New Schematic

https://gist.github.com/1395926

Rather than writing object.map{ |o| o.action }, I just found out that I could write object.map(&:action).

As the bot goes on, its algorithm degrades as elements of randomness are introduced.

“A Ruby library for generating plain text x,y cartesian plots and histograms that can be displayed in a terminal session.” on GitHub

XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.

The key point is that there was no programming or learning involved to create the behaviors.

New Chrome extension in the works: Glitch Vision - replace .jpgs across the web with glitched-out versions of themselves.

unquietpirate: unquietpirate: When you start looking for examples of nonconsensual culture in technology, you find them absolutely everywhere. - Deb Chachra, Age of Non-Consent About a month ago, someone sent me this lovely rant and asked me to publish it…

But after 1.0 there is no finish line, there is no bottom of the 9th inning.

There is a lot of information out there on running tests for Angular using Jasmine + Karma.

This took me a while to put together.

I found it a bit baffling that this functionality was not built in, but from an archival perspective, it makes sense.

Block all of that distracting sidebar stuff in the otherwise excellent Stack Exchange network.

Hide the cruft on Stack Overflow install it | source code developer Blocks the distracting cruft from the otherwise-excellent Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange network.

To see the effects of custom Bugzilla extensions, restart the server.

The Template::Service module provides a high-quality template delivery service, with bells, whistles, signed up service level agreement and a 30-day no quibble money back guarantee.

Resolving the $ conflict between jQuery and YUI… …and what YUI is.

Trying to apply the instructions for the Vagrant tutorial to Ubuntu Server 14.04 Trusty Tahr and I ran into a problem when trying to load up the localhost in order to take a peek at my shared directory.

Philosopher for the 21st Century on twitter | was once on heroku | source code developer, designer Uses Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations” and a Markov Chain to generate philosophical quotes that are posted to Twitter daily.

Getting up to speed during my first week on the new job.

“Midway through development we decided to switch from private shared accounts to a corporate account.

minimalmac: Share files, passwords, and more with self-destructing private links.

Smashing Squashing Git Commits for Open Source Contributions Recently, I made my first contribution to an open source project, homebrew-cask, “a CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries”.

“Part of Unreal Engine, JSified.”

Engelbart’s law of technology prediction says that all technology predictions overpredict what technology will do for you in the short term and underpredict what technology will do for you in the long term.

In case you were also wondering about the origins of <a href="some link address">linky link</a> “A” is for “anchor”, “HREF” is for “hypertext reference” from a W3 article on making a server, by way of this place

I copied my `gem list` and `brew list` outputs to text files in Dropbox today [is the next step writing a script that installs the listed packages when called?].

My latest project: a Sinatra-based Stoic quote generator that yammers on Twitter.

I made a thing.

mikeebert: For the past couple of months I’ve been searching for (and bemoaning the lack of) a proper ‘console’ command in Sinatra to access my data.

slavin: Hi Google.

Writing this in routes/api.js… exports.posts = function(req, res) { var posts = []; data.posts.forEach(function(posts, i) { posts.push({ id: i, title: post.title, text: post.text.substr(0, 50) + ‘…’ }); }); res.json({ posts: posts }); }; exports.posts

Put those dang media-specific styles at the bottom of the sheet.

Open up a terminal and type: $ cd /home/somedir $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer That’s it!

Our final project for MakerSquare: an app for booking flights to Mars.

Book a Flight to Mars!

Although the protocol is optimized for use as a payment scheme it is suitable for the transfer of larger amounts.

The red, green and blue colors derive from stages of Mars’ transformation from barrenness to life depicted in the epic “Red Mars,” “Green Mars,” “Blue Mars” trilogy written by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Day 35 of MakerSquare.

Day 34 of MakerSquare.

Day 33 of MakerSquare.

TL;DR If you are new to the asset pipeline in rails, using custom fonts can be a bit confusing.

Day 32 of MakerSquare.

timoarnall: mostlysignssomeportents: Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web.

Day 30 of MakerSquare.

Day 29 of MakerSquare.

Day 28 of MakerSquare.

When we first started writing tests, I developed a sort of existential test crisis: How can I ever know if my tests are right if I’m the one writing them?

Alias for my command line - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others.