October 2011
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“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each...”
– Steve Jobs
Oct 6th
August 2011
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July 2011
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“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be...”
– John Adams
Jul 6th
June 2011
8 posts
Jun 28th
10 Myths About Introverts →
Jun 21st
World War II: Before the War →
First part of a 20 part photo essay on WWII.
Jun 20th
Letters of Note: SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO PLAYERS →
Jun 17th
Jun 14th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 9th
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Jun 2nd
May 2011
6 posts
i make shiny things: Not cool Urban Outfitters,... →
imakeshinythings: One of my lovely customers sent me a message today with this link. And here is my United/World of Love line: My heart sank a little bit. The World/United States of Love line that I created is one of the reasons that I was able to quit my full-time job. They even stole the item…
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 20th
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May 18th
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Pycco: literate-programming doc gen for Python →
Pycco is a Python port of Docco: the original quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator.
May 17th
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April 2011
9 posts
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Apr 29th
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Yes, You Can Get Leprosy From an Armadillo →
In case you were wondering.
Apr 29th
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Error installing PyODBC on Snow Leopard →
If you are trying to install the latest PyODBC on Snow Leopard, and are seeing an error that includes “for architecture ppc not installed”, try this: ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386 -arch x86_64” python setup.py install
Apr 18th
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How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things... →
Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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Sorcery: Magical Authentication for Rails 3 and... →
Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
March 2011
4 posts
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Resort: positionless sorting for your Rails 3... →
Using linked lists as a simple alternative to sorting Rails models with acts_as_list.
Mar 30th
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Inherited Resources for Rails Controllers →
Inherited Resources speeds up development by making your controllers inherit all restful actions so you just have to focus on what is important.
Mar 30th
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Bill Simmons: Greed is good in NFL labor talks →
A great article by ESPN’s Bill Simmons on the NFL labor dispute. Really puts things in perspective.
Mar 8th
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So a Wall Street banker, a teabagger, and a teacher all sit down at a table. On the table is a plate with 11 cookies. The banker promptly grabs 10 of the cookies and turns to the teabagger and says “I’d watch out for the teacher, she wants some of your cookie.”
Mar 4th
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February 2011
2 posts
The Loneliest Whale in the World →
Feb 25th
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January 2011
2 posts
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“They’ve had six Super Bowl trophies. If they want to put them on the...”
– Rex Ryan, head coach of the New York Jets, when asked about the Pittsburgh Steelers
Jan 21st
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Jan 17th
December 2010
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Macports Cheat Sheet
Getting info List currently installed software: port installed Get info about a specific package: port info <package> Search for a specific package: port search <package> List all variants for a package: port variants <package> List all outdated packages: port outdated Installing Install a package: sudo port install <package> Installing a specific version: sudo port...
Dec 16th
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factory_boy: like Ruby's factory_girl, but for... →
Under the covers, this is one of the most beautiful pieces of Python code I’ve seen in a while.
Dec 16th
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PuDB: the less crappy Python debugger. →
Dec 16th
February 2010
1 post
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Easy document revisions with RelaxDB
I’ve been using CouchDB/RelaxDB for a project I’m working on, and I wanted an easy way to access CouchDB’s document versioning for my models. Here’s what I came up with. Without going into too much detail, CouchDB doesn’t update documents in place, instead it creates a new document with the same ID and a new revision string. This gives you access to a rudimentary...
Feb 9th
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January 2010
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Jan 13th
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Jan 9th
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The Parrot AR.Drone is the first quadricopter that... →
Jan 9th
December 2009
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November 2009
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Nov 21st
Is your Johnson Rod broken? In need of a quality... →
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