April 2009
45 posts
I’m increasingly agitated by all of the *stuff* we have. Desiring pursuit of an ultra-minimalist lifestyle.
March 2009
48 posts
It seems strange to me that installing a gem’s documentation takes an order of magnitude more time than installing the gem itself.
People Who Sit In The Disability Seats When I’m... →
Introducing JSON Template →
A promising declarative templating language that speaks JSON natively.
Not For Tourists - San Francisco - City Guidebook →
Tax Consequences of Exercising NonQualified Stock... →
Gorgeous, sunny day here in Berkeley. I would code from a lawn chair in the grass if I had an umbrella and wifi.
Flickr: The Looking Into the Past Pool →
Billions Served: Norman Borlaug interviewed by... →
Permatime →
A neat linkable website to translate a time into your timezone.
The Omni Group - OmniGraphSketcher →
Slick and easy graph creation.
On 'nakation,' forget worries and clothes →
Theocacao: Measuring the Design Process →
Command-line Fu - The best UNIX commands on the... →
Some great nuggets of knowledge.
Goodbye Google | stopdesign →
Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin →
I’ve been wanting this for a long time.
Writing about my consumption diet: http://tinyurl.com/d98tal
A Look at the Jury System and Our Participation in... →
I think I’ve been convinced not to avoid jury duty.
How about a Twitter client that lets me filter the feed with arbitrary regexes? Also: pretty.
Lost my voice. Loud parties are lame. Need to know sign language. #sxsw
Idea: “Time’s Up” - audience votes on when a question asker shuts up. Save us all from your boring non-question anecdote.
There sure is a lot if useless noise about #sxsw. Brain filters advised. Useful: Plucker’s in Austin is delicious.
TIME FOR SOME STORIES (davesecretary) | StoryLog:... →
Tales from China (davesecretary) | StoryLog: true... →
Stevey's Blog Rants: Story Time →
Holy crap funny.
Formtastic - A Rails FormBuilder DSL →
Super awesome
Ego — You're important. →
Er.js: Erlang-in-JavaScript →
Nifty exploration of concurrency in JS.
jQuery UI Datepicker →
Ember: Campfire for your iPhone →
Yay, the sun is still shining at 5:30pm. Oh how I’ve missed this. #wintersucks
Hawke's Bay Naturist Club →
Wellington Naturists →
Katikati Naturist Park, New Zealand →
Planning a trip to New Zealand.
Quantum physics lesson for the day (awesome): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
A. H. Maslow (1943) A Theory of Human Motivation →
I fear that most people think there is no neutral, non-dogmatic position to take in life, so they choose a side. Don’t settle. Seek truth.
The Crash Course - Economy, energy, environment,... →
Might be interesting. Might be a colossal waste of time.
HTML-PDF-Converter.com – Free HTML to PDF... →
Wow, this worked surprisingly well the first time I tried it. The scaling in particular was spot-on.
Hashrocket => →
Hackerspaces →
A neat concept that I hope to explore more of.
Twitter should change its prompt from “What are you doing?” to “Impart or endeavor to find some wisdom for betterment:”
I wonder if graduate research is tainted by their overworked and miserly lifestyle. Would we get better research from rich, happy people?
iMouseFix - Mouse Acceleration Control for Mac OS... →
This helped me get my mouse back under control after getting a new Logitech mouse.
New Logitech mouse on OS X => over-acceleration madness. The fix: http://lavacat.com/iMouseFix/