February 2012
2 posts
Kelpie - A fast and lightweight PHP web server →
dhotson: I made a little website for my Kelpie PHP web server side project. What do you think? I like the mongrel-like usage.
Feb 5th
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Feb 3rd
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January 2012
11 posts
Jan 31st
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Welcome to Method of Action: Design for... →
Jan 31st
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RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes -...
70X - Inexcusable 701 - Meh 702 - Emacs 71X - Novelty Implementations 710 - PHP 711 - Convenience Store 719 - I am not a teapot 72X - Edge Cases 720 - Unpossible 721 - Known Unknowns 722 - Unknown Unknowns 723 - Tricky 724 - This line should be unreachable 725 - It works on my machine 726 - It’s a feature, not a bug 73X - Fucking 731 - Fucking Rubygems 732 - Fucking...
Jan 30th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 6th
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What are the most frequent false beliefs in... →
Jan 4th
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When to use STDERR instead of STDOUT →
dhotson: “A nicely written overview on the history, difference and practicality of STDOUT vs STDERR” via @pda
Jan 4th
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28c3 Recordings →
Last week, I was at the 28th Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin. It was great. I meet so much awesome people there and had a lot of Code and Club Mate :) You will find some mirrors of the recordings at this link, most of them are in english language.
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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December 2011
7 posts
Js2coffee: convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript →
Dec 21st
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Dec 14th
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Refactor Low Hanging Fruit
Of course, with any approach, you will always encounter situations where you have to rewrite major portions of the code, or, worse, change the entire architecture. This is likely to happen due to requirement changes, or performance issues, but can happen because your initial visualization was faulty. In real life, what typically happens is, after the twister, your house lands on top of the...
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All... →
An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly  as the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low- order additive terms. M optimally distributes resources between the execution  of provably correct p-solving programs and an enumeration of all proofs, including  relevant proofs of program correctness and of time bounds on program...
Dec 11th
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Dec 2nd
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WatchWatch
Nyan Cat RSpec Formatter
Dec 1st
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“telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu”
– awww - do it, do it! srsly!
Dec 1st
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November 2011
18 posts
Nov 28th
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Designing a Secure REST (Web) API without OAuth →
Nov 27th
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Dirty Coding Tricks →
Nov 26th
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Nov 25th
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Tumblr's PubSubHubbub Hub →
Nov 24th
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“Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a...”
– Anon (via randomguy3)
Nov 24th
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Face Detection jQuery Plugin →
Nov 24th
Google's Python Class →
Nov 23rd
Open Source (Almost) Everything →
Nov 23rd
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“You may not have thought about it before but Classical Philosophy (Greek...”
– “Ancient Philosophy and Programming Languages,” cyokum (via lifeandcode) Metaphysics .. If you have some free time, I suggest you to read the Organon by Aristoteles. This will teach you a lot about Metaphysics, the things, what they are and how you work. 
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Nov 16th
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Useful One-Line Scripts for Perl →
Nov 14th
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Nov 9th
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“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”
– Anon
Nov 6th
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Nov 6th
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Dexy →
Dexy is an open source document automation tool that can help you create documents using your favourite programming languages and your favourite software.
Nov 3rd
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October 2011
21 posts
“We are expected to know how to do things we’ve never done before and...”
– Coders are special. 
Oct 31st
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Oct 29th
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GitHub Secrets: Discover the GitHub features you... →
Oct 29th
Oct 28th
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PAX Valkyrie: No Flat Girls: How Allies are Born  →
paxvalkyrie: This is a story about gamer culture, casual sexism, the silence of friends, and its fallout - more or less in that order.   Firstly, context. I’m a recent graduate working as a game designer for a social games startup in New York City, and I identify strongly with other students and alumni who…
Oct 25th
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“((lambda (x) (requiescat-in-pace x)) ‘john-mccarthy)”
– via
Oct 25th
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Spinach - Like Cucumber but with more Ruby, less... →
thechangelog: Another week, another Ruby testing library. The latest is Spinach from the developers at Codegram which aims to remove the Regex magic from Cucumber. In Spinach, steps are implemented as Ruby classes: # from the docs at [http://rubydoc.info/github/codegram/spinach/master/file/README.markdown](http://rubydoc.info/github/codegram/spinach/master/file/README.markdown) class...
Oct 24th
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Oct 21st
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Oct 19th
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“How can we design systems when we don’t know what we’re doing? The most...”
– “Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction,” Bret Victor.  So good.   (via lifeandcode)
Oct 19th
Oct 19th
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