July 2010
1 post
rentzsch.tumblr.com: Magic Feet →
Shit, I have thems too.
The experiment: Step on a nail. Make sure it punctures your shoe and penetrates your foot. (You probably want to make sure you’re up-to-date on your tetanus shot first.) Do it again. Yes, with the blood. Doesn’t matter if you wait a week or a couple of years in-between runs. Now the fun…
June 2010
1 post
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (Told you so, everyone who has tried to convince me that our elevators’ door-close buttons did anything.) (via marco)
May 2010
1 post
Dear telephone users, fuck off.
rickwebb:
“The Never Call: There are some people who love to text so much that the phone part of their cell phone has become completely obsolete. They’re like Tobias Funke the never-nude from Arrested Development, except instead of refusing to take off the last bit of clothing for a completely irrational reason, they are scared of a wonderful and time-honored mode of communication.” — The Nine...
April 2010
1 post
Watchmrgan:
Pixels, a short film by Patrick Jean. Give some 8-bit love, y’all.
March 2010
4 posts
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: What's next for Google Maps... →
Drunk-driving directions would be a serious WIN.
“Back in ye olden days, most programming tasks I performed felt quite natural and...”
– http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166107, via previous quote.
“Especially, I have learned that anything that has “Enterprise” in its name is so...”
– http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/whatever-happened-to-programming-redux-it-may-not-be-as-bad-as-all-that/
February 2010
3 posts
“Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are...”
– Scott Adams: Like a Night Watchman (via marco)
“Most people need less done well, not more done poorly.”
– Brian Christiansen (via marco)
“[programmers] not only will they tell you how wrong you are, but they’ll also...”
– Marco.org considered harmful
January 2010
4 posts
December 2009
6 posts
PSA: Disable and Recover from Mac OS X's...
rentzsch:
Someone tweeted:
Does anyone have a service (Automator??) that removes the xattr quarantine flag from selected files and folders? I realize the danger….
While I tweeted my response, I wanted to get this information out to a wider audience.
Here’s how to put to sleep Mac OS X’s Quarantine yapping-dog.
First, slice off the head of the beast. Ken Aspeslagh taught me this...
A video playlist about twitter. →
Random Thoughts From People Our Age
yasminspired:
-I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
-I don’t understand...
A good accidental writeup by yours truly, as a... →
November 2009
1 post
We need: A programmable Twitter client
rsscloud:
Unix had a shell language. DOS had a batch language. Lotus 1-2-3 had its macro language. Emacs is a programming tool as much as it is a text editor. We have gotten out of the habit of making programmable end-user products, but they are still just as important today as they were a couple of decades ago.
Every few weeks Scoble and I have an hour-plus conversation about what’s on each...
October 2009
4 posts
Stack-overflowing
I was going to work on my svn externals management⌥⌫riddance tool.
Then I realized I could quickly parse an unrelated binary file format to extract some unrelated strings to do some unrelated trivial thing.
After quickly succeeding with grep, I noticed I could implement a very elegant solution to my now-non-problem by traversing an array of strings in groups of three. And, simple enough,...
The curious pricing of the 27" iMac
marco:
… I bet we’re going to see a lot of Mac Pro owners buying 27” monitors for $1700 and trying to figure out what to do with the free computer stuck to the back.
See also, https://twitter.com/stevenf/status/5023486458
This feeling, I share.
September 2009
4 posts
August 2009
8 posts
Getting rid of svk, at last →
http://ffffound.com/image/95d37d0035373dffe2ab45ce7... →
lulitozzi:
i hate vegans
July 2009
9 posts
What JG said. (well, not quite)
Writing is so ridiculously easy when you know who you’re writing to.
Random internet people is not a good reader.
My reader:
knows programming
by which i mean, knows functional programming
which also implies, hates java
has a fashion sense
likes industrial music,
by which i mean swedish industrial,
by which i do not mean american rock music with noise bits,
by which i could mean...
Some rants don't fit in a toot.
Also, dear sparse code chumps, my code doesn’t read denser because I packed your twenty lines into one by deleting line feeds.
It’s just that after I have managed to remove all the babble and redundancy and wasteful assignments and useless nests of if blocks and code that DOESN’T EVEN EVER RUN, I’m down to three lines, one of then being an “end”, so I might as...
How lame is it to link to xkcd when everybody... →
