February 2012
2 posts
“Let people choose change. I don’t think people are afraid of change, as a...”
– Jason Fried
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I...”
– Albert Einstein
January 2012
1 post
2 tags
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
– Pablo Picasso
December 2011
1 post
It’s true: a few weeks of programming really can save you hours of building a spreadsheet.
November 2011
1 post
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes...”
– Henry Ford
October 2011
2 posts
“If the main topic of conversation you have with your friends is not how you can...”
– Buford Taylor
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are...”
– Steve Jobs
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
2 posts
“The manual is a catalog of the product’s flaws.”
– Bill Budge
March 2011
3 posts
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain
“Helping people save face is more useful than jockeying for nerd dominance.”
– Aaron Blohowiak
February 2011
2 posts
Upgrading RubyGems search to Solr →
In which I thoroughly break down some recent work on upgrading RubyGems.org from slow SQL-based search to a fast and flexible Solr-based approach.
Mothers- and Fathers-to-Be: The Next Generation of... →
Congrats to my awesome friend Danielle Grisaffi for getting an article published in the NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education!
January 2011
4 posts
“The nerd sees the world as a system which, given enough time and effort, is...”
– Rands in Repose
Taylor Hackbarth decided to learn how to make his own clothing. He started with an apron, and has ended up with some beautiful handmade shirts and jeans. Inspiring. I sense a new hobby for my list…
December 2010
3 posts
2010 in Cities
San Diego, CA — The hometown.
Phoenix, AZ — Desert living!
San Francisco, CA — Multiple business trips.
Seattle, WA — Doug and Angela get hitched!
Orange, CA — Trav and Anna get hitched!
Park City, UT — Week-long snowboarding trip with the fam.
And three different cities lined up for next January alone…
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”
– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“When you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you’re even...”
– Paul Graham, How to Make Wealth. And that’s just a small footnote.
November 2010
1 post
TDD is Kanban for Code →
Kent Beck draws some interesting analogies between two of my favorite software development processes: TDD and Kanban.
October 2010
11 posts
Rands In Repose: An Unexpected Connection →
In which Rands explores the fascinating machinations of the geek’s internal relevancy engine, and its role in discovering structure in the world. This article is relevant to my interests.
WatchAmazing Building Mapping - Vimeo Festival (by Dan Ilic) — in which the IAC Building is turned into a really neat video art piece.
3 tags
Apple to hold "Back to the Mac" media event... →
Looks like we’ll get a “sneak peek” of OS X 10.7 next week! I am looking forward to seeing how Mail and Calendar incorporate the experiences of a few years of iOS app design. FaceTime in iChat will probably be a given, as well.
Why Chargify's free plan was magical
Today, Chargify rather abruptly announced a new pricing model for their (excellent) service. Notably, they are doing away with their free-until-50-users introductory plan.
The rest of the entrepreneurial internets have discussed extensively how poorly they think Chargify handled the transition, particularly with respect to grandfathering existing customers. But I won’t rehash here why I...
WatchJimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake perform a hip-hop overture. A-ma-zing.
September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
10 posts
Flappers on Fifth Avenue →
My first-grade girlfriend gets quoted in the New York Times.
“If you get accustomed to blowing off steam, you become dependent on it.”
– David McRaney on Catharsis — in particular the pointless concept of “venting” feelings of anger, aggression or frustration.
“The fact that other people get to decide what they think of your behavior leaves...”
– Clay Shirky, on confidently doing interesting things. (Via Put This On which has the full quote.)
WatchJewel does undercover karaoke at a random dive bar, and it is awesome.
The essential elements of a man's wardrobe →
If nothing else, for my own future reference.
A regular expression to check for prime numbers →
/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/
Probably not the best algorithm to find prime numbers, but it certainly is a clever abuse of regular expressions!