May 2012
14 posts
Nine Meditations on Complexity →
we are pulled by two conflicting forces: the empowering, decentralizing, heroic,...
– A Millennial’s Dystopia: Want us to dream? Give us a sci-fi of social technology.
Pretty RFC →
The RFC is now DIAMONDS!
Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not... →
holy jeez.
Multiple Django and Flask Sites with Nginx and... →
Next time someone asks why I’m reinventing the wheel, I’m telling...
– @adactio
*JS : Low-Level JavaScript →
*JS is a typed dialect of JavaScript that offers a C-like type system with manual memory management. It compiles to JavaScript and lets you write memory-efficient and GC pause-free code less painfully, in short, *JS is the bastard child of JavaScript and C.
When half a million Americans died and nobody... →
html shell →
TCP Sucks | Bram Cohen →
interesting writeup of a subject that does not get a lot of publicity
Starting Clojure (mk. 2) | cemerick →
Python Application Deployment with Native Packages... →
Awesome article about why native packages are for scaling
April 2012
9 posts
In Denial (#OWS) « mathbabe →
The largest banks in America–Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and others–are probably insolvent. I learned of this from my companions in Occupy Wall Street’s Alternative Banking Working Group. It seems that, based on a host of legal and accounting irregularities, the banks have been able to conceal real and potential losses far larger than their capital reserves. But this has been difficult...
Data and visualization blogs worth following →
Postgres Guide — Postgres Guide →
Postgres Guide is intended to highlight best practices and great features that exist within Postgres. If new to databases or specifically Postgres hopefully you find content useful.
Diagramly - Draw Diagrams Online →
Goddam Diagrams
Meteor →
Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality webapps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started.
tmux is sweet as heck →
Science-Based Medicine » Why haven’t we cured... →
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March 2012
7 posts
mycelium →
An asynchronous high performance web crawler
The annotated underscore.js →
a think tank sponsored by the governments of 30 of the most powerful capitalist...
– The Shadow Superpower - By Robert Neuwirth | Foreign Policy
Death Grips - Get Got
February 2012
16 posts
The increased unethical tendencies of upper-class individuals are driven, in...
– Paul Piff, a doctoral student in psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of “High social class predicts increased unethical behavior,” published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Google Prediction API. Google's cloud-based... →
via Matter — Kickstarter. Nice video, definitely threw them some money, but you are not alone.
Gamasutra: Piracy and the four currencies →
It’s harder to read code than to write it.
– Things You Should Never Do, Part I - Joel on Software
Designing Network Protocols | Paul's Journal →
An API Ontology - Literate Programming →
High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr... →
MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases «... →
Uses of git →
Revision control. Not just for nerds! Geeks and dorks, too!
THEESatisfaction - Awe Naturale
Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around. […]...
– Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio (But The Quality Sucks)
Oni Labs: StratifiedJS Reference →
StratifiedJS extends the JavaScript language with a small number of constructs for concurrent programming. It allows you to express asynchronous control flow in a straightforward sequential style.
January 2012
9 posts
MegaMega - an early 90s dance mix
neonarcade:
Finished this up this weekend and I’m quite happy with it! Classic “oh I love this song” jams from the early 90s. Wether you heard these songs at the club or at the rollerskating rink, most of you should dig it.
MegaMega by Neonarcade on Mixcloud
Support Details | Tech Support Management →
Saw this on HN. Just a handy tool for tech support.
How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux... →
Ubuntu + Postfix + Courier IMAP + MySQL + Amavisd-new + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + SASL + TLS + SquirrelMail/Roundcube + Postgrey
I’m not a sysadmin 24/7, but knowing the mail system is important as knowing any other subsystem as an admin or a developer and it’s intricacies have always eluded me…