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hmm I wonder if I can hashtag my tumblr when I’m talking about #startups or #tennis ( get your...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:59:09 -0400

hmm I wonder if I can hashtag my tumblr when I’m talking about #startups or #tennis ( get your embed code at hashtraffic )

blog.izs.me: Re: @brixen’s "Is Node Better"

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:48:18 -0400

blog.izs.me: Re: @brixen’s "Is Node Better":

izs:

As usual, this year’s JSConf did not fail to deliver. The parties, the location, the talks, the food, it was incredible. Chris Williams (and the rest of the JSConf family) really put together an incredible event.

By far, the most controversial talk was Brian Ford’s “Is Node.js Better”. I must…

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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:09:24 -0400

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Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:44:09 -0400

The Decline of Blogs (and How PR Can Help Avoid It)

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:27:14 -0500

The Decline of Blogs (and How PR Can Help Avoid It)

Dalton Caldwell: Startup Recruiting and the Stanford Prison Experiment

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:10:21 -0500

Dalton Caldwell: Startup Recruiting and the Stanford Prison Experiment:

daltoncaldwell:

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the two most famous and influential psychological experiments ever conducted. (It’s thanks to this disastrous experiment that researchers everywhere have to fill out Human Subjects Approval forms to conduct any kind of experiment on people.)

In the…

yongfook: Design is Horseshit!

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:02:15 -0500

yongfook: Design is Horseshit!:

yongfook:

In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic

I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design and I am good at design. But I’ve never called myself a designer.

Here’s my pitch. This talk of designers as the new…

Sinatra 1.3 is out!

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:33:54 -0400

Sinatra 1.3 is out!:

thechangelog:

Sinatra 1.3.0 is out with two big news items. The Chairman is now traveling with his own band. Sinatra Contrib, the community-sourced collection of extensions, is now versioned with Sinatra itself, ensuring compatibility. Sinatra Contrib provides some niceties on top of Sinatra for common tasks like config files, content_for, respond_with and other things you might miss from Rails.

Perhaps the bigger news is that Sinatra gigs can be streamed. No matter if you run evented servers like Thin, Rainbows! or Ebb or sequential servers like Unicorn, Passenger, or Mongrel, you have a single API:
get '/' do
 stream do |out|
   out << "It's gonna be legen -\n"
   sleep 0.5
   out << " (wait for it) \n"
   sleep 1
   out << "- dary!\n"
 end
end
Of course, you’ll need an evented server to keep connections open to things like:
set :server, :thin
connections = []

get '/' do
 # keep stream open
 stream(:keep_open) { |out| connections << out }
end

post '/' do
 # write to all open streams
 connections.each { |out| out << params[:message] << "\n" }
 "message sent"
end
Smaller but just as cool changes include:

request.accept? for Accept headers

informal?, success?, redirect? and client_error? based on HTTP status code.

Support for If-Unmodified-Since header

Check out the official announcement or the changelog for a complete list of updates. Congrats to Konstantin Haase and the other contributors who made this happen.

blog.izs.me: JavaScript is Not Web Assembly

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:36:17 -0400

blog.izs.me: JavaScript is Not Web Assembly :

izs:

It’s fairly common these days to think of JavaScript as a sort of “assembly language for the web”. After all, it’s the language that is natively supported by web browsers, making it the most widely deployed runtime in history. With Node, we have a very relevant general purpose non-browser stack…

palatinehill: The next Portland Instagram meet-up is Wednesday,...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:06:11 -0400

palatinehill:

The next Portland Instagram meet-up is Wednesday, friends! Come one, come all. (Taken with Instagram at Lucky Labrador Brew Pub)

I assume this is the North Portland lucky lab

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s."

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:25:45 -0400

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.”

- William Blake (via tacanderson)

Want to start a mobile/tech company in Portland? Apply to PIE! via @Caseorganic

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:59:33 -0400

Want to start a mobile/tech company in Portland? Apply to PIE! via @Caseorganic:

tacanderson:

@turoczy 1st alerted me to @piepdx last week. If you’re in around or close to Portland and thinking of doing a tech startup, this it the event for you.

"this goes deep into the interior mentality of the engineer, which is very truth-oriented. When..."

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:10:42 -0400

“this goes deep into the interior mentality of the engineer, which is very truth-oriented. When you’re dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn’t, no matter how good of a salesman you are. So engineers not only don’t care about the surface appearance, but they view attempts to kind of be fake on the surface as fundamentally dishonest.”

- Marc Andreessen on why @dens wears sneakers in business events

Marc Andreessen on the Dot-Com ‘Bubble’ - NYTimes.com

(via fred-wilson)

Shark iPhone Case

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:37:23 -0400

Shark iPhone Case

hey i'm tumblr ing!!

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:30:05 -0400

sweet

dns server

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:59:43 -0500

today i’m working on a rad new dns configuration! but I should be working on the aggregator