November 2011
4 posts
“Eventually, unable to sell the ring in-person to anyone, the canary yellow...”
– Master Grief « The Bygone Bureau
“I’m going to tell my kids if you can do something you love every day, that’s...”
– Harbottle: an internet start-up whiz
Quote from an interview with my boss. He’s right.
“The data model for 4chan is three fields long - image, timestamp, text. Now tell...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
The Bobcats on Thursday - The Oatmeal →
Their theory on Howler Monkeys is entirely accurate
October 2011
6 posts
“I was having a conversation with a friend who had recently become a parent, and...”
– Jonathan Coulton
“It is impossible — absolutely impossible — to overstate the debt my...”
– DMR, 1941—2011
“Ruby has nothing on Perl”
– The second coming of Java - Cringely on technology
Dude’s high as a kite.
“Facts from the 30-year study Organic yields match conventional yields.
-...”
– The Rodale Institute’s 30-Year Farming Systems Trial Report
“Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from...”
– Google - Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant
“I’m not really sure how Bezos came to this realization — the insight...”
– Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant
September 2011
5 posts
Biggie Smalls the Tank Engine (Note: delectable... →
Bust a cap and stoke the fires.
“I made a promise to myself and my unborn child that I would, at the very least,...”
– Why I Go Home: A Developer Dad’s Manifesto
“More than any other criteria – age, class, wealth, sex, whatever – it’s the...”
– 80% of People Quietly Despise Their Lives | How To Split An Atom
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
“Dear friend
We’v already shipped your items out..
No matter what...”
– I thought I was just buying an airpump, turns out I apparently got a friend for life? Haha
February 2011
2 posts
Fanmail! Wait... what...
I received the following email via my other blog (complete lack of paragraph breaks maintained from original) :
I am going to have to say that you have a good site because I like the little question : Where am I? Answer: On the internet. Way less like Tron than you expected? Me too. Now that is funny but the real reason for me writing you is that your site is not really left justified...
January 2011
1 post
“People like customising, but they don’t like it when other people can...”
– Myspace’s UX-Induced Death | UX Magazine
Pretty much sums up why I have always, and will always be against customers being able to style the content of their listings (at the online auction site of which I am in charge of user experience but which I will not name at this point to gently avoid...
November 2010
3 posts
All The Cool Kids Use Ruby →
I’m not a Ruby hater (though i might have been once, in the early RoR days), but I fucking love this clip. Might be because I spend every day working on a high-traffic, high-scaling web app on a boring LAMP stack ;)
Mongo DB is web scale →
The Consumer and the Bazaar
Rage early. Rage often. Get results.
October 2010
4 posts
Watchlachstock:
Slides are here.
And the code with the live example.
I have friends who explore cool shit, a prime example being the above vid of Mr Hardy. I used to explore cool shit. I really need to make time for exploring cool shit just for the sake of it. And he’s right, you don’t want to fuck with Dmitry; his cool shit ain’t canvas.
“functionality is an asset, but code is a liability”
– Taco Bell Programming
“Here’s a concrete example: suppose you have millions of web pages that you...”
– Taco Bell Programming
September 2010
3 posts
Fuck You Very Much.
F: atm - do you have spare $66?
F: relax - l am not asking for money (just kidding)
me: honestly no
me: not until pay day
me: haha
me: certainly not in cash on me. i probably have that much in my account, but I am totally broke. Good Times.
F: lol - not good l have about half a mil. sorry just over now
me: then why the hell am I lending you money?
F: well that's how l get rich
eat sleep work shit die.
Good Times.
“This cult of fun is driven by three of the most popular management fads of the...”
– This pretty much perfectly sums up why I continue to refuse to join the “social club” at my work. The mere concept of The Fun Comity rubs me the wrong way. Fun at work is playfully pushing the stuffed collar of the corporate machine to the edge, such as we used to do at my previous job....
August 2010
3 posts
“It’s not clear that computers as we know them today – that is, desktops and...”
– How exceptionally wasteful. I will be forgoing my place in line for that gluttonous buffet of wasteful manufacture.
My cup doth overflow with extruded plastics.
Paperworks / Padworks | the human network (via lachstock)
June 2010
1 post
“You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
This is so goddamn fucking fantastic I want to drink a mouthful of chocolate milk just so I can blow it out my nose with outrageous laughter.
(via lachstock)
April 2010
1 post
PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN [video art] →
It’s only Monday and I already know this is the greatest thing I will see this week
January 2010
2 posts
December 2009
3 posts
“I read somewhere that a healthy breakfast helps concentration and have found,...”
– I am able to move small objects with my mind.
WatchI’ve seen this guy slapping out funky basslines of a weekday morning outside Flinders St Station but I never stuck around long enough to see the Melodica come out. I’m going to go all the way to Flinders St station every morning for the rest of the year until I see this dude again and tell him about his internet fame.
Watch the entire thing. Dude starts blowing some wild impro after...
November 2009
1 post
“In his talk on building JavaScript libraries, Dmitry compared JavaScript’s...”
– Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript
October 2009
5 posts
“Remember the great Yahoo Geocities Boycott of 1999? Of course you don’t, you’re...”
– ASCII by Jason Scott / GeoStupid
Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us |... →
Claims productivity is reduced by 66% in open plan offices. I certainly agree. Fuck open plan offices.
Please be patient - This Page is Under... →
Sweet merciful Jeebus. It’s my earliest internet memories flooding back like a gut full of animated gif buckshot.
July 2009
2 posts
The Future of Music & Programming →
This is it people. This is where we’re headed and personally I couldn’t be more excited.
August 2007
1 post
July 2007
4 posts
“Translation: unless you already have, or are prepared to quickly procure, a...”
– Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in