• Such a wonderful introduction by Karmi to the field of embeddings and vector search, and semantic search.

• Die Warteschleife
• Swimlanes.io
• Gwern's internet search tips
• Paketo provides buildpacks to run your app in the cloud.

• A visual guide to SSH tunnels
• Interesting insights into differences between GKE and AKS.
• Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development

• A documentation system.
• The many lies about reducing complexity, part 2.
• TabFS
• How to Favicon in 2021.

• UI Guidelines for talking from human to human: Mailchimp's Voice and Tone

• An acceptable approach for using JWTs in a secure way?
• Another interesting approach about JWTs with GraphQL.
• OAuth 2.x Architecture Guidance.
• OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice from the IETF.

• Maciej Cegłowski about the business model of universal surveillance.
• Lazydocker seems like a good add-on if you're going to work with this stuff.
• True cloud storage for the adventurous.

• Some great writing advice
• Rückzugsorte abseits von Berliner Straßen
• How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations

• 20 questions of maddening delicious geometry
• Do you really know CORS?
• Still not sure if Kubernetes is heaven sent. Sure, you can do descriptive infrastructure. But on the other hand, with all good technology, it raises the level of abstraction and I'm skeptic if this is good, especially for those not running Google-scale infrastructure. And I didn't even mention lock-in or its effect on IT administration as a whole. And no: Choosing Kubernetes from three Cloud providers doesn't mean there's no lock-in.
• Solving WiFi problems.

• Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat

• Idempotency Keys: Lessons in designing a HTTP API with idempotency in mind.
• Thoughts on Docker
• Free language courses. But maybe Chatterbug works better for you.
• “When within a smaller and well-functioning functioning team, the totems of Agile often fly out of the window and what you’re left with (when it’s good) is a team that trusts each other, is open about its trials, and has a clear structure (formal or informal) in which agreement and solutions can be found and co-operation is productive.“ My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies.

• Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
• Solaris to Linux Migration 2017 by Brendan Gregg
• Little Bit Details in UI/UX design.

• Obligatory link to Maciej Cegłowski talking about mass survellance.
• Small functions considered harmful, or are they?
• “There have always been people who've simply wanted to be alone.“ (link).
• “This is how big oil will die.“ link.

• Some very useful gRPC best practices by Doug Fawley. Also, some information about gRPC multi-language support.
• JSON Feed 1.0.
• Get started using WebAssembly, a free course on egghead.io.
• Friedrich Nietzsche 1882 über das Arbeiten: “Die atemlose Hast der Arbeit – das eigentliche Laster der neuen Welt – beginnt bereits durch Ansteckung das alte Europa wild zu machen und eine ganz wunderliche Geistlosigkeit darüber zu breiten. Man schämt sich jetzt schon der Ruhe; das lange Nachsinnen macht beinahe Gewissensbisse. Man denkt mit der Uhr in der Hand, wie man zu Mittag isst, das Auge auf das Börsenblatt gerichtet, – man lebt, wie einer, der fortwährend etwas ‚versäumen könnte‘. Die Arbeit bekommt immer mehr alles gute Gewissen auf ihre Seite: der Hang zur Freude nennt sich bereits ‚Bedürfnis der Erholung‘ und fängt an, sich vor sich selber zu schämen.”
• An introduction to the CAN bus

• Game Programming Patterns

• Remember PubSubHubub? It's a web standard now: WebSub.
• ClickHouse: An Open Source Column-oriented DBMS by Yandex.
• Delve went 1.0.
• Google experiences with a new TCP control flow protocol: BBR.
• Learn Music by Ableton.
• Go Secure Coding practices.
• Hype Driven Development. Do it along with beep and beep and you'll be the next unicorn.
• Another try at analyzing Amazon's strategy.
• System Design primer has a lot of insights into modern application architecture on the web.

• Some API Design Guidelines, one by Google and another one by Microsoft.

• Spec-ulation Keynote by Rich Hickey. Food for thought.

An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels. The package makers, the man page writers. The rounded windows in Qt mixed with the less rounded windows of GTK. The ones who literally see things differently because of missing proprietary fonts.

They’re not fond of rules, installation wizards, double clicking and have no respect for the status quo.

You can downvote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you cannot do is ignore them. Because they ship your bug fixes.

They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty screen and know that you have to blacklist your video card driver? Or sit in silence while tweaking alsamixer on the command line? Or write bash aliases to reload your network driver kernel module each time your laptop resumes from suspension? We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because people who are crazy enough to think that they can run Linux on the desktop, are the ones who change the world.

Source

• E-Prime, an English dialect.

• Alexa Meade, an interesting mixture of painting and reality.
• On Software developers and our (problematic) view of the world. Thank you Maciej. Again.
• Deep-Fried Data
• Neural Redis: “Machine learning is like highschool sex. Everyone says they do it, nobody really does, and no one knows what it actually is.” Mike Townsend
• Gitless is an effort to improve the Git UI/workflow.
• Loading polyfills only when needed by Philip Walton of Google.
• How do Convolutional Neural Networks work?

• Minimal Viable Block Chain
• GNUplot is really awesome. And if you're a console guy, you might like it in combination with iterm2-imagetools.
• The MIT license, broken down line by line.
• webpack & HTTP/2 by Tobias Koppers, author of webpack.
• Envoy: A L7 proxy and communication bus with support for HTTP/2 (and gRPC).
• Technical analysis of client identification mechanisms, aka browser fingerprinting
• You suck at Excel
• PiBakery: The easiest way to setup your Rasperry Pi.
• “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” - Carl Sagan
• Little Flocker is ransonware and spyware protection on the file level.
• restic is an interesting backup solution. Combine that with minio.io.
• The Tyranny of Agile
• rclone is rsync for Cloud storage.

• Thomas Jefferson and Apple versus the FBI, by djb
• Cartography comparison of Google Maps and Apple Maps.
• Programming sucks

• Alan Kay's reading list for students.
• More Crows Than Eagles: Very good reads.
• Vandadium, still under everyone's radar.
• “Eat, sleep, code, repeat” is such bullshit.
• rqlite replicates SQLite databases using Raft. Interesting.

• Artistic style

• “People got shot. So we need a backdoor into your phone.”
• An introduction to IPFS
• Facebook: Too much medium, not enough message.
• Bulma: A simple flexbox based layout. I expect to see many more in the near future.
• The Complexity of Simple is a rather welcome description of what's wrong with most products and services these days (and how to fix it).

• Happy new year! :-)
• BitBar puts the output of any program into your OS X menu bar.
• “As long as the manager's prestige and power are tied to the size of his budget, he will be motivated to expand his organization. This is an inappropriate motive in the management of a system design activity. Once the organization exists, of course, it will be used. Probably the greatest single common factor behind many poorly designed systems now in existence has been the availability of a design organization in need of work.”—Melvin E. Conway in “How Do Committees Invent?”. Yes, the Conway of Conway's Law.
• Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster.
• The Website Obesity Crisis in which Maciej introduces the Taft Test: “Does your page design improve when you replace every image with William Howard Taft?” By the way, this website is 156kB in total as I write this. That's 120kB of text and links, 1kB of CSS, and two images of 12kB and 22kb respectively. Sorry for the latter.

• Dear Architects: Sound Matters.
• Just as a reminder: EFF has put up a great resource on Surveillance Self Defense (SSD).
• The best things and stuff of 2015.
• Perl is so dead.
• C64 gets Wi-Fi. Finally.
• CVE-2015-8370 is Bug of the Year 2015. Goto fail, Grub2.
• “What can a technologist do about climate change? (A personal view)” by Bret Victor.
• Docker and root privileges. Wow.

• Gareth Bale stops driving sports cars. Because: Hamstrings.
• The day I became a millionaire.
• The Internet is dying. All the curiosity described in The Hacker Manifesto, written nearly 30 years ago, is slowly being strangled by regulation, corrupted by politics and replaced by echo chambers masquerading as social networks.
• The Advertising Bubble. It's gonna blow.
• Common Crawl: If you ever need a large corpus of crawl data.
• Welcome to the wonderful world of Finite State Transducers. Read up on the journey on how they (and a few tricks) brought a 100x speedup of fuzzy queries to Lucene.
• A 12701 character regexp to check for divisibility by 7.
• 16 bit vs. 8 bit audio: Can you hear the difference? No, you can't.
• Reconsider.
• “With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.” Remember The Twelve Networking Truths (according to IETF)?
• Two nobel prize winners, George Akerlof and Rober Shiller, sum up what's wrong in the world in their new book Phishing for Phools.

• Relive 9/11 with your Oculus Rift: 08h46.
• Dynamics.js: JavaScript library to create physics-based animations.
• “I went to JavaOne and all I got was the Ask toolbar”
• “They thought they were free” by Milton Mayer.
• Why self-driving cars must be programmed to kill
• Inside the world of tax-avoidance experts
• Vue goes 1.0
• HTML/JS-based Rich Text Editors: Quill and Trix.
• How not to sort by average rating.
• The Medium Stack
• Schelmuffskys wahrhafftige curiöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande
• The world has gone mad, part 8173: Investing in lawsuits.
• Abusing Unicode: Mimic is pure hell.
• 20 questions
• Learn GraphQL
• EU data protection law after the Schrems Safe Harbour judgement
• Web development finally found WndProc. Everything old is new again, and people go “yay”.
• The volkswagen package detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass. Also: phpunit-vw.
• Just 3 more months to go… Death to IE (at least version < 11). Finally.
• Unfit Bits, or: How to spoof your fitness tracker.
• Probably everybody has heard of Moore's Law. But there is a very different mechanism at work coined “Eroom's Law” that states that it gets (exponentially) harder to innovate on pharmaceuticals. Interesting that there isn't even a Wikipedia article about it. You can find the original article on Nature and many describing the effect in their own words.
• What Happens Next Will Amaze You. Maciej Cegłowski. Also: Haunted by Data.
• Ways to think about cars by Benedict Evans.
• Maker vs Manager.
• “The greatest people are self-managing. They don't need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they'll figure out how to do it. They don't need to be managed at all. … What they need is a common vision. And that's what leadership is. You need to articulate that, and get a consensus on a common vision. … We wanted people that were insanely great at what they did. But not necessarily those seasoned professionals. Who had, on the tips of their fingers and in their passion, the latest understanding of where technology was and what we could do with that technology. … The neatest thing that happens is that when you build a core group of, say 10 great people, it becomes self-policing as to who they let into their group.”—Steve Jobs

• The Long Now Foundation
• On Disrespect
• Cooper Hewitt: The Typeface by Chester Jenkins.
• The djb way
• [W,s,v] = svd((repmat(sum(x.*x,1),size(x,1),1).*x)*x');
• I didn't know there was a name for this. “Conversational narcissism is a term used by sociologist Charles Derber in his book, The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life. Derber observed that the social support system in America is relatively weak, and this leads people to compete mightily for attention. In social situations, they tend to steer the conversation away from others and toward themselves. "Conversational narcissism is the key manifestation of the dominant attention-getting psychology in America," he wrote. "It occurs in informal conversations among friends, family and coworkers. The profusion of popular literature about listening and the etiquette of managing those who talk constantly about themselves suggests its pervasiveness in everyday life."“
• Full Stack Redux and React tutorial
• E. M. Forster was right on track to describe the early 21st century in The Machine Stops (Wikipedia).
• Happy birthday, Monkey Island
• Windows sounds ambient, if you just slow it down by… say 4000%.
• World Airports Voronoi diagram.

• Oliver Sacks died on 30th Aug 2015… Anonther genius gone. R.I.P. A reading list.
• Reprogramming cancer cells
• The state of Windows in 2015. Just when you thought MS was back on track they disappoint you big time. What are they even thinking?!
• Signal vs. Noise is still full of little gems like The difference between time and attention, Fire the workaholics, or A good day's work.
• Work hard and live well
• Go 1.5 is out. Go makes me happy as a programmer. It's rock solid and down-to-earth and that's really something you don't get too often in the hype-driven and almost hysteric tech industry.
• Keep Learning. A nice collection of web sites that foster learning and creativity.
• Streaming music is ripping you off and what to do about it.
• Code is fashion
• Netflix Falcor is a JSON model graph library. These kinds of things come up a lot lately, see Facebook Relay with GraphQL.
• Kelsey MC2: This is how Rallye cars should look and sound.
• “Enlightened Imagination for Citizens” by Alan Kay.
• Public datasets on Amazon.
• We are data: the future of machine intelligence. by Douglas Coupland.

• We have Welsh.
• How enterprise sales of software works, in a nutshell.
• “Designers! I am a San Francisco computer programmer, but I come in peace!”—Maciej at its best
• “Lorem Ipsum has had a good run. Let’s replace it with data.”—Pure UI
• “Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.”—Walter Slezak (Wikiquote).
• Car Hacking Handbook
• The Deep Mind of Demis Hassabis
• Requirements for a time-series database
• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction. Highly recommended reading!
• Boys and Girls and IQ.
• Thinknum is GitHub for the financial analyst.
• Caddy: The HTTP/2 webserver made for humans.
• The Chicken McNuggets theorem.
• Mobile is eating the world by Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz.
• “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge”—widely attributed to Stephen Hawking, but likely from historian Daniel J. Boorstin.
• No backdoors for governments. 14 of the world's leading cryptographers and computer scientists publish a paper describing their insights.
• There's a recent trend towards Material Design frameworks, e.g. MUICSS and now Material Design Lite by Google.

• If you're on a Mac: Tunnelbear and Tripmode are valuable additions to Little Snitch.

