September 2011
3 posts
An introduction to Objective-C →
a fundamentals course
What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? -... →
TimeBoxed - A Mac timer to get things done and be... →
pomodoro
November 2010
1 post
Breaking things down to Atoms - Nick's Blog →
atom feeds.
October 2010
4 posts
[Audio] – Laurie Anderson – “It’s Not the Bullet... →
Smoothie Chart tutorial →
streaming graphs library for javascript
HTML5 Canvas Element Guide →
basic canvas tutorial
jQuery Fundamentals →
book, looks pretty capable.
November 2009
1 post
Go the language, not the game.
Go is a C-derived language which implements a lot of modern programming language features in a clean and straightforward way.
Developed at Google by a team that includes Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.
Notable features
strongly typed
Go allows for the creation of composite types and supports the notion
of interfaces. It implements the typical array of low-level types
including byte, int, int64...
October 2009
4 posts
10 Tips on Writing Hero-worthy Error Messages →
RkTaggy - example Google Wave robot →
basic example of wave robot
mapping the interfaces between realtime and... →
Events happen in the world. Results of events are sensed by sensor and communicated to processors, processors create records of sensor readings in memory. And those records are what is fixed in permanent storage media.
TheFunded.com: Complete Set of Founder Friendly... →
Is there such a thing as too founder friendly?
August 2009
1 post
Cheat Sheets - PacketLife.net →
bunch of really well done networking cheat sheets.
July 2009
1 post
NaCl - Networking and cryptography library. →
This is very interesting to me. One of the things I have thought a lot about recently is the disconnect between the effectiveness of cryptography and the ease with which it can be misused and misunderstood. It seems to me that productive work on the user interface to cryptographic operations could produce widespread benefits.
I’m glad to see that low level steps in this direction are...
April 2009
5 posts
Circos - visualize genomes and genomic data →
Must look for creating cool visualizations of lots of data.
Effects of Flash/SSD on PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL... →
(via kanbe)
I saw Jigdesh give his presentation at East and was very impressed by his thoroughness and scientific approach to measuring performance for Postgresql. He describes the different conditions under which SSDs can improve performance, and covers the areas where they are irrelevant to performance.
Is Facebook a Cult? - ReadWriteWeb →
Marshall Kirkpatrick offers a very interesting question; is Facebook a cult?
He points out some of the relevant similarities, the groupthink, the social isolation from non-facebookers, the use of subtle social pressures to enforce norms.
Definitely meshes with the creepy feeling that facebook gives me; which is why I am a facebook refusenik.
March 2009
3 posts
QuickPWN →
iphone jailbreak software.
Stanza: a Revolution in Reading →
Book reading app for iPhone
TwitterFon - Simple, Clean, and Fast Twitter... →
from the makers of twitterfox
February 2009
3 posts
Mapnik →
Mapnik is a sophisticated GIS tool that includes everything needed to build complex multilayered maps.
the-golden-grid - Google Code →
basic css grid
Kelly's 14 Rules | Lockheed Martin →
How to run a skunkworks.
January 2009
2 posts
Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream... →
An interesting profile of Mark Shuttleworth.
MozRepl →
command line for mozilla browsers that allows for all sorts of integration with a running browser
December 2008
3 posts
pg8000 →
pure python postgres interface. w/ 3.0 support
How To Tell Stuff To A Computer - The Enigmatic... →
Knowledge representation made easy. :-)
Twenty Rules for Amazon Cloud Security - O'Reilly... →
Most of this is motherhood and apple pie, it’s a good list to use regardless of your underlying infrastructure.
November 2008
4 posts
Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution... →
useful for building command shell with completions
Howto make debian standard debs from scratch →
Relatively clear explanation.
Fraud-as-a-service: Did Criminals Invent Cloud... →
Reuven Cohen has an interesting post on cloud computing and it’s origins in the darknets of eastern europe in the mid-90’s. It makes a certain sort of sense, criminal enterprises face a much harsher environment than most IT organizations with greater need for not just geographical redundancy but jurisdictional diversity so that operations can continue in the face of multiple attacks. I...
scie.nti.st » Hosting Git repositories, The Easy... →
How to install gitosis on your server.
October 2008
13 posts
The motivation for documentation
It’s a truism of knowledge work that more time and energy is expended in communicating about the work that is being done than is used in actually performing the work.
As generations of technologists have discovered and rediscovered, to be truly good at what you do and perceived to be so by your customers and coworkers, you must not only do what you do, you must document it clearly so that...
Acer Aspire One User Forum →
Hack central for aspire one owners.
Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design →
O good, a clear tutorial on something I’m not very good at but need to do on a regular basis.
Knowledge: The Loss You Can't Afford in a Down... →
This article gets to the very core of what I want to talk about at Industrial Intellect. Knowledge is becoming one of the key factors of production. Both the explicit knowledge that is captured in documentation, design and in organizational communications. But also the implicit knowledge that workers build up about how to access knowledge, and what the exceptions are, and what customary practice...
13 Of the Best Linux Tutorials and OpenCourseWare... →
A fairly comprehensive starting point; good to hand to smart people who are curious about linux.
Aho/Ullman Foundations of Computer Science →
Classic Textbook on computer science
Hairdresser or Web Designer?
Going to see Vint Cerf talk about protocols.
The Shapely Manual →
It’s a library of 2-dimensional set operations on geometry. Get your mind out of the gutter.
UI-patterns.com →
Nice clean site with lots of examples.
Interaction Design Pattern Library →
Fairly good resource for interaction design.
Cheap, Fast AND Good. Mechanical Turk Tagging. →
Mechanical Turk is brain work on the piece rate, and I suspect that it will not remain cheap for long.
The promise of the World Wide Web.
Back in the boom days when the web was still under construction we all had glorious ideas of what it would be and how it would work and what we wanted from it.
Back then we thought the promise of the internet was that anyone anywhere would be able to find out whatever they needed to; and that anyone who had something to say could find as much audience as they deserved.
We still have a ways to...