Category: Quick Posts

NYTimes.com – How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong
Honest doesn’t make them quite as much money.
February 23, 2011
najafali.com – Why PHP is better than Ruby
Overall these are very intelligent and reasonable complaints against Ruby.
February 23, 2011
rstevens’ Joe Biden Fan Club Tree House of Furor – Star Wars didn’t change my life
Jawa pride indeed folks.
February 23, 2011
Andrew Vos’s Blog – Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language
How both fascinating and funny.
February 22, 2011
TechCrunch – Yahoo Engineer Complains About Lack Of Innovation At Yahoo
What cruddy work Yahoo.
February 22, 2011
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth – TSA Source: Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Scanner
Another nail in the proverbial coffin of these scanners being worth anything.
February 22, 2011
NYTimes.com – South Korea Seeks Internet Speed of 1 Gigabit a Second
Hey US, you want to develop new technologies and companies, let’s do this.
February 22, 2011
ReadWriteWeb – Libya Shuts Down Internet
Looks like Libyan domains such as bit.ly are still up however.
February 20, 2011
NYTimes.com – China, Twitter and 20-Year-Olds vs. the Pyramids
Do you really need a better explanation for why the revolts happened?
February 20, 2011
Mathias Bynens – Optimizing the asynchronous Google Analytics snippet
This is some micro optimizations but still improvement none the less, however the comments give me some pause on implementing it just yet.
February 20, 2011