River of crap from Brian Meidell

Route 53

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:06:19 +0100

I love Amazon Web Services, but I just can’t get into the pricing model for Route 53. Paying a base fee per domain per month runs into the tens of dollars per month for people who have many domains. And then we end up paying 5-20 times more money for DNS service.

Command-line thoughts

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:12:14 +0100

By specifying formally whether an action taken by a command is destructive, a command line interface could handle typos for non-destructive actions.
It couldd make a best guess at what you’re trying to do, and just do it if it’s a non-data-altering call (like ls -l), and asking if you’re sure or failing if it’s data-altering call (like rm test.txt).

If the ‘fuzzy’ flag could be passed invisible along during pipe situations, it would be possible for subsequent actions to act as if their input is not certainly what was intended.

Learn other programming paradigms

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:54:50 +0200

If you’re the same sort of programmer as me, you’ve gone through some sort of deeply practically oriented computer programming background. And for this reason, you’ve likely only learned to write java-style OOP and/or procedural programming.

If that’s the case, do yourself a favor and learn some other programming paradigms.

Two that have deeply affected the way I think about programs, and have hugely improved the way I write parallel-processing-friendly tasks, even when writing them in the aforementioned types of languages.

Learn functional programming.
Learn about actor model programming.

If there are more styles I should learn about, let me now.

rassi: (via You Should Give A F*ck About An Oxford Comma of the...

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:24:43 +0200

rassi:

(via You Should Give A F*ck About An Oxford Comma of the Day - The Daily What)

Hahaha :D

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:34:21 +0200

Hahaha :D

PDFScanner

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:00:11 +0200

The poorly named app for Mac OS X called “PDFScanner” in the App Store is a very useful tool for scanning multi-page documents to PDFs, with embedded OCR text.

Ruby

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:11:54 +0200

I love it. I love it so much.

There may be all kinds of complaints about lack of standards and bla-di-bloo, but in the end I find them much like I find most complaints about the Apple ecosystem: Academic, and much outweighed in real life by the fact that it just feels… so… damn… good… to use.

Wordpress...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:19:05 +0200

… is dangerous in the hands of people who aren’t super aware of what they’re doing.

I have a client site that is completely insane in it’s CPU, memory and database usage, because the client has been liberally adding plugins by the handful.

Video

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:14:36 +0200

Template XMacro Programming

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:45:41 +0200

I feel like a programmer-creole when I mix xmacros with template programming - too C++ to be a C purist and too C programmer to be a C++ purist.

The first part of my musings on the woes of the triple-a games industry.

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:00:15 +0200

The first part of my musings on the woes of the triple-a games industry.

The number of things...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:24:16 +0200

That my kid can think up to avoid sleeping is staggering.

Proto-HTML5-Drawing Thingy

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:08:00 +0200

Proto-HTML5-Drawing Thingy:

Started working on this social drawing site thing that I thought up to make the act of “getting into drawing more” a programming thing.

The role of tumblr

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:11:46 +0200

Heilemann cracked it - it’s a stream of consciousness for crap you don’t want clogging up your blogs.

It makes more sense with Michael, since he actually has a nice blog.

But there you go.

I wonder...

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:07:46 +0200

… if it’s possible to be more scattered around the web than I am.

I'm terrible at being modest

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:15:23 +0200

I bet if I worked on it, I would be fucking AWESOME at it.

Well done - I love the beat and theme.

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:31:00 +0200

Well done - I love the beat and theme.

The point?

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:25:20 +0200

Someone explain to me what the point of tumblr is, that isn’t like a wordpress blog with a better interface?

The attempt at building a social graph on top of it?

Roiling impatience

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:56:15 +0200

… it’s what I feel about progress of business matters.

It takes so damn long to bootstrap a business without seend funding.

Fortunately, we’re past the very worst part, but I still get pangs of impatience sometimes.

And then I remember how people who have taken investors in (almost) invariably feel about that, and how much they usually envy our situation.

And it subsides.

This is me. I’m awesome.

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:17:51 +0200

This is me. I’m awesome.