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May 2011

750 words a day keeps the insanity away

Using prime numbers to generate pretty trees

Being hacked killed a 6k traffic spike on my blog yesterday

Don't be a quiet professional

What Munchkins can teach us about entrepreneurship

April 2011

Ubuntu's app management better than Apple's

Even with Narwhals ubuntu is still a bitch to install

The three types of projects worth your time

A cool JavaScript property you never noticed

A few years ago I was playing around with JavaScript trying to find the cleanest way to implement callbacks in functions. Primarily I wanted a readable way to make certain the last argument passed is a callback, withut having to rely on knowing how many arguments there are and so on. Instead I stumbled upon a pretty cool feature of how javascript handles function arguments.

Benchmarking node, tornado and django for concurrency

Comparing clojure and node.js for speed

Circadian rhythm meltdown

February 2011

I got punched in the face and survived

January 2011

A case for multi-tasking

Tweet a photo every time your mac wakes up with a simple hack

Execution shapes ideas

December 2010

DjangoCamp was bangin'! (before unseen epic last slide of my talk)

Twitter censoring the WikiLeaks debate?

November 2010

Evolving a poem with an hour of python hacking

Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

Clients need deadlines too

A wit

600 word essay on the positive merits of politeness

Some general impressions of the US

October 2010

A flight

Doing nothing is the hardest thing ever

September 2010

Hard work is a total waste of time

RSS not dead, just misunderstood

Apple's Ping is a big pile of steaming dung

August 2010

On the buying of new hair and other silly stuff