May 2011
1 post
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…
April 2011
1 post
“Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to...”
– dwm dynamic window manager
February 2011
1 post
“This is the touchstone of such a spirit; no prizefighter can go with high...”
– Seneca, Roman Philosopher (via)
November 2010
2 posts
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
“I like nice things, I really do, but what I’ve found is that sometimes...”
– minus1 via hackernews
August 2010
3 posts
Advice for living (and also design) →
nodejs and C++ interop →
July 2010
6 posts
Average read time from given computer components →
VexFlow TabDiv Demo →
Rendering guitar tabs as html5, css3 and svg. Now we just need a chrome extension to convert existing tabs to this notation. :)
The Elegant Ruby Web Framework - Padrino Ruby Web... →
Interesting looking ruby web framework. Comes with an auto-admin, has support for multiple backends (including mongodb) and all around looks like pretty winful.
Put This On • The Essential Man’s Wardrobe Perhaps... →
June 2010
3 posts
“Building a new technology company is really, really hard.
In order to do it...”
– Ben Horowitz (via glezos)
“Criticizing Slackware for lack of modernity would be like criticizing a...”
– Slackware 13.1: A Linux Distro That Gets Out of the Way | Linux.com
http://thestartuptoolkit.com/8UeDlgduKABN/ →
Questions to get your brain going on whether your startup has what’s necessary to make it.
May 2010
2 posts
git ready » push and delete remote branches →
push & delete remote branches. I always forget how to do this.
“Sometimes low self-esteem is earned. It’s the correct response if you are not...”
– The Rules of a Gentleman
April 2010
4 posts
mrdoob's three.js at master - GitHub →
3d engine in javascript.
Recent Facebook Technologies - MindMeister Mind... →
Overview of technologies facebook provides.
“Anything that anyone is thinking about in this space, we are doing. We have at...”
– Brian O’Kelley, CEO of AppNexus regarding a quote from a Google Exec. (link @ 69:09)
March 2010
4 posts
“A simplification has to remove or replace something else. You can’t just add on...”
– via The Endeavour
“The big thing about the Web isn’t the technology, it’s that it’s the first-ever...”
– via Tim Bray’s “Now a No-Evil Zone”
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
I got the following errors when running apt-get update on my rackspace cloud ubuntu servers:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No...
Configuring X on an Ubuntu Virtual Machine
I run a fullscreen Ubuntu virtual machine on my Vista desktop. I was trying an alternative (tiling) window manager (dwm), but there was an issue where I was only getting an 800x600 resolution.
The solution for this was to add the following lines to my gdm config (located at /etc/gdm/Init/Default )
xrandr --output default --mode 1680x1050
where default is the result of
xrandr | grep connected |...
February 2010
3 posts
Home | Fat Possum Records →
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via)
“In Facebook’s case, currently a 20 millisecond per page savings is estimated at...”
– http://terrychay.com/article/hiphop-for-faster-php.shtml/4
January 2010
5 posts
How to setup a git repository with gitosis →
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs
“A fellow programmer once told me that software is never finished, it’s...”
– via dcs-media
“In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to...”
– Richard P. Feynman on what’s missing in pseudo-science and cargo-cultism.
December 2009
17 posts
The Gullible →
I got about halfway through this story and jolted, thinking someone might tl;dr this. READ THIS. Great story. I forgot it was a story and in the back of my mind was wondering if I could find this book on Amazon. More than a bit disappointed that I can’t.
via mrgan
“The first thing you will need to get started with Emacs is a beard.”
– Wilhelm Bierbaum (via merlin)
I had a beard when I learned emacs. After you get it down, you can shave again.
“It is currently slower than a slow-motion replay of a cold-weather molasses...”
– schacon’s erlangit, git in erlang
Protovis - Nightingale's Rose →
My favorite type of graph to date. Conveys information and is still visually interesting. Full package.
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Types and... →
The secret about writing that no one has the balls... →
New York City Guitar School →
Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text! →
How-To Guide for Descriptors →
Really great article about using descriptors.
“People who don’t write, are people who don’t think.”
– The secret about writing that no one has the balls to tell you - Pete Michaud
“All I want to be,
is someone that makes new things.
And thinks about them.”
– Maeda’s SIMPLICITY: Think-Make-Think