Modernism in sheds
Prefab Sheds - Modernism in Miniature. Cool looking stuff, and its promising that people are considering better use of their existing space instead of just seeking more space. Now, if only our own shed weren’t so shedtastic.
Bruce Springsteen in a nutshell
Things can't get any worse, they gotta get better
It’s the deep sadness of his songs, surrounded by undying optimism, that keeps me coming back every time.
One Velociraptor Per Child
The One Velociraptor Per Child project:
The project's origins go back more than four decades to the early days of paleontology, when most dinosaurs were still the size of skyscrapers, and almost no one dreamed they would ever be suitable for children.
Applying CSS
Why Programmers Suck at CSS - a great primer on how to get from mechanical knowledge of how CSS works to actually using it to make nice things.
Getting Around
In the same ilk as Garret Murray’s My Day, Yesterday pool, I propose you make a video of the essential transportation experience in your town. 90 seconds on getting from one place to another and back, however you tend to do so.
Bonus points for quirky and fun stuff caught between point A and point B.
Stupid Struct Tricks
All About Struct - there’s always more to learn about @Struct@, unless you’re James Edward Gray. Useful and illuminating for all shades of Ruby developers.
Stream of curiosity
Questions going through my head right now:
- Why is “The Men All Pause” seven minutes long?
- What was the point of that “heavy breathing” break?
- Was it really necessary to have six ladies in Klymaxx?
- Why am I listening to this again?
Learn You a Haskell
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - if you learned Ruby via The Poignant Guide, you’ll like this. Plus, Haskell does cool stuff to your brain.
Garrett's life, yesterday
My Day, Yesterday - a glimpse into the world of Garrett Murray. Best ninety seconds of video I’ve seen all week. If you like it and/or my style of humor, you’ll like his Qwick Reviews too.
Launch the missiles!
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Haskell - a great interview with the awesome Simon Peyton-Jones on Haskell. I love his use of the “launch the missiles!” metaphor for thinking about side-effects and IO in programs. Via projectionist.
JBox2D equals fun
JBox2D is a port of a C++ physics engine to Java. Being Java means you can use it in Processing. Being Processing means you can use it for fun. And the demos, behold, they are fun!
Mining my Git repositories
Since I started using Git, I’ve been finding myself creating tons of repositories. Anything I think might someday prove interesting or that I work on for more than a few minutes, I create a Git repository. I’ve yet to discover that ultimate workflow, but between experimenting with using it to put presentations online, managing the Dallas.rb website via Git and using it extensively at FiveRuns, Git is proving quite fun.
But let’s get back to that earlier point: I have a metric shit-ton of repositories laying around in my home directory. This morning I found myself wondering exactly how many I have and how many actually have a remote (i.e. how many have yielded a project worth backing up remotely and/or sharing). So, I did the numbers:
| Directory | Repositories | Remotes |
|---|---|---|
| @/Users/adam@ (Home, sweet home) | 287 | 263 |
| @~/FiveRuns@ (Work stuff) | 161 | 160 |
| @~/repos@ (All source-ish stuff) | 85 | 69 |
| @~/repos/sources@ (Interesting code of others) | 62 | 60 |
| @~/repos/projects@ (My own code) | 9 | 6 |
| @~/Desktop@ (Landing pad for the newest of projects) | 1 | 0 |
Which is about what I’d expect in terms of quantity and ratio. I’m a little surprised I have so many work repositories laying around, but we use submodules extensively so there’s probably only about 40 repositories that are meaningful to us. I’m a little suprised that so many of my personal projects do have remotes though. I guess I’m making progress towards doing more.
For those interested, the script that begat all this fun data. Run it yourself and share your numbers!
Rich Kilmer speaketh
Ruby’s Best Feature? Rich Kilmer is one of those uncanny developers who can crank out orders of magnitude more good code than your average developer. When he speaks, I always listen.
Awesome writing
I want to take that video behind the middle school and get it pregnant.
You need more Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett is quite possibly one of Texas' finest exports. If you’re not hip then you’re missing out. Heck, I was missing out; consider a couple of his appearances on the Johnny Carson show.
Make it a…cheeseburger.
Do I wish that I could sing like Francine Reed or Lyle Lovett? Every day.