Pete's Points

It's time to start building consumer apps with node

So I'm working on a new design for my site and using the super-great stylus CSS preprocessor along with this great gist for simple responsive layout (again with stylus and the nib library).

I wanted to share a quick and easy method for testing Rails migrations when using the MongoDB database.

UPDATE: please see my new article on Managing Per-project Interpreters and the PATH for a new and improved take on this topic.

I had an interesting thought about programming languages and complexity yesterday.

So I recently ssh'ed into a shiny new Ubuntu 11.10 server on EC2 and noticed some new things.

So Linkzie has had a nice series of updates to the underlying software that runs it.

I have new blog post over on the Dojo4 web site.

I just pushed out a new release of .

So my attitude for most of this year has been one of reserving judgement in favor of direct experience.

So after a fairly lengthy period of inattention to my Linkzie bookmark manager, I got frustrated on my current project and turned my focus to Linkzie today for some updates.

Check out my new little automation utility belt app for the keyboard-centric power users.

Just a quick note that I'm off to MicroConf in Las Vegas tomorrow.

I have written a piece to help software developers accelerate their career.

Fat Brain Toys has the best-looking order confirmation page I have seen.

I hope to post some details on this soon, but just a note that my ongoing node.js hacking is turning up some real gems.

I've been working with Node.js a lot recently and enjoying it.

So I've been working on some toy projects in node.js for a few weeks.

So the Hacker News Guidelines tell me when submitting something I should write a blog post about it and link to that.

Brandon Pierce of Music Teacher's Helper has what looks to me like the ultimate lifestyle business. check out the case study on Tim Ferriss's blog.

I spent all weekend at Startup Weekend Boulder.

I have added a bookmarklet feature to Linkzie.

I got to participate in a cool new brainstorming event called House of Genius last night.

So I bought an LG Optimus V Android phone this weekend.

As you may notice, the peterlyons.com site has been redesigned.

So somewhere in college around 2000 I started running my own IMAP mail server and storing my own mail.

node.js combined with the new query utility which makes jQuery-like functionality available from the command line.

I believe I have now found a pair of headphones to wear while exercising and traveling that is optimal.

I set up a staging server for a web app I'm working on yesterday.

I've quit my job writing data center automation software for HP.

So I've been hosting my own MoinMoin wiki for a while.

Unit tests are like Ewoks.

I read somewhere (sorry I've forgotten where by now) that as an engineering, our #1 omnipresent mandate is "manage complexity".

So since making the linux to Mac transition, I have this mindset of things on the Mac are supposed to "just work" and be fantastic and marvelous and flawless.

So in my first computer science course, one of the earliest labs with Stephen Wong was called Ball World.

So my trusty Linksys wireless router up and died on me a few months ago.

I just tried to create an account at Bed Bath and Beyond.

Handling Bugs in an Agile Context is a blog post I came across via Hacker News this morning.

So I'm a fan of Sonos music systems, but they've always been expensive.

So if a picture is worth a thousand words, shouldn't it be: one two three four five six seven....

Bruce Schneier is a leading author in the technology security and cryptography fields.

Reading this blog post just makes me cringe.

Dear Universe, Please manifest a way for me to specify that my key browser keyboard shortcuts will work even when I'm watching a flash video.

Overview and Requirements So I've volunteered to help Boulder Community Computers set up some automated Ubuntu OS installations over their local area network.

So I do a lot of work with automated unattended intallations of Operating Systems, including Windows.

Most job postings will list one or more source code management (SCM) tools in their laundry list of required skills and buzzwords.

Idempotence means that running a command or function several times produces the same result as running it only once.

I just wanted to post some thoughts on the topic of selecting software components with regard to the maturity thereof.

I just updated the "Columns" macro for the MoinMoin wiki.

Why in the world do some programming languages include optional syntax?