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Shipping and the art of Getting *Thing* Done 15 Apr 2013 | 06:14 pm
tldr; Bigger blocks of focused time results in more ships. My career began in a cube farm over fifteen years ago. It seemed everyone at that time had a Franklin Planner and could enumerate their big ...
I don't know jack (yet) 4 Mar 2013 | 12:18 am
My head is still spinning from Tim Caswell's lightning talk at Big Ruby where he showed off jack, his new programming language. (I'll post a link to the video when it's available. The gamepad-driven d...
Hypermedia APIs - less hype, more media, please 2 Mar 2013 | 07:40 am
My slides from Big Ruby: Hypermedia-driven APIs are all the rage, but what do they mean for API client developers? Are resilient APIs worth the performance and complexity tradeoffs?
How to get great support as a technical user 14 Feb 2013 | 08:32 pm
One of my favorite parts of working at GitHub is helping our Supportocats answer support requests. Since I focus mainly on the GitHub API, I get to work with our more technical users. I've shopped at ...
Project badges: ease or sleaze? 12 Feb 2013 | 11:54 pm
Erik and Mislav have an interesting discussion going on a Faraday commit on the merits of those badges in GitHub repository READMEs. I use them in a few of my projects, but lack of consistent size an...
Rdio-cli does lyrics 31 Jan 2013 | 11:45 pm
In another dotfile discovery, I ran across makeitpersonal in Artem's dots. makeitpersonal makes it easy to fetch lyrics in plain text using curl. Naturally, I didn't waste time adding this to rdio-cli...
Bootstrapping consistency 28 Jan 2013 | 07:30 pm
One of the best features of Rails is its consistent project layout. Thoughtbot recently shared how they use a ./bin/setup script to bring consistency to the project setup. Regardless of the bin/setup...
Speaking at Big Ruby 26 Jan 2013 | 06:57 am
I'm excited to be speaking at Big Ruby next month. The organizers have put together a stellar speaking lineup, and the Palace Theater in Grapevine showcases the small town feel I love about Texas. I h...
Open Government book now open source 19 Jan 2013 | 05:00 am
As a contributor to the Open Government book from O'Reilly a couple of years ago, I was thrilled to see Laurel and Daniel release it on GitHub as part of the #PDFtribute to Aaron Swartz. Aaron contri...
TIL: Easy UPSERTS in MySQL 11 Jan 2013 | 05:00 am
I've long loved upserts in MongoDB, but I suppose my desire to keep my SQL vanilla for Rails caused me to overlook easy upserts in MySQL using ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE: If the INSERT would cause a dup...
