hoodwink.d enhanced

Tue Oct 31

Dancing Heads


Eisenstein remixed
Jamis-fcgi

FCGI

Sat Oct 28

TextMate + Interface Builder plugin


A whole lot of UI goodness for free

Bio of a Breakbeat


The slow journey from obscurity to ubiquity.

Tip Internal rdoc links with custom label

If you want to link to another part of your rdoc, you can use the following notation:

label[link:path/to/rdoc/file.html]

For example, if you wanted to link your README, you would write the following:
Find full details in the

README[link:files/README.html].

Fri Oct 27

“ Erlang is simpler than Ruby, and that’s why ErlyWeb is naturally simpler than Rails. ”

Yariv Sadan on ErlyWeb

Thu Oct 26

“ QUIXOTRY ”

Michael Cresta

Pelican_swallowing_pigeon

Pelican swallows pigeon

Wed Oct 25

#caboose

12:43 < Defiler> Amazon just recommended "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" and "Metallica - Kill `Em All'" to me.

Tue Oct 24

Bouroullec_floating_house

Bouroullec Floating House

Tip Asian Flush Workaround

If you are one of the lucky asians who suffer from the asian glow (red face) after drinking sometimes as little as 1/5th of a glass of wine, try taking a pepcid ac shortly beforehand. It reduces the flush significantly and stops all out of control heart palpitations.

Mon Oct 23

Rake Shame


Shame yourself into writing more tests.
“ A champ always fights themself. And you are a fighter. ”

Bill Callahan in Feather by Feather

Thu Oct 19

Ben takes a photo of himself every day.


The ravages of time laid bare.

Tue Oct 17

37signals

Jason F. - wow. 5 minutes ago I'm like "wow, cool! it's foggy out" and now I'm like "fuck, there's a car on fire right down the street."
“ The Bears are who we thought they were. ”

Dennis Green

Mon Oct 16

37signals

Jamis B. - *sits down to consume an onion bagel, an apple, and a wee glass of eggnog*
“ Like its author, Nmap isn’t perfect. ”

BUGS section of the nmap man page

Sun Oct 15

BumpTop 3D Desktop


Implicit writer invocation in block assignment


class Foo
  attr_writer :bar
end

f = Foo.new

%w(one two three).each do |f.bar| 
  p f
end
#<Foo:0x4369c @bar="one">
#<Foo:0x4369c @bar="two">
#<Foo:0x4369c @bar="three">

Fri Oct 13

37signals

Ryan S. - mangos are slippery when peeling
Ryan S. - peeling a mango makes me feel like i'm about to do slapstick comedy

Tip Peel over a paper towel

When peeling fruits or vegetables, lay out a paper towel to catch the shavings. When finished peeling you just ball up the paper towel and throw it away.

The Electric Unicycle


Like a Segway with one wheel.

Wed Oct 11

Moscow_scale

Scale Moscow

“ I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. ”

Steve Ballmer

Mon Oct 9

Expireable memoization

class Object
  def memoize(reload = false, storage = nil)
    storage = "@#{storage || __method__(1)}"
    if reload 
      instance_variable_set(storage, nil)
    else
      if cache = instance_variable_get(storage)
        return cache
      end
    end
    instance_variable_set(storage, yield)
  end
end

module Kernel
  def __method__(depth = 0)
    caller[depth][/`([^']+)'/, 1]
  end
end if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'

class WebPage
  def source(reload = false)
    memoize(reload) do
      # Download page
    end
  end
end

Sun Oct 8

Angora-rabbit

Angora rabbit

Naive String#previous

class String
  def previous
    dup.previous!
  end

  def previous!
    self[-1] = self[-1] - 1
    self
  end
end

Job Trends: Ruby + Programmer


the red tide is rising

Fri Oct 6

37signals

Jamis B. - [OUT] found keys to world peace, cold fusion, curing cancer, and one killer recipe for kimchi, but forgot to put them under source code control and promptly lost them in a freak accident involving egg nog and corn chips. Sorry, guys.

Thu Oct 5

Design-by-animals

Design By Animals

Wed Oct 4

A coercible string

class CoercibleString < String
  class << self
    def coerce(string)
      new(string).coerce
    end
  end
  
  def coerce
    attempt = nil
    while coercions.next?
      attempt = coercions.next
      break if !attempt.nil?
    end
    attempt.nil? ? self : attempt
  end
  
  private
  
    def coercions
      @coercions ||= Generator.new do |@generator|
        try { self == 'true' }
        try { [self == 'false', false] }
        try { Integer(self) }
        try { [Date.parse(self), Time.parse(self)] }
      end
    end
  
    def try
      attempt, desired = yield
      if attempt
        @generator.yield(desired.nil? ? attempt : desired)
      end
    rescue ArgumentError
      @generator.yield nil
    end
end

CoercibleString.coerce('25')
# => 25
CoercibleString.coerce('9/1/81')
# => Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 CDT 1981
CoercibleString.coerce('false')
# => false
CoercibleString.coerce('Hello!')
# => "Hello!"
“ When your skillet is really really hot, drop the meat into it. Once it hits, it’s going to sizzle an awful lot. You’ll be scared. You’ll want to move the meat around. Don’t touch it. ”

Chris McAvoy on How to Cook a Steak

Tue Oct 3

Tab completion in vim

function InsertTabWrapper()
  let col = col('.') - 1
  if !col || getline('.')[col - 1] !~ '\k'
    return "\<tab>"     
  else
    return "\<c-p>"
  endif
endfunction
inoremap <tab> <c-r>=InsertTabWrapper()<cr>

37signals

Ryan S. - some of the lightning last night was amazing
Ryan S. - some of the peals of thunder were _long_
Ryan S. - like ripping fabric