• CurveCP: Usable security for the Internet
• RFC7540: HTTP/2 is now an official standard.
• In Flight
• The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car: “After 1.7 million miles we’ve learned a lot — not just about our system but how humans drive, too.”
• BBS The Documentary
• Shane Koyczan: To This Day … for the bullied and beautiful
• “Unsichtbar wird die Dummheit, wenn sie genügend große Ausmaße angenommen hat.”—Bertolt Brecht (zugeschrieben). Aus dem Vortrag Schwarmdummheit von Gunter Dueck bei der re:publica 2015.
• “I’m not young enough to know everything.”—Oscar Wilde
• Facebook's Cold Storage
• How Bohr, de Hevesy and others saved Nobel Prize Medals in the 2nd World War: Dissolve my Nobel Prize. Fast!
• Lovecraft. Oh my.
• A distributed RW mutex for Go. Nifty.
• Probabilistic many-to-many relationships with bloom filters.
• Stop misquoting Knuth.
• The days are long but the decades are short.

• Read The Society of Mind from Marvin Minsky online.
• To reduce VR sickness, just add a virtual nose.
• The Machines Are Coming. It will happen eventually.
• I think I'm experiencing the Osborne Effect.
• Testing WebRTC
• JVM Internals
• I learned a lot, today.
• Analyzing the chord progressions of 25000 songs
• Chocolatey. yum for Windows.
• Yes. You can catch insanity.
• A Field Guide to the American Sandwich

• Two very creative security issues: Reconstructing frame buffers from VRAM and Exploiting DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges.
• MP4 encoder/decoder for Go.
• ASCIIFlow, for drawing ASCII diagrams.
• grpc looks interesting for some of my use cases.
• Richard Hamming (yes, THAT Hamming): Video series on Learning to learn.

• Hacking with Andrew and Brad: Part 1, Part 2.
• “What should happen to your photos, emails and documents when you stop using your account? Google puts you in control.“ The Inactive Account Manager.
• http2 explained
• gokit. Let's see.
• 15 hours of machine learning with R.
• Dark patterns in user interfaces
• Datacide
• #DaftPunKonsole. Yay!
• Ideas on the Store of the future
• Dashing: An exceptionally handsome dashboard framework.
• Making sense of stream processing, event sourcing etc., by Martin Kleppmann.
• Confessions of a Congressman
• Mathe Blog der Zeit (German)
• The Creepiest Things You Can Do On Facebook
• These SASS Guidelines make perfect sense for my projects. I tend to follow these.
• Just found that Thomas Piketty did a talk at TEDSalon Berlin 2014. After all these years, TED is still great. How schools kill creativity by Ken Robinson is still one my favorite talks ever.

• JSON and struct decomposition in Go
• Bret Victor: The Humane Representation of Thought, and the video.
• Hello Firefox. Nice to meet you.
• It's great to have Mozilla deploying tor relays. Let's hope they get into the exit node business as well.
• For reference: The SSL/TLS handshake process.
• I wonder how long tylertreat/Comcast will be on GitHub: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems.
• A curated list of awesome machine learning frameworks.
• CS193p, the best introductory course on iOS programing, now in Swift.
• Vessel, because competition is good, isn't it?
• Windows 3.11 in a browser
• 24 pieces of life advice from Werner Herzog
• OpenSMTPD tutorial and setup
• Giada is a free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.
• Homelessness in SimCity: Bug or feature?
• Modern alienation
• Zero volume bottles
• Explained visually
• Test if your browser supports Public Key Pinning Extensions for HTTP (HPKP) and HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).
• A nice and helpful Git/GitHub cheat sheet.
• Matter.js: A 2D JavaScript physics engine.
• Interesting read trying to frame the “Make something people want“ theme.
• Office Snapshots
• Localization is hard.
• Habits and how to change them: Ideas for winning your competitor's customers.
• Smells like teen spirit, by Patti Smith.
• Some good reads about product design, UI & Capability, and product development by Ryan Singer of Basecamp.
• The Propaganda Model Revisited, by Edward S. Herman. Noam Chomsky talks about the Propaganda model in this video. There's a lot more good stuff at his homepage.
• Redacted font.
• New clues.
• Interesting Go networking with mangos (source).
• Keypress: A robust JavaScript library for capturing keyboard input.
• Hacking with Andrew and Brad.
• Alan Kay: Complex vs. Complicated.
• “I'm more surprised that the Go 1.4 compiler is written in C. Writing a compiler in C sounds very unpleasant compared to a language like OCaml. Does anyone know why they made this choice for the initial design?“ — “Ken Thompson wrote it. He's pretty good at C.“
• Coding for SSDs, including What every programmer should know about solid-state drives.
• People often forget that Machine Learning code also needs to be maintained, just like any other code.
• Deep Learning course at CMU.
• How GitHub works on documentation.
• Learn the GitHub flow.
• lunr.js: Simple, full-text search in your browser.
• ECharts: Another chart library, this time from China.
• SASS Guidelines: A styleguide for writing sane, maintainable and scalable SASS code.
• “The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.“—Richard Feynman
• Sonic Pi audible computing. Get your kids to love music and programming. Wonderful project! More links: Video with Sam Aaron, the author of Sonic Pi; Overtone, an Open Source toolkit for designing synthesizers and collaborating with music; Freesound, a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.
• suckless.org: Software that sucks less.
• The GDELT Project: A global database of society.
• Sometimes, at least once a year, you have to say Thank You! for a project that you use virtually everywhere, without even noticing. Thank you for Unicode and the CLDR. Obligatory link.
• I don't understand why they are pushing hard on JavaScript and invent new programming languages to expire JS when all it takes is to agree on a browser bytecode. Yes, asm.js paved the way, while NaCl is trying to boil the ocean. I'm pretty sure the area that used to be JavaScript would flourish.
• snabbt.js: Minimalistic animation library in JavaScript
• HomeControl: A HomeKit bridge for your Rasbperry Pi or Beaglebone.
• The Zero Theorem, by Terry Gilliam.
• Privoxy is a suitable alternative for blocking ads if you don't want to go for µBlock.
• Thunderstrike, one of my favorite talks at 31c3.
• Spreeblick schreibt einfach schöne Sachen. Jaaaa, der Artikel ist alt. Und?
• Es gibt sie noch, die gute, deutsche Musik. Nee, nicht Günter Geißler.
• Hello world, Java-style.
• Selling software to large businesses, by @patio11.

• Moving into the right direction: “Why the data center needs an operating system“.
• Playing Atari games like a pro: DeepMind's machine learning algorithm at work.
• Rob Conway's Recommended Reading List.
• Ben Chestnut, CEO of MailChimp, seems like a really great guy.
• Surprising results: “Your App Makes Me Fat“. Kathy at its best. She had so many "pure-gold" articles like “Create Passionate Users“.
• What Makes a Design Seem “Intuitive“?
• Kill Bill: Open source subscription billing & payment platform.
• About Tobi Lütke of Shopify.

• Simon Simek reminds us about the value of trust. This is even more interesting than his Start with why.
• Poe's Law: “Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.“
• MetricsGraphics.js: A time-series charting library on top of d3 from the guys at Mozilla.
• The Art of Letter Writing
• Karl Seguin: How unreliable is UDP?
• How long does an ID need to be?
• Using SSL certificates with HAProxy
• Reactive Programming: The missing manual
• Some SASS mixins for your toolbox.
• What does an idle CPU do?
• JSONPatch and JSONLines.
• Mobile AngularJS UI

• We're all confident idiots.
• PG Commander 2.0 prerelease builds is like Sequel Pro for PostgreSQL.
• FlatBuffers is a new serialization/deserialization framework from Google, similar to Protocol Buffers and Cap'n Proto.
• 1984 vs Brave New World, an exchange between the authors.
• EFF relaunches their Surveillance Self Defense (SSD) effort.
• Building a Forex trading platform with Kafka, Storm, and Cassandra.
• What are Bloom Filters?
• AngularJS directives for Google's Material Design.
• 8 typical development patterns for Docker.
• The original source code of SimCity has been migrated to Java and open sourced as Micropolis.
• WebGL Autumn.
• Michael Stipe: “Are we that warlike, that childish, that afraid?“
• How to Start a Startup: Paul Graham on stage
• Pixelapse Sync: I like the UI.
• The McDonald's Cocaine Spoon Fiasco

• Reddit is still awesome, after all these years. Just sayin.
• How to Start a Startup is an online course provided by the people at Y Combinator, including Paul Graham and many others.
• Wait a moment: How to work with JavaScript, date, and time zones.
• noUiSlider: A range slider.
• HFT in my backyard, part 1 and part 2.
• The Drone Survival Guide. Twenty-first century birdwatching.
• How to do full text search with PostgreSQL.
• Google Material Design meets Bootstrap here.
• Writing message queues/workers with Google Go: With Redis, as a small standalone app, or by copying Sidekiq. Also: Tuning Redis performance with Go.
• If you get “Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.“ after updating to the latest Xcode/Command Line Utilities, run sudo xcrun cc and agree to the license agreement (or run Xcode.app and agree there).
• sshrc: Should be really in ssh by default, not?
• BitTorrent Bleep goes Alpha.
• Tesseract-OCR seems like THE choice for an open source OCR.
• Recommended reading on computer security, digital forensics, incident response, malware analysis, and reverse engineering.
• What every computer programmer should know about floating point (part 1).
• If you're into running, maybe Runtime is for you. It's good to have alternatives, after all.
• d3.js Step-by-Step. An introduction to the superb d3.js library.
• Changing history with git, or Git pretty.
• Bleve is a modern text indexing library for Go.
• All about circuits: Lessons in electric circuits. There's so much good stuff out there!
• Protecting your business in China: An introduction.
• Some useful tricks for exploring data from the command line.
• Configuring Rails environments: How Grouper does it.
• Rails Tutorial (3rd Ed.) is completely rewritten, and I like it. It's still one of the best sources of learning Rails out there.
• C# and the += operator. Know your language!
• Stephen Fry on depression (part 1, part 2).
• The Hyperlapse project at Microsoft Research.

“So what are we doing here? Let me tell you a wonderful, old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: “Let’s establish a code. If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true what I say. If it is written in red ink, it is false.” After a month, his friends get the first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: “Everything is wonderful here. Stores are full of good food. Movie theatres show good films from the west. Apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot buy is red ink.” This is how we live. We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom—war on terror and so on—falsifies freedom.“—Slavoj Žižek

• Stripe on Bitcoin
• Massive Attack V Adam Curtis. Would love to see this live.
• This is said to be parts of the source code of Apollo 11.
• Lego on the beach, for more than 15 years. Apparently lost by a container that sank in 1997.
• Anatomy of a system call (part 1)
• Slides by Jonathan Zdziarski: Identifying Back Doors, Attack Points, and Surveillance Mechanisms in iOS Devices (PDF)

• Awesome article about the history of the Linux Graphics Stack.
• Wikipedia explains Diffie-Hellmann with colors. And this video explains it as well.
• Lots of real-time data from Berlin and other cities. Via Wearedata.
• Personal names are hard. As Patrick already found in 2010.
• CSS spheres
• How to destroy programmer productivity.
• Fun with iBeacons.
• Learn CSS layout
• iOS 8 Privacy Updates: That seems like steps into the right direction. But seriously, the cloud is no good for private stuff.
• The Inbox guys are heading for a RESTful interface to your inbox.
• When Security Generates Insecurity, or how CSP can be used against you.
• Google's Material Design for Angular.
• SSE for Go.
• Readable QR codes for Go.
• SUIT CSS: A style tool for UI components.
• FreeCiv, in the browser. Didn't know they got that?!
• I recently got (re-)interested into Usability Experience, psychology, interaction design etc. There is so much interesting stuff in there, and it's not only theory. E.g. the people at ZURB have a section on Design Triggers that shows hands-on what you could do to trigger an effect at your user's. The fact that more than 90% of all web sites (including mine) ignore these things tells a lot about the state of our industry. If you're interested, The Hipper Element is a very good resource and has a very good crash course on UX and user psychology.
• Did you know that you can trim jQuery quite easily?
• Lots of good ideas in Fieldbook. I would love to see this kind of app to become the "database of the non-techie".
• Are we welcome entrepeneuers or unwanted criminals?
• Once it's ready, Rust will probably be very interesting. And Steve Klabnik is working on a Rust guide to accompany the Rust intro.
• The tutorial you've always been missing about Reactive programming.
• Compare the cost of living between two cities.
• What is technical debt?
• Bob Mould, a personal hero of mine.
• Blogged it about 3 times, minimum. But Steve Wittens writes such much good stuff at acko.net. Lesebefehl!
• “SCIENCE. It works, bitches.”—Randall Munroe
• The Simpsons in CSS
• HAProxy went 1.5. Updated: 1.5.1.
• Kyle Kingsbury has a good series named "Call me maybe" running on aphry.com. The code is available on GitHub.
• And another one explains the CAP theorem.
• Maciej Cegłowski at Beyond Tellerrand: The Internet With A Human Face.
• Will forward this article the next time someone asks how OAuth2 works.
• dc.js: Dimensional Charting Javascript Library
• Because we can't (part 314). No election results because the server crashed and floppy disks cannot be read. (German article)

• Continuous Calendar is a nice idea.
• WhatLanguage determines the language of a text.
• Squiggle is a free, server-less peer-to-peer LAN messenger.
• Ghost: A simple, small, and free blogging platform.
• Trottling strategies for HTTP handlers, in Go. Here's the larger picture.
• Parse uses Go extensively and open-source their stuff. The go.counting repository for example adds counting to io.Reader and io.Writer.
• Build your own CSS-based animations online with Animatron.
• Self-reminder: Feature tours in JavaScript.
• Permanent 2: The Excel-like spreadsheet app.
• Wording in "Abandoned Cart Emails" is really quite important.
• Nanobar is a very lightweight progress bar, similar to NProgress.
• Intel does fonts: Clear Sans
• Q—the data language
• ScrollMagic has all the kind of fancy stuff you see around the web these days.
• Fancy CSS3 animations for AngularJS with angular-motion. It seems like a side-project to angular-strap.
• Scribe is said to be the editor The Guardian uses to edit their stuff online.
• Good summary of TCP, IP, and HTTP. Objc, the periodical, also seems quite a good read.
• gridstylesheets: A glimpse into the future of CSS layouts?
• I will forward this What is performance? blog post to anyone who asks for "faster" or "better" in the future.
• ClearSkies is an open btsync clone.
• InfluxDB: A time-series database for metrics.
• Why do I like Go? Rock solid language, taste and style meets decades of experience, good design decisions, a wonderful library, high quality third party libraries, and a helpful and competent community.
• go-metrics is a rewrite of Coda Hale's metrics library. BTW: Coda likes Go, too?!
• I already said that etcd is wonderful, did I?
• go-log: Very useful for interacting with systemd.
• KVOController by Facebook: Simple, modern, thread-safe key-value observing for iOS and OS X.
• Interactive. By the Twitter guys.
• Cytoscape.js: A JavaScript graph library.

