January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
4 posts
Christmas Beer Event at The Lackman →
This Thursday, December 22nd at 5pm.
From England:
Santa’s Butt - winter porter 6.0% ABV Pickled Santa - English Ale brewed w/ spices 6.0% ABV
From Belgium:
Delirium Noël - Belgian Strong Dark Ale 10.0% ABV
From Michigan:
Jolly Pumpkin Noel de Calabaza 9.0% ABV
October 2011
1 post
“It’s your heart running around outside your body.”
– Steve Jobs, on having children
August 2011
1 post
Watch(via Magnetic pots create urban wall garden | Springwise)
July 2011
1 post
“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime...”
– Warren Buffett
June 2011
2 posts
April 2011
2 posts
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass
February 2011
2 posts
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
2 posts
April 2010
4 posts
Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler →
This seems like a much better version of David Chang’s “Ghetto Sous-Vide”.
“The next time you eat a piece of buttered toast, consider that butter is...”
– Scientific American
“The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what...”
– Paul Graham (from Organic Startup Ideas)
March 2010
3 posts
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no...”
– Stephen King
Princeton Researchers Link High-Fructose Corn... →
New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android →
Another perfect example of the beautiful simplicity that comes from Apple controlling both hardware and software.
February 2010
5 posts
Adobe Flash Developer Says iPad's Flash Allergy... →
Adobe Puts Secret Hold on HTML5 Spec →
Hulu coming to the iPad? →
January 2010
6 posts
“To swear off making mistakes is easy, all you have to do is swear off having...”
– Leo Burnett
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to...”
– Steve Jobs
New from Joanna Newsom. ‘81, to be released...
Capistrano recipe for Jekyll →
July 2009
1 post
February 2009
1 post
How To Remove a Git Submodule →
git rm --cached /path/to/submodule rm -rf /path/to/submodule
December 2008
3 posts
Freemium Bait and Switch
I’ve been stung twice in the past few weeks by web services introducing paid plans to their formerly beta (free) apps. Obviously, I understand that the developers need to make money to build and support these apps — and I am more than willing to pay. I drop almost $100 per month on a handful that save me time and keep me organized.
However, I think it’s a bit underhanded to start off...
BlueprintCSS Bookmarklet
This is turning out to be the week of the bookmarklet. In our second installment, I hope to improve your CSS framework experience via a nifty button with which to toggle visibility of the BlueprintCSS grid pattern. Drag this link → (Toggle showgrid) into your browser toolbar and start clicking.
Campbox Slideshow →
Drag this bookmarklet → (Campbox Slideshow) into your browser toolbar and click on any Basecamp message page to create a slideshow out of the uploaded images.
Check out the source (maybe help improve it?) on Github.
November 2008
3 posts
October 2008
1 post
Forcing 37signals' Open Bar to Update
As you add, remove, or update accounts of 37signals products and use their Open Bar to hook it all up you may notice that it can easily become stale. I have only found one way to force the bar menu to update: simply turn off OpenID login for an account (the bar will disappear) and then turn it back on.
September 2008
2 posts
Tricky Gem Dependencies
Some gems are easier to use than others. Those with tricky capitalization or non-standard characters (like forward slashes) can make trouble in an opinionated system like Rails. Luckily, overrides are almost always available (but not necessarily easy to find). Gems like RedCloth and test/spec have caused problems for me with config.gem, but then I found the :lib option on a spanish blog:
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