnoxious. ``` map <F1> <Esc> imap <F1> <Esc> ```January 20, 2012 01:25
Love Maddox's piece on SOPA/PIPA: http://maddox.xmission.com/ Here's more of an optimist than me though. That's a good thing.January 19, 2012 19:15
New Eluveitie album 'Helvetios' out in February. Can't wait. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…January 19, 2012 04:49
Drinking Hoegaarden and doing laundry at Brainwash. This is the true San Francisco experience. http://t.co/9cXtsiNvJanuary 19, 2012 02:31
Wish Path was built on Twitter as a backend. I like using it a lot more, but not enough to post things twice.January 18, 2012 22:47
SSN finally ready. Only 7 weeks to have a computer generate a number. Pretty fast for the public sector.January 18, 2012 00:43
Think I'd be happier browsing most of the net in text-only. Some sites (e.g. CNet) are getting too JS heavy for my puny C2D.January 17, 2012 21:24
Moved a Rails project from page to action caching this morning because `expire_page` on Heroku is a no-op: http://www.whatcodecraves.com/…January 17, 2012 17:09
Feeling for my countrymen in Calgary where it's currently a very grim -30C. #metalJanuary 17, 2012 15:43
Finally made it out to Ocean Beach last Saturday. People surf, but only the lion-hearted (water is impressively cold). http://t.co/sEOFxqeUJanuary 17, 2012 03:40
Forgot to mention this SSL branch of the camper_van gem that some Herokai put together the other day: https://github.com/dpiddy/camp…January 17, 2012 02:35
So I'm left with external dependencies either way: MiniTest (built in post 1.9) + Mocha or RSpec. … and generally people know RSpec better.January 17, 2012 00:18
Minitest has mocks but not stubs? The decision to include this thing in core may have been a little too hasty.January 17, 2012 00:06
Layered, breathable layers are kind of a fad, and not required by real hikers. @kch demonstrates. http://t.co/XJIaxZUZJanuary 16, 2012 22:11
As @Isabelle puts it, this is why you put up with high taxes to live in California ;) http://t.co/Oh7LeUnAJanuary 16, 2012 21:57
Looking onto San Francisco from the top of North Peak in McNee Ranch State Park. http://t.co/fGI9lG9UJanuary 16, 2012 21:52
It seems like it would just be annoying, but I'm really liking Google's two-factor authentication.January 16, 2012 21:42
#waza the poster: http://t.co/H9DewlCwJanuary 12, 2012 08:08
DeVotchKa. #waza http://t.co/L9P5N96mJanuary 12, 2012 05:22
The founders. #waza http://t.co/14ZvwhYVJanuary 12, 2012 02:35
Rob Pike and gophers explaining concurrency vs. parallelism. #waza http://t.co/cGNsLuibJanuary 12, 2012 01:16
Adam showing off his MUD during the keynote. #waza http://t.co/ytXg4Bz2January 11, 2012 19:43
James opening #waza. http://t.co/gBfJwDg8January 11, 2012 19:14
#waza http://t.co/8KAVN6SGJanuary 11, 2012 17:59
Pyrrhic Victory Pt. 1 by Orphan Hammer, a wicked metal band from my hometown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…January 11, 2012 05:07
#waza tomorrow. It's going to be amazing: http://waza.heroku.com/January 11, 2012 02:51
Why to use a terminal multiplexer reason no. 87: for when you hit Cmd-Q or Cmd-W by accident.January 11, 2012 01:35
Currently engaged with practicing voodoo (i.e. shell scripting).January 10, 2012 11:34
Remember how in Sim City if you reduced your road budget from anything but 100%, holes start appearing? SF's budget is at 20%.January 10, 2012 04:12
Take your eyes off the pavement for two seconds in this city an you run into a pothole 5 inches deep.January 10, 2012 04:09
Best use of MiFi is at social security office, where I wait while the bureaucracy is still trying to assign me an SSN. 5 weeks and counting.January 9, 2012 18:27
Return a bad exit code when any command in a Bash pipe fails: `set -o pipefail`January 8, 2012 08:22
Skiing Tahoe with @pvh and @isabelle. http://t.co/ugX665BOJanuary 6, 2012 05:25
This is work today. http://t.co/bDdxyE0SJanuary 5, 2012 19:51
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: http://mutelight.org/articles/… (internationally portable Wikipedia)January 3, 2012 07:36
Canada -- skiing near Golden a few days back. http://t.co/bc1I2UcIJanuary 3, 2012 00:10
+ Phoenix Downs (thanks for hosting @exdevlin!). http://t.co/a6lMqRUYJanuary 2, 2012 09:12
Arkham Horror (we won!). http://t.co/1FjrS0oGJanuary 2, 2012 09:10
Impress.js just blew me away: http://bartaz.github.com/impre… Even the demo is an absolute work of art.January 1, 2012 23:34
Scrollorama is one of those things that's so cool, it makes you want to build something around it. http://johnpolacek.github.com/…January 1, 2012 20:42
Happy New Year! 2011 held significant change for me. 2012 should prove interesting.January 1, 2012 12:38

2011

December

Amazing how much content I come across Googling tech subjects, read on tech blogs, or find on GitHub is written by other Heroku employees.December 29, 2011 04:45
Last blog post was at the beginning of August. Sad.December 29, 2011 01:52
Have Icelandic lineage/ancestors? Then check out: http://snorri.is I did Snorri in 2007 and it was the best experience of my life.December 28, 2011 20:55
All domains switched from GoDaddy as promised. Now that my DNS is out of limbo, my e-mail works again too. Sorry about that.December 28, 2011 17:45
Can't believe how much time I've spent messing around with domain transfers.December 27, 2011 18:31
Paul Christoforo has been Google bombed so hard that he's going to have to legally change his name. http://imgur.com/a/co8jsDecember 27, 2011 17:18
Rocking some code at Kawa. Seriously missed these delicious chai lattes. http://t.co/BIHR2hrcDecember 27, 2011 16:51
Pretty rare to see Calgary this quiet. http://t.co/yzCAlTiPDecember 27, 2011 16:49
Apple waits for a product to be good before shipping. This is a very hard (if not impossible) pill to swallow for most big business.December 27, 2011 07:05
Amazon and the Fire: https://plus.google.com/100838…December 27, 2011 07:02
Just used Overdrive/Adobe Digital Editions to help my mom get a library book onto her Kobo. If this is the future, it scares me.December 27, 2011 02:42
Wiki of tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw… This is one of those things that I had no notion even existed!December 27, 2011 02:20
http://brandur.org/Dorian now fixed up and deployed on Heroku. No more ordering problems in charts and elsewhere either. http://brandur.org/twitterDecember 26, 2011 08:24
Highlight of the day: my mom receiving a robot for Xmas. http://t.co/EfAtu4YzDecember 26, 2011 07:49
Hacking session over. I'll probably get in ~10 seconds of Hemingway before crashing.December 25, 2011 10:46
Since `false.blank?` is true, `validates_presence_of` can't be used with a boolean field. Use `validates_inclusion_of` instead.December 25, 2011 10:23
Just setup some apps with Heroku's Scheduler add-on for the first time. Sure beats cron wrestling.December 25, 2011 09:35
(Ice) skating down at the Olympic Plaza with the Blairs tonight, followed by an abundance of eggnog and rum.December 25, 2011 09:24
Was just owned by `default_scope`: order inserted into an SQL aggregate. SQLite let it slide, but Postgres bailed.December 24, 2011 19:35
Genius: http://devcenter.heroku.com/ar…December 24, 2011 17:20
Had a Canadian border guard search my computer today. Knew things were getting pretty backward here, but didn't know the extent.December 24, 2011 07:56
Calgary.December 24, 2011 02:54
You know, I've been looking for an excuse to ditch GoDaddy permanently. This SOPA debacle is perfect.December 22, 2011 19:17
Bicycle assembly complete. http://t.co/4TsoZ8apDecember 22, 2011 02:34
PHP 5.4 to support fancy mixins called traits. PHP is sure a lot more fun when your relation to it is that of a disinterested observer.December 21, 2011 22:56
Reread some journal entries that I'd written in Europe (old school in Moleskine). Introspective experience. Next time I'll write more.December 21, 2011 08:06
*than This proof reading thing is seriously not working out for me.December 21, 2011 07:53
Find humour in the fact that I'd spend less on a night in a dorm in Europe thank on a single drink in upscale SF.December 21, 2011 07:10
Just realized the famous Brandur (http://brandur.com) hosts on Heroku (http://brandur.heroku.com) when I tried to reserve that namespace. Haha.December 20, 2011 22:50
Sorensen's answer in this case wasn't really fair. Cheap energy is a nice to have, but even that wouldn't get us off oil anytime soon.December 20, 2011 05:34
Haha. The woman asking the oil sands question is my mom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Thanks for digging that one out Aaron ;)December 20, 2011 05:27
Grab PCKeyboardHack to map Cap Locks to Escape (keycode 53): http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyrema…December 19, 2011 21:03
The Japanese showing us some serious love: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamai…December 19, 2011 17:59
A Game of Shadows is a good movie, but make sure you like 300-style stop/start slow-motion! By movie 3, even the dialogue be using it.December 19, 2011 11:13
Rocking some C#. NOSTALGIA.December 19, 2011 06:22
Compiling Mono off battery power. Of course I never think to do it during the 16 hours a day that my notebook sits in my hotel room.December 18, 2011 22:52
Fellow Canadians the Barenaked Ladies at our Salesforce Xmas party last night. http://t.co/maIz7CiQDecember 17, 2011 20:35
First business cards I've had that I'm pumped about carrying with me. http://t.co/8KA2L83XDecember 17, 2011 02:07
Keep forgetting that being in the US means that Last.fm is free now.December 16, 2011 22:43
#iddqd RT @daneharrigan: I always code with godmode turned on.December 16, 2011 19:35
It's OSX 10.7 now and Dashboard's Dictionary widget still can't remember whether it's been set to dictionary or thesaurus across sessions.December 16, 2011 19:32
Grails on Heroku: http://news.ycombinator.com/it…December 15, 2011 18:55
Attempted to build a synth at GitHub last night. Impressive place. http://t.co/VJnqQfkHDecember 15, 2011 18:54
Really good explanation for why OSX clipboards don't work under Tmux: https://github.com/ChrisJohnse… (+ really good solution too)December 14, 2011 23:08
Swap bundled Vim for terminal MacVim on OSX: `ln -s /usr/local/bin/mvim /usr/local/bin/vim` (/usr/local/bin should be up there in $PATH)December 14, 2011 22:21
Just had to `ORDER BY strftime('%s', published_at)` in SQLite to properly order by a date column. I'm going to Postgres.December 14, 2011 19:35
No way!!! Look what I just found in the Heroku fridge. Someone has to be messing with me. http://t.co/HYny7F6SDecember 14, 2011 17:30
Just went to the SF Reddit meetup. Neither the guy from Apple, nor the guy from Google, nor the guy from Netflix knew who Heroku was. #wtfDecember 14, 2011 06:39
I proofread e-mails after sending them instead of before. And it's got to stop.December 13, 2011 18:12
Went to a Japanese style bath in Japantown. Extremely relaxing. http://www.kabukisprings.com/i…December 13, 2011 07:43
Is there a legal limit to the maximum duration of a car alarm? If not, there should be.December 12, 2011 02:34
A customer went nuts in the cafe this morning. Afterwards, the workers were worried he'd leave a bad Yelp review of all things. That's SF.December 11, 2011 17:15
The pavement here is terrible for boarding. Hit someone's littered mustard packet on the way back too. Wasn't pretty.December 11, 2011 16:08
First time I've managed to find one of these since leaving Japan. Love Japantown. http://t.co/nRuZ8xZ5December 10, 2011 23:52
When the Internet goes down here, everyone reaches into their bags and pulls out MiFis. Pretty funny to see.December 9, 2011 19:18
So, as it turns out, the US is pretty serious about the 10 day waiting period for a social security number.December 9, 2011 19:09
I should really start paying for a GitHub account. It'll be quite some time before I pay off what I owe them from drink ups anyway.December 9, 2011 17:21
Just got the new Twitter web. I like it, but for an instant when I first logged in, I thought I caught a fleeting glimpse of ... MySpace.December 9, 2011 04:05
View certificate information: `openssl x509 -text -in twitter_cert.pem`December 8, 2011 23:14
The Citadel, City 17. http://t.co/gmm81dpqDecember 8, 2011 23:12
Interesting in the new Twitter interface: handles (i.e. @fyrerise) are much less significant.December 8, 2011 21:30
Handy OpenSSL command for retrieving a site's certificate: `echo | openssl s_client -connect http://twitter.com:443 2>&1`December 8, 2011 20:42
Today I learned that ginger beer is totally gross.December 8, 2011 19:43
Trusted root certificates extracted from Mozilla's bundle: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caext…December 7, 2011 23:39
Not having to deal with a weakly typed language anymore is like finally walking into the light.December 7, 2011 23:26
Running Vmail under 1.9.2 instead of 1.9.3 makes a big difference. I use `rbenv local` with a dedicated mail directory.December 7, 2011 22:07
Arkona. http://t.co/jiK7xAoyDecember 7, 2011 06:37
Go all the way to Oakland to see Arkona, then they change the venue to DNA Lounge .. half a block from work. D-bag bands.December 7, 2011 05:27
Rule of thumb: if Vim crashes, it's probably because of Command-T.December 5, 2011 23:45
ChaotH from Unexpect playing Words on 9-string bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…December 5, 2011 03:54
Longboard reassembled. Now just have to wait for the buzz from this bulldog to wear off, then time to go cruising. http://t.co/YrLdzuiRDecember 5, 2011 02:12
Everytime I eat at TexMex I regret it, yet I just keep going back.December 5, 2011 02:07
Visa acquired!December 4, 2011 18:36
Thinking about starting a service where someone comes to your place and ruthlessly disposes of the stuff you don't need.December 3, 2011 17:12
Junk is evil. I'm floored by how much of it I've managed to accumulate.December 3, 2011 17:08
Path — still not sure what I'll do with it, but I sat there absorbed in its gorgeous UI for an unhealthy amount of time.December 3, 2011 04:06
Anyone curious about getting into Game of Thrones? Tweet me for a free complete set! http://t.co/2S7EPwapDecember 2, 2011 18:03
Girl from the moving co. came by. They once had a demand for a tub to be ripped out and shipped. Need to ship something epic like that.December 1, 2011 16:56
Learnt from /r/malefashionadvice: 1. Men's fashion forum exists. 2. Men's fashion is honest: don't request criticism unless you want it.December 1, 2011 16:50

November

It would be cool if @runkeeper included some sort of error correction, or at least error flagging. Pretty far off: http://runkeeper.com/user/fyre…November 30, 2011 15:55
Hotel bar closed at 12? Come on!!November 30, 2011 08:50
Reader's Cafe at Fort Mason. Chillest cafe I've ever been to in my life. http://t.co/IRJKoF4RNovember 30, 2011 01:40
Pendulum bobs for Long Now's clock. Right is aluminum test. Left is tungsten, denser than uranium, and very heavy. http://t.co/d7Qnp6J0November 30, 2011 00:29
Stopped in at @heroku for lunch: http://starving-samurai-42.tum…November 29, 2011 21:52
Plan B in case apartment hunt proves impossible. In SF, #occupy holds some nice oceanfront property near Market. http://t.co/XxGcv5lGNovember 29, 2011 16:37
Pic from my run this morning. The fog here is still cool to me. http://t.co/IP7eWja6November 29, 2011 16:29
Pan handlers here are crazy and extremely aggressive in some instances. I blame the rental market.November 29, 2011 16:28
I love SF because it seems like everyone who brought a laptop to the cafe is doing something interesting.November 28, 2011 16:03
Asked a girl who was moving out of her apartment yesterday what she was paying vs. the new list. $400 or 20% increase in less than a year.November 28, 2011 14:10
Getting an apartment in SF is hard. Getting an apartment in SF without a social security # or American bank account is even harder.November 28, 2011 14:08
.. so I asked about it today, and actually you can't select a seat, but are always sent to that screen anyway. Bad UX on a whole new level.November 27, 2011 13:47
Thought I was dumb for never being able to select a seat with United's self service terminals.November 27, 2011 13:46
Just found out about a Japanese metal band called Blood Stain Child ... and they are epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…November 26, 2011 04:14
Important article on creativity and isolation: http://blog.oxplot.com/2011/11… + HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/it…November 25, 2011 20:49
Back in #yyc. What's with this white stuff?November 24, 2011 23:29
Cannes from above (the famous theatre is the seaside building on the right). http://t.co/k7Vr5kdmNovember 23, 2011 17:32
Conditionally accepted for a Nexus pass.November 22, 2011 18:52
The superyacht Lady Moura was moored in Monaco. It has more in common with a cruise ship than other yachts, but is still only 24th largest.November 22, 2011 08:42
3. Not my kind of place. Changed ticket and am staying in Nice. Went to Monaco today instead.November 21, 2011 22:38
2. His first night, his mate's iPhone was snatched as he was using it. He suggested taking the metro to the hostel rather than walk 15 min.November 21, 2011 22:36
1. So about to leave for Merseilles today, and this guy walks in who was just there.November 21, 2011 22:34
On my way to Marseilles in an hour and I've just been informed by three different people that it's a complete shithole. Outstanding.November 21, 2011 13:26
The mass commercialization of hotspots is a tragedy.November 21, 2011 10:04
Sunrise in Nice. http://t.co/3k4vwEYNNovember 21, 2011 09:21
Almost got locked out of my hostel for the 2nd night in a row. At least it's pretty warm here. LOL.November 20, 2011 23:37
... but even so, boarding the Promenade des Anglais is about as good as it gets.November 20, 2011 16:30
Introducing "Titanic". Similar length, turning radius, and stopping distance as her namesake. http://t.co/vMWt1quXNovember 20, 2011 16:29
Nice la Belle. http://t.co/Ejnl3IgXNovember 20, 2011 12:51
Louvre was a lot better than expected. Hordes around the Mona Lisa, but elsewhere was okay. Breathtaking collection. http://t.co/cTFmekS7November 20, 2011 09:53
At a concert. On a boat. http://t.co/p7jrRnvPNovember 19, 2011 01:30
The only cheap thing to do in this entire city: http://t.co/dZcZB9xwNovember 18, 2011 19:06
Paris catacombs were the best €8 spent on this continent so far. They check your bag as you leave to make sure you didn't take a skull.November 18, 2011 19:04
Memento mori. http://t.co/DX76dorMNovember 18, 2011 17:53
First thing I saw in Paris above ground. http://t.co/9G7SCMKvNovember 17, 2011 18:04
Flight to Paris delayed 2h+. Probably because of mist. (This is why trains are better.)November 17, 2011 11:30
Booked a preview trip from YYC to SFO. Airfare cost: almost $800. Now looking at short notice Paris to Barcelona: $37.November 15, 2011 09:51
Gibson's Zero History didn't do much for me, but it did introduce some cool concepts. e.g. The secret brand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…November 14, 2011 23:09
Seriously considering booking a trip to SF with no hotels, and winging it with @HotelTonight for three or four days.November 14, 2011 21:39
Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.November 14, 2011 16:18
The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.November 14, 2011 16:18
Drunk hobo at the train station: http://t.co/BREqjMYqNovember 13, 2011 21:34
Prague. 4 am. Only time to catch the Charles Bridge unoccupied. http://t.co/FJZHFv8BNovember 11, 2011 03:13
If you plan on relying on an iPhone for navigation while outside network coverage, have a plan B.November 9, 2011 21:46
Just read this Wikipedia article on a famous Berlin artist squat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K…November 8, 2011 16:51
Travel protip: if you make it to Berlin, stay a week. It's one of the more interesting places on Earth.November 8, 2011 16:35
Whoah, @doctorow is also in Berlin today. Random!November 7, 2011 19:02
Next stop: Berlin.November 7, 2011 10:39
I just imagined what it must have been like resolving logistics for a European backpacking trip pre-Internet. It wasn't pretty.November 5, 2011 20:54
I really need to put my iPhone away and go write something.November 5, 2011 18:23
Coca-Cola tastes weird here.November 5, 2011 17:57
Just noticed that Freerides are now for sale: http://www.originalskateboards… If only I wasn't right in the middle of moving to a new city ... haha.November 4, 2011 17:37
To anyone else who's read SJ's bio, does the following line sound too familiar? "X started to cry" Do people actually cry that often?November 4, 2011 16:50
Finished Isaacson's Steve Jobs. This is the one book to read this year. Too many deep insights to count.November 4, 2011 16:47
Kobo battery life not quite as good as advertised. I think the 30 days metric comes with the assumption of 5 pages read per day.November 4, 2011 15:24
Just found out that parenthesis are called "brackets" in the UK. That sure explains a lot of the naming in my last company's search module.November 4, 2011 00:51
Gone from Belgium less than five hours and I already miss all the beer stores.November 3, 2011 19:15
Bruge should start a revolution and ban motorized vehicles from the inner city. One of the places where something so radical is possible.November 2, 2011 16:57
Cheese and 11.5% beer: http://t.co/h7H6AiyBNovember 1, 2011 21:45
Energy here is actually measured in kcal instead of our made up unit of Cal (with a capital 'C').November 1, 2011 21:34
Municipal pride. http://t.co/vwiOyLOfNovember 1, 2011 15:44
Rad hostel too. The lockers even have power outlets. Reading trip advisor beforehand was most definitely a good idea. http://t.co/3A87aQXYNovember 1, 2011 15:22
In Bruges.November 1, 2011 15:20

October

... and the audience that night: http://t.co/jq0krxKNOctober 31, 2011 23:12
Pretty cool pic of Matt's Amsterdam crew breaking. http://t.co/38dkYTt5October 31, 2011 23:10
I always admired SJ's old (1925) Spanish colonial revival mansion. Turns out he was involved in a legal battle so he could tear it down.October 31, 2011 21:59
Just noticed that Isaacson's biography contradicts Mona Simpson's eulogy on how she met Steve (introduced by lawyer vs. by mother).October 31, 2011 16:07
Use Rails' engines to share components between multiple apps: http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org…October 30, 2011 23:39
Occupy Amsterdam: http://t.co/YT1y7LJFOctober 30, 2011 22:03
Before DST it's now 5 AM here, but the streets are still jammed. No one ever goes to sleep.October 30, 2011 02:54
Imagine the footprint of a parking lot for the same number of cars.October 28, 2011 12:42
Bicycles. Amsterdam Central. http://t.co/D4RbNiG6October 28, 2011 12:41
I'm very late to the game, but I finally have a Google+ account.October 28, 2011 10:38
Sweet. Google+ finally available for Google Apps.October 28, 2011 09:54
Amsterdam is beautiful. So many bikes, so few cars. http://t.co/368qQxxEOctober 27, 2011 23:34
Reading my first book on the Kobo Touch and it's a great experience so far. Good book too. http://t.co/RpiJFOqWOctober 26, 2011 20:53
Delivered this morning. Really, really good timing: http://t.co/uZCa3Zg8October 26, 2011 18:27
iMessage is the ultimate social critique. Apple realized there's only 1 way for the public to stop SMSing: for them not to know they're not.October 26, 2011 01:33
My lasting contribution to @iStock (the search team adopted my peace lily): http://t.co/u7eOIV91October 25, 2011 21:48
Oh yah, and the new version of QuickSilver supports pseudo-Vim shortcuts (i.e. C-h/j/k/l).October 25, 2011 01:53
QuickSilver mastery in progress. Recommend plugins so far: 1password, Gmail, Dictionary, iTunes, Screen Capture, Extra, Image Manipulation.October 25, 2011 01:51
Mutt (the terminal mail client) is surprisingly unstable considering its age.October 24, 2011 22:54
200 hr standby time, 8/14 hr 3G/2G talk, 6/9 hr 3G/Wi-Fi Internet, 10 hr video, 40 hr music =~ 1 day light to medium usageOctober 23, 2011 17:11
Boarded down to finally take a photo of one of my favorite spots in Calgary: http://t.co/BsD1nAbQOctober 23, 2011 03:59
Awesome card with hand sewn surf board too. (thanks Lara!) http://t.co/2WEittmzOctober 23, 2011 03:37
Impromptu going away dinner with my oldest friends. Emotional moment for me. http://t.co/8mmds6KFOctober 23, 2011 03:26
The currency converters upstairs at Chinook would've given me a better rate on Euros than my bank (TD). 1.4424 vs. 1.4486 Lesson learnt.October 22, 2011 20:45
Has anybody ever successfully convinced a Hollister or Abercrombie store to turn down their crappy music?October 22, 2011 19:47
Long live the Palooza brothers.October 22, 2011 07:21
Introducing Silver Waiting. Check them out on tour pretty soon. http://t.co/0slTtSeYOctober 22, 2011 04:50
The girl at the café just gave me the lowdown on hair dreading for white people. Of course I'm doing it all wrong. Haha.October 22, 2011 00:29
I've been using iPhone 4S and iOS 5 for a week now, and I can't think of one negative thing to say. (This is totally unlike me)October 22, 2011 00:25
Really enjoyed Steve Yegge's article on Jeff Bozos: https://plus.google.com/u/0/11…October 21, 2011 22:05
iPhone is loaded with Lonely Planet phrase books. This is how I pretend that I'm prepared for stuff.October 19, 2011 06:40
Some time ago, I was introduced to post-rock. It's really nice, but what's even better? Post-METAL: http://kutkh.bandcamp.com/albu… (thanks @jeka!)October 19, 2011 05:13
Great #coffeeandcode. We should of started doing this years ago. @markhazlett @StbG @percyhanna @ekryski & @rhettdickson (there in spirit)October 19, 2011 05:05
Repeat last ex command in Vim: `@:`October 18, 2011 21:40
American Airlines and the negative bag-check fee: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix…October 18, 2011 05:58
Verdict: iPhone 4S and iOS 5 are major, major win. Goodbye Android.October 18, 2011 05:57
The most important article on Vim that you will ever read: http://blog.carbonfive.com/201…October 17, 2011 19:05
ANNOUNCE: I've accepted a position at Heroku down in San Francisco. So psyched.October 17, 2011 13:56
Made this Kobo case out of a Canada Post envelope and duct tape: http://flic.kr/p/awqBve Works better than the real thing!October 17, 2011 00:04
The lag on SSH over a 3g tether is killing me. Really need an ABORT LAST TWEET option in Bitlbee.October 16, 2011 22:48
Huh. After using Calibre to convert an EPUB for Kobo, you can never again adjust its margins from the reader. Bug is marked as "wontfix".October 16, 2011 15:35
Best part about HipMunk is when legs marked "Mystery Airline" show up.October 15, 2011 21:57
What if the FAA required jet aircraft be able to survive crashes into the ground? Passenger rail in the US: http://ebbc.org/rail/fra.htmlOctober 15, 2011 21:17
Bought a Kobo Touch (they're $10 off this weekend). Surprised at how nice the form factor and packaging is.October 15, 2011 21:05
Trying to rekindle my lost French via podcast.October 15, 2011 18:30
Reread Batman: The Long Halloween this morning. What a masterpiece.October 15, 2011 17:51
Is it just me or are the plots of Point Break and the first Fast and the Furious almost indistinguishable?October 14, 2011 03:25
Enjoyed reading Rework. Best advice was right at the end: inspiration has a shelf life.October 10, 2011 22:26
I like how Rework calls out "dead documents" in business: docs, charts, spreadsheets that take many hours to make, and seconds to forget.October 10, 2011 15:13
My bro and I went to go talk to a local St. Albert Star Wars painter. Tried to convince him to try this business model: http://afremov.comOctober 10, 2011 04:59
Did my fav Edmonton stuff while up for Thanksgiving at Grandma's: St. Albert farmers market, ate at Oodle Noodle, Whyte Ave cafe, Muttart.October 10, 2011 04:51
30 of 30 articles on the front page of HN are about SJ.October 6, 2011 02:38
Vim + DrawIt! + Ditaa = Diagram ownage (and nicely versionable too)October 5, 2011 22:40
When all the things I still need to do and to learn are thrown into sharp relief, being stuck on a problem gets even more frustrating.October 5, 2011 03:36
Refactored code base to use Devise because of stack overflow problem caused by Authlogic. Overflow still occurs. Authlogic was okay. Arg.October 4, 2011 04:17
My brother doing a presentation on Drangey and puffins at the fall feast: http://flic.kr/p/as7hsN Drangey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D…October 4, 2011 04:14
Nice of the Devise guys to provide instructions on moving Devise views from Erb to Haml *and* from Haml to Slim.October 3, 2011 03:50
One of the girls who did Snorri this year just became a notary public. So lucky! I've been looking for one of those.October 2, 2011 04:09
Bar tending at the annual Icelandic fall feast. Drinking on the job.October 2, 2011 00:34