• ng-boilerplate helps with the first steps towards a non-trivial AngularJS app.
• Really have to take a depper look at ReactJS.
• Broccoli looks good as a build tool. Here's the design decisions behind it.
• The (unofficial US) howto of responding to Where do you live?.
• Frequency. Genius!
• An unexpected botnet.
• Interesting online courses at Stanford online. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course is great stuff BTW.
• angular-gettext. Looks good as an alternative to angular-translate (which recently got its 2.0 version tag).
• Elasticsearch went 1.0.0.
• Jörg Prante explains Elasticsearch JVM settings.
• Real-time search with Algolia.
• Take screenshots of web sites from the command line with pageres, basically a cli for webshot.
• OWASP Cheat Sheets: Make your web sites more secure.
• Create your own Git Server: Gitlab, Gitweb, Gerrit, Gitolite and S3, CGit. Here's a screencast from Sysadmincasts.
• Security in PostgreSQL
• A string library by antirez of Redis fame.
• Drawing graphcs in pure JS: SigmaJS
• Some AWS tipps
• Parsing Excel data in NodeJS: js-xls and js-xlsx.
• High-performance CSV loading paper.
• (Re-)Introduction JavaScript.
• Squirrel: Fluent SQL for Google Go.
• UX crash course
• gulp.js: A streaming build system.
• browserify.js: Remote control for your browser.
• The Environment Object Pattern in Go. I'm using something like this all the time. For me, it's the key to testing in Go.
• textql: Executing SQL against CSV.
• The complete guide to centering a div with HTML/CSS.
• go-systemd: Go bindings to systemd.

• What a superb idea: Forgotify.
• That's how update cycles should look like. Compare that to the global marketshare of Internet Explorer.
• On the evolution of words frequency in porn. I assume this web site is now blocked by the UK internet filter ;-)
• “We are offering to buy a new computer with a modern browser for any of our customers who are stuck with IE7. We determined that it would cost us more to support a browser from 2006 in 2014 and beyond than it would to help our clients upgrade their legacy hardware.” (source)
• According to the report “How Hitmen Operate”, the average asking price to kill somebody was £15,180 for British hitmen.
• Attack vectors and mitigation on Webhooks.
• GraphSketcher is a nice drawing and data plotting library for iPad and the Mac. Open sourced by OmniGroup. There's other good stuff on their developer page.
• sqlx: It's what Dapper should have been, really. But it went a different path. My…
• The Best Image Placeholders for web development.
• ParseKit is great stuff.
• Imaging: Scaling, resampling, cropping etc. images in Golang.
• Online mind mapping (source)
• Scott's 2014 list of Windows tools must-haves
• Results of an international study on toilet paper.
• Hover.css is a collection of various hover effects.
• Coop: A cheat sheet for common concurrent flows in Golang.
• Ticktock is a job scheduler for Golang, written by the Google's Burucu Dogan.
• The Open Source Data Science Masters.
• A nicer color palette for the web.
• Mandala: A Go framework for writing native Android apps. Based on Goandroid. Wonder if Google supports this one day out of the box.
• JavaScript, the right way
• It's 2014 and character encoding at the database level are still a nightmare. Even GitHub has their problems. On MySQL and MariaDB, it seems safe to use utf8mb4, if your drivers are ready. Here's a guide on switching to utf8mb4.
• Knapsack: An import/export plugin for Elasticsearch. Uses archive formats and is capable of exporting directly into S3.
• rtc.io is an open-source WebRTC implementation for node.js.
• The Periodic Table of Rust Types
• Redis is an interesting piece of software.
• What is WebRTC?
• I don't really like Scala syntax, but these guys come up with some interesting stuff, e.g. ScalikeJDBC.
• Public speaking is tough.
• GitGutter shows git diffs in Sublime Text.
• Some AngularJS tips, e.g. how to remember scrolling position when switching between views. Two other articles are interesting as well, if you're into AngularJS and Golang.
• XMLHttpRequest2 is on its way. Why not use it?
• The Joys of JavaScript on Beyond pushState: On the subtleties of building single page apps.
• Whoops. Will be hardly recognized as "good advertising" in Germany.
• Documentaries. Lots of them.
• Different Git Workflows: Simple Git Workflow Simple, GitHub Flow, Git Flow, Freeseer, Sandofsky, Merge or Rebase.
• Git Introduction in German by @chneukirchen.
• Oracle is hiring.
• Uncensored dump of Everpix metrics and financials.
• First steps towards reading Excel in Go.
• go-tunnel
• Didn't know that games got this realistic already.
• Asbos and Ipnas in the UK. Seems like the world has started to go mad, now also in Germany.
• Douglas Englebart's ABC Model: “(A) do the work, (B) build tools to improve the doing of the work, (C) build tools to improve the improving.”
• “We are standing on a whale, fishing for minnows.”—Paul Saffo in his Eulogy for Doug Englebart.
• Finding images
• Losing Aaron. Still so sad. A tragedy.
• Interesting thoughts about the difficulty of private contact-discovery. By Moxie Marlinspike of TextSecure and RedPhone.
• HTML parser/tokenizer for Google Go.
• k-means clustering 86 Single Malt Scotch Whiskies
• Watch a musician rebuild the "One More Time" sample (by Daft Punk).
• Living under Drones: Drones, as used by the military today, is state terrorism.
• Backdoors purportedly seen in Linksys & Netgear routers

• Recordings of 30c3
• Understanding DNSSEC
• goawaycameron
• Description of context-aware templates in Google Go.
• This is it: Decentralize the internet
• Mindblowing performance by Reggie Watts at TED.
• SpinKit: Simple CSS spinners.
• What's wrong with the modern world? by Jonathan Franzen
• I support editorconfig.
• John Cleese lecture on creativity
• What the FLUCK!, by Adam Curtis. Journalism at its best.
• Impressions from North Korea
• Git-based microsites
• DDoS Attack Map in Realtime
• ThoughtWorks Technology Radar: What do you have on your radar?
• AlpacaJS: Easy forms for jQuery.
• MiniProfiler for .NET.
• WAMP, the WebSocket Application Messaging Protocol, looks like a pretty good idea
• AsciiDoc cheatsheet
• Parsing JSON streams with Go.
• Some good Nginx config files: here and here
• Test coverage with Go. Awesome.
• Advanced R Programming Book
• GoConvey: Testing Go with a good looking interface.
• Do it yourself EEG, EKG, and EMG
• There is a second OS inside every smartphone.
• CSS Effects: Add water into text
• Embed data into your Go binary.

• Flowcontrol is a well-written solution to rate limiting data streams.
• Stockfish: A UCI chess engine, currently ranked #2 on the computer chess rating list (CCRL), with its source code on GitHub.
• Thoughts on Leadership.
• How to effectively read JSON streams with Google Go.
• Organics is an interesting approach for seamless communication between JavaScript and Go. There also is gowss. People can build their own WebSocket-based application framework with Gorilla WebSockets.
• An advanced PostgreSQL client for Go. Currently not a database/sql compatible driver, but has lots of interesting stuff in it, e.g. support for notifications, hstore, and client-side timeouts.
• The missing manual for Docker.
• “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” (as seen on Twitter).
• Booting from Rust via UEFI.
• How statically linked programs run on Linux.
• Advanced R Programming.
• Will definitely try out CSS autoprefixer in combination with csso.
• GoConvey is a good-looking testing suite for Go. Also: I really appreciate the cover tool that comes with Go 1.2. It's in the go.tools repository. Install via go get code.google.com/p/go.tools/cmd/cover, then see help with go tool cover -help. Dave has some instructions how to use it in your own projects.
• Embedding resources in your Go binary with go-bindata.
• nosurf: A CSRF protection middleware for Go.
• Goworker is a Resque-compatible background worker implementation for Go (Source).
• AngularJS 1.2 is out. Here's a guide on how to use AngularJS for mobile with ngTouch.
• RocksDB: A persistent key-value store by Facebook. Built on top of LevelDB.
• LMDB is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store developed by Symas for the OpenLDAP Project.
• Ken Box. Nuff said.
• Apache Spark: A computing cluster similar to Hadoop.
• How to sell your stuff via Amazon.
• HTTP 2.0 will bring realtime to the web, among other things.
• eBook: Upgrading to Rails 4
• NATS Server and Client in Google Go.
• Unix-like Pipes for Google Go.
• Bufs: A simple buffer for Google Go.
• Detect mimetypes by inspecting a file: Use libmagic and magicmime for Go.
• Interfaces in Go
• HTTP Handlers in Go are actually middleware. Here's an example of how to embrace them.
• GitHub's Management Strategy, or so it seems.
• An interactive resume by Robby Leonardi.
• God's number is 20 and more about Rubik's Cube™.
• Rapid schema development with PostgreSQL
• iOS 7 like squircles with CSS3
• libconcurrency: A concurrency library in C.
• Pointers in Rust: A Guide.
• oboe.js: A progressive JSON parser, think SAX for AJAX calls.
• Best and Brightest: Only a few countries are teaching children how to think
• Sir Trevor: A rich content editor for web content.
• Barbarians at the Gateways: Article by a former high-frequency trader.
• At.js: A GitHub-like autocomplete library.
• Spray: Elegant, high-performance HTTP for Akka Actors. Now to become part of the TypeSafe Platform for Scala.
• “Everyone’s problem is money until it’s hiring.“
• “The best companies strive to empower the individual. The worst companies strive to maintain control.“
• Vertigo: Real-time computation engine built on the Vert.x application platform. Quite a bit like Storm.
• HPPC: High Performance Primitive Collections for Java
• ASCIIDoc
• Google Consumer Surveys: Easy to use market research.
• Easy PubSub: JSON over XMPP
• IKEA or Death
• Dropzone.js
• How BlackBerry blew it
• Queues
• Observations on Traffic Jams
• Didn't know Maciej Cegłowski of Pinboard thinking and writing so well. Smart guy. Thank you. And by the way: Here's Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience.
• On Writing Interfaces Well
• Word of the month: Thanatosensitivity. Its about the HCI aspects surrounding death in computer science.
• Draw.io is impressive for a web app these days.
• I like this diagram: The Elements of User Experience
• Simple Java services? Use Dropwizard by Coda Hale.
• SSL/TLS deployment best practices
• JavaScript form builder
• TogetherJS, by Mozilla.
• Fira is a new free font from Mozilla.
• Focus transition effect in web browsers.
• Clone of Mediums WYSIWYG editor: Medium Editor
• Example of Docker setup: MongoDB
• Terrorism, Tracking, Privacy And Human Interactions: Daniel Cuthbert & Glenn Wilkinson at 4CON 2012. Here's a blog post about Snoopy. Scary.
• Quote Investigator: Exploring the origins of quotations, e.g. did Ford ask really for a faster horse?
• Wouldn't call this dribbblisation of design, but I also see this problem. Either people specify themselves to death, or they just stumble into a project. A bit of a plan, just enough concept, flexibility in mind, then slowly push forward. At least that's what I try.
• Creating a proxy server in Go
• Golang OAuth2 server

• Be your own CA
• Throttling requests with Go. Other options here and here.
• Scaling with Queues. After all, RabbitMQ seems like a really good idea for high-pressure services. I heard all good things with the Go Driver and rescheduling messages with Dead Letter Exchanges and such. I'll keep that in mind for whenever I need it.
• REST Hooks
• Cloning iOS 7 with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• BeeLine Reader: Using gradients to lead the eye and read faster. Don't know about you, but it seems to work. It looks ugly though.
• All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go
• Favicons cheat sheet
• Dominik Honnef summarizes changes in Go Tip. Related: There's a go.text repository now.
• WebSuckets: Gotchas working with Web Sockets.
• Creative CSS3 Hover Effects
• Shopify Point of Sale

