Peter Stuifzand

In this presentation Kent Beck talks among other things, about a development technique called Keystoning.

Things that aren’t alive, can’t die.

In I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore Dan Pallotta wrote about business-speak: It involves the use of words such as “space,” “around,” “synergy,” and “value-add” with a healthy dose of equivocators like “sort of” and “kind of” to ensure that…

While I was doing my morning reading I came across this weblog by Jeffrey Kegler about his parser called Marpa.

Sometimes a story just gets an idea going.

In The Age of the Essay Paul Graham wrote: When I run into difficulties, I find I conclude with a few vague questions and then drift off to get a cup of tea.

Let’s get back to what I wrote a few days ago about where you can start.

It’s already a few years ago, that Merlin Mann and John Gruber talked about the concept “Obsession x Voice”.

I just wrote a small program to parse and generate a parser that parses Marpa.

I hate to create objects that try to look like other objects.

In my last post about the base technology I wrote that we need ways to starter higher in the chain of existing software.

As people who make things, we like to start new projects or create new software or websites.

For people who miss my on Facebook, I’m here and I’m ok.

Programming and Scaling talk by Alan Kay.

Today I implemented the META II compiler compiler using this paper: META II: A syntax-oriented compiler writing language.

Now that the future Windows won’t include support for plugins, it’s time to think to change your website and remove Flash.

Let’s start with this: have you looked at Plack yet?

Monday I was creating a graph for my webshop software.

Hotmail Sweep is a really powerful idea.

I have moved.

I just need some more people to talk to.

The last few weeks I heard a few times that people think that some podcasts are too long.

In the article about why we don’t use more data structures in web applications I showed an example of PHP code.

Doc Searls says in Let’s move tweeting off Twitter that most online communication isn’t owned by one company: Blogging, emailing and messaging aren’t owned by anybody.

There is this question that keeps coming back when I see the code of web applications.

Decentralized services, like email, have a big advantage for users.

David Siegel tweets: Looking to make a positive change in your life?

Let’s say you run nmap on your local box and you see an open port, but don’t know which program is listening on that port.

Now that we have two programs that parse log files, we can start to take a look at how many lines the program parses per second.

Writing an apache access log parser isn’t that hard.

Today I tried to create a report of some basic statistics about Abacus downloads.

I’m aware that this is really obvious to some of you.

In the first 5 minutes of the video The Storage Technologies Behind Facebook Messages the bald manager talks about messages and shoeboxes, and how he can’t have all his messages in one place.

Friday night I implemented a new feature for my Pompiedom empire for realtime RSS feeds.

I read an article from the BBC website that talks about how Net giants challenge French data law.

I’m not sure when it happened, but yesterday and part of today I found myself in the company of a blinking cursor.

Sometimes you need to create a large tree of subdirectories.

A list of [Firefox keybindings](http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard shortcuts).

Yesterday I created a small program called Windowpipe.

The premise is simple: create a window the runs a script on the items that were dropped on the window.

I have been building a system of posting short posts on top of RSS and rssCloud.

I like it that I have to deal with every item in Google Reader.

URLs are the addresses of the internet.

find . | awk -F/ '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq |\ grep '^\.' | sed -e 's/^

The new River UI looks like this: Small interface Clicking the What’s happening field will open the whole form: Whole river form

In Cross-Origin Resource Sharing: Why can cookies and authentication information not be provided by the script author for the request?

Today I was working on river again and after I added enclosure support I wanted to add a way to play audio files.

My river includes a way to add new posts to my personal feed.

I forgot to include the link to my rssCloud in the last post about how I wrote one in Plack.

In Tweeting about Twitter’s Terms Dave Winer writes: You can’t be half in and half out.