September

Alyth Bridge pathway FINALLY RE-OPENED!! Best news for bikers all summer. http://bikecalgary.org/node/26…September 27, 2011 15:18
the longtime status of skateboarders as an oppressed ethnic group means that by now all of them are escape artists to some degree -SnowCrashSeptember 26, 2011 02:33
Wow. The satellite #UARS with 1 in 3200 odds of hitting someone as it returned to Earth landed near to us in Calgary (Okotoks). No injuries.September 24, 2011 17:12
I'm registered for SXSWi 2012. (Reminder: today is the last day for early bird pricing)September 23, 2011 15:51
Adding @factsproject as a favorite in Flipboard works astoundingly well. So well, that I doubt I'll bother with a custom iOS app anymore.September 23, 2011 06:49
The official Rspec docs should be replaced with this cheat sheet: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/…September 22, 2011 15:43
I don't think a Cron replacement that behaves in a predictable and reasonable fashion would be out of line.September 22, 2011 13:20
New project facts-twitter to tweet random facts: https://github.com/brandur/fac… Currently tweeting to: @factsprojectSeptember 22, 2011 07:11
A "feature" of Twitter's t.co URLs is that I can assume that any long URLs sent in to the API will occupy 20 characters on the other side.September 21, 2011 05:39
Authlogic still busted up in Rails 3.1. Should've gone with Devise.September 21, 2011 05:35
Wikipedia's "centuries articles" are pretty amazing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1…September 19, 2011 00:45
Evil genius: "fraudster Bernard Madoff filed Benford-compatible monthly returns" http://timharford.com/2011/09/…September 19, 2011 00:05
Developers should have to pass an exam to quality for using the `static` keyword. Have seen so many perfectly good classes butchered by it.September 16, 2011 17:54
Watched the Win 8 Metro vid: http://video.ch9.ms/ch9/a586/4… The future: 5 touches and 10 animations to accomplish the work of a single keystroke.September 14, 2011 23:33
Understanding old British curreny (i.e. pound, guinea, shilling, penny, sovereign, quid, pence, farthing, etc.): http://woodlands-junior.kent.s…September 14, 2011 16:35
Yesterday, read the first chapters of Catch-22 and Snow Crash at City Lights.September 11, 2011 13:16
Can my longboard come on the airplane with me? Investigation tonight: packing techniques and airline regulations.September 7, 2011 04:03
Introducing Parched: a very basic Git-backed wiki supporting code and Tex, written in Rails 3.1: https://github.com/brandur/par…September 7, 2011 03:56
I've been doing my Git commit messages so wrong: https://github.com/blog/926-sh…September 6, 2011 18:47
Zoned out listening to postrock.September 6, 2011 05:02
`scroll-mode` was removed for newer Tmux versions. Scrollback is now accessed via copy i.e. `C-b [` and paging up with Vim/Emacs shortcuts.September 5, 2011 20:46
Use `next` to leave a Rake task early (i.e. not `return` or `break`).September 5, 2011 00:58
As far as development is concerned, Ruby 1.9.3 preview is your best option. The faster startup times make a BIG difference.September 5, 2011 00:56
Just finished a The Statues that Walked, a book describing the history and moai of Easter Island to some depth. Highly recommended.September 3, 2011 22:24
MathJax doesn't fit into the asset pipeline very easily. Way better just to use the CDN.September 2, 2011 17:26

August

Postgres' semantic parsing is a single file of thirteen thousand LOCs. Whoah.August 31, 2011 02:43
Yesod 0.9 released: http://j.mp/yesod-09 Recommended deploy is just a compiled binary, Nginx no longer req'd to serve static files quickly.August 29, 2011 17:42
FINALLY finished up the A Song of Fire and Ice series (so far). Now to do something productive.August 27, 2011 20:22
Learning to longboard switch is like starting to board all over again. At least the weather is accommodating!August 25, 2011 04:57
Introducing the Original Freeride 38 & 41: http://youtu.be/OW-J2pQrlsw Please, take my money.August 23, 2011 16:48
I'm sold. http://imakewebthings.github.c… Keynote & Powerpoint: goodbye forever.August 23, 2011 15:43
For clarity: the reasoning behind that last date parsing snippet is that August 2nd is the 214th day of the current year.August 22, 2011 03:46
Ruby: `Date.parse("Ca. 214 B.C.")` --> Tue, 02 Aug 2011. The parser may be a little too forgiving.August 22, 2011 03:31
Seriously, what are the chances: http://flic.kr/p/aexQMrAugust 20, 2011 03:26
Listening to CJSW's metal program right now. It's good to know there's one good radio station in Calgary: http://cjsw.com/program/rage-c…August 19, 2011 07:00
"invalid byte sequence in UTF-8" I hate to speak ill of one of my fav languages, but Ruby 1.9's encoding handling is kinda fail.August 19, 2011 01:09
Anyone know off-hand how Google+ loads image albums so quickly? If not, investigation tonight.August 18, 2011 20:49
Surprisingly, I'm running into far fewer problems with Flash and Chromium after moving from Archlinux i686 to x64.August 16, 2011 20:12
3 SUP surf boards, 2 kayaks, 1 small truck. Ridiculous packing job by my coworker from last weekend: http://flic.kr/p/adDFJAAugust 16, 2011 18:07
Have SSH share sessions for fast scp/ssh init. Add two lines to `.ssh/config`: ``` ControlMaster auto ControlPath /tmp/ssh_mux_%h_%p_%r ```August 16, 2011 17:58
The Postgres parser is built on Bison/Flex: http://j.mp/pUy8KD (scan.l) Use those tools to write your own language: http://j.mp/mStmRPAugust 15, 2011 23:23
Wasted 2h on VMWare thanks to issues like no support for 2 part kernel versions (3.0 vs 3.0.1). Gave up and had Virtualbox going in <10m.August 15, 2011 21:54
Is it possible to deprogram corporate writers from Microsoft Word and over to an portable/versionable format like Markdown or LaTeX?August 15, 2011 21:41
Started boarding to Kensington despite looming shadows hanging overhead. Now hiding from this: http://flic.kr/p/acc3ChAugust 11, 2011 23:16
Moved from 'A Feast for Crows' to 'A Dance With Dragons' today. Last book before a 5+ year hiatus while GRRM writes the next one.August 11, 2011 22:14
♫ Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate! http://flic.kr/p/ab1zUz (Bow river boating w/ awesome flag)August 8, 2011 13:40
Awesome jazz duo (with an occasional dancer) playing at Waves coffee house right now. #yycAugust 7, 2011 02:53
Beautiful. The Fountain's Together We Will Live Forever (guitar cover): http://youtu.be/VH7pp2BXGC0August 6, 2011 19:22
Bitlbee's OTR feels like more trouble than it's worth. `set otr_policy manual` or `set otr_policy never` will slow it down.August 3, 2011 21:48
Subtleties of the X clipboard: http://mutelight.org/a/x-clipb… (+ how to setup a consistent system clipboard)August 3, 2011 20:38
Reading history: http://brandur.org/books (okay, I better work on another project for a while)August 3, 2011 03:47
Chrome's new "Lion scrollbars" on OSX are kinda gross.August 2, 2011 01:17
Reddit has an active longboarding subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/longboardi… The hivemind seems to hate Original (what I board, haha).August 1, 2011 18:55
Moved http://brandur.org over to Columnal; now looks way better on narrow viewports. Columnal makes grid-based layouts make sense (finally).August 1, 2011 02:11
Going forward, all my projects will be using this: http://www.columnal.com/August 1, 2011 01:43

July

Signature capture via FaceTime app in OSX Lion: http://j.mp/prF6M1July 31, 2011 18:20
Just launched a cleaner version of http://brandur.orgJuly 31, 2011 08:13
Met a ton of native speakers of Spanish tonight -- great for my "maybe one day" ambition to learn the language.July 31, 2011 07:45
Steve Yegge on cat pictures, data, and getting interested in hard problems: http://youtu.be/vKmQW_Nkfk8July 27, 2011 15:59
Took all night, but I redid my Facts command line interface with better docs and to leverage Thor: https://github.com/brandur/fac…July 26, 2011 04:28
For a nice laugh on data warehousing and "enterprisey software", go to page 54: http://tigerorigami.com/slides…July 25, 2011 18:03
`slock` is hands down both the best, and scariest, screen lock program ever. Locked state is a perfectly black screen with no prompt.July 25, 2011 13:36
Those eroded trails through grass (along the shortest path from A to B) are called desire paths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D…July 22, 2011 05:14
Spent wayyyyy too much time tonight researching unicode.July 22, 2011 03:49
My Practical Tmux article gets a number of views, so I pushed my Tmux conf and launcher to GitHub: https://github.com/brandur/tmu…July 21, 2011 23:12
Merged a patch from an awesome dude on GitHub for Mutelight: had some extra HTML in the conf section of my Tmux article. Social coding FTW!July 21, 2011 15:05
Compiled my first C++0x program tonight. Using a lambda in C++ feels pretty good.July 21, 2011 01:55
Really loving somafm's Space Station channel recently: http://somafm.com/spacestation…July 20, 2011 19:30
Just moved all my repos from github.com/fyrerise to github.com/brandur in case anyone was looking (thanks @github!)July 20, 2011 15:19
"the IRS actually has a permanent office within the Google compound because they audit them year-round" 2.4% tax how to: http://j.mp/o1sC87July 20, 2011 06:24
Just noticed today, but as of Ruby 1.9.2, $LOAD_PATH no longer includes '.' (for reasons of robustness, and being deemed a security risk)July 18, 2011 17:39
I especially love open source projects where the link to the source code is BIG, and right on the homepage.July 18, 2011 16:36
Faux named queues with Gearman: http://mutelight.org/a/named-g…July 18, 2011 01:28
Fireworks AND lightning tonight. #awesomeJuly 17, 2011 04:41
Just got told no boarding on Stephen Ave by 4 cops cruising along on their bikes. #doublestandardJuly 15, 2011 23:49
The Objective-C retain property pattern: http://mutelight.org/a/retainJuly 14, 2011 17:21
Cocoa: release objects created using methods starting w/ "alloc" or "new", or containing "copy". Objs from class methods often autoreleased.July 14, 2011 05:08
Read about MessagePack today: http://msgpack.org/ Efficient message serialization claiming to be faster than protocol buffers.July 13, 2011 14:32
Zend tip: table abstract's _primary field is lazily initialized, and only in some cases like an insert. Force init w/ _setupPrimaryKey().July 12, 2011 14:25
Think I finally get UITableViewController. The secret is that it's both UITableViewDataSource & UITableViewDelegate itself automatically.July 12, 2011 12:42
Awesome. My brother just pointed out that there's an island south of Iceland called Brandur: http://j.mp/brandurJuly 11, 2011 14:48
Agalloch is the perfect ambient metal for writing an iPhone app. Actually feeling like I'm making progress today.July 11, 2011 00:02
If you're ever left with extra breakpoints in Vim that the DBGp plugin can't remove, try `:sign unplace` or `:sign unplace *`.July 8, 2011 15:56
I'm starting to have doubts that Gearman is production ready. No way to have multiple queues on a server/cluster?July 8, 2011 13:54
Amazon Cloud Drive's MP3 storage looks awesome, but has no API and the multifile upload (Cloud Player) gives Canadians the runaround!July 8, 2011 03:35
How to really start appreciating Git's staging area, `--amend`, and `git rebase` --> use Subversion.July 5, 2011 15:21
Apple's developer docs put Microsoft and the MSDN to shame.July 4, 2011 01:51
Want the tab for this! RT @foojie Game of Thrones Title Theme (Acoustic Guitar) - Ramin Djawadi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… via @youtubeJuly 4, 2011 01:40

June

Next guitar project is Asturias by Isaac Albeniz. It's way too ambitious, but Youtube helps a lot: http://youtu.be/9efHwnFAkuAJune 27, 2011 01:56
Regressing from .sass to .scss as default syntax is crazy.June 23, 2011 13:48
OMFG, just realized what Ctrl+S is useful for. Freezing screen while terminal output is scrolling by really fast! Wasn't obvious to me.June 22, 2011 14:21
Rails 3.1 asset mgmt. and Coffee/Sass/jQuery integration is killer. All inconveniences of working with vanilla Rails are gone (except erb).June 22, 2011 03:45
.@dickysum Haha, technically summer is more like 3 months. I meant that the whole spring/summer season is ~2 months here though!June 22, 2011 03:08
At cafe trying to code, but can't focus. Too nice outside. Luckily #yyc summer is so short that you max out at two unproductive months.June 22, 2011 02:15
Worse yet @exdevlin, #winteriscoming. I try to enjoy every day over 10C in this city ;)June 22, 2011 02:07
Got passed by a wicked longboarder today. Matched him for speed & carves. Then he pulled out tricks and extreme hairpin turns. GG.June 22, 2011 01:52
Was feeling pretty good about my longboarding tonight so I decided try to teach myself to board goofy. Dangerous.June 21, 2011 05:16
Caught the last two hours of the Comic Expo, and Q&A w/ Jonathan Frakes and the Guild. These days, Calgary's on the map. It's big.June 20, 2011 05:30
That is, from the perspective of any given end user, not in total of course.June 19, 2011 01:20
Still don't really understand how pretty much any usenet provider has better network throughput than Apple/Steam/Google combined.June 19, 2011 01:18
"the Clock in the mountain keeps time even when we pretend the past did not happen and the future will not come." http://longnow.org/clock/June 18, 2011 22:04
Simple side-by-side live and sandbox Rails deployment with Nginx and Phusion Passenger: http://mutelight.org/a/simple-…June 17, 2011 22:44
Actually agree with Zed: "You are much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession."June 16, 2011 19:42
Dear Marvel: Give us a movie worth caring about: http://mutelight.org/a/marvelJune 14, 2011 01:36
So sweet that PHP includes an '@' error suppression operator for easy & purely opaque abuse.June 13, 2011 19:38
I'm sure that wherever I decided to put all my guitar picks seemed perfectly logical at the time.June 10, 2011 04:10
Sweet! Yesod packages finally stable enough on Cabal to install and run.June 9, 2011 15:38
Think or Swim + Awesome WM + terminal apps for everything = pretty badass http://flic.kr/p/9RqaWUJune 8, 2011 16:40
1 LOC in Haskell or Ruby is 4 LOCs in C# and 8+ LOCs in PHP.June 8, 2011 16:23
Thumb typing keyboard for iPad in iOS 5 finally! Might actually be able to type on it now.June 6, 2011 18:08
Amazing site with info the Hindenburg and other Zeppelins: http://www.airships.net/June 6, 2011 07:43
Looks like Google's new schema.org microdata format http://j.mp/schemaorg is working with the new HTML5 draft: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/June 3, 2011 01:45
Got in a nice tennis rally tonight vs. @markhazlett, then cruised in the park on the longboard as long as I could.June 1, 2011 05:13

May

What I learned about JavaScript by breaking a top 200 website: http://mutelight.org/a/ie-jsMay 31, 2011 23:29
Royal Board Shop in Calgary runs longboard clinics on Wednesday and Saturday night rides: http://royalboardshop.com/blog…May 31, 2011 07:12
It's beautiful longboarding after sunset. Finally got a helmet, and did my first set of hill runs today.May 31, 2011 05:10
Added Google/Bing/Yahoo sitemap support to Askja after working with them on a much larger scale at work: http://j.mp/lo7eJMMay 31, 2011 01:37
TIL that longboarders can use a technique called "pumping" to board up to 390km along flat land without taking a foot off the board.May 31, 2011 00:38
Looked at the Bow River recently? It's pretty high right now: http://flic.kr/p/9MRnjuMay 28, 2011 22:54
Has IT blocked Exchange's IMAP because open protocols are scary? Try DavMail.May 27, 2011 05:16
I'm the newest member of the Calgary Tennis Club. A week ago I didn't even know that there was a Calgary Tennis Club.May 25, 2011 12:32
(wow!) RT @markhazlett Crazy awesome video from the Calgary Camera Store http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… "We take photography very seriously"May 24, 2011 03:23
Coming to terms with the fact that Facebook just may be the best way to find new symphonic metal releases: http://j.mp/symphonicmetal2011May 24, 2011 01:40
Most unproductive weekend ever ... longboarding was fun though. Compensating by committing goals to paper for this coming week.May 24, 2011 01:24
Activated a Linode instance to replace my EC2 Micro. So far about a million times faster give or take an order of magnitude or two.May 19, 2011 23:06
Can't believe how easy it is to get jQuery + easing + scrollTo + localScroll working together. Four includes and one line of code.May 18, 2011 03:11
(and in Ctrl's place!) RT @shancarter: Apple works hard to remove the trackpad button, but then leaves this useless "fn" key on all laptops?May 17, 2011 21:02
Remove Chrome's smack-to-the-face-intense border around active fields: *:focus { outline: none; }May 17, 2011 04:15
"a Surfraw liberateur is capable of navigating speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder" http://j.mp/surfrawMay 17, 2011 01:22
Finally using CSS reset for new projects. Better late than never I suppose. http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools…May 16, 2011 05:23
Rspec is the way that testing was meant to be done.May 16, 2011 03:13
Oh man, just got major pwned by Rails' `resource` vs. `resources` (plural) gotcha in routing configuration.May 16, 2011 01:12
Browsing Restoration Hardware makes me want to buy a place just so that I can decorate it. Cool steampunkish collection in now.May 14, 2011 22:03
Just learnt about Vim's `q:` and `q/` (edit ex and search like a normal Vim buffer). Talk about the missing link.May 11, 2011 14:41
I'm not a big Wordpress person, but I'm a fan of how child themes work for customizing basic themes: http://codex.wordpress.org/Chi…May 10, 2011 03:05
Foreman, a process manager for local development: http://j.mp/l3TFDF (super useful for a Rails app running Redis, delayed_job, etc.)May 10, 2011 02:23
Gtags (GNU Global) does a *much* better job than Ctags for a large PHP codebase (also, very fast incremental DB updates).May 6, 2011 20:20
`:cq` will exit Vim with an error code (aborting commits, rebases and such).May 4, 2011 16:27
SVN can't handle tracking a copy/move that's already occurred: http://stackoverflow.com/q/221… The case for Git/Hg kind of makes itself.May 4, 2011 16:19
dbext: The Last SQL Client You'll Ever Need: http://mutelight.org/a/dbext, part one of the Masters of Vim series: http://mutelight.org/s/vimMay 4, 2011 05:28
Hated to do it, but I killed transparency w/ xcompmgr/AwesomeWM. Too slow/buggy.May 2, 2011 17:29

April

Ate at Oodle Noodle on Whyte Ave. Edmonton is pretty cool when not buried in snow.April 30, 2011 18:24
Minimal guide to debugging PHP with XDebug and Vim: http://mutelight.org/a/xdebugApril 29, 2011 22:03
The Rails Guides are *really* good these days: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/April 29, 2011 15:49
Redesigned my blog Mutelight: http://mutelight.org/a/redesig… (now actually readable!)April 29, 2011 04:18
Whoah. I think I only just realized how truly amazing `git rebase` is.April 29, 2011 02:17
Parentheses-enclosed parts of MSDN links are optional e.g. (VS.*) in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u…April 28, 2011 01:25
Portal 2 is pure genius.April 22, 2011 21:38
Prevent iTunes from backing up devices: `defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true` (useful for small MBA HDs)April 22, 2011 14:16
Problems in PHP tend to be solved by nesting more arrays.April 20, 2011 21:00
I hate to repost Reddit, but this is just so great: http://i.imgur.com/SGo8r.png ("Cycling listening to Daft Punk")April 20, 2011 14:05
Turns out that army surplus is a great place to pick up messenger bags.April 18, 2011 19:36
So far HBO's #gameofthrones is living up to the source material. The production quality is ridiculous.April 18, 2011 12:07
Fellow Redditor @catsfive said hi at @kawacalgary today. Good meeting you man!April 17, 2011 21:22
How to detect the Konami code with Rx (reactive extensions): http://j.mp/fJ7vXIApril 14, 2011 00:19
Free Kinects for all #mix11 attendees!! I'm a huge Microsoft fan suddenly.April 13, 2011 18:07
. @ryanjanzen: "my enunciation is killing me. I asked for a paralyzer, he have me a budweiser."April 13, 2011 04:14
Running Node.JS/Ruby/Python on Azure is a noble idea, but it's sure a lot of work! #mix11April 12, 2011 22:41
I get even more inspired at #mix11 than at #sxsw. I can't explain this.April 12, 2011 21:16
For the first time, have seen people use Ctrl-Z/`fg` in practice. It seems to be mainly used to multitask by ppl who don't use Screen/Tmux.April 8, 2011 21:18
Just wrote a simple Vim plugin for working in PHP with Zend: https://github.com/brandur/zen…April 7, 2011 06:18
Trying to build a Vim plugin makes me wish I was an Emacs user.April 7, 2011 03:59
Just discovered what the Thor gem does today. Will be using it for all current and future command line interface projects.April 5, 2011 03:47
Classic statement and response on use of `grep` in Tron Legacy: http://news.ycombinator.com/it…April 4, 2011 04:43
Really like this guy's personal site and Tron legacy article: http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178 Jealous.April 4, 2011 04:40
I was a skeptic, but RVM (Ruby Version Manager) is just as cool as people say.April 1, 2011 16:56

March

Huge advantage to using the Google font APIs: sites look consistent even across Linux boxes with minimal or strange looking fonts installed.March 30, 2011 15:37
My favorite line from one of my favorite books (Catch-22): http://brandur.org/favorsMarch 30, 2011 07:39
In .vimrc, `filetype off` and `filetype plugin indent on` should come after calls to Pathogen for bundles' `ftdetect` dirs to be loaded.March 30, 2011 02:49
Got my first company sponsored massage today. Now I'm hooked.March 29, 2011 20:48
Practical tmux: http://mutelight.org/a/42 (I'm now switched completely from GNU Screen to tmux. Here's how to lower the barrier of entry.)March 29, 2011 05:44
Most software companies share this much in common: documentation is wishful thinking. For the real story, go to the code.March 28, 2011 18:11
TMUX, new base session: `tmux new -s bbox`. New session that shares windows with the base session: `tmux new -t bbox`.March 28, 2011 16:25
Start window numbering at 1 in TMUX: `set -g base-index 1`March 28, 2011 15:56
Don't ask me why I do these things, but here is a page containing every single one of tweets ever: http://brandur.org/twitter (and a graph)March 28, 2011 03:40
Wrote some simple Ruby loaders for tweet backups from Tweetake & TweetScan: http://j.mp/fgg3wzMarch 28, 2011 01:57
Just played Sword & Sworcery for iPad, an 8-bit RPG. Such a great experience.March 27, 2011 23:03
Read up more on iOS firmware, signing, SHSH blobs, and jailbreaking than I ever really wanted to know. Apple is pretty much the worst.March 27, 2011 22:02
Anyone going to (or at) the Reddit meetup in Calgary tonight?March 27, 2011 02:29
Thank-you BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl… The media is running a smear campaign on nuclear power, and that's bad for us all.March 26, 2011 22:11
I hadn't seen this before, and it's awesome: https://github.com/404notfound (move mouse inside image)March 24, 2011 15:19
To get Xdebug under PHP working, make sure to disable the Zend debugger first. 'There can only be one' applies to debuggers too.March 23, 2011 22:05
In PHP a method call after object instantiation e.g. new Actor()->act() isn't possible for no particular reason. Entire language is a hack.March 23, 2011 19:24
Fixed Vim's backspace in urxvt with `stty erase ^?` from the terminal.March 22, 2011 16:19
Finally took the time to learn dbext for Vim yesterday. Massive boost to database productivity.March 22, 2011 16:17
Finally got Vim buffers/Xorg clipboard/GNU Screen buffers interacting properly. See the Fakeclip plugin for Vim.March 21, 2011 16:12
I generally love the service, but I swear that Amazon's EC2 instances are actually getting slower.March 20, 2011 19:54
Let's hope that Americans are smarter than Canadians are, and this monopolistic sale gets blocked: http://j.mp/dIPxLOMarch 20, 2011 19:20
The South by Southwest Experience: http://mutelight.org/a/41March 20, 2011 00:35
Mobility: http://mutelight.org/a/40March 20, 2011 00:34
Summary of first week of new job --> day one: awesome, day two: awesome, day (+ night) three: REALLY awesome. Going to like it here.March 19, 2011 23:09
I'm really missing Austin's scrumptious Mexican food right now.March 19, 2011 22:45
Today, forced myself to learn and use a tiling window manager (Awesome WM). This kind of thing always hurts in the beginning.March 18, 2011 01:59
Wasn't obvious to me: under Archlinux, `startx` script comes with the `xorg-xinit` package.March 17, 2011 17:08
Simplest solution for keep shell aliases when using `sudo`: http://j.mp/icPPH5March 17, 2011 16:23
Got my haircut yesterday at Birds Barbershop on Congress. Me: is this where the hipsters get their hair cut? Them: yes.March 16, 2011 13:38
#ie9party #swsx is rad, but I'd need quite a number more of these before considering #ie as a valid browser option, ... even while drunk.March 15, 2011 04:06
Was reading treets for like twenty minutes before realizing that I was in Mystery's proverbial death row. Reintegrating into society now.March 15, 2011 03:36
This guy next to me is using his ipad 2 as a periscope. #sxswMarch 14, 2011 16:44
My cousin drove me by Michael Dell's house. It's epic. Looks like he's digging up a few sq kms of property to build a monolithic monument.March 14, 2011 01:30
Workaround and updates for the Swype word correction issues in Gingerbread: http://j.mp/g08AqrMarch 13, 2011 22:03
First round of #sxsw sessions this morning were sabotaged: already hard to make because of Saturday night, and then DST gets thrown in.March 13, 2011 16:02
Some locals told me that Michael Cera is in Austin for SXSW Film. Michael: Canadian meetup?? ;)March 13, 2011 14:53
This performance at the Phoenix last night was really cool: http://flic.kr/p/9q3gvAMarch 13, 2011 14:50
The Converse All Star shoes outnumber the people in Austin.March 12, 2011 23:26
At Etsy: Code as Craft at Venue 222 #notsxswMarch 12, 2011 22:13
Tired. Kind of wish that monster energy guys were on the road again today. #sxswMarch 12, 2011 18:17
South by South Best joked not to speak to anyone with fewer followers or less VC than myself. Turns out this is easy for me, lol. #sxswMarch 12, 2011 09:07
Had a nice conversation today with @notinla about IP-based geolocation. Nice to consider something I hadn't worked with in 5+ years. #sxswMarch 12, 2011 08:53
Pleasure to meet @ksullan and @hellofisher at @222austin tonight. I missed an amp catching fire earlier too. This place is great. #sxswMarch 12, 2011 08:45
Randomly met up with some other Calgarians at #sxsw: @jimbones & @graemeduckett. They told me to join Beluga.March 11, 2011 19:36
What's Beluga?March 11, 2011 19:27
Just finished up at the really cool @aboutdotme booth at #sxsw: http://about.me/brandur Met @michelle_olivia & @evandeaubl.March 11, 2011 17:13
I think I'm the one guy here who paid to get in. Met girls who got in free with class. Next up: someone who found a badge in their cereal.March 11, 2011 15:55
Even Nexus had a lineup today.March 10, 2011 13:32
Greatly successful departure party. Never seen a group of ~20 people overpay on the tab before. Thanks everyone + @kerv @ryanjanzen @cyau25March 10, 2011 04:47
"I'm going to need your gun, and your badge." http://flic.kr/p/9p9yiJMarch 9, 2011 18:21
In my last ever Mentor iteration demo. I think they call this "bittersweet".March 8, 2011 22:44
oh: what if jason agrees to go against you in his supertight jumpsuit?March 6, 2011 06:50
Never seen ski conditions like this before.March 4, 2011 17:16
Nirvana: http://yfrog.com/hs8scbkj 13cm last 24hr (and increasing rapidly). 105cm last 7 days.March 4, 2011 15:03
Business cards are obsolete. Can't wait to Bump my contact info to people at #sxsw: http://youtu.be/hx3FC_DWsGQMarch 3, 2011 01:03
Android #Gingerbread: music app's scrubber still completely worthless. Come on Google, you're smart, just copy the iPhone already.March 2, 2011 17:45
Gingerbread is sleek -- finally a phone with a dark/black theme. The screen off animation is cool too: http://youtu.be/-Lv1p4TvRw4March 2, 2011 16:32
There's a bug in how Chrome displays CSS3 columns at short widths, and it's not clear how to work around it. http://j.mp/gMY11xMarch 2, 2011 14:59
Awesome. Use the 'whenever' gem for periodic tasks in Rails: https://github.com/javan/whene…March 2, 2011 07:23
Some nights I get so much done in Rails that I wonder why I'd use any other technology.March 2, 2011 05:52
The barista at @kawacalgary is a genius: (soy) mocha with Kahlúa and whiskey.March 2, 2011 05:16
I fixed a problem with Highcharts expanding out of its box in a column layout by styling its layer with { overflow: hidden; }March 2, 2011 02:43