• How to send a file via WebRTC.
• Tin Can, WebRTC demonstration by Mozilla.
• “Every day, they are learning how brilliant Snowden was,” said a former U.S. official with knowledge of the case. “This is why you don’t hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.” (Article)
• U.S. spy agencies Black Budget
• What happens in the first 220msec of a HTTPS connection
• How Twitter is organized in 2013
• Selling Software to Large Enterprises
• Cookieless Cookies. I wonder if this is covered by the EU Cookie Law (Wikipedia)?
• Using C Dynamic Libraries in Go Programs
• Some more articles on Ballmer and Microsoft that showed how Microsoft lost its way: Microsoft's Lost Decade, Stack Ranking
• Rent Seeking Economy. Intellectual Detox is a good read from time to time.
• Parallax.js
• Another article about encodings that I'll forward next time someone asks about ö, ä, or ß.
• Recycling Memory Buffers in Go
• 1pxdeep, a Bootstrap theme.
• The Internet, on a DVD
• Cost of Living around the world compared to NYC.
• “I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.” (and other Ballmer Quotes)
• 2 Factor Auth with Persona
• Please. Be. Quiet.
• How One Weird Trick Ads conquered the Internet.
• Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?
• Install Ubuntu on Chromebook
• Lonliness is Deadly. The problem is real but much more subtle than rendered in this article.
• What you can do with WebGL, CSS, and HTML right now: 0-60 in a second. Feels a bit like the demo scene back in the 80's and 90's.
• GitLab 6 released
• NSA Spying Timeline, visualized by EFF
• E-books with Calibre, now 1.0
• Infinite Scrolling on AngularJS
• A clever approach to Perfect Forward Secrecy on mobile phones
• How to make perfect coffee. I prefer the French press.
• Kibana, from the guys that brought us Elasticsearch
• Financials in Go with gmp
• Best practices in User Onboarding
• Ungit
• Sovereign: A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud.
• Another drift to the Soylent story: What happened when I stopped eating for 2 weeks by Tim Ferriss
• NProgress
• Privacy Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life
• First Lavabit, then Silent Circle, now Groklaw: Closed as a result of NSA surveillance.
• Germany recognizes Bitcoin as "private money", German article in FAZ
• On the future of journalism in the light of David Miranda's detainment at London Heathrow.
• Bootstrap 3 released
• Now there's Model X.
• On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
• Creating a Chrome Extension.
• Prototyping mobile apps with Clank (code).
• Still not quite familiar with PostgreSQL (compared to MySQL), but here's the basics of user management pretty well covered. Craig Kersiens also has quite a few postings about it, especially his How I work with Postgres. Also recommended: Postgres Guide and Postgres Weekly. If you're on a Mac, you can install via brew install postgresql or grab Postgres.app.
• Getty Museum's Open Content project makes 4600 pieces of art freely available to view and download.
• Why put the paper into the printer when you could stack it below.
• Brick: UI Components for Modern Web Apps. Web Components is supposed to be the future of developing HTML applications and web sites. This goes into the same direction with e.g. Dart.
• FuzzDB: An attack and discovery pattern database for application fuzz testing
• People simply empty out. A letter from Charles Bukowski regarding working 9-to-5.
• Distributed, decentralized social networks: DiSo is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts; StatusNet; Unhosted; Redecentralize; Camlistore; remoteStorage.
• Blechtley: A collection of practical application cryptoanalysis tools.
• Brain Controlling Devices. With API.
• If you're on Darwin, have many TCP connections, and you're getting errors such as can't assign requested address, try lowering the maximum segment lifetime (msl) from the default 15 seconds to e.g. 1 second: sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.msl=1000. Also see sysctl net.inet.tcp.
• Reinvigorate: Real-time web analytics and heat maps.
• If you're on a Mac, use GPGMail.
• Building a video meeting app with Angular and WebRTC.
• A 1996 article on Amazon
• Basics of Enterprise sales
• London set up bins that are tracking you
• Time zone detection in JavaScript
• How the iPhone Marimba theme was created. And how it could have been a different sound.
• Did you know? SPACEJUMP is a HTTP verb!
• Smithsonian on caffeine addiction
• Absolute centering in CSS. Great idea. Related: Centering Percentage Width/Height
• Suspenders is a nice collection of Rails templates.
• A toggle switch for Bootstrap.
• Hacking a Transcend WiFi SD Card.
• You broke the internet, we build ourselves a GNU one: GNUnet. Related: SecuShare.
• Ruby Hacking Guide
• The original Hyperloop Alpha PDF
• Poe's Law
• Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet, an essay by Bruce Schneier
• Open Biometrics
• Clever use of clipboard functionality in Trello
• Forebruary

• The Future of Programming by Bret Victor. A humorous kind of presentation, a history lesson. It's really kind of sad how far we could have gone and how far we actually are.
• Inventing on Principle. Mind changing.
• Quip looks very interesting.
• Sweden Runs Out of Garbage. It still baffles me as to why do I exactly have to pay for garbage?!
• PSD.rb: A Ruby library for reading and writing PSD files.
• CoreOS: A slimmed down Kernel plus some services. Just enough to run containers, like Docker.io.
• Bootstrap released RC1. Also: The repository has moved. It's used all over the place. But there are viable alternatives. If you just want a trimmed down version, you might use Skeleton or Ribs. Of course, there Zurb Foundation. I also like purecss, especially its style.
• Instacart published their approach to searching: Searchkick
• The Definitive Guide to Project Billing
• What every web developer should have read at least once: Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection (but were afraid to ask)
• How to property configure Google Apps email, DKIM, SPF and such (and remove that nasty via field): Tutorial
• Effeckt.css
• From the list of forgotten specs: PubSubHubub 0.4, still an interesting approach. As well as Opensearch and its extensions.
• Sugar.js is a nice contender to Underscore.js.
• Let's play ancient geometry.
• Good UI
• What you handwriting says about you.

• Some standard CSS animations.
• Stephen Fry on Loneliness
• Learn Git Branching, an interactive tutorial.
• Self reference: What every web developer must know about URL encoding
• Viewport Resizer. Recommended!
• The Extensible Web Manifesto. FWIW I strongly support this.
• Photos of famous landmarks while they were still under construction
• Is it April 1st, again?
• The Arcade Fire does The Clash
• Melencolia I
• Regarding yesterdays' Towel Day: 42
• "Die immerwährende Suche nach symbolischer Selbstergänzung, …" zeit.de
• Hangover game, described in all detail

• biogo, a bioinformatics library for Google Go
• Rack::Attack blocking and throttling gem
• All you ever wanted to know about floating-point arithmetic. Floats are hard!
• Elasticsearch is huge: Use it for Machine Learning, or on huge sites like StackOverflow or Path.
• For self-reference: Performing a cluster update for Elasticsearch.
• Using Elasticsearch, Tire, and Draper via a decorator.
• Avoiding Burnout
• Mozilla's Heka seems interesting.
• A history of the Amiga, part 8: The Demo Scene.

• Annotated jQuery source
• Pagespeed module for Nginx
• Thoughts on localizing an API
• BitTorrent Sync. Think Dropbox. There's other interesting stuff brewing in BitTorrent labs.
• Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence: A summary of everything I've learned about developer estimates over the last 20 years.
• Beginners Guide to Sales, if you think you're gonna need it.
• GoCircuit: An interesting Go-like approach for distributing work among servers. Go really is a great language, and makes things like these straightforward. The repository is on GitHub.
• Another nice Go project: dendrite.io (Repository), for scraping log files and re-emit them in a unified stream.
• Some nice tips about settings for new servers.
• Process managers, in terms of init: I personally like upstart very much.

• Grunt is the de-facto task runner for JavaScript projects.
• Wonderful.
• Music: Angel Olsen—Tiniest Seed, Zee Avi – Concrete Wall, Sigur Rós - Valtari, Shout Out Louds – Blue Ice.
• Best burgers in Munich.
• On JavaScript API design and how Stripe does it.
• Dart seems like a rather good idea. Might be the way the next wave of web applications might be written. Did I say this before? ;-)
• How Google Search works. I'll forward this to anyone who comes up with any misconceptions about how Google (search) works.
• Airbnb published a default Java stack for web apps (GitHub repo).
• Infinite scroll directive for AngularJS.
• JavaScript prototypes, explained in plain English.
• Try jQuery.
• Everybody who claims to be a web developer needs keep an eye on HTML5 rocks.
• Atoms for Peace, a joined project of Thom Yorke and Flea, recently published Amok.

• Bombermine is a massively multiplayer game in HTML5.
• The Silver Searcher aka ag is very fast.
• Rails guide: Working with JavaScript in Rails. For self-reference.
• Database code to watch out for in Rails: rails-sqli.org
• Emmet, formerly Zen Coding, is 1.0.
• A few more EmberJS information from the Discource team.
• Alan Kay, one of my all time favorites. Here's some of his quotes combined into a story.
• Bootstrap for typography: Typeplate
• Nice HTML input CSS3 effects
• Casablanca, a C++ REST SDK from Microsoft.
• LaTeX templates, Tufte style.
• I like jQuery Mobile's new panels which comes with version 1.3.0.
• Use your Rails translations on the client-side with i18n-js.
• Rack::Robustness looks like a good addition to Twitter's secureheaders etc.
• Holepicker looks good for checking security issues with your Gemfile or Rails project. Here's some more information.
• Most tools I tried for speeding up Rails tests and rake tasks failed for me. Yes, I'm looking at Spork and Zeus. (okay, Commands is a bit different). Maybe Spring will work out fine. I'll give it a try in the next Rails project.
• “Hello. I'm a compiler.
  I just scanned thousands of lines of code while you were reading this sentence. I browsed through millions of possibilities of optimizing a single line of yours using hundreds of different optimization techniques based on a vast amount of academic research that you would spend years getting at. I won't feel any embarrassment, not even a slight ick, when I convert a three-line loop to thousands of instructions just to make it faster. I have no shame to go to great lengths of optimization or to do the dirtiest tricks. And if you don't want me to, maybe for a day or two, I'll behave and do it the way you like. I can transform the methods I'm using whenever you want, without even changing a single line of your code. I can even show you how your code would look in assembly, on different processor architectures and different operating systems and in different assembly conventions if you'd like. Yes, all in seconds. Because, you know, I can; and you know, you can't.
  P.S. Oh, by the way you weren't using half of the code you wrote. I did you a favor and threw it away.“
• Terms of Service: tl;dr
• Great tutorial on Git branching.
• Another solution to cross-compilation with Go
• For self-reference: Converting charsets in Google Go.
• Lego 2.0. Yay!
• Regexp crossword puzzle
• Humanized version of the latency numbers every programmer should know from Jeff Dean and Peter Norvig:
  • L1 cache reference : 0:00:01
  • Branch mispredict : 0:00:10
  • L2 cache reference : 0:00:14
  • Mutex lock/unlock : 0:00:50
  • Main memory reference : 0:03:20
  • Compress 1K bytes with Zippy : 1:40:00
  • Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network : 5:33:20
  • Read 4K randomly from SSD : 3 days, 11:20:00
  • Read 1 MB sequentially from memory : 5 days, 18:53:20
  • Round trip within same datacenter : 11 days, 13:46:40
  • Read 1 MB sequentially from SSD : 23 days, 3:33:20
  • Disk seek : 231 days, 11:33:20
  • Read 1 MB sequentially from disk : 462 days, 23:06:40
  • Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA : 3472 days, 5:20:00
• fatcache by Twitter: Memcache for SSDs.
• Yours vs. Mine: Why Dustin uses “Your profile“ instead of “My profile“ in user interfaces. I agree.
• Sacha Greif on Skeuomorphism vs. Flat Design.
• A nice Git workflow.
• The trace route to Star Wars: traceroute 216.81.59.173 (and a how-to). Notice that you can even watch Episode IV in the terminal: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl.
• CSS clouds in 3D

• Awesome article on Google Chrome Performance issues
• For IBM: “I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.“
• There might be a slight chance that Oracle crushes Java?! It'd be the best they did for decades.
• Quote from the Google SRE AMA: “As a general rule we like to joke that Google not only reinvents the wheel, but we vulcanize our own rubber.“
• Actual Facebook Graph Searches
• How keys work, in one simple GIF
• Old San Francisco
• “Aaron is dead.
  Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder.
  Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own.
  Nurtures, careers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child.
  Let us all weep.“
  timbl

• Best wishes for 2013
• Joel on MBAs: “Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. "It's ok! I have great advisors standing on the shore telling me what to do!" they say, and then fall off the board, again and again. The standard cry of the MBA who believes that management is a generic function. Is Ballmer going to be another John Sculley, who nearly drove Apple into extinction because the board of directors thought that selling Pepsi was good preparation for running a computer company? The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don't understand.“
• MySQL Role Swap Script
• Drag'n Drop Basket with Ember
• All of mbostock's blocks
• Math.net Numerics, a great numerics library for .NET.
• ElasticSearch pre-flight checklist
• Zero downtime update of ElasticSearch clusters
• Ruby Searchable with ES
• Baker eBook framework
• Metro theme for Bootstrap
• X-editable
• Setup a web server, the 2012 edition. See also: LAMP guides
• MIT license builder
• When the Nerds Go Marching In, how a team of engineers build the software that drove Obama's reelection.
• cURL tips
• Andrew Gerrand's github home, a resource of good Go code.
• Tip for Go repository layout problems: “If you want to work on github.com projects locally, the easiest thing to do is work on $GOPATH/src/github.com/{user}/{project}. This will allow your local changes to apply and still work with go get able URL's.“
• Libraries for Obj-C
• Cloudera Impala
• Die Deutsche Gedichtebibliothek
• Building a restful API in Java
• Open Data Protocols
• Parsing URLs in JavaScript: js-url
• Parsing addresses is hard: Parsec, ZipRipJS.
• PubSub in Rails
• SCSS-based Retina Graphics
• Datomic
• Think Bayes
• xkcd style graphs
• 12 years old, still valid: The Joel Test
• The Story of the New Microsoft.com
• Networked Helpdesk API
• Thinking about Service Oriented Architecture
• Async image uploading
• Go by Example
• Go concurrency patterns
• DNS server in Go
• Simple daemon in Go
• 3-legged OAuth2 with Go
• How to use interfaces in Go
• Quick and Clean in Go

