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  • Jan 26, 2015

    I just marked “Something Slightly Less Terrible” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/qyhkxqwb

    (Originally published on App.net.)

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  • Jan 26, 2015

    “Coding, like writing, is a mechanical act.”

    Just one of many gems in “Coding is not the new literacy” by @ibdknox:

    chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/cod…

  • Jan 26, 2015

    Got my 2-year-old to eat persimmon! I’ll consider that a win.

  • Jan 25, 2015

    This insightful post explains much about my relationship with traditional media:

    medium.com/@hankgreen/hol…

    /via @waxpancake

  • Jan 25, 2015

    “…somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Lu…

  • Jan 23, 2015

    The world, to me: “You’re out of work, you need a job.”

    Me: “What is work anyway? Can we take it from first principles?”

    World: *facepalm*

  • Jan 22, 2015

    Writing a little Clojure code today… feels nice to get back to it!

  • Jan 21, 2015

    As a Wikipedia supporter, this is deeply troubling: markbernstein.org/Jan15/Infamous…

  • Jan 21, 2015

    iPhoto (for Mac) is so incredibly slow. There’s no excuse for this. I can’t wait for it to be replaced by the new iOS-inspired Photos app.

  • Jan 20, 2015

    The closing words of @DesiMakesMovies in this great @deathsexmoney episode really resonated with me: wnyc.org/story/desiree-…

  • Jan 19, 2015

    Whoah, @cyberduckapp, my favorite file transfer app for years, now has a CLI version!

    blog.cyberduck.io/2015/01/15/ter…

    Very cool!

  • Jan 19, 2015

    Great post on data processing:

    “Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster”

    aadrake.com/command-line-t…

    /via Hacker News

  • Jan 15, 2015

    So my daughter woke up at 6:30 this morning & I managed to get her back to sleep for another hour. Is there a medal for that? A merit badge?

  • Jan 12, 2015

    Any establishment playing a song from The Crow soundtrack has my respect and enthusiasm.

  • Jan 12, 2015

    I’m enjoying Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald M. Weinberg. 30 years old, still quite relevant.

    geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Technical… thx @codinghorror

  • Jan 10, 2015

    If you use “astounding” in the title of your job posts, you’re going to attract some astounding assholes.

  • Jan 10, 2015

    The anime of Attack on Titan is seriously intense, not for the faint of heart. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on…

  • Jan 10, 2015

    To Be Takei just hit Netflix! I’m excited to watch it. Trailer is here: tobetakei.com

  • Jan 10, 2015

    I really enjoyed The Martian by Andy Weir when I read it last year — turns out it has a great backstory!

    nautil.us/issue/20/creat…

  • Jan 9, 2015

    TIL: there’s a street in Manhattan named “Little West 12th Street”. Love it.

  • Jan 9, 2015

    Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf is like a time machine for me, takes me back to ~5 yrs old. ❤️ thanks Mom! rd.io/x/QV7o_TdeP622/

  • Jan 8, 2015

    I just marked “Staying agile in the face of data deluge: Martin Kleppmann” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/z14fmmhi

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Jan 6, 2015

    TIL: houses can suffer cascading failures like any other kind of system.

  • Jan 6, 2015

    I miss video games.

    (Got tired of my Xbox 360; never got into games on iOS; sitting with a laptop is too reminiscent of work. PS4 beckons…)

  • Dec 31, 2014

    So… I’m once again looking for work. The last opportunity wasn’t a good fit, but I learned from it and I’m ready to take on whatever’s next!

  • Dec 30, 2014

    I hope this works! http://t.co/zquwSN6jPW

    B6IGRVsIcAE84mX

  • Dec 28, 2014

    Cuties in the woods! http://t.co/jzKRlU1cTD

    B5-zLhPIAAAAT3U

  • Dec 27, 2014

    This vision for the future of humanity & technology is bold, courageous, ambitious, positive, and compelling. ted.com/talks/hugh_her…

  • Dec 26, 2014

    I just marked “Clear Your Mental Cache” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/3a48rfj0

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Dec 26, 2014

    I just marked “http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/whyiseveryonesobusy” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/h0qmzxxv

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Dec 18, 2014

    Just saw a Morgan 3-wheeler on Houston. Bare sheetmetal. Goggles. Hot!

  • Dec 16, 2014

    I just marked “Say No” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/zik9famh

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Dec 12, 2014

    I just marked “The Argumentative Jew” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ok0dxm9q

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Dec 10, 2014

    “From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy” paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/fro… Good for them!

  • Dec 5, 2014

    I just marked “Professional Transitions (or: the shutting down of Mozilla Labs)” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/i3dmpcgy

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Dec 5, 2014

    I just marked “Why the data center needs an operating system” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ehvbv1hs

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Dec 5, 2014

    I just marked “Doctors, emails and blood test results: Sensitive medical data on the Internet” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/2qeltf7j

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Dec 1, 2014

    Been working with @circleci lately and I’m quite impressed. Excellent service.

  • Nov 21, 2014

    Ursula K. Le Guin’s powerful speech on literature, publishing, & freedom at the National Book Awards: parkerhiggins.net/2014/11/will-n… — so inspiring!

  • Nov 18, 2014

    Broke out the balaclava this morning. COME AT ME, WINTER.

  • Nov 14, 2014

    Looks like I won’t be able to make it to @clojure_conj next week. Bummer. Anyone want my ticket?

  • Nov 14, 2014

    I just marked “Healthy Codebase and Preparatory Refactoring” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/05gks5dh

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Nov 13, 2014

    New books! http://t.co/s6UbvGtAIv

    B2XhyrbIEAA3Q0G

  • Nov 13, 2014

    I just marked “Wednesday, 12 November 2014 – The Pastry Box Project” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/mmjg78gg

    (Originally published on App.net.)

    …more…
  • Nov 13, 2014

    Interesting… I contributed to the open-source docs for a closed-source API: github.com/github/develop…

    Not sure how I feel about that.

  • Nov 13, 2014

    Interstellar is amazing!

  • Nov 12, 2014

    I have so many side projects stalled in so many different ways that I made a decision matrix to choose which to focus on.

  • Nov 12, 2014

    Philae has landed!

  • Nov 11, 2014

    Couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t see the printer on the network. Turns out it’s not hooked up to the network! Doh!

  • Nov 10, 2014

    I just marked “The problem of managing schemas” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/mykrz3a7

    (Originally published on App.net.)

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