February

Improvised karaoke: http://flic.kr/p/9mEXWq (2x iPhone 4 + Youtube)February 28, 2011 04:48
I was getting a little worried about Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, but like Blood and Sand, the finale was *EPIC*!February 27, 2011 17:05
Nick Ring wins by unanimous decision! An exciting day for Calgary and Canada. #ufc127February 27, 2011 02:29
Dear @readability, please consider fixing this: http://flic.kr/p/9mej4S Before, I could use your app to read wide pages in small windows.February 26, 2011 19:27
Today I learned about fontsquirrel.com, widespread @font-face support, and the Google font APIs. Definitely an eye opener.February 23, 2011 20:34
Just joined Quora. Looks interesting, and hopefully useful too: http://www.quora.com/Brandur-L…February 22, 2011 16:12
It just struck me that I'm going to be a PHP coder again. http://najafali.com/php-is-bet…February 21, 2011 21:13
For the first time in a while, I have several good ideas and the motivation to build them. Vacation works.February 20, 2011 21:22
Waiting for the ticket office to open at #sunshineFebruary 19, 2011 16:47
You can use e-mail to reply to Facebook messages now?! How great is that?February 16, 2011 18:15
The metal umlaut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M… (e.g. Dëthkløk)February 15, 2011 03:49
Quick notes on SQL's `LIKE` operator (from Use the Index Luke!) http://j.mp/gUJgtF: http://facts.brandur.org/compu…February 14, 2011 18:23
After relying on surfing and skiing for all my exercise for three weeks, it's back to reality. Going to the gym.February 14, 2011 00:05
#hwy1 east of Golden moving again! /cc @DriveBCFebruary 13, 2011 06:19
just made it through before highway 1 between revelstoke and golden closed due to avalanche. now stuck in golden. brutal driving today.February 13, 2011 05:12
Greeting cards have been needing a refresh for a LONG time and here it is: http://www.chirply.com/ (why didn't I think of this)February 10, 2011 01:47
Just realized I missed a whole bunch of @ mentions in the last few weeks. Sorry people.February 7, 2011 23:34
Powder conditions at Silver Star! EXTREME. Should be a wicked week.February 7, 2011 01:36
Guiones, the home of howler monkeys, bonfires, and turtle hatchlings: http://surf.brandur.org/articl…February 4, 2011 21:25
Extend Vimperator to have an image source copy action with ';m' http://j.mp/ejlk47February 4, 2011 21:24
DSH, (kind of) like LINQ for Haskell, but safer: http://hackage.haskell.org/pac…February 4, 2011 01:35

January

I find out every vacation the hard way that waterproof sunscreen actually isn't.January 30, 2011 19:32
Experiencing serious Internet blackout since arriving in Santa Teresa, more soon!January 28, 2011 18:57
Listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack from my oceanside hammock. This is the life.January 27, 2011 00:10
Belgian fire: http://surf.brandur.org/a/fireJanuary 24, 2011 07:11
The Shortcut (or, the perils between Tamarindo and Guiones): http://surf.brandur.org/a/shor…January 23, 2011 23:25
On the importance of rash guards: http://surf.brandur.org/a/rash…January 23, 2011 22:18
Day One: http://surf.brandur.org/a/oneJanuary 22, 2011 06:08
Tamarindo, and meeting the tour's crew: http://surf.brandur.org/articl… (also, I'm going to bed, it's 6:00 AM)January 21, 2011 11:53
If anyone has the time, check out my new blog about surfing Costa Rica! http://surf.brandur.org/January 21, 2011 11:52
Am officially booked and registered for #SXSW Interactive 2011. Anyone else from #yyc going to be there?January 20, 2011 21:41
I feel like someone just made off with my wallet. Boingo is the worst.January 20, 2011 21:40
Couldn't even feel my Tetanus shot all day yesterday when I got it, but I wake up today and it's aching hardcore.January 18, 2011 15:02
Had a nice discussion about suburbia at the cafe today, and remembered this TED talk, "places not worth caring about": http://j.mp/Mgr2dJanuary 17, 2011 06:06
Had a very cold photography run in Fish Creek this morning with @dickysum and field tested my new Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 ultrawide lens.January 17, 2011 05:10
Imagine the power of Erlang's live hot swapping with a fully integrated IDE like Visual Studio.January 14, 2011 16:10
The rad song near the end of the Sucker Punch trailer is Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups: http://youtu.be/HFFGguX2SZMJanuary 12, 2011 04:33
My new favorite blog: http://artofmanliness.com/January 12, 2011 03:15
I get mail at brandur@facebook.com. I'm not a big Facebook fanatic, but that's pretty cool. All thanks to Project Titan.January 12, 2011 00:43
One thing I've learnt about CSS is that it goes from clean to an unmitigable disaster faster than any other language.January 4, 2011 04:08
Beautiful "Icelandic Dragon Sword" calligraphy courtesy of @dickysum.January 3, 2011 02:41
Just call me MacGyver: http://flic.kr/p/96MqCz (breaks caused by the guys who installed our new desks)January 2, 2011 19:27
"Icelandic Dragon Sword", since my actual name can't be written in Chinese: http://flic.kr/p/96QshNJanuary 2, 2011 18:34
The spammers are winning the game of Internet search: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=205…January 2, 2011 04:05
Eating multiple meals at West Ed's food court to replace spent energy.January 1, 2011 20:39

2010

December

Black Swan is the ballet of movies. No one really gets it, but it's classy to pretend to.December 31, 2010 17:00
Using the little-known built-in .NET JSON parser: http://mutelight.org/a/40December 29, 2010 19:54
A barista was telling us how the network went down and wreaked havoc at the registers. It made me want to build the Git for point of sale.December 29, 2010 19:01
TIL compound adjectives with ill, best, better, little, lesser, well, etc., take hyphens: little-known author, best-seller list, etc.December 29, 2010 18:49
Guide to installing XBMC and Ubuntu on an Acer Revo: http://mutelight.org/a/39 (including screenshots of Aeon!)December 28, 2010 04:50
Aeon65 for XBMC is unreal: https://github.com/pix/aeon/wi… (best part: no mouse support)December 27, 2010 06:16
Christmas was over fast!December 27, 2010 05:51
Twitter really needs a 'quick!!! edit spelling in last tweet' button. Or I need to proofread more. Whatever.December 22, 2010 06:39
Facebook doesn't keep chat history?! They've really got not excuse with Infrastructure this clever: http://j.mp/fWVO2HDecember 22, 2010 06:19
My new watch: http://j.mp/gIUblc We'll see how it fairs given two weeks in the sea.December 21, 2010 17:36
The Tron Legacy soundtrack is awesome, but it sounds a lot more like a movie soundtrack than it does Daft Punk.December 20, 2010 19:35
Swype for advanced users: http://mutelight.org/a/38 (same content as the tips and tricks videos, but faster!)December 20, 2010 05:10
A plug for Swype: http://mutelight.org/a/37December 19, 2010 21:08
Getting closer to having my Jan/Feb vacation booked. Surf camp in Costa Rica: http://j.mp/hRZFtZDecember 19, 2010 19:23
We have a winner: KeyRemap4MacBook. Look for Remap Fn Key --> FN to Control_L (+ Command_R+FN to FN).December 19, 2010 19:13
Seriously wish the Control button on Mac keyboards was bigger. The fn button be hidden underneath the casing for all I care.December 19, 2010 18:59
Comments on "Leaving .NET": http://mutelight.org/a/36December 17, 2010 00:53
So much for my daily blogging habits. I'm averaging only one post every few weeks.December 15, 2010 23:51
Simultaneous Oracle and SQL Server support in Entity Framework with designer generated objects: http://mutelight.org/a/35December 15, 2010 23:47
If you read one article about .NET make it this one: http://j.mp/b9wZz1 The worst part is that most .NET devs don't even know about this.December 14, 2010 23:43
Tried Vmail and it is the greatest tool to be released in quite some time: http://danielchoi.com/software…December 14, 2010 23:39
Every major security breach experts say, USE BCRYPT; MD5/SHA/DES are liabilities for password storage. Industry smiles and nods.December 14, 2010 22:06
Lake Louise conditions are paradise! Powder everywhere and still snowing.December 12, 2010 17:01
Just got invited to the Swype Beta. After signing up about half a year ago, that was pretty unexpected.December 9, 2010 17:28
Congrats to Heroku on the buyout. Just please don't let the Salesforce web designers near the Heroku website.December 8, 2010 15:24
The Inception soundtrack is epic on another level.December 8, 2010 14:36
XPath is nice, but XML namespaces are still the most overdesigned "feature" known to man.December 7, 2010 13:51
Should've realized a long time ago that Willow Park would carry MEAD! http://flic.kr/p/8YD8KB (thanks @twitabix)December 6, 2010 14:47
Goal next week is to get my sleeping schedule under control. 5-6 hours ideal per night w/ afternoon nap and consistent bedtime/wake.December 3, 2010 18:05
How did I miss this?! http://j.mp/8Yfn8d Coolest event idea ever. #neilgaiman #houseontherockDecember 2, 2010 23:50
Working around PowerShell's set-alias: http://mutelight.org/a/34December 2, 2010 00:42

November

Why I track my reading and you should too: http://mutelight.org/a/33 (now with commenting!)November 30, 2010 06:17
PowerShell has a `more` command, but no `less`. I'd imagine this is Microsoft making a statement.November 29, 2010 21:39
I think I just froze my PowerShell by attempting to use tab completion with the SQL Server provider.November 29, 2010 20:53
Disqus is really cool and its styling is flexible enough to make it look great, but it looks terrible on iPad.November 29, 2010 17:58
Minimum width for most websites these days is really wide, and it's killer for people who don't maximize everything.November 28, 2010 22:26
Vim tip: have file autocomplete behave like bash instead of matching the first file: `set wildmenu` and `set wildmode=list:longest`November 28, 2010 19:05
Easy way to get Shift-F10 working in CoRD/RDC/VMWare Fusion: disable the OSX shortcut in Expose's preference pane.November 26, 2010 20:07
DataContext in a custom control: http://mutelight.org/a/32November 26, 2010 19:17
Remote desktop clients for Mac are seriously not metal.November 26, 2010 18:06
Tonight, I designed and built a small application to track my reading history: http://brandur.org/booksNovember 26, 2010 06:27
The most ambitious girl (or any person) at work: http://mutelight.org/a/31November 26, 2010 00:26
I wondered why we switched to an "enterprise" wiki rather than a more sophisticated free package. Then I saw the "edit in Word" button.November 25, 2010 20:31
Heard somebody say that WHS rocks. It was such a fundamental logical fallacy that I started looking up other definitions for 'WHS'.November 23, 2010 23:09
I didn't know this existed, managed stored procedures in SQL Server (write in C#!): http://j.mp/hZ1kBoNovember 23, 2010 21:07
The year is 2010. Mankind can produce a mini-Big Bang with a collider, but there is still no way to run Silverlight unit tests via MSTest.November 22, 2010 15:17
Just finished Towers of Midnight. So epic. #wot 13 #tofmNovember 21, 2010 23:13
Best TSA line: "Whoah, whoah. Sir, SIR! That banana peel you're holding? Send that through the security scanner." (actually happened)November 20, 2010 15:50
All string literals in an assembly are interned by default, other runtime strings are not. That clears some things up.November 19, 2010 03:20
Cool, Bitlbee's Twitter support is actually pretty good now. No more struggling with Perl to get tircd working.November 19, 2010 00:39
Got off the highway, randomly drove around a bunch of side streets, and somehow ended up at my hotel. And the rental car is a Mustang. YES.November 18, 2010 22:34
Reading technical books on my iPad and taking notes on my MBA. I should probably be doing this on the Enterprise D.November 15, 2010 01:49
The coolest part about the iPad is that you learn to focus on workflow and not battery life.November 14, 2010 18:58
The Windows Phone emulator under a VM is slow to the point of unusable. Microsoft to developers: no more using Macs for Microsoft stack dev!November 12, 2010 18:28
As long as you're not adverse to ditching your old AWS account, simply creating a new one with the same C/C gets you free tier access.November 12, 2010 05:02
If the App Store for Mac does take off, I'm really going to miss the custom designed layouts in *.dmg containers.November 11, 2010 15:09
L4D2 runs quite nicely on the new MacBook Air 11" at native res. Final test will be the most resource intense of all: Win 7 running VS2010.November 11, 2010 13:20
Everyone wants to make their own web framework.November 10, 2010 20:56
No idea how many hours I wasted just to find out that Infragistics doesn't support the Reset action of INotifyCollectionChanged correctly.November 9, 2010 15:17
Firefox: about:config --> network.protocol-handler.warn-external.itms --> true. Now FF will warn you before opening disguised iTunes links.November 8, 2010 23:56
Noticed based on my own Facts project: Firefox 4's JS speeds have improved tremendously. jQuery animations look fluid.November 8, 2010 03:54
Vim is WriteRoom level 2: http://mutelight.org/a/30November 8, 2010 02:47
Nice. This is team Camel deep in thought, pondering life, the universe, and Scrabble strategy: http://i.imgur.com/66Sfa.jpg #redditNovember 7, 2010 22:31
Just back from the hugely successful Calgary Reddit meetup. Redditors are the coolest geeks around. The hivemind is unquestionably real.November 7, 2010 06:04
Just got owned by everyone in word war, including the guys here that are handwriting and hunt and pecking. This is serious. #nanowrimoNovember 6, 2010 17:21
Mostly as a reminder to myself: in XAML, {Binding MyProperty} and {Binding Path=MyProperty} are the same thing (known as an implicit path).November 4, 2010 20:41
Launched a ROR app that runs fine on Phusion with > 10,000 views/day and has no caching/optimization. Ruby can't be as slow as they say!November 2, 2010 16:45
Still haven't finalized a novel idea, but have committed LaTeX infrastructure: http://github.com/fyrerise/nan… #nanowrimoNovember 1, 2010 06:31
Trick or treaters final tally: 35 (pretty good for here!). Highlight: Lady Gaga singing Poker Face on the landing.November 1, 2010 03:48
Finally some trick or treaters! Was worried *there'd been a zombie apocalypse that no one had told me about.November 1, 2010 01:19