• Tutorial on Ember.js
• Typicons, free-to-use vector icons.
• Better line numbers in vim
• Tomorrow theme for VIM and such.
• 4 Unix commands I abuse every day
• Hacker books
• Ideas, from Sequoia.
• Retina Capture. Capture screenshots for both normal and Retina displays.
• Wanna build your own Linux distro?
• Get Forward, a platform for e-commerce
• Mail in 2012
• SyncStorage 2.0
• Have to try zeus to speed up Rails tests.
• deadweight helps finding unused CSS.
• Rails in Realtime
• Eager loading in Rails
• Rails callbacks will hit you, and what to do about it.
• The combination of gorp and revel seems an interesting Go-based web framework.
• Go-powered web services with Rails, here
• Cross-compilation with Go: Here
• Seriesly, a time-series DB in Go.
• HTTP for servers
• Another series of CSS3 buttons
• Tax cuts don't lead to economic growth
• xkcd 1110 is cult.
• Here's how to add App banners to your website to provide a link to your app in the Apple AppStore.
• A WebSockets 101
• Bought a Nexus 7, and quite like it.
• Never heard of him, but for those that get into Java (or have to live with it), this is a nice list of tech docs: Torsten Horn Techdocs
• How to implement the Apple PassBook server side in Rails.
• I guess Apple won't like DatabaseKit as they have Core Data.
• How to sync Core Data with a Web Service
• Rather helpful to convert EDI flat files into XML: edifact-xml. Also: EDI-to-XML
• Mathematics at Google
• Google Spanner Paper
• Interesting new projects in the Rails world (and some of them get baked into Rails 4.0, from what we know): jbuilder, strong_parameters, turbolinks, and cache_digests.
• FontAwesome is helpful. Don't know if Adobe Edge WebFonts is.
• Designing for Retina
• Unicode—The film

• Great advice and intro to Ember.js. Although I was experimenting with AngularJS recently, it's good to have options.
• Backbone.js Hacker's Guides: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

• Sticking to Sublime Text 2 for now: Here's some help for beginners and some more advice.
• The Shins live FTW
• What are the most intellectually stimulating websites?
• Nice visualizations: San Francisco vs Silicon Valley
• Elon Musk, of PayPal/Tesla/SpaceX fame, thinks about Jetson Tunnels and Hyperloop.
• Brain Tripping
• EpicEditor: A JavaScript Markdown editor. Looks good, given the 0.1.0 version tag.
• Brackets, an open source code editor for the web (by Adobe).
• Prose, a content editor for GitHub.
• Sometimes it feels just like: http://www.gifbin.com/985083
• How to design a Getting Started process
• Two insights into management style: Microsofts Lost Decade and Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style by Ryan Tomayko of GitHub.
• The Power of Context, by Alan Kay.
• ElasticSearch over nginx, with authentication and stuff.
• Building a Chatbot with vert.x
• Webwandern: Hike the Alps, couch potatoe style.
• Mac App Language Switcher
• Stakeholder?
• How to retinafy your web site. A great resource by Thomas Fuchs (for a great display).
• I'm enyoing Google Go quite a bit these days. A wonderful, fast, and straightforward language. If you're working with ElasticSearch, you might like my Go-based command line client for ElasticSearch.
• Some other useful Go resources/articles: Tideland Common Go Library, Go at CloudFlare, 10 things you probably didn't know about Go.
• tl;dr legal: Software licenses summarized in plain English.
• d3 charts
• Regrets of dying
• Nice article on Rails and VIM, although I've been using Sublime Text 2 quite a lot lately.
• Always a good read: Malcolm Gladwell's blog

• Imagesnap
• Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?, a paper by Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research
• Statsd is great stuff: Why using it, statsd repository, on events, statsd with AMQP backend, a Ruby implementation by 37signals (batsd) (intro here), with different backends and an alternative to Graphite.
• Theory X and Theory Y, or why business analysts and project managers get higher salaries than programmers.
• config.threadsafe! to be removed from Rails 4.
• I like Go better and better the more I read about it: Parsing huge XML files, network programming, and a nice intro to Go by rsc. These guys really know what they're doing.
• Mac OS X Sublime Text Keyboard Shortcuts
• Google Search Parameters in 2012.
• Just deployed my first Scala Play! 2.0 app. With Capistrano and railsless-deploy.
• Ember seems to get going slowly. I personally like it better than Backbone, but it's just a matter of taste I guess. Together with their approach to routing (here's the gist of it and an article by Tom Dale) and data, it looks more promising day by day. Wonder if it's going to be a part of Rails 4.0.
• WebDev for Go; proxies requests, recompiles, and restarts real server if required.
• Sidekiq, an alternative to Resque.
• The 80.000 particles system in JavaScript. Click, hold, and move your mouse.
• The shapes of CSS.
• The DotFile society.
• Web Page Test: Multi-browser test platform, and free.
• SpriteMe: Generate sprites for the hundreds of images on your web site.
• Async.cs: A great and clean Async threading class for you .NET devs (by Sam Saffron of StackExchange).
• Nicer forms and select boxes with Chosen and Select2.
• GMaps is the easiest way to use Google Maps.
• The paranoiacs guide to securing your laptop.
• Stripe not only has one of the best API docs ever, but also releases stuff in the Open Source, e.g. Einhorn, a shared socket manager in the realms of FastCGI, Unicorn, and Rainbows.
• Chronic: I'd call it shut up. For cron.
• What does a F1 car look like when cut in half.
• Coders rickrollin'
• jQuery transit: Super smooth CSS3 animations for jQuery.

• APIs are UX for developers, probably the best summary I read about API design so far.
• Opa: Although it's funny name (for Germans), its a fresh and interesting approach to web development: One language for client and server; data stores are a first-class citizen, not an afterthought (although currently only Mongo and Couch).
• Vert.x: JVM-based, polyglot, async web development framework. Write your apps in a JVM language (Java, Scala, JRuby, Groovy, JavaScript, Clojure, you name it).
• Gorilla is a nice, low-level support framework for web applications. I like the approach of not adding another layer on top of the OS/language, but rather add features that make it easier but don't hide the OS/language.
• Node.js and Express is now rather standard. To me it seems, people use this more and more. Also, see Ringojs.
• Vibe.d, a web framework for D.
• Also, for JVM, there's AWF in the Apache incubator.

• “A High Frequency Trader's Apology“ (Part 1, Part 2)
• Demoscene—The Art of Algorithms, which also comes with link to a documentary
• Single Sign-On can be that simple, yes
• Open Smart Argentina on Twitter and keep scrolling down (i.e. press 'j')
• “Men have become the tools of their tools.“—Henry David Thoreau
• Down to Fax: Dating site für Internetausdrucker
• “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.“—George Orwell
• Excellent TED talk
• Before the Lights go out
• I'm very pleased to finally see a lot of innovation in programming languages: Go is v1, Mozilla comes out with Rust, Julia is an excellent alternative to R (and all those expensive commercial packages), Dart maybe gets a foot into the door, Node and the excellent V8 Engine of course, people talk and write about Clojure, Scala and Typesafe with its excellent Play 2.0 web framework. I think it is very important and healthy to have alternatives. And maybe, just maybe, languages are starting to be not so much based on the programming spec but on the lower-level VMs like JVM, LLVM and such.
• “People join good projects and leave bad management.“ - Michael Feiner

• Excellent description of Bayes Theorem
• Huxley was right
• Very helpful: A free and open currency exchange.

• Die GLS Bank, und was sie von anderen unterscheidet.
• ASCII flow is genius.
• Copy-writing in emails
• Come work at Twitter
• Strata Conference 2012.
• Real-time processing with Storm, open-sourced at GitHub.
• How many servers does Google have? 1,791,040… exactly ;-)
• Didn't know there's a word for it: Mojibake, or: When software renders unreadable characters because of e.g. encoding issues.
• mitmproxy: A SSL-capable man-in-the-middle proxy.
• Do you really need a framework… when all you need to do is to paste some code to have a NHibernate session per request.
• SSH hacks: Now look what you can do with that simple tool.
• Getting started with User Experience Design
• Hack of the day: The long range Illy WiFi antenna
• Some Ruby tricks
• How @antirez manages his todos.
• A todo list cli.
• Effective Scala: A tutorial from Twitter
• SocketRocket: A WebSocket library for Obj-C
• spdycat: A command line SPDY client.
• Patched Ruby 1.9.3-p0 to be ~30% faster with Rails. link
• Initializr: Pre-package your newly HTML5 project
• ZooKeeper, and how to update thousands of config files in under a second.
• The dark side of HTTP
• How to set up a mail server on GNU/Linux systems.
• Don't know about HTTP caching? Go, read this.
• Gamification of Sex. Turn down the volume before clicking that link ;-)

• Clever CSS tricks to do nice and clean tabs (CSS-only).
• Sprite Factory, very useful tool for generating CSS sprites.
• Smallest DOM ready ever
• Happy new year everybody!

• Some good instructions for running postgresql smoothly on Mac.
• Cool stuff: The winner of the Google-sponsored AI Challenge 2011 describes his code.
• What caused the Euro crisis?
• Scale-invariant feature transform or SIFT: Algorithm to extract features from images. Pretty sure Google and Facebook use these kinds of algorithms for their data (e.g. reverse image search). Maybe even Switchcam used these techniques.
• German Tank Problem: Infer size from sample.
• Quotes from 1968 about Software Engineering and its problems.
• Amber.js is now Ember.js. To me this looks less confusing than Backbone.
• JBuilder from @dhh is heaven-sent.
• Amber.js by Jehuda Katz et. al.: An alternative to Backbone.js, Knockout.js, Sammy.js etc. Wonder when Microsoft will put up their JavaScript framework.
• DNSCrypt looks interesting.
• Bootbox looks like a good addition to fast Bootstrap-based mockups.
• Whiskey Disk: Simplified deployment.
• A modern guide to threads

• A modern guide to threads
• String search algorithms described.
• Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes
• Introduction to the Python Ecosystem
• Humane and Smoke: JavaScript notification systems.
• An introduction to stock options
• For self-reference: Socket.IO, nginx, HAProxy, and you
• Handpicked jQuery plugins
• A tree grows in Queens.
• Eloquent JavaScript, great online book by Marijn Haverbeke.
• Thank you, Ruby: warning: else without rescue is useless
• Fantom is interesting.
• Hub, where Git meets GitHub.
• Video Codecs 101
• Fray issue 3: Sex & Death. Good read.
• HN for Quants
• SiriProxy
• Crash course in UX
• Best rant about that Microsoft Productivity Future video.
• Suddenly, a screencast: Hubot Play
• Future of learning with Gameplay at work
• Bundler 1.1 will have some nice additions
• VIM Tutorial
• Inline XML to JSON

• List of humorous units of measurement on Wikipedia.
• Best comparison I ever read regarding GUI vs Command Line
• A Rails Style Guide
• HTTP header security
• 37signals way of managing CSS files: Taking care of the cascade.
• Using Jekyll for GitHub pages: Here's how.
• Nice template for a CV/resume in LaTeX.
• Cocoapods: An Objective-C library package manager.
• World War II in photos
• Scala School
• Why you should not drink sea salt water.
• ElasticSearch Howto: Publish frequency by day of week
• How to beat the CAP theorem with Map/Reduce, Hadoop, and sorts.
• Official UX/UI Guidelines from Apple, Microsoft, and others
• Puppet vs. Chef
• Mozilla Secure Web Coding Guidelines
• Free textures for your next web project
• Ruby stuff: acts_as_shopping_cart, Net::Http upload progress
• Backbone stuff: backbone-forms
• Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ and gevent.
• A trick to run your Rails unit tests a bit faster: Shared connections.
• A reverse-forwarding SSH agent.
• Basically my Ruby on Mac setup.
• Stripe seems like a Payment Gateway geared towards programmers. Let's hope they'll provide international support soon.
• A little book on CoffeeScript.
• Marco Tempest, the Technology Magician at TED. And here's a small glimpse at the background of his work.

