December 2010
37 posts
The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com http://instapaper.com/z8h3kwg1t
WIRED responds to Glenn Greenwald’s accusations re: the Manning chat logs http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/greenwald/
Great photo of the lunar eclipse early this morning (not my photo) http://i.imgur.com/zeL7S.jpg
Leaving for Christmas early on Wednesday morning. Feeling exceedingly overwhelmed with what I need to accomplish between now & then.
Directions from Colorado Ski resorts to Boulder,...
Getting from Boulder to the mounains is super simple: just take 93-S to 470-S to 70-W.
For some weird reason, the return trip is harder. There isn’t a clear sign for Boulder or 470-N, and Google maps gives you some funky routes. Taking US-6 E takes way too long.
After some trial and error, I think I’ve settled on the best route. It’s easy, but not clearly marked:
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Hell, it’s about time. Awesome news. RT @jaredpolis: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell FINALLY Repealed!!!! #dadt
The new @dojo4 site is awesome! http://dojo4.com
An old T-shirt gets a new life as an iPad case thanks to Kate and her sewing machine. /cc @danmayer http://yfrog.com/h37cvsj
RT @jfox85: Javascript is the most popular language on GitHub http://jfox.in/1u #javascript
Whenever I wish I could a task more easily/quickly, I find out Ara’s already written a script to do it. /cc @dojo4 #getthehairlessyakforfree
Reverse SSH tunneling: easier than port...
Imagine you’re developing a web application using a framework like Rails. You’ve got your development server fired up and are regularly reloading http://localhost:3000 to see your changes. All is going well until you want to integrate with some 3rd party service that needs to talk to your application. You’re not really going to deploy to staging on every change, are you?
If you...
Jeweler tells me: “Missing some dependencies. Install them with the following commands:”. OK, give me a gem/rake command to install them
Yesterday’s pants http://i.imgur.com/DO95j.jpg
Always good to ask Ara Ruby library questions, because he remembers the mailing list discussions from when the library was written
OH: “[Girl Talk] is like a radio station mixed with Twitter”
Class#public_instance_methods method returns methods in the order they were declared, but only sometimes (matters when running tests). #ruby
RT @cjkihlbom: Holy crap! Salesforce.com acquires Heroku? http://tcrn.ch/gQwEH8
RT @gustin, @avlisin: C++ is the steampunk of programming languages: modern ideas realized with victorian technology.
Anyone used Opensocial gadget templates? They look really awful. Maybe it’s dumb, but I’d rather just build the view in JS.
When I see that a declarative templating language includes psuedo-control structures, I get very suspicious.
Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky http://instapaper.com/z8fms6c1F
Schneier on Security: Close the Washington Monument http://instapaper.com/zTlykjb1R
Hey MacBook Pro, how about a “reserve battery power” warning before you shut down? I’d appreciate it.
goddammit kernel_task, I don’t want you to do that *now*
RT @pennjillette: Here is a … video about “In god We Trust” and “Under god” in the United States of America - http://tinyurl.com/yaa36ja
Hovering to expose UI options (buttons, etc) is a huge UI fail. I shouldn’t have to wander all over with my mouse to find functionality.
Feeling very lucky that we happened to get Javascript as the universal browser language. It could have been much, much worse.
Don’t go grocery shopping when hungry or go to the liquor store when buzzed. Both can lead to impractical purchases.
I think I’m going to try to make a new Omniauth provider that uses the data from signed requests to authenticate. Pls reply if I’m an idiot.
… something illuminating, something that explains auth as well as “Git Internals” explained Git.
Anyone know if Omni auth (or a fork) supports 2-legged oauth (in particular, using the OpenSocial info)? I may need to write it myself.
Maybe it’s just me authentication (3-legged OAuth, 2-legged OAuth, etc) still makes my head spin. Anyone know of a great guide?
OH: “Yeah, fuck REST - that’s like my motto these days”
RT @danmayer: Switching code contexts is still slow / hard for me… Which I had git for my brain. Git stash projectB; Git pull projectA
Sorry, that was inaccurate: it uses carbon, but uses arsenic instead of phosphorus to build itself. That makes it diff from ALL known life
Holy freaking crap! Non-carbon life form found here on earth: http://gizmodo.com/5704158/
RT @igrigorik: new blog post on “Concurrency with Actors, Goroutines & Ruby” @ http://j.mp/gF7VV8 - should we remove threads in Ruby?