October

Interesting. The WP SDK's built-in data-bound application template is written with MVVM. MVVM using a singleton ViewModel ...October 31, 2010 19:28
List of built-in resources for Metro styling on Windows Phone: http://j.mp/cUmhGiOctober 31, 2010 19:00
Windows Phone 7 code samples are here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink… (includes a sample using reactive extensions)October 31, 2010 17:14
Template for high-rated Youtube comment: "<X> dislikes?? What is wrong with these people??" This is a community that would not be missed.October 30, 2010 23:42
Joined the Firefox 4 beta and now using Youtube's HTML5 beta w/ WebM. No more Flash stuttering on OSX! + Vimperator nightly works w/ FF4.October 30, 2010 20:20
Totally listening to the Dethalbum / Dethalbum II right now, and they're awesome. #metalocalypseOctober 29, 2010 19:12
Does anyone know why Microsoft installers are so slow? Speculation: encrypted packages, massive compression, 10s of 1000s of tiny files .. ?October 29, 2010 14:41
C# 5 features starting to roll in. Asynchrony: http://j.mp/cFoiHH Reminds me a lot of emerging solutions for use with Ruby's fibers.October 28, 2010 21:18
Usually go into these CG type movies doubting I'll like them, and come out loving them (watched "How to Train Your Dragon").October 26, 2010 04:03
Somebody has to stop Apple. We're going to be looking into dismantling their monopoly in all their markets in ten years time. #backtomacOctober 20, 2010 18:13
Yesterday I learned about an easy way to skip null checks when firing events: http://mutelight.org/a/29October 20, 2010 13:35
Nexus One ownership 101: at night, *always* make sure to leave it face down. Stupid glowing trackball.October 19, 2010 06:56
I was at a lecture on eventual consistency that cited Amazon and SO. They should've cited Twitter, master of 'at its own pace' consistency.October 19, 2010 05:34
Galneryus — Technical Stress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… (sweet metal instrumental and guy on left is my idol for cool hair)October 19, 2010 02:28
Fixed blog display issue when viewed with a very narrow window. Took 3 min of CSS work. Should've done that earlier. #procrastinationOctober 19, 2010 01:57
Just ate what roughly translates to 'green bean dessert'. Despite its unfortunate naming, it was actually delicious. (Thanks Connie!)October 15, 2010 22:30
Most useful VS extension I've found in months: default browser switcher for picking IE/FF/Chrome to run your web apps: http://j.mp/cQBfbdOctober 15, 2010 17:30
Our intern discovered that Silverlight <object> data/type attribs must be EXACTLY as shown by M$ to work in all browsers: http://j.mp/9bqhW3October 15, 2010 07:56
Surprisingly productive night: got a poor man's version of Rails/Amazon Cloudfront integration working for global video streaming via RTMP.October 15, 2010 07:47
OH: P1, "What does it mean when people say they 'dodged a bullet?'" P2, "They avoided a major disaster, but they might regret it later."October 15, 2010 05:12
Mentor Championship Wii tennis team is broken as team carry @dickysum elopes on honeymoon! The Intellifleet powerhouse will be unstoppable!October 13, 2010 21:42
Pretty amazing when a lone dev like me can deploy streaming videos to a global CDN in minutes for a few pennies. Amazon web services FTW.October 13, 2010 04:43
Missing muay thai was lame though. Sorry @guppyjack!October 13, 2010 03:21
#democampyyc awesome/inspiring as always. I know I should demo before the bar is raised too high, apps get better everytime!October 13, 2010 03:19
Goal this week: don't waste a single minute watching TV or movies.October 11, 2010 05:20
It normally starts raining when I hit the halfway point of my run, then stops raining after I've turned around and am halfway back.October 11, 2010 01:48
markdown2pdf produces 'LaTeX Error: File `ucs.sty' not found.'; On Arch: pacman -S texlive-latexextra texlive-latexextra http://j.mp/bSEtqsOctober 7, 2010 17:00
The problem with Twitter is that it's a big temptation to tweet instead of writing meaningful content. e.g. this tweet should be a blog postOctober 7, 2010 16:59
Just pushed my Facts project: http://github.com/fyrerise/fac… (+ command line client at facts-cli) Demo here: http://facts.brandur.orgOctober 3, 2010 21:52
Never use a ControlTemplate for a UserControl's job. #xamlOctober 1, 2010 22:22

September

I often fall under the illusion of needing a product to finish a job. It's a destructive pattern: http://mnmlist.com/subtraction…September 29, 2010 21:50
I tried to meditate in lotus position today, but just ended up hurting myself. One day.September 29, 2010 05:12
Need Firebug or Chrome developer tools for XAML. Is there such a thing?September 28, 2010 19:57
I finally disabled 'vibrate on new mail' on my Nexus One ... it was starting to feel like my phone worked for someone else.September 28, 2010 05:29
Opera doesn't support CSS3 gradients? ... and they're the only ones doing it right by avoiding vendor prefixes. We need a faster W3C.September 27, 2010 13:14
I found my dive log! That thing's been MIA since I was like 19.September 26, 2010 23:19
Going through my old room and disposing of old belongings. This is a tough job because I'm a recovering packrat.September 26, 2010 18:57
Blown away by Tokyo Hackerspace's Akihabara tour: http://tokyohackerspace.org/ak… I want to go back to Japan now.September 26, 2010 07:33
Columbia adopts the ideology of American exceptionalism, launched by the 1893 Worlds Fair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B…September 25, 2010 04:37
Working with CSS3 makes me feel like I'm using a styling language that was designed this millennium, a far shot from old CSS.September 25, 2010 04:31
So I'm running in Fish Creek after dark, and a coyote runs right by my leg, along the path in front of me, and into the bushes. Cool/creepy.September 25, 2010 03:31
Genius! --> RT @coollike: If you liked Scott Pilgrim, you'll love this: http://is.gd/foqjp Brilliant work by @rstudios!September 24, 2010 14:36
"All of this data can wait until later – and much of it can wait until never." http://tweetagewasteland.com/?…September 22, 2010 16:02
VLC for iPad works great! Tested with four DVD-quality movies I had lying around. One crash while playing Sigur Ros' Heima.September 21, 2010 01:42
Very handy for blowing away the default Prototype install in Rails 3: http://github.com/indirect/jqu…September 20, 2010 18:53
Today I filled a glaring hole in my CSS knowledge; learnt about collapsing margins: http://reference.sitepoint.com…September 20, 2010 04:16
#newtwitter is a hit. Facebook should certainly be jealous of design this far beyond them.September 17, 2010 02:27
Just met one of the guys working on http://coapp.org, a Windows OSS package manager, at Good Earth. It's a nice idea, hope it works out.September 16, 2010 00:38
Just noticed that TweetDeck has Vim shortcuts! Looks based on Gmail: hjkl => navigation, c => compose, / => search. Seriously awesome.September 15, 2010 22:24
Running a console app with Ctrl+F5 from VS will give you 'press any key to continue' after execution. How did I not know that trick?September 15, 2010 17:30
I totally reserve the right to wear the new Nano as a watch. This thing is the Bluetooth headset of the 2010s.September 13, 2010 22:39
New iPod Nano is extremely slick and smaller than I expected. Unfortunately, as with most new electronics, so far has not changed my life.September 13, 2010 22:29
Pixel shaders (e.g. DropShadowEffect) on UIElements in WPF/Silverlight blurs their contents beyond recognition. Shade hidden element as fix.September 13, 2010 21:31
I suspected Zuckerberg was a Bond villain but didn't know until now: http://j.mp/bdwE3E I like him, but am scared that I have an FB account.September 13, 2010 17:38
TIL, use flash[:key] only if you're about to redirect a user to a new action, otherwise use flash.now[:key]September 12, 2010 17:44
iPhone/iPod screen repair is a happening business. At least two separate and competing operations meet at Good Earth at Glenmore Landing.September 11, 2010 19:38
iOS < 4 treats <video> tags specially and renders them above all other DOM elements (z-index ignored). This is like IE6 all over again.September 11, 2010 15:53
May save time/money: Plex Media Server streaming 720p or 1080p video to Plex iOS app on iPad doesn't work very well. Tested on C2D 2.53 GHz.September 10, 2010 04:44
What rock have I been living under? Plex (the OSX XBMC port) to be integrated into LG TVs and Bluray players: http://j.mp/bfj0uhSeptember 9, 2010 19:43
I think iPhone 4s coming w/ 512MB memory, but only 32GB HD; and iPod Touch 4Gs with 64GB HD, but only 256MB mem is an inside joke @ Apple.September 9, 2010 13:43
Didn't realize that Django had fallen so far behind the curve. "Why Django sucks, and how we can fix it": http://j.mp/bZuYY7September 9, 2010 04:27
New Nano is shipping right out of Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong. Getting away from Android's music player will be a great relief.September 8, 2010 20:16
Personal secret: I love the rain.September 8, 2010 15:04
Rails' support/doc for dynamic error pages (404, 422, 500, etc.) is weak. Best description I found: http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/07/r…September 4, 2010 21:27
Adobe Reader's bloat ballooned so I used Foxit, which in turn ballooned so I used Sumatra: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/sof…September 2, 2010 20:39
Bike ownership in a nutshell --> week 1: fun care-free riding :D, weeks 2+: maintenanceSeptember 2, 2010 14:07
Apple just commoditized HDR photos. Prepare for the Flickr onslaught!September 1, 2010 17:12
New blog post! How to make right-click select a row with the Silverlight DataGrid --> http://mutelight.org/a/28September 1, 2010 16:57
Apple does such a good job of packaging that even unboxing a new notebook battery is an EXPERIENCE.September 1, 2010 04:38
Holy awesome! RT @Jeka: This is what happens when one of the best black metal bands matures its sound http://youtu.be/p4ZzqWhvOVA *worship*September 1, 2010 02:31

August

My personal goal for today is to read the entire OData protocol doc: http://www.odata.org/developer… And play guitar tonight.August 30, 2010 17:35
I need a browser that combines Firefox's plugin system with Chrome's general lack of memory leaks. Is that too much to ask?August 30, 2010 16:46
A 3G iPod Touch will change the wireless industry, and that's why Apple won't make one. That said; please please please. http://j.mp/9SgvSUAugust 28, 2010 21:55
Protip for selecting a VPS provider: OpenVZ = the hosting industry's solution for being unable to oversell Xen boxes. Also, avoid Delimiter.August 28, 2010 21:49
Good to know: -extent only observes -gravity with ImageMagick > 6.3.2August 28, 2010 18:41
New Ensiferum/Finntroll tour and they're coming to the Republik in Calgary 2/14! Won't miss them this time ... http://fb.me/EwJEt8Z8August 28, 2010 14:43
How to use Ctags in Vim >> Term: pacman -S ctags; cd <source>; ctags -R; Vim: Ctrl+] -> go to definition, Ctrl+o/Ctrl+i -> backward/forwardAugust 28, 2010 14:34
I've been missing out too long on a very powerful tool: Ctags with Vim is easy to setup and changes my workflow completely.August 27, 2010 21:35
M$ libs can be dangerous. BackgroundWorker might silently absorb an internal exception and not fire RunWorkerCompleted: http://j.mp/a6IFyPAugust 24, 2010 17:52
Implementing on OData web service for Stack Overflow: http://j.mp/bLOCal (from #mix10 times, but new to me).August 22, 2010 21:03
At the St. Albert farmer's market in old downtown. I just bought 5 lbs. of beef and bison jerky.August 21, 2010 18:31
Got a haircut from a Korean hairstylist today. She totally gets my style.August 20, 2010 23:17
Old but new to me, bootstrapping your startup globally: http://bit.ly/HbGSA (w/ focus on Panama)August 20, 2010 07:23
MDT/UTC -6. Still 1.5 hours left of #whyday. Time to get hacking.August 20, 2010 04:36
Music from the Scott Pilgrim trailer is Invaders Must Die by the Prodigy, a band that transcends the soundscape. http://youtu.be/EiqFcc_l_KkAugust 19, 2010 13:44
Even via a mature Gem, implementing OAuth provider infrastructure is going to double the size of my codebase. Is it worth it?August 19, 2010 05:56
A few months back I was looking for an awesome finite state machine impl. to reference, wish I'd found this: http://github.com/rubyist/aasmAugust 19, 2010 02:40
Bash loop for programs that crash too often (e.g. sass --watch) => while true; do <cmd>; doneAugust 15, 2010 20:42
Ever notice how everyone in Harry Potter works for either the government or a bank? How does the economy not implode?August 14, 2010 01:47
Continued copyright trolling on Oracle's part over Java might see good things for C# and the CLIAugust 14, 2010 00:55
System.Threading.AutoResetEvent is the asynchronous tester's best friendAugust 12, 2010 22:11
My first bike flat! Pinched the tube taking a corner way too fast. Glad I took everyone's advice and was carrying tools and a replacement.August 10, 2010 00:43
Finder column view --> holding Option while dragging the tab at the bottom of a column changes the default column width.August 8, 2010 05:41
Using Divvy 5 minutes and now I'm not sure whether I could ever live without it. It's like a tiling window manager for OSX.August 7, 2010 23:11
Just read At the Mountains of Madness, and it's certainly one of Lovecraft's best. Looking forward to Guillermo del Toro's film adaptation.August 7, 2010 02:19
Was just blown away by Nginx + Phusion Passenger for Rails. I can see that I should've looked into this a lot earlier.August 6, 2010 01:46
This quote might apply to me and the Calgary housing market: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -- KeynesAugust 4, 2010 19:38
If anyone is thinking about going to wait an Apple Store for a carrier-discounted iPhone 4: just don't.August 4, 2010 19:32
The final scene of Inception was shot at Fortress (near Calgary). Rumor was that the cash influx might be enough to reopen the ski hill.August 4, 2010 14:19

July

Microsoft is promising to kill the iPad when they can't even get their "iPhone killer" (Windows Phone 7) out the door. Ballmer is a troll.July 30, 2010 18:12
So I'm biking home and I hear growling from the bushes, I look and there's an Ankylosaurus. An Akylosaurus from Dinosaurs Alive! at the Zoo.July 23, 2010 00:52
Scott Pilgrim vol. 6 fight needed more epicness. I fully expect the upcoming movie to pick up that slack.July 20, 2010 23:51
Traded Crank Brothers Candy X clipless pedals for Shimano PD-M520s in a gambit to extend my life a little longer.July 18, 2010 18:44
New blog post on using Readability with Vimperator: http://mutelight.org/a/26July 16, 2010 23:12
First blog post in five months! Building a command line environment for .NET development with Rake: http://mutelight.org/a/25July 15, 2010 17:40
Losing the birthday edge: http://tweetagewasteland.com/2…July 14, 2010 23:17
Don't escape characters in Ruby strings -- http://rors.org/2008/10/26/don…July 14, 2010 17:23
For those extra finicky Windows programs: convert a local Unix/Cygwin path to an absolute Windows path: cygpath -a -w local/July 13, 2010 21:20
Rails works. Took over a foreign codebase and the code was easy to understand, and thanks to gem usage, no file weighs in over 100 lines.July 12, 2010 15:24
Been a while since the last time I made it to sunrise.July 11, 2010 11:14
Woot! Replacement Oakleys have arrived. Let's hope that I don't sit on these ones too.July 10, 2010 01:55
Once in a while, I'll watch a movie and think about how beautiful the scenery is. Then I realize I'm looking at my home province of Alberta.July 9, 2010 03:53
Fix page up/down in the OSX terminal, send string to shell: Page Up \033[5~ and Page Down 033[6~July 9, 2010 02:54
Today I am one of the ~100 crazy people who camp in front if MEC on Sunday waiting for it to open. Why? Because it's MEC.July 4, 2010 16:58

June

Bike ride home is about 29km: http://runkeeper.com/user/fyre…June 30, 2010 13:50
(3) Observe that watching Hulu is technically feasible. Now go read a book.June 30, 2010 13:37
How to play Hulu in Canada: (1) Set up a US proxy or put a US IP in x-forwarded-for (2) Block outgoing TCP/UDP on port 1935June 30, 2010 13:33
Meditation is hard.June 29, 2010 05:22
New wheels: MEC Cote Bicycle. If all goes well, I'll be doing some bike runs to work this week. http://j.mp/a07ihNJune 27, 2010 00:40
Awesome site built by Simon Willison and his wife to document their world travels: http://sparkabout.netJune 22, 2010 04:29
During the Japanese bubble of the 1980s/90s, the land under Tokyo's Imperial Palace was said to be worth more than all of FloridaJune 19, 2010 19:20
I've come full circle and am back on Rails (3).June 16, 2010 03:39
#CCP is inspired by #Iceland: http://vimeo.com/12231666 Seriously loving this ad campaign.June 11, 2010 02:45
Try the VS 2010 Pro Power Tools: http://j.mp/cpbT8b (highlight current line and align assignments are awesome)June 10, 2010 23:33
Google's "Bing" homepage today: proof that most good minimalist design decisions Google has taken were sheer luck.June 10, 2010 16:39
When your country's primary industry sinks, do this: http://www.inspiredbyiceland.c…June 7, 2010 22:49
Trying to make a lolcat by putting sunglasses on @coolmody's cats. They're having none of it.June 6, 2010 17:36
Using Firefox with Socks: DNS is NOT proxied by default, to fix this go to about:config and set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns --> trueJune 4, 2010 19:35
Osaka Sushi House has perished. It's a sad day for Calgary.June 4, 2010 00:36
1.5 years ago, Japan. My colleagues abroad laughed when I saw the local phones and told them the iPhone would take over. http://j.mp/9ggbj6June 1, 2010 03:51

May

#11. Finally saw a toadfish. Last dive for another couple years. Sad.May 28, 2010 23:02
Lacoste shirts sell for USD88 even in Mexico. WTF.May 27, 2010 22:03
Nine dives down. Georges speared a lionfish and demonstrated the technique (they're an invasive species).May 27, 2010 21:53
Six dives in. Dove with a film crew yesterday and we're probably going to make a Mexican TV program on scuba. Channel 10.May 26, 2010 21:49
Is there a name for the guilty feeling you get when you somewhere and don't speak the local language? I have it now.May 25, 2010 13:25
Cozumel. Four dives in. No sharks so far, but quite a few rays and turtles. Internet here moves like glass flows.May 25, 2010 13:23
I get a lot of free drinks at Starbucks. I have a system.May 21, 2010 21:41
What do Apple and Microsoft have in common? Both are huge companies and major Internet players, both build absolutely worthless websites.May 21, 2010 16:29
For 2 years I've kept a CD in my MBP to suppress the grinding noise on wake-up. Has been fixed 6 mos. now: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL…May 19, 2010 06:20
Force eject a stuck DVD from a MBP: restart and hold your trackpad button. Yah. That makes sense.May 18, 2010 05:01
Using Steam on OSX is surreal: I never thought I'd see this day.May 14, 2010 02:16
Function currying just saved my life.May 12, 2010 00:08
RT @doomsayerpeter: EVERYTHING UP. EVERYTHING HAPPY.May 10, 2010 14:28
Wow. Modern Warfare 2 spent $50M on dev and $150M on launch advertising. Also, the state of Mac/Linux gaming: http://j.mp/ck050TMay 8, 2010 17:28
Note to landlords: when taking photos of rental units, take them on a bright summer day, everything looks better and happier.May 8, 2010 15:58
It's symbolic that politicians' Twitter accounts only follow other politicians, not any of the people. (e.g. mpjamesmoore)May 6, 2010 13:44
Experimenting w/ working standing up today. To everyone asking: it's good for focus. And the S-shape of my spine.May 4, 2010 15:24
My #NodeJS/#CoffeeScript project has been awesome, but JavaScript's ultra-weak typing is terrifyingMay 3, 2010 14:22
Chrome bugs that need repair to get Vimium fully operational: http://wiki.github.com/philc/v…May 2, 2010 18:51
Switching from #Firefox to #Chrome. Terrible not having #Vimperator (#Vrome?), but my battery likes how Chrome doesn't idle at 20% CPU.May 1, 2010 00:42

April

I was glad to see this ad at #yyz for the #UofC: http://flic.kr/p/7XkKgY Dr Keith's energy and env course was the best engg course I took.April 29, 2010 23:15
"... good riddance. Flash is the RealPlayer of the decade." -- HN. Apple is evil, but if they help get rid of Flash, I'm onboard.April 29, 2010 21:52
You don't realize just how bad of an idea centralized version control is until your server goes down.April 29, 2010 15:33
Unresponsive SSH session? Instead of killing it from another terminal, try: <return>~.April 29, 2010 07:08
Just passed Bridgeland LRT station. It's still closed from a double stabbing last night. And I kind of wanted to move to Bridgeland. .. #yycApril 28, 2010 12:44
Democamp is the best event in Calgary PERIOD. That is all.April 28, 2010 03:17
#VS2010 going in at work this week, but the #ViEmu beta for it is still 3-4 weeks out. This could get ugly.April 27, 2010 21:18
I'll convert my MVVM presentation into a blogazine article complete w/ infographics. Any nice diagram libs for JS? http://brandur.org/mvvm/April 27, 2010 21:16
World Bank estimates that $1 trillion is spent on bribes annually, 3% of global GDP. - How to spend $50B (Bjorn Lomborg)April 26, 2010 21:00
The *only* good thing about Pearson #yyz is that it has a monorail.April 25, 2010 12:38
Landsbanki employees post-crash --> 1/3 axed immediately, 1/3 re-assigned, 1/3 took a massive pay cut (hope I heard those stats right).April 24, 2010 18:48
Landsbanki head office sent e-mails to employees reassuring them of the bank's liquidity right until the bitter end.April 24, 2010 18:45
Experts on this panel think that Paul Martin, who knows Gordon Brown well, should help Iceland negotiate with the UK on the Icesave issue.April 24, 2010 18:44
A new centre-right party is expected to be elected in Holland, and are to take a harder stance on the Icesave issue. #timebombApril 24, 2010 18:13
In room full of Icelanders disagreeing over policy. This would be way awesome if Viking helms and mead were made mandatory.April 24, 2010 15:36
Places like Tequila Bookworm are exactly what's missing in Calgary. Also, life.April 22, 2010 03:34
Icelanders who don't know me always start speaking to me in Icelandic. They might be messing with me. I don't know.April 22, 2010 01:51
Open data from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/ (economics, education, environment, health, .. !)April 20, 2010 17:43
Everyone here asks me for directions. I must look like I know where I'm going. Not. Even. Close. #yyzApril 20, 2010 01:56
I don't even know how I traveled before we had this 3g thing. Now we just need it when traveling abroad. Landed in TO!!April 19, 2010 17:31
#Spartacus finale #EPIC. Now it's time to brush up on a little Roman history.April 17, 2010 23:09
/set activity_hide_level parts joins quits nicks modes --> #irssi now works perfectly with #screen's activity monitoring (C-a M) again!April 16, 2010 23:19
The Wild Hunt Calgary premiere tonight @ 7pm, playing @ the Plaza. Actor Mark Krupa in attendance. http://brandur.org/tmp/wildhun…April 15, 2010 22:36
Ctrl+S freezes output in some terminals and makes them appear locked up. Ctrl+Q reverses the effect.April 14, 2010 23:08
VS 2010 Ultimate = $11,899 MSRP. http://www.microsoft.com/visua…April 12, 2010 17:04
Nexus One capacitive touch definitely doesn't inspire the same confidence's as the iPhone's. The screen is beautiful though.April 10, 2010 03:44
Tweeting from new Nexus One. Delivery guy came at 8pm on FridayApril 10, 2010 03:31
Now I remember why I kept those winter tires on. (Massive blizzard outside)April 9, 2010 00:09
Mandatory WPF reading: weak event patterns --> http://j.mp/5AvgpYApril 7, 2010 16:27
Why am I even trying to read the news today? I must like the pain.April 1, 2010 12:39

March

Designer's block: pursue a given task rather than think up a magnificent design out of nowhere http://www.artlebedev.com/mand…March 31, 2010 22:34
Muse live is just as frakkin' awesome as the stories say: http://j.mp/bsxMlI (Muse, Silversun Pickups @ Calgary 2010/03/30)March 31, 2010 15:16
Stop proclaiming the end of #NoSQL! The fact is, we need systems that map better to our programming models, and that may not be SQL.March 30, 2010 22:17
Got into work to hear the most ear-splitting screech ongoing. Turns out my new neighbor had daisy-chained power bars into the UPS. Arg.March 30, 2010 12:36
#Spartacus is the best show on TV by a good margin. The series directors have even coaxed a decent performance out of Lucy Lawless.March 29, 2010 12:39
H.264 vs. Theora: http://keyj.s2000.ws/?p=356 Food for thought as Firefox/Opera hold out against H.264/MPEG-LA. No right answer here folks.March 24, 2010 01:33
#nhibernate awesome: after adding 2 LOCs, I got an object to recurse through a parent hierarchy of its own type in a single SQL queryMarch 23, 2010 23:13
Being used to HTML/CSS, it's strange to use a vertical alignment property that works as expected #wpfMarch 23, 2010 17:43
Hanlon's razor is an adage wise enough to live your life by.March 23, 2010 15:48
D: I'm talking about cooperation. Favors. You do a favor for me, I'll do one for you. Get it? Y: Do one for me. D: Not a chance. -Catch-22March 20, 2010 22:09
Watched Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and thought it was great, if unorthodox. Liked the bit on willingless to believe in the supernatural.March 20, 2010 17:12
Went out to dinner w/ Christina Sunley last night, author of the Tricking of Freya. http://j.mp/aA3dv0March 19, 2010 16:07
It's pretty lame having to pay for Red Bull againMarch 18, 2010 23:19
The Rx team refers to the JS implementation as the "reference" library, as it's considered the most beautiful.March 17, 2010 23:03
In a talk on Reactive Extensions (Rx) by Erik Meijer (who is a major Haskell researcher). Need to think of a REALLY smart question to ask.March 17, 2010 22:39
Java has had Observable/Observer since version one (good for async collection handling) but Erik Meijer says their interface is uglyMarch 17, 2010 22:27
Sitting in on the @matthiasshapiro talk on data visualization. Afraid to tweet in case I look and miss something awesome. #mix10March 17, 2010 20:33
WCF has a PollingDuplex class that lets you to use the duplex pattern over HTTP #mix10March 17, 2010 19:55
<div id="AlternativeContent"> w/ hidden style --> recognized by search engines to hold accessible content #mix10March 17, 2010 19:27
XML sitemaps w/ lists of deep links are recommended for Silverlight SEO. Use an output cache to have minimize the # of times it generates.March 17, 2010 19:23
Revitalizing at the pool. It's a beautiful day. #mix10March 17, 2010 18:01
At session on building standards-compliant apps in ASP 4. It's very refreshing to know that some ppl using M$ tech care about web standards.March 17, 2010 16:22
After rather one-sided #ie9 sessions at #mix10 today, more neutral discussion is refreshing: http://news.ycombinator.com/it…March 17, 2010 01:37
Microsoft to world: red polo shirts are funny. Believe. #areyouhavingalaughMarch 16, 2010 23:03
Microsoft has dedicated people around the world who choose the daily Bing background images #mix10March 16, 2010 22:17
Someone stole my CEO business card off the personals wall. I hope that they use it wisely.March 16, 2010 22:16
an extension allows a Linq query to be converted to an OData query (which builds a service URI and lets the service host do the work)March 16, 2010 20:35
OData carries a metadata file along with it, this metadata file can be used by VS2010 to build a strongly-typed service reference #mix10March 16, 2010 20:33
OData is Open Data Protocol, supports querying data via extra parameters in the request URI http://odata.org/ #mix10March 16, 2010 20:33
#tircd exhausted my API limit during the keynote this morning, prepare for backpost flood ...March 16, 2010 20:32
I don't care about Bing, but I do like search engine technology, I'm at Breakers D #mix10March 16, 2010 20:29
#areyouhavingalaugh at this rate, we're going to lose somebody to suffocation watching old office UK clipsMarch 16, 2010 05:48
At ESPN sports zone, indeed there are many TVs here.March 16, 2010 04:31
lap around Azure presentation was an SVG converted to a Silverlight DeepZoom app on the Azure platform http://onebigslide.com #mix10March 15, 2010 23:32
Microsoft solves the problem of not having a "big" non-relational DB for Azure by offering defined sizes only, 1GB or 10GB #mix10March 15, 2010 23:22
Dallas: Azure information marketplace w/ sources like AP/NASA, some of it free and some paid, accessed via REST #mix10March 15, 2010 23:13
finally get the MVC vs MVP distinction, P/Presenter's views are only MOSTLY passive, because of data binding #mix10March 15, 2010 23:08
Mono presentation packed, switched to the Azure presentation in Breakers L #mix10March 15, 2010 22:40
at the MVVM pattern overview (Lagoon F)March 15, 2010 21:04
*the guys at the keynote kept on talking about how good the Windows Phone's performance is, but there was latency in every transition #mix10March 15, 2010 18:47
Winter Olympics Silverlight player (created by Vertigo) is being open-sourced. Looking forward to it. #mix10March 15, 2010 18:42
Foregoing too much Vegas because I'd rather attend the Mix sessions/keynote tomorrow. I may be a dork. #mix10March 15, 2010 09:15
Hi everyone, meet my future fiance/wife: http://flic.kr/p/7KPbHuMarch 15, 2010 00:25
Being in Vegas is all about having an A++ team: http://flic.kr/p/7KKczkMarch 15, 2010 00:23
Just passed Bill Buxton on the escalator while ranting about Azure. Hope I'm not making enemies already. #mix10March 14, 2010 18:01
Just registered at #mix10! Name badges have cool orange zipper strings.March 14, 2010 17:59
irssi + bitlbee + tircd --> slickest communication there is, should've had this setup a very long time ago.March 12, 2010 23:54
The C# ecosystem is a funny place: code docs on most APIs are so bad that people have trained themselves to not see them.March 12, 2010 14:40
Agile development is conducive to delivered software, but not to polished software. Article on this later.March 12, 2010 00:53
I think I'm finally getting the hang of general XAML/dependency properties. Next up: styles and data templates!March 12, 2010 00:48
Can't open NHibernate.Linq-2.1.2-GA-Bin.zip? (File is invalid) Use WinRAR, nothing else will work.March 10, 2010 21:44
Outstanding weekend of skiing in Fernie, if anyone is looking at skis, I'd highly recommend Salomon Lords.March 10, 2010 01:50