• Über die Moral an der Börse, aus dem Jahr 2002.
• Rainbows are the new blink.
• Play 2.0 is near
• Mining the Million Song Database with Amazon Elastic MapReduce (aka Hadoop MapReduce).
• The Dark Art of Pricing.
• Good article about designing Rails apps, models, controllers: The Secret to Rails OO Design
• Assets for Sinatra: sinatra-assetpack
• The real pie chart.
• The Return of the Boomerang. Seriously good stuff again, xkcd.
• Scrambe your JavaScript, for the paranoid.
• Using pow with ruby-debug: Look no further
• Visualizing Bayes theorem.
• Disconnect.me from tracking cookies and stuff.
• Internet revolutions: It's not that easy. RSA Animate about how the Internet can be used to empower and to censor.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy, by Rob Pike.
• TileMill: A modern map design studio
• IETester is a free browser that allows you to test IE10-IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista, and XP.
• Hacking the lottery with statistics.
• Draw a time line, then let Google search for correlating trends
• Automate installation of IEs in a VM.
• This Git Workflow works very fine with small groups.
• Google Offline is online again
• The last IE update you'll ever need: Non-admin Google Chrome Frame is stable.
• Multiplayer HTML5 games with Node.js
• Cramp: Async framework for Ruby.
• Who needs WebSockets anyway: EventSource.
• The last IE update you'll ever need.
• Great UI design: The Economist on the iPad
• That's exactly mirroring my perspective on Google and Facebook: Google and Facebook and Browser Security
• Another Backbone introduction and screencast.
• Two chat bots having a conversation
• Republicans vs. Science
• Account chooser: An open standard and user interface guidelines for the next generation of web sign in.
• Getting used to your neighbours: Stuff Dutch People Like
• Best Vim tutorial I found until now.
• Supermodel: Ruby in-memory models supporting ActiveModel.
• Keymaster: Keyboard shortcuts in JavaScript.
• A little bit of awk every programmer should know.
• Mad scientist of the month: “At age 10, he built his first bomb out of a pill bottle and household chemicals. At 11, he started mining for uranium and buying vials of plutonium on the Internet. At 14, he became the youngest person in the world to build a nuclear fusion reactor.”
• A Node-based XMPP server.
• Why collective intelligence works
• Two papers to read when you want to write a compiler
• An image gallery with Backbone.
• Taking A Customer From Like To Love: The UX Of Long-Term Relationships

• 10 scariest hacks from BlackHat and Defcon
• Why Amazon cannot make a Kindle in the USA, an economical perspective worth reading.
• Nancy: A bit like Sinatra for .NET. Also: OWIN, the Open Web Interface for .NET.
• Bloom filters are an amazing thing.
• nginx HTTP push module: Long-polling with nginx as a module.
• Fukushima Robot Diaries, a blog by an anonymous worker on the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, disappeared without further comment.
• Notational Velocity: A note taking application that looks good, comes with source code, and even has database encryption.
• Car extends Vehicle, or why bad samples do not lead to deep understanding of OO concepts (and yes: I am guilty, too).
• New approaches to designing log-in forms
• Reflections on working with large projects, in Rails and other languages.
• Experience with replacing JavaScript with CoffeeScript (by ThoughtBot).
• Zed Shaw's Petrichor Protocol, with code and spec.
• Configuring a server for HTTP, HTTPS, WebSockets, and Flash Sockets is advanced stuff (for me, at least).
• Get started with WebGL
• Crockford on JavaScript: Best resource to learn about the history of JavaScript.
• How to ask questions on the Internets: It's probably too long for those who should read it, so it won't help. But a good summary anyway.
• A Twisted introduction.
• Book: The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• The UTF-8 test for your web stack.
• CodeMatch, a code snippet search tool for Eclipse.
• Dominant grid sizes on iOS.
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Which company holds most patents? A graphic.
• Always interesting to see new approaches. This time: testrocket
• Look ma, no CSS, no images: spin.js
• For self-reference (and because it's impossible to search for on Google): z is the new j, yo.
• lsyncd, the Live Syncing Daemon
• No server required, or: How to host a static web site on S3.
• An introduction to Elasticsearch.
• ’Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self Service Portal 2.0 (SCVMM SSP 2.0)“ … WTF?!
• The collected jwz bicycle wisdom
• Optimizing ASP.MVC view lookup performance
• An updated version of cassandra_object.
• Hours are bullshit: True, so true.
• Lots of interesting stuff that SSH can do (and you probably didn't know).
• Redis-backed Ruby classes: ROC
• Didn't know that RubyGems can handle multiple versions of Rails without gemsets: Interesting.
• JDK 7 GC behavior… with graphics…
• Nice tutorial and introduction to software development process and workflows using modern version control. I like this Git workflow for small teams very much.
• Using Hadoop to analyze Wikipedia: WikiHadoop.
• Artificial Intelligence Library for Ruby: AI4R
• Switzerland has an Anti-Powerpoint-Party.
• Good in-browser code editor: Ace, now used at GitHub.
• Realtime Webcam Sudoku Solver
• Good API for HTTP requests in Python: Requests
• curl ifconfig.me
• A physics engine in JavaScript.
• Stop coddling the super-rich, by Warren Buffet
• The most usefuly chrome extension, ever!
• I don't like bashing open-source projects like rvm because you don't like specifics about it. It works, and if you can do better, just do it. But that doesn't mean to bash the other guy. I generally agree with Steve.
• Graphics algorithms for depixelizing, beautifying faces etc.
• Different shapes with CSS. I guess this would also be a great source of questions for job interviews.
• How to embed your logo in a QR code.
• rbenv instead of rvm. Let's see.
• Weirdo hacks with Unicode file names
• Why are restaurant sites so awful?
• It's CCC 2011 camp time again. With live stream.
• Travis CI looks good to me.
• 2011 Rubyists Guide to a Mac OS X development environment by the guys at Thoughtbot.
• On Bullshit, a book by Harry Frankfurt, an American philosopher.
  From the Amazon review: “Bullshitting, as he notes, is not exactly lying, and bullshit remains bullshit whether it’s true or false. The difference lies in the bullshitter’s complete disregard for whether what he’s saying corresponds to facts in the physical world: he does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.“
• Alan Kay on Programming and Scalability

• CSS is good for you. Listen up.
• Another set of use cases for Redis.
• Backbone.js on Rails eBook
• Namecoin respository: A peer-to-peer naming system based on Bitcoin, secure and censorship-resistant replacement for DNS.
• Zooko's triangle: Secure, decentralized, human-meaningful—choose two.
• OMG! Never thought I'll install FORTRAN ever again after college…
• Didn't know of that control charts technique.
• Understanding git reset
• Google Food
• Browser interface for elasticsearch: elasticsearch-head.
• elasticsearch is amazing stuff. Just sayin'.
• We'll see if BrowserID from Mozilla finally gets us where OpenID didn't get us until now. Update: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid There's definitely room for improvement here, especially in the B2B area.
• Things you have to know with Java and 64bit.
• Scala accepts UTF-8 encoded syntax, think for (x ← 1 to 100) { ...} instead of for (x <- 1 to 100) { ... } (notice the left arrow). Same with ⩵, ≫, ≪, ⋙, ≥, ≤, and ∷. (Further info here).
• Persona: A fresh take on email. See video.
• Using ElasticSearch as a database. That works fine here, too. But you should be able to rebuild it if required.
• Things I didn't even think of when using SSL
• Edward Tufte's Slopegraphs
• How to utilize HTTP caching.
• Building An Enterprise Software Company That Doesn’t Suck
• Rather old, but a nice writeup of the how to use Active Resource as glue between various Rails apps.
• Exploits DB. Wonder if that's where the script kiddies are heading.
• An advanced REST client for Chrome.
• I think I like the GitHub API v3
• A tale of 3 circles
• Very expensive albeit very nice resorts: Aman Resorts
• Google Singleton detector: Can't wait for their halting problem detector.
• Sprockets Schmockets
• How Twitter uses the JVM
• Scaling a Rails web service on EC2
• Two more Akka links: Akka and the Java Memory Model and Introducing Akka
• Advanced JavaScript tips & tricks
• iOS inspired jQuery Mobile theme
• Design for Devs: Button basics
• Better explained provides good explanations for various topics.
• Mastering Git Basics: Video by the co-founder of GitHub.
• Completely useless: RoboHash
• Elektronischer Ausweis wird zum Totalausfall
• My favorite console went 1.0: iTerm2
• Clickjacking Attacks
• Inspiration of using Backbone with Rails: backbone-rails.
• Music theory for beginners: Part 1 and Part 2.
• Facebook runs MySQL with 4000 shards?! Wow.
• Realtime Hadoop usage at Facebook: Part 1 and Part 2
• “Reflections on Trusting Trust“, a very good read. By Ken Thompson.
• What every developer needs to know about Time. Sort of a time-variant of The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!).
• After Learn Python the Hard Way, Zed A. Shaw starts Learn C the Hard Way.
• Nobody understands REST or HTTP
• Rolling your own Grid layout, or generate one with grids.heroku.com. I also like 1kB Grid and the even smaller grid.
• Redis use cases: On High Scalability and by Salvatore Sanfilippo himself.
• How we build software that processes billions in payments
• Using Cassandra with Scala and Akka
• Very interesting stuff: Akka
• Recipe of finding substrings with elasticsearch: Use index_analyzer and search_analyzer on the index level.
• Salat: MongoDB with Scala.
• CSS3 isometric text
• Live long and proper
• Gartner Bullshit again: “Do you want to hear about trends that are changing the IT landscape?“ Dear CIO/senior IT executive/IT leader: If you really want to hear about trends, go and ask your employees. They most probably know all that's happening there, minus the buzz, but at significantly lower costs. “Now is the time to re-imagine IT as it impacts business expectations and new technology models.“ What a sticky theme… can be reused in 2015, 2023, and 2037. No, thank you. But enjoy your drinks in sunny Barcelona.
• Realtime Graphing with statsd, Graphite, and MongoDB.
• For self-reference: Current OAuth 2.0 Auth Protocol
• Dirty Epics sounds like the 21st century version of Helen Schneider
• Lenovo WiFi Driver Update for Windows 7 64 Bit: 261 MB Download. Priceless.
• Intercom: Easy relationship management
• Mehr Demokratie e.V.
• Morf: CSS3 transitions with custom easing functions
• Wild Beasts FTW
• I like Gmail's new look

• Clojure for Beginners
• Org charts by company.
• Found Idea Paint years ago—still want it.
• Template Inheritance in Rails 3.1 is pretty amazing.
• Everything's fine for .NET devs, and will even be better with Windows 8.
• Great post on designing GitHub for Mac.
• jQuery Genealogy takes jQuery selectors a bit too far IMHO.
• dotjs, cool little Chrome extension.
• Hundreds of free, open-source fonts for the web, from Google.
• Good list of use cases for Redis.
• God vs. Unicorns
• I will not require shoulda unless in test env. I will not require shoulda unless in test env. I will not…
• Welcome to the Google Hacking Database (GHDB)
• paper.js
• Death, Wall Street-style
• To all the .NET guys who integrate unit tests into their core assembly: Use friend assemblies.
• “So much energy is spend on promoting standards and best practises and so little on creating amazing and exciting new stuff.“ @thomasfuchs
• Programming Scala book online.
• Guide to learning Scala
• Visual Studio Asynchronous Programming
• Comparing async C# with async F#—ThomasP.net
• F# async on the server side
• Some blogs on maching learning
• Don't be rich. Live rich.
• Password cracking, mining, and GPUs: An overview
• REST style:
  1. If you need locale-specific content, use the Accept-Language header.
  2. If you need to submit large binary data, use plain old HTTP upload. There is a 12+ year old Internet Draft for entity headers for linked resources, and people still find new ways of refering to external documents in REST style. But hey, there's probably a reason why it's still a draft after all these years.
  3. RFC 2616 is your friend.
• HTML5 Visibility API & Page Pre-Rendering
• Late to the party, but here's GitHub for Mac.
• If you don't think Railscasts is enough, here are some more videos.
• Inertia/kinetic/momentum to arrive in iOS 5 via
  overflow: scroll; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch
• Typography on the Web
• Apple has a Latent Semantic Mapping Framework, and even a shell command for it
• Everything is a Remix: Watch part 3.
• Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again. An article by Poul-Henning Kamp, long-time lead dev of FreeBSD and author of Varnish.
• Foursquare member describes Lift, the Scala-based web framework: Video
• Spark is a cluster computing project in Scala, similar in type to Hadoop and DryadLINQ
• Inexpensive SSL certs
• Trending languages on GitHub: Ruby, JavaScript, Java, C#, Scala, and Go.
• Joe Hewitt of (ex-)Firefox/(ex)-Facebook fame, brought us Scrollability recently.
• Reliable 0MQ PubSub
• Project Kleinrock: A WiFi mesh on top of the Internet.
• How to submit your MacRuby app to the Mac App Store.
• caniuse
• If you still think the DOM is cross-browser, think again. (aaah… yes, the article is 3+ years old; but not much has changed nevertheless.)
• Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
• “We live in a Karaoke culture“, says Malcolm McLaren, ex-Sex Pistols manager speaking about our world of instant success and stupidity contrasting it to authenticity, creativity and the need to learn from failure (on YouTube).
• Data Mining: When to use what
• The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
• An ode to turntables: Here's the making-of.
• Because of a recent discussion: Let's make the web faster
• DriveNow: Car Sharing in Munich by Sixt and BMW.
• I guess every expert in any field will confirm this method of learning: a) Conceptualize, i.e. try to understand the concept instead of memoizing details, and b) learn facts through association.
• Introduction to Machine Learning book.
• Automatic login links might be a good idea in some cases, but not at Citi or PayPal.
• Myths about introverts
• Sleep sort, genius sorting method with a bad-ass worst-case scenario.
• Cybersauce Broadcasting Corporation. Who need those media anyway.
• Generating text. Part of the book Programming Pearls.
• David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
• “Dynamic is technical jargon used by programmers, meaning good. It derives from the Latin dyno mite, meaning I am extremely pleased, …“ in a comment on Lambda the Ultimate.
• Advanced Computer Science courses
• Another approach on responsive web pages: Gridless
• From the country without a governemnt: Absurd
• A future-adaptable password scheme, from 1999… and still, we have cleartext passwords all over the place. And SQL injection stuff.
• Wanna learn Scala? Then join in.
• FeeFighters. Like the name.
• Vint Cerf über die Zukunft des Internets. Interplanetary Internet anyone?
• Wonderful documentation with Docco, Rocco, and Nocco. And Locco, and Shocco, and Pycco etc. You get it…

• “No fate but what we make.“
• Sigur Rós: Heima
• Death Cab: Codes and Keys
• Google I/O: HTML5 Showcase for Web Developers: The Wow and the How
• Did you know about that cookie law that the EU imposes on the web? No, not a joke. Next year they'll probably forbid to put tires on automobiles (to increase safety).
• BareMetal OS: 64-bit high-perf OS, pure assembly.
• Chef+Ubuntu 10.04+Ruby 1.9.2 = Bah. By @carlo
• Going paperless for $220.
• Annoying.js: How to be an asshole.
• Lawrence Lessig keynote at e-G8.
• Getting Rails 3.1 (RC1) into production
• json:select()
• Using Hash.from_xml much? Make sure you've set ActiveSupport::XmlMini.backend = "Nokogiri" (via @bitsweat).
• JavaScript has a string.link(url) method (via @hakimel).
• BitCoin is currently en vogue. Here's how it works (another article). Also: Namecoin DNS on the way.
• Kickoff: Nice.
• Watching DHH's RailsConf 2011 keynote. Great stuff. Also: pjax-rails, jquery-pjax, eco
• Scrollability
• Vegas Background jQuery Plugin
• NinjaUI
• Spritemapper (with simulated annealing FTW)
• Ruby Encoding Cheat Sheet
• Meet Edward Tufte
• Fantastical calendaring tool for the Mac
• Git magic regarding moving and merging
• SASS and CoffeeScript for .NET devs via NuGet
• Understanding Fourier transformations
• Note to self: Files not included in git repo: git ls-files -o -i --exclude-standard
• Nice take on meetings across time zones: WorldTimeBuddy.com
• Dead-easy SQL wrapper for .NET: dapper
• Great insights into the business models of Amazon, Google (2008 and 2009), and Apple (2010). By faberNovel.

