February 2012
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“Nothing comes easy and the moment you feel comfortable with where you are,...”
– Jorge Quinteros, On Self-Promotion & Being Uncomfortable as a Photographer
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January 2012
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“What distinguished programmers at the top-performing companies wasn’t greater...”
– Susan Cain, The Rise of the New Groupthink
December 2011
1 post
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“If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.”
– Richard Wilkinson - How economic inequality harms societies
October 2011
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August 2011
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“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly...”
– Warren E. Buffett, Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
July 2011
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“My fear is that It’s only a matter of time before developers find the risks and...”
– Craig Hockenberry, The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer
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We Will Honor All Those Who Have Fallen →
I was going to post part of this as a quote, but it’s so important that I think it should be read in its entirety.
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“Maybe it is just my friends, but I find more and more people completely...”
– Thomas L. Friedman, 100 Days
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“The important thing is to slog diligently through this quagmire of...”
– Austin Madison
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Yay! 4th of July Fireworks 2011! →
It’s time for another survey of the wonderful world of fireworks package design from the fine folks at Panic
June 2011
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“A corporation is a legal person created by state statute that can be used as a...”
– Seriously shady. From Special Report: A little house of secrets on the Great Plains
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Tangle →
Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. Your readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately. Tangle is super-simple and easy to learn.
I often learn best when I’m able to explore concepts through what-if scenarios. Allowing data to be directly manipulated within the web page is a powerful idea.
May 2011
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“The gas pressure is huge. Even if you could use a transporter to teleport your...”
– ASK A PHYSICIST: What would a teaspoonful of neutron star do to you?
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All About the Weathah →
If you ask local folks about this past winter in Boston, people will generally agree that it was pretty brutal. While we did get an above average amount of snow, it was not even close to record breaking. So what was it that made the difference?
Jonathan Dobres does some statistical investigation.
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The Memorial of Unsaved Work →
Ponder here on the hours lost, contemplate on what might have been. Leave your eulogy, cry, laugh, scream and let your work be remembered for eternity.
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Anatomy of a Mashup →
An interesting and impressive visualization created using HTML5 elements including audio and canvas. It illustrates how the various pieces of a Daft Punk mash-up contribute to the whole track.
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Readme Driven Development →
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April 2011
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The 10 Best Jobs of 2011 →
Spoiler: Software Engineer is ranked #1
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“When you work with the Chaos Monkey, you quickly learn that everything happens...”
– Jeff Attwood, Working with the Chaos Monkey
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Project Cascade →
A slick new data visualization built by The New York Times’ Research and Development Lab to show the nature of link sharing on the web.
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From Me To You (tagged GIF) →
Elevating animated GIFs to an artform.
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David Simon, American Revolutionary →
I was going to write this up as a quote post, but there were too many good statements to pick only one.
Bill Moyers interviews David Simon, creator of The Wire.
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A new frontier in quest to understand the cosmos →
Ed Stone - what an inspiring career!
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“I don’t care about the money. I just want to know why the prosecutors who hid...”
– John Thompson - The Prosecution Rests, but I Can’t
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“Even as we’ve grown, we’ve remained a lean organization. We do not have room for...”
– Jason Fried - Why I Run a Flat Company
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“If you write interactive software know this: fluidity of motion is more...”
– Guy English makes a good point about interactive application behavior, citing current and past examples: Always prioritize responding to user input fluidly over perfect visual fidelity. Once the user action is over, then make sure everything looks great.
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March 2011
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“The overwhelming response of Japanese engineering to the challenge posed by an...”
– Patrick McKenzie, Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake
(With profound respect and admiration for the people of Japan. My thoughts are with you.)
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WatchIn every instance, the music and/or sound drew an emotional response from me even before the video came up. I think I owe a lot of who I am today to growing up at the same time as the video game industry.
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“But the tragedy is that as soon as you frame internal quality as tradable,...”
– Martin Fowler, on the Tradable Quality Hypothesis
February 2011
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Speed Up Your Devise-using Unit Tests
This morning I was giving myself a refresher on how to set up RSpec for testing Rails apps that use the Devise authentication framework. I completely skimmed over the first sentence there on my first pass. It reads:
First, be sure to speed up your tests!
I’m glad I didn’t miss it. That page advises users to edit their initializers/devise.rb file and replace the...
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