February

My roommate just reminded me: I blew up a hard drive last weekend. Now how could I forget that.February 27, 2010 01:53
Trying out Vrome for Chrome as an alternative to Vimperator on Firefox. Most of the features I use are present, but I do miss quickmarks.February 22, 2010 20:40
how do I handle failures in Haskell with so many alternatives, each more intimidating than the last? http://haskell.org/haskellwiki…February 21, 2010 03:50
Acceleration fix has been applied to my Toyota. This should mean that I'm no longer driving around in a media-hyped deathtrap.February 17, 2010 01:16
Validating an XML document according to its XSD schema hints in C#/.NET: http://mutelight.org/a/24February 15, 2010 23:43
Programming is an easy way to procrastinate: http://blog.cubeofm.com/progra…February 14, 2010 22:29
Help! I've lost my ability to watch TV. I get fidgety when commercials come on.February 13, 2010 06:05
Tested some 2009 Salomon Lords today, coming from circa 1995 Volkls. Handled beautifully in the fresh powder (and later, the not-so-fresh).February 13, 2010 01:17
New blog post, "Generating a Permalink Slug in Haskell": http://mutelight.org/a/23 (the regex system makes this somewhat unintuitive)February 12, 2010 06:48
how to actually use regular expressions in Haskell: http://j.mp/F5q13 (this is not obvious)February 11, 2010 07:33
Random ski instructor on hill today: "We're going to be taking a more aggressive line this time; no more mogul shopping." Pure insight.February 10, 2010 01:21
You wouldn't know it from Rotten Tomatoes, but #Pandorum is one of the best sci-fi movies I've seen in a long time. Loved the twist.February 4, 2010 00:56
Switched my blog to #nanoc after a Ruby upgrade broke Jekyll (again). http://nanoc.stoneship.org/February 4, 2010 00:48
Farewell Slicehost. You served me well, but you're expensive and compile Haskell at snail's pace.February 1, 2010 18:32
"If you're not inside, you're outside!" - Gekko, Wall Street. True in 1985. True in 2010.February 1, 2010 04:53

January

The footnote that you can't see until after you've shelled out $99: <fineprint>** 3.2 beta requires Snow Leopard.</fineprint>January 30, 2010 07:24
Just shelled out $99 USD to get early access to the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta (w/ iPad support). All my base are belong to Apple.January 30, 2010 04:10
the Matroska container format's (.mkv) name is derived from "matryoshka", the Russian word for "nesting doll" (Russian doll within doll set)January 28, 2010 18:45
if you're looking for something awesome to do in #calgary, try BarCamp & DemoCamp: http://barcampcalgary.com/ (it's like being in San Fran)January 28, 2010 17:56
#rhinomocks How to change the result returned by a stub method call: http://j.mp/9UPQTU (this might save your life someday)January 28, 2010 16:06
Come see our latest restriction! http://bit.ly/a6STgX Apple: the iPad is great, but the appstore has got to goJanuary 27, 2010 22:37
remind me to check out "Maybe I Should Have" (once there's an English translation): http://j.mp/84Rww9January 24, 2010 06:18
just pushed a cleaned-up copy of the Geotools.Net project to Github: http://github.com/fyrerise/geo…January 20, 2010 18:25
All articles explaining monads read the same: okay, makes sense, *nod*, yep, makes sense, WTF?! Still, best one so far: http://j.mp/8HeOygJanuary 16, 2010 23:28
I'm off tubbydogs for a whileJanuary 16, 2010 23:25
I think I've just realized why Silverlight isn't more widespread: it isn't, and never has been, ready for releaseJanuary 15, 2010 23:35
Pai Gow?January 12, 2010 09:10
Wound down the weekend watching Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian. A+ as far as plays go.January 12, 2010 09:08
Why Japan's smartphones haven't gone global: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07…January 5, 2010 20:20
Olafur Grimsson refuses to sign bill to repay $5B for lost foreign savings in Icesave: http://j.mp/5zeWDoJanuary 5, 2010 16:56
The single life: "It's not like a candy store. It's a lawless, post-apocalyptic, wasteland." - NPH in HIMYMJanuary 1, 2010 21:08

2009

December

My Grandmother surprised me this year with a beautifully-assembled photo album of my entire life up until now, WOW! Merry X-mas everyone!!December 25, 2009 19:13
#avatar The immersive flora/fauna of Pandora was beautiful. Characters were strong. The ending defied belief too much to be credible though.December 25, 2009 06:33
#avatar was one of the most engrossing film experiences I've ever hadDecember 25, 2009 06:27
Installed brand new X-ice Xi2s + rims just before Calgary pulled another Hoth moment. Goal to switch them out next spring: clock < 30 min.December 23, 2009 02:43
Passport acquired! Vegas is a go.December 22, 2009 04:43
AUFS is an elegant solution to a problem that I've been trying to solve for the better part of a decade.December 21, 2009 05:20
My Acer EasyStore now runs GNU/Linux. Just in time too. I think Windows Home Server was planning to murder me in my sleep.December 21, 2009 01:59
AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE. So much for static typing ...December 15, 2009 19:07
Terrible news. After 560+ days of uptime on my VPS, I finally had to reboot.December 14, 2009 16:44
ever notice of how even just a second of video relays a disproportionate amount of information compared to a single photo of the same spot?December 14, 2009 05:33
gun-running with @foojie in #l4d2 for the gold in survival mode http://flic.kr/p/7npzjTDecember 13, 2009 09:01
Being a realist, I saw #500daysofsummer and thought, "the guy Summer married was a surgeon." All the pieces of the puzzle fall into place.December 12, 2009 16:18
It's so obvious now. A programmer must have two gears and a fast way to switch between them. One for comp. science, and the other for life.December 11, 2009 17:58
Globalive allowed to enter Canadian cellphone market: http://j.mp/4RLIPUDecember 11, 2009 16:34
thanks Tony Clement for protecting us from the #crtc. #globalive is coming to Canada. #rogers, #telus, + #bell just felt a chill in the air.December 11, 2009 16:33
Been so long since I took #calgarytransit that I'd forgotten their mandate: "No matter how bad the roads are, our service will be worse."December 10, 2009 17:55
Mono is now C# 4.0 feature complete! http://j.mp/6Vi3JwDecember 10, 2009 04:57
Might have been losing people during that last presentation. I might need a subject more interesting than C# delegate-based memory leaks.December 9, 2009 22:58
being at Marlborough Mall is like being in the Blade Runner movieDecember 9, 2009 20:23
ALT-D --> select address bar in Windows Explorer (extremely useful in Windows 7)December 8, 2009 17:37
Windows installers can now detect each other to prevent you from trying to run two at once (for your own good of course)December 8, 2009 16:44
messing around with google wave. we totally have to put this into our development workflow tomorrow.December 4, 2009 05:44
just discussed with my co-worker how we're both going to bring our pen tablets to work and overthrow the evil mouse establishmentDecember 2, 2009 17:22
after seeing #prgmr and having looked through every VPS option, I kind of want to co-locate: http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-l…December 2, 2009 00:02

November

my hair is getting pretty crazy even by my standards: http://flic.kr/p/7joGAo (and check out that full windsor knot ... thanks jane!)November 30, 2009 04:41
Children of Men is the most underrated sci-fi of all time. Serenity/Firefly is the most overrated.November 29, 2009 22:39
If L4D2 is featured on day 2/5 of Steam's sale, what will be on day 5? Steam Complete Pack: Steam's entire catalogue of games for $99.99!!November 27, 2009 18:11
C# rule: if your class attaches a handler to a global object, or an object that was passed in as an arg, make sure to detach that handlerNovember 27, 2009 17:36
Now locked in for Vegas Jan. 8th to 12th for round 2. Thanks @WestJet for the awesome flight deals.November 27, 2009 13:48
Steam is 90% likely to have L4D2 for 25-50% off as their "crown jewel" on day 5 of the pre-Xmas sale. Why didn't this occur to me 5 min ago?November 27, 2009 02:22
Black Friday sale swag: L4D2 PC $37.50 + WD Green 1.5 TB $90 (good deal for us Canadians) #ncixNovember 27, 2009 02:17
NCIX --> Brandur: SERVICE UNAVAILABLE. Get a Google App Engine account guys ...November 27, 2009 02:05
Dubai credit-default swaps now more expensive than Iceland's! That's a win. The British now have a bigger fish to worry about.November 26, 2009 18:04
Just realized that I get up at 5:30 on weekdays but not until like 11:00 on weekends. That's a 5.5 hour discrepancy ...November 26, 2009 17:38
make page up/down scroll a full page in #irssi: /set scroll_page_count /1November 26, 2009 00:08
reading through the Venusian Arts. theory gets tested again tonight. #mysterymethodNovember 24, 2009 14:27
this is the wicked looking flute: http://flic.kr/p/7hJaR9 now I just have to learn how to play it #irishflute #caseyburnsNovember 23, 2009 06:12
picked up an Apogee ONE today, and realized that I should have had one of these days since day 1. ONE + GarageBand = badass guitar.November 22, 2009 04:28
quote of the day: "yah I'm spending a lot of money, but it can't be helped, unfortunately I'm getting into producing." - hwuNovember 22, 2009 04:26
sarging fail. pua skill = (natural skill) + (number of approaches) * (material read). now increasing number of approaches.November 21, 2009 07:12
love it: http://j.mp/JI1Ap (#smashingmagazine) paper magazines still look better than websites. it's time to change that.November 19, 2009 17:18
wish I'd read the GNU Screen man page sooner, activity monitoring is sweet http://mutelight.org/a/22November 19, 2009 05:21
tv shows always get computers right. thanks to numb3rs, I finally understand IRC: http://youtube.com/watch?v=O2r… (via #irssi)November 19, 2009 03:00
#itsalltext got nuked again by this bomb: http://trac.gerf.org/itsalltex… hitting my hotkey is like playing Russian roulette.November 18, 2009 17:11
Windows/NTFS has symbolic links! Keep that on the down low though, for some reason it seems to be a secret. http://j.mp/138wjbNovember 17, 2009 13:49
DFS and mounted volumes are a lot more complicated than they lookNovember 14, 2009 22:06
Windows 7 == Windows Vista with some minor UI and backend changes. It is NOT the second coming.November 13, 2009 17:15
new .NET 4.0 feature: Enum.HasFlag() http://mutelight.org/a/21November 10, 2009 18:55
C# tick = 100 ns. reasonable double-click threshold = 250 ms. --> double-click threshold in ticks = 2 500 000 ticksNovember 9, 2009 18:38
is method documentation important? (I don't know) http://mutelight.org/a/20November 5, 2009 20:34
the origin of the word "guy" (referring to a man) comes from the first name of Guy Fawkes http://j.mp/1C5QXNovember 5, 2009 16:42
Flashblock: another one of those Firefox plugins that in retrospect you wonder how you lived withoutNovember 5, 2009 13:39

October

I'm at the point where I'll just hit the power button to reboot instead of waiting 5 min for VS to close.October 28, 2009 20:35
McDonald's closes in Iceland (krona devaluation has made imports too expensive): http://j.mp/1Yx7XJOctober 26, 2009 15:49
Swallowing an Extensible Exception in Haskell (noob Haskell post): http://mutelight.org/a/19October 25, 2009 07:46
suspended my Giganews account for the time being. trialing Astraweb (USD$11/mo).October 23, 2009 16:09
time to get back on the #haskell train.October 23, 2009 13:41
wow. according to Wikipedia, A State of Trance is the most popular radio show in the world with 30 million listeners each week.October 15, 2009 18:14
New Hagstrom got to Calgary from NY in < 24 hrs. What's the deal with J&R's crazy shipping?October 1, 2009 16:48

September

two years today I started working at this company. repetition makes life blur by at high speed.September 25, 2009 17:06
finally received my copy of Programming Clojure!September 18, 2009 15:33
ordered a handmade Irish flute!September 11, 2009 12:48
Everyone at work prints their code reviews in Arial. I explained monospaced fonts once, but the concept was too hardcore.September 10, 2009 13:36
Apple is finally letting me keep my money. What a bust.September 9, 2009 20:35
it's a right of passage in OO programming when you realize that most things don't need a base classSeptember 4, 2009 17:01
Vimperator win: "set usermode" to remove page stylingSeptember 3, 2009 22:01

August

#firefox has the most annoying nag update system known to man. Apple and Microsoft can't even compete.August 20, 2009 15:18
I get back from dinner and there's a LAN party at our place. Bachelor life is awesome.August 15, 2009 04:55
The Iceland weather report: icelandweatherreport.comAugust 14, 2009 14:20
#perseids were (are) much nicer tonight! viewing Calgary-sideAugust 13, 2009 05:14
Stargazing. (it's a patience sport)August 12, 2009 05:24

July

Wish I'd never discovered Vimperator or ABP. Then it would be so easy to switch from Firefox, Destroyer of Memory.July 31, 2009 22:44
3 days after the rain incident and my iPod has managed to rebuild itselfJuly 28, 2009 16:59
Back from Fernie. Was awesome, but my POS iPod Touch was pwned by a bit of rain.July 27, 2009 22:28
Road trip successful. Now boarding plane, preparing for 44 degree heat.July 16, 2009 17:11
it's nice to have a working PC again. what an adventure a simple BIOS flash turned out to be.July 15, 2009 02:48
30% insurance drop for turning 25. I don't feel much different ...July 14, 2009 19:32
Only MonoPrice's cable prices are grounded in reality. MBP mini displayport adapter $10 there vs $35 from Apple vs $60 at BestBuy.July 13, 2009 22:52
Tokyo recipes: http://bit.ly/X89Ip Includes Redis set implements written in Lua for Tokyo Cabinet. Nice!July 13, 2009 17:50
Icy >>> CydiaJuly 13, 2009 17:26
my next project: XenServer on my MBP http://citrix.com/freexenserve…July 7, 2009 22:32
A new day -- and a new release iterationJuly 6, 2009 15:33
preparing for our pirate party tonight, looking fun already: http://flic.kr/p/6BQGbcJuly 4, 2009 19:44
Transformers not as bad as expected. Meghan Fox just a good :) Just don't try to piece together the nonsensical story after the movie.July 2, 2009 16:28

June

Why does every Windows app made since the inception of time steal focus? I propose relegating Windows to be known as a single task OS.June 30, 2009 17:41
what kind of noob screws up their BIOS flash? this noob (w/assist from the fail Asus update utility)June 30, 2009 06:17
Risk winna! occupying Europe ain't easy.June 28, 2009 08:38
BSOD in the middle of my presentation, so much for managed memory in .NET :)June 26, 2009 21:26
Alt + Esc minimizes a window! so much less awkward than Alt + Space + N. Microsoft needs better keyboard docs ...June 24, 2009 21:30
heading out the .NET user group presentation on XNA and Xbox live (@ Nexen conference center downtown)June 23, 2009 22:27
up and running on #twyt! there's no line like the command lineJune 23, 2009 19:24