• Love JSFiddle for, well, fiddling around
• Eat healthy for $3 a day
• Pixars amazing list of papers and memos
• Read this and tell me your fulltext engine is even close to Lucene
• I don't know how often this is forgotten, even these days. Therefore, it's the latency, stupid!
• Squeel: ActiveRecord on steroids (a rewrite of MetaWhere).
• libsvm with several bindings
• Improve the precision of the iPhone Tracker. Thanks to @antirez.
• AI reading list
• Data is the algorithm, at least in some cases.
• Technique for a fast, circular log with MySQL.
• On graphics, models, particle systems, games, routines, and such…
• Some nice wallpapers.
• Another CSS playground.
• Node Beginner Book
• Glimpse: Firebug for the server—for you ASP.NET guys out there.
• Apache UIMA: Unstructured Information Management. Besides the enterprisey title, the effort seems worthwhile.
• @hakim did it again: A 3D holobox for devices that support orientation.
• Seriously awesome stuff for modern browsers: Smashing Magazine on powerful new CSS techniques.
• Spine: An alternative to Backbone.js.
• The Future according to … Google and xkcd.
• How BitCoin works.
• Play Framework 1.2 is out. Seriously the best web framework I've seen for Java in the last decade.
• lolquery by @tenderlove.
• Pow: Even better Rails development for the Mac.
• Aviary: A HTML5-based photo editor.
• ImageOptimizer for the Mac.
• Faye: Simple pub/sub messaging for the web.
• Glasnost: Is your ISP shaping your traffic?
• How IKEA shop layout works.
• NoSQL and SQL is not that different, really. See here.
• Amazing CSS3 3D slideshow by @hakim
• Self-reminder: ASP.NET Thread Usage on IIS 6 and 7

• Felix's Node.js Guide
• Traffic shaping on Mac OS X (from @antirez):
  sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 300kbit/s; sudo ipfw add pipe 1 dst-ip 0.0.0.0/0
  Reset:
  sudo ipfw flush
• A little MongoDB book, available on GitHub.
• How rich are the superrich?
• science.I/O: For an open science.

• Mind vs. Machine
• Taking hostage of Robert McDonald
• Für den nächsten Smalltalk mit dem Dealer um die Ecke: Drogensprache
• How to get a raise. Pretty basic, but many people overlook the basics.
• Good discussion about why project managers get higher salaries than programmers.
• One of the very good essays of Paul Graham: Why smart people have bad ideas
• Another great classic of Clay Shirkey: Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
• SxSW 2011 music download: 4.6GB of finest music
• Water: Clean. Simple. Wet.
• Conrad Wolfram on TED: Teaching kids real math with computers
• Free university lectures on comuter science
• Anonymous claims to have Stuxnet source code. But it's already on GitHub
• CamelCamelCamel: A price tracker for Amazon.
• Here's the setup of one of the largest Windows-based web apps: Stack Exchangea
• Haters gonna hate
• F1 Engine Power Secrets
• Vint Cerf re-thinks the Internet
• Great math books
• The 3/2 rule of employee productivity. Also: The Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.“
• Epic FAIL
• Snopes.com: The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
• Cheap SSL certs
• Fixing these jQuery: Basics and debugging tips on jQuery.
• On XML and HTML.
• Visualizing WebKit's hardware acceleration
• Treesaver.js
• This is hard: Designing Web Registration Processes for Kids.
• SourceKit: A TextMate like text editor inside of Chrome.
• Best of Wikipedia
• xkcd always puts up questions I've also thought about, like this one.
• “We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write fuck on their airplanes because it’s obscene!“ —Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Bullshit bingo from Gartner: “New lighter-weight technologies—such as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), social networks—and IT models enable the CIO to redefine IT, giving it a greater focus on growth and strategic impact.“
• The unfortunate math behind consulting companies.
• If we don't, remember me.. Wonderful.
• Isotope
• acts_as_audited now Rails 3 compatible
• Google: Making AJAX apps crawlable
• Top 10 mistakes in behavior change
• Was haben der Sohn von Gaddafi und die Münchner Polizei miteinander zu tun? Lesen Sie hier
• “What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people can fix bad ideas, but good ideas can't save bad people.“ —Paul Graham
• How to beat procrastination
• Reference to the jQuery UI Icons
• Hetzner bootstrap by @rmoriz
• HTML-based presentation software: Jekyll and Hyde and Showoff
• Great resume
• Why platforms leak
• 20 reasons why it's kicking off everywhere, or why protests and revolution is sneaking around the corner in many countries.
• Rails Guides are definitly worth reading. Some things I weren't aware of: How to skip that authenticity token when posting to external resources, or the simple security issue with nil params.
• And another great jQuery File Upload plugin
• Understanding the regime and powers in Egypt (article)
• jQuery UI date picker with ASP.NET MVC 3
• Eloquent JavaScript
• Understanding Git
• A chess program with 133 lines of code
• Google released Contracts for Java
• Love The National
• How to do I18n
• HTTPS by Default
• Some CSV and JSON parser for the .NET platform
• A service stack for building C#/.NET services (e.g. REST)
• Some DateTime extension methods
• Now that Reflector will now longer be free, use Monoflector
• jQuery UI Grid
• Page flip effect with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Change EC2 instance type on AWS
• Spinning HTML5 logo with CSS3
• IDependencyResolver in ASP.NET MVC 3
• Outpost by plataforma
• Stack Overflow and the Power of WISC
• Google Art Project, a virtual tour through museums around the world, with high-res views of masterpieces.
• Some free, public data sets
• How IKEA is structured
• Isn't this embarrassing, Microsoft? Copying search results…
• “Wer eine Personal Firewall verwendet, könnte auch eine Einkaufstüte als Kondom benutzen: Den Sicherheits- und Lustgewinn beider Methoden halten wir für vergleichbar. ;-)“ T-Online-Team in t-online.talk.internet
• How to emulate that slide-to-unlock behavior of the iPhone in CSS.
• A classic, and one of the best writings on group dynamics by Clay Shirkey: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
• Stateful jQuery plugins using the jQuery UI widget factory
• Some EF articles
• Oooobject
• The Apple Product Lifecycle
• Economic breakdown of US states comparing them to real countries.
• DollyDrive: Another TimeMachine for the cloud app.
• GitHub is publishing their DMCAs
• Relax
• Common Performance Issues for ASP.NET web sites
• Skim for note-taking on PDFs.
• Didn't know CrashPlan for Mac.
• Adapter for Redis, Memcached, Riak, and Cassandra (from John Nunemaker)

• The Slide from Self-Regulation to Corporate Censorship
• More EF stuff for ASP.NET devs
• reset.css v2.0 by Eric Meyer
• Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike
• Package and publish databases with VS 2010
• Been there, done that: Introducing unnecessary complexity in programming (not just Java)
• The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks
• JavaScript in 10 minutes
• Twitter able to predict stock market with 86.7% accurancy?!
• There are lots of search engines besides Google and Bing
• Strata 2011: The Future is Data Literacy
• EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
• The GPL is a License, not a contract
• Can you see the flag on the moon with a telescope? No.
• It's all the small details that count.
• Moving to the US? Here's an interesting visualisation about making a rent vs. buy decision
• “Eine Studie mit Beschäftigten in der IT- und Medienbranche ergab, dass die Befragten weder lange Arbeitszeiten noch ständige Erreichbarkeit oder das parallele Arbeiten an mehreren Projekten automatisch als überfordernd sahen. Vielmehr monierten sie schlechte Organisation und Arbeitsbedingungen, die am Ende zermürbend sein können. Wenn dauerhaft eine Lücke zwischen eigenem Anspruch und Wirklichkeit klafft, kommt die Erschöpfung. Die Begeisterung ist weg, selbst ein hohes Gehalt kann dies nicht auffangen.“ Spiegel Online
• A series of blog posts on jQuery (Mobile) and CouchDB
• Rather old, but still fun: HTTP Headers
• Another jQuery File Upload Plugin
• Interesting thoughts on Arrays
• After all these years, I've come to the same conclusion: Programming is Easy, Software Development is Hard
• If it were my home
• MonoTouch.MVVM
• CSS3 Transitions intro
• BBC Horizon—What Is Reality?
• Captalism hits the fan with Ricard Wolff and Meltdown with Thomas Woods
• Anatomy of Credit Card Numbers
• Scraping made easy with jQuery, Node.js etc. and node.io
• Start of a series of articles about Solr
• Hardcore JavaScript
• Google Paper: The Learning Behind Gmail Priority Inbox
• YADNG: Yet another Domain name generator
• Apache Abdera: An Open Source Atom Implementation
• IANA: Reserved values for link relations
• Still like the small and consise Rack SPEC
• Aerogel
• General tips on IT Consulting
• Wonderful reads about Facebook and the Web 2.0 Generation: Zadie Smith's Generation Why? and Malcom Gladwell's Twitter, Facebook, And Social Activism: The New Yorker
• Managing Nerds hits the nail on the head. (also: The Nerds Handbook)
• Rails and mass-assignment protection in the controller.
• Git immersion
• Why Microsoft believes that VB/C# need an async syntax
• Techie events in Munich
• Countering Stress and Depression. From the Dalai Lama
• Work for free?
• Sooner or later it will hit us: IPv6. These are the current transiaiton mechanisms.
• Ruby performance tips and tricks
• ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM
• VS2010 SP1 and SQL CE
• Unix stuff. What's the difference between $(...) and .... See here. Short answer: Use $(...).
• Some CSS playground
• Postal: Create and send emails with regular views in ASP.MVC. These guys copy just about everything from Ruby on Rails, don't they ;-)
• Saw a documentary about Hüsker Dü and MIT yesterday. Great music, although very different.
• Dublin Core for self-reference.
• Good for every IQ test: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences™ (OEIS™)
• Effigy: An interesting take on templating.
• Learning Advanced JavaScript. Rather old, but still very good. By John Resig, author of jQuery.
• Rush: A Ruby shell
• High Performance Web Sites blog by Steve Souders of Google. Author of SpriteMe, Cuzillion and many other projects.
• 37signals wysihat and wysihat-engine (with demo)
• An intuitive explanation of Bayes' Theorem
• Protobuf for Ruby, by @bmizerany
• AJAX-based file upload: Plupload, AJAX Upload, Fancy Upload
• Engineering Management
• Chrome Release Cycle
• Google Transparency Report: Government Requests
• Trusted (digital) timestamping
• Statistical Data Mining Tutorials
• Olark: Real-time web through XMPP.
• Listen to The Suburbs by Arcade Fire, then read this. Weirdo.
• Tic-Tac-Toe by xkcd
• “Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.“ (Donald Knuth)
• I don't like the new UI of Twitter 2.0. Just sayin'.
• Why Ruby?
• Telehash: JSON + UDP + DHT = Freedom
• There are some real Vim gurus out there. See for youself.
• »Je radikaler du sprichst, umso kleinbürgerlicher musst du aussehen« — Jean Ziegler in der Zeit
• On the Mac App Store: What do you think a company will do when they a) can grab 30% of the revenues, b) can get up-to-date information about which software is installed on each and every users' computer (is this really all they do when scanning the system?), and c) can control which software users can install? I wonder when Microsoft will open their Software Store. This is heading in the wrong direction. It's the exact opposite of freedom.
• Vim recipes
• A litte bit on the history of UTF-8
• Nice Tweet visualization
• SOAP: The S stands for simple
• libphonenumber: Exactly what I was looking for today.
• WRC is for boys. Class B was for men.
• House on fire
• Prediction for tomorrow:
  ☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝
• Interesting idea: Marketplaces for Data (O'Reilly key data trends for 2011)
• Very good description of JavaScript variables, scopes, functions, closures, this et. al.
• Spooky psychological experiments on self perception.
• Heard good reviews of Short: Walking Tall When You're Not Tall At All by John Schwartz.
• Been into 7 languages in 7 weeks. Good read. Mind-bending.
• I like the Visconti bags. However, my WaterFields are still great after all the years.
• Good list of free and open-source software for the Mac
• node-validator
• The future of documentation: Do it like Redis.
• Strange PHP bug
• Could listen to Death Cab for Cuties all day long.
• New R.E.M. single
• HTML5 galore everywhere:
  Nike Better World. Nice parallax effect.
• Tron Soundtrack with some HTML5 spice and ASCII art in it (view source).
• Having fun with audio/signal processing: pyo
• Thomas de Maizière, Federal Minister of the Interior, vs Constanze Kurz vom CCC: A discussion on DLF
• Lawrence Lessig at TEDxSanAntonio: Citizens: The Need and the Requirements
• Multi-domain UCC SSL cert with 1 IP address. Didn't know you could do this.
• Star Walk for iPhone and iPad.
• Fun with mazes
• Download recordings from #27c3.
• Space pictures (see also @Astro_Wheels)
• pit: A lightweight, single-binary project and task manager. It's a bit like ditz, but it feels kind of lighter.
• Git from the bottom-up
• Brazil's economy is stunning. Seems like Lula did a good job.
• @carlhuda's vim distro: Janus
• Researchers develop reactor to make fuel from sunlight
• Zombie.js: Testing in JavaScript.
• HTML5 rocks by Google.

• Lock-free algorithms and scalable architectures: 1024 cores
• Kasparov on chess and humans vs. computers: “Perhaps a real version of HAL 9000 would simply announce move 1.e4, with checkmate in, say, 38,484 moves.“
• Chip-and-PIN, aka Cambridge University vs. UK banking. Great response from Ross Anderson
• The human race is advancing faster than we can comprehend.
• Postmark
• OMG: “Accelerating enterprise transformation with architecture-driven modernization“ (view). Why don't these guys do something useful? Like: Eating stamps or something.
• Intelligent Design?
• If a 707 hit the World Trade Center?. A thread on the aviation forum from 30th Nov 2000.
• Google's Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets.
• How to manage developers
• Ruby: Have to seriously consider Paul Dix typhoeus for some projects here.
• The Rails 3 cheat sheets from Envy Labs.
• Best paper awards for various conferences.
• Self-reminder for IE-testing: Find various VPC images here
• The “Balls of Steel Award“ beim 27c3 geht an: Den Minarett-Hack
• “Allershausen—Das dürfte den Hells Angels auch noch nicht passiert sein: Ein 26-Jähriger fuhr auf das Gelände des Motorradclubs bei Allershausen, ließ seine Shorts runter und warf einen Hundewelpen nach den Männern. Dann flüchtete der Student mit einem geklauten Radlader.“ —Nachricht
• So while Google is making $$$ quarter by quarter, Microsoft's Online Division loses money and has never ever had a positive outcome (for their Online Division) as far as I can see it.
  (Update: Scott Berkun, author and former MS employee, on Microsoft and Creative Destruction.)
• Sparked: Micro-volunteering network. Great stuff.
• Let's keep people stupid
• Hackety Hack goes 1.0
• Über die Bahn und deren Probleme
• Ever wondered what happens when you fry Gnocchi
• Sample code on how to securely store a password in a DB: secure_password.rb from ActiveModel.
• Musings about the Repository Pattern.
• A Guide to the Open Internet.
• If you've ever lost your computer or it's been stolen, Hidden might be your last resort.
• US driving Swedish Data Retention (WikiLeaks)
• How to sync iTunes across all your computers with Dropbox (Lifehacker)
• Kod might be an alternative to MacVim and TextMate.
• Great writeup on how to safely store a password: “It’s important to note that salts are useless for preventing dictionary attacks or brute force attacks. You can use huge salts or many salts or hand-harvested, shade-grown, organic Himalayan pink salt.“
• Impact is a great Web Browser game engine: Play for yourself
• Git for intermediate Git users
• Is Anonymous really only doing a mass protest against control? Cory Doctorow has some insights, too.
• Full allegations against Julian Assange
• Compare words as they appear in books (from 1500 to 2009) in Google Books Ngram Viewer. You can also download and run your experiments with the raw dataset.
• Books of the year from The Economist
• Great photos by Lori Nix.
• Machine Learning: A Love Story
• Paul Buchheit on why The Cloud is a good thing and ChromeOS isn't the solution but iPhone and Android are the winners.
• JavaScript: Knockout and RequireJS
• A Physicist solves the City
• The original Google computer storage
• Ditch delicious, use pinboard
• Rails Admin looks great
• Word Lens: An iPhone app to do translations from the camera in real-time. Amazing.
• Google pushes the limits of web apps again with the Body Browser
• Open Web Analytics, an alternative to Google Analytics.
• Ad that burns the BMW logo into the viewers' eyes: Spot
• Sysadmin Advent Calendar
• How to handle lawyers
• “I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it.” George Bernard Shaw
• Google on The Future of Computing. Read that and build a business around it.
• NASA designer shows best of the best Shuttle videos
• Another one leaving .NET
• Einstein on science and religion
• Mapping complex types with Microsoft Entity Framework
• Sparrow, a native GMail app for Mac.
• An introduction to IndexDB by Mike West
• MacRuby 0.8 is out
• Julian Assange wrote Rubberhose (transparently and deniably encrypts disk data), a deniable encryption system
• @ichverstehe: “netcat is pure awesome. want proxy? mkfifo bp; nc -k -l 8888 0<bp | nc facebook.com 1>bp“
• Genius Scan for iPhone is great for scanning whiteboards.
• A comprehensive guide to CSS resets
• WikiLeaks: Is Open Democracy possible?
• José Valim, Rails core member, about why he wrote his new book Crafting Rails Applications
• Leon Trotsky about the publication of secret treaties.
• Never mess with a world champion
• Schafft viele WikiLeaks
• Brave neue Welt
• If you listen to music while coding, Lifehacker has a nice article
• Ten Principles for Good Design
• Writing Ruby C Extensions: Part 1 and Part 2
• See what Zombies do with that Apple.
• Now this is a great idea: 4th Amendment Underwear
• The Economist about WikiLeaks: “… we're all missing the bigger picture.“ and “Jailing Thomas Edison in 1890 would not have darkened the night.“
• F1 goes 4-cylinder turbo
• Statistical evidence that Twitter filtered the trending topic around Wikileaks.
• A documentary about WikiLeaks from Swedish television: WikiRebels—The Documentary
• Telekinesis seems like a nice addition to my iPhone and local network.
• Google can filter by reading level.
• Wonder where all the Maths you learned once are applied in the real-world? Here's a list.
• I wonder how long it takes before Oracle will sue Apache now that they decided to resign from the JCP Executive Committee. A Java fork seems imminent. Oracle playing games around MySQL, Dalvik, and now Java's JCP. I don't think that'll serve them well.
• Moving from MySQL to CouchDB: Part 1 and Part 2
• Fun with JavaScript and sprite.js.
• “I can use Visa and Mastercard to pay for porn and support anti-abortion fanatics, Prop 8 homophobic bigots, and the Ku Klux Klan. But I can’t use them or PayPal to support Wikileaks, transparency, the First Amendment, and true government reform.“ source
• A list of free online courses from top universities.
• Pubsubhubub is a great idea. Superfeedr applies it and makes it even easier.
• Es gibt auch deutsche Provider, die das mit dem vorauseilenden Gehorsam nicht so ernst nehmen: Manitu oder DomainFactory zum Beispiel. Bei Hetzner sieht das anders aus. Die Rechtslage kommentiert RA Dr. Carsten Ulricht in diesem Artikel.
• A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow - @JPBarlow
• A decentralized Torrent client: Tribler. Decentralization and P2P might be an appropriate direction to go for sites like WikiLeaks.
• Daniel Ellsberg on WikiLeaks: “EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.“ —article
• Assange co-authored the book Underground
• This is how I update this website with git.
• Interesting read on substring searching. I've been out of college for too long…
• For those behind a big-iron curtain: Boot EC2 Instance With ssh on Port 80
• HTML5 cross-browser polyfills
• hitler T-Shirts. Not sure if I want one, really.
• List of use-cases for NoSQL.
• “Banana's problem can be summed up in a single word: sex.“ Article
• Leichen plastern den Weg zum Everest.
• For self-reference: Let's make the web faster, a list of tools from Google and others.
• Just beautiful: ENV["PORT"].to_i.nonzero? || 80
• Yahoo! Pluton: A framework for network applications.
• XMPP over HTTP with BOSH is a real-world alternative to WebSockets, until they fixed those security issues and enabled them as default in Firefox and other browsers.
• You can parse almost anything with Tika. The guys at Lucid Imagination have more information for integrating Tika into Solr.
• Sigur Rós has a store now.
• Seems like Julian Assange has been hacking cryptography and kernel drivers as well as databases in the past.
• Anne Will und ein Klopps.
• I've been implementing super-fast autocompletion with Redis lateley. Thanks to @antirez for this article (and Redis of course).
• Some Microsoft WebDev related-links.
• An introduction to jQuery templates.
• Another take on esoteric programming languages: Chef.
• Close the Washington Monument by Bruce Schneier.
• Tools for working with Open Data.
• I like this Git branching model for larger solutions.
• How to get better at UI design
• I think that pretty nails it: Time to diversify
• Analysis of visualization by comparing Google Maps, Bing, and Yahoo! maps.
• Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has two interesting conspiracy theories.
• A HTML5/CSS/JS Corkboard
• Interesting insights on overall performance of an application by a Facebook engineer
• Paper: An Empirical Study of Privacy-Violating Information Flows in JavaScript Web Applications
• Google Research paper on Availability in Globally Distributed Storage Systems (PDF)
• Workplaces
• Ben the Bodyguard
• Current sentiment scores according to Sentiment Analysis. Interesting read from Google engineers.
• RubyMine 3.0 released.
• 5 of the best free and open source data mining software: Link
• Überfordert von Transparenz, ein (guter) Kommentar zur Akte WikiLeaks.
• Operating CouchDB: Teil 1 und Teil 2.
• München versucht sich in Open Government: MOGDy.
• “Der Kindergarten, in dem ich war, war doch ein Terroristencamp. Wir haben Reise nach Jerusalem und Ich packe meinen Koffer gespielt.“ —@DerMull.
• Ryan Dahl at Yahoo! about node.js.
• These LinkedIn guys offer quite a lot, e.g. Kafka, a distributed pub/sub messaging system.
• Building iPhone apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, an OFPS from O'Reilly.
• Needle and Google Refine are a wonderful couple, aren't they?
• Now even those guys listening to Forrester might hear the word: Java Is A Dead-End For Enterprise App Development.
• Reusable, asynchronous file uploads using WebSockets in HTML5 compliant browsers: waterunderice
• awesome_print for Ruby, on GitHub.

• Better calendar for the iPhone: Calvetica
• WikiLeaks attacked during launch of cablegate
• Whenever you think you know some stuff… along comes a surprise. I never heard of protocol-relative paths. Did you know that this link uses the current scheme (i.e. http or https respectively)?
  <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  Edit: Seems to have some issues with—you guessed it—IE.
• Rails on SSL tips
• Google interview questions
• Ruby 2.0 Refinements
• Google Beatbox, along with a Drum Machine. Wonderful hack!
• Wow… Computer steuert Pendel.
• Great. Will use this competency matrix for the next hire.
• Who says that PageRank is finding the best sites? It's just finding the ones with the most inbound links, simply spoken. Turns out, things can go wrong with this sort of calculation.
• Mapping a day in the life of Twitter
• LinqExtender
• Compass FTW
• Two good presentations
• Todays' gems: Smusher and show_for.
• The obesity riddle solved, according to Danish researchers.
• I have several projects that'd make great use of CouchDB. Here is a introduction to CouchApp.
• GitBoxApp
• Numbers every programmer should know
• Insanely crazy stuff. How Google and Microsoft cheat with TCP slow-start.
• Best read on procrastination in a looong time.
• jQuery UI CSS3 Cover Flow II.
• Didn't know that GitHub does online Git training.
• What Android is
• Headquarters: An App for Basecamp.
• Good looking sticky notes with CSS3.
• Cross-browser testing with Browserling
• HTML5 rocks has a gentle introduction to WebSockets.
• Tab stacking: Want! But in Chrome.
• Great resource of tea knowledge
• What's new for developers in iOS 4.2
• The perfect gift for the Apple fan boys out there
• For those ASP.NET devs: 10 essential tools by Stephen Walter. Not so bad for other platform devs as well.
• Which technology does Twitter use?
• What makes two people click with each other?
• The new Mobile Me login page looks great. And has some interesting JavaScript inside.
• Cloud Connect: A plugin to fuse MS Office with Google Docs
• Some HTML5 demos on GitHub by Remy Sharp
• Object Scopes coming in Rails 3.1
• Block helpers in Rails 3
• Interview with Kasparov at Google
• MySQL vs Postgres replication under the hood
• RabbitMQ in Action on MEAP.
• Professor proves cheating statistically
• For those .NET guys: NHibernate 3 is on its way…
• The LaTeX coffee stain
• render(@posts) || content_tag(:b, "Sorry, no posts yet") FTW (by José Valim)
• A 5-finger keyboard demo in JavaScript.
• This is my IKEA
• No… don't ever click me. Never EVER. (small bookmarklet by @simonw)
• Algorithms and Data Structures by Wirth
• That's probably what I'd expect from a LSD trip: Farbrausch & Neuro
• 64GB illustrated
• Pure CSS GUI icons here
• Late to the party, but here is 20 things I learned about web browsers and the web
• I like WakeMates' warranty: “If you decide to take the device apart and break it in the process, we won't cover that. It also doesn't cover acts of God, Man, or Dog; if Fido eats your WakeMate or lightning strikes it, you'll need to order a new one. Actually, if lightning strikes it, we'll totally replace it – that'd be nuts!“
• The meta_search gem is interesting, but a bit too meta for my eyes.
• Some guys are nuts.
• Great starter for a vimrc: carlhuda's janus
• Note to self: Async Rails
• Facebook scalability porn: 13 million queries per second
• Economy rankings by Doing Business
• Map Reduce and Stream Processing described
• A Hadoop Online paper, which puts Hadoop Map Reduce beyond batch processing
• PlainText: Dropbox text editing.
• Make your own Mac apps from shell scripts
• How to sync your iTunes Library with Dropbox
• Wow… Nuit Blanche—watch the making of video, too.
• Hyperland: Neues Konzept vom zdf. Schön.
• Die Informationen der Grünen zur Netzpolitik sind jedenfalls mal recht umfangreich.
• “Impossible? Perhaps you mean with a small probability, using the knowledge we have today.“ @fabiomaulo
• With all that Firