February 2008
47 posts
It's 3 AM... →
“Hillary asked a serious question in her latest campaign spot. We thought it deserved an equally serious response.”
Shrine of the Mall Ninja »
LonelyMachines →
O, Engineers! →
Twenty years ago, Tracy Kidder published the original nerd epic. The Soul of a New Machine made circuit boards seem cool and established a revolutionary notion: that there’s art in the quest for the next big thing.
tarantula - Relevance Open Source - Trac →
Tarantula is a big fuzzy spider. It crawls your Rails application, fuzzing data to see what breaks.
“The Connection Has Been Reset” →
China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here’s why it’s so effective anyway.
SI HOC LEGERE POTES LIBERALITER EDUCATUS ES
“On Sunday, YouTube became unreachable from most, if not all, of the Internet. No...”
– Iljitsch van Beijnum, Insecure routing redirects YouTube to Pakistan
“Also not all Iraq wars are created equal. An Iraq war not conceived of and run...”
– Commenter at Lawyers, Guns and Money: Pathetic
god - process and task monitoring done right →
rush →
rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files - everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby.
Step by Step - Show and explain visitors what your... →
iBand, the iPhone band →
they might get better once they learn to keep a steady beat
“There is no positive program to rectify what is happening in the world....”
– IOZ
Stuff White People Like →
To Hell With Caitlin Flanagan -- In These Times →
NullDB Connection Adapter Plugin →
NullDB is a Rails database connection adapter that interprets common database operations as no-ops. It is the Null Object pattern as applied to database adapters.
INFORMATION_SCHEMA Support in MySQL, PostgreSQL →
The INFORMATION_SCHEMA views provide meta data information about the tables, columns, and other parts of your database. Because the structure of these tables are standardized you can write SQL statements that work on various database platforms.
How did Ameenah Franks defeat the post-9/11... →
with social engineering
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle →
Is it Christmas? →
Jesus Cat →
WatchSuper Mario 64 / Tool-Assisted 120 Stars Speedrun (1:42:41)
CSS Tools: Reset CSS →
The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on.
CSS Tools: Diagnostic CSS →
With a diagnostic stylesheet, you can quickly see where your markup might have some trouble.
cfis : Reusing Rails Controllers is a Good Thing →
KilianValkhof.com » Blog Archive »... →
cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0 →
Website Performance | CSS Sprite Generator →
hatom - Microformats →
RFC 5005 - Feed Paging and Archiving →
RFC 4946 - Atom License Extension →
RFC 4685 - Atom Threading Extensions →
IANA | Atom Link Relations →
RFC 5023 - Editor →
RFC 4287 - Editor →
FrontPage - Dovecot Wiki →
PostfixDovecotSASL - Community Ubuntu... →
Postfix/SPF - Community Ubuntu Documentation →
PostfixVirtualMailBoxClamSmtpHowto - Community... →
PostfixBasicSetupHowto - Community Ubuntu... →
Postfix - Community Ubuntu Documentation →
Don't Structure Data All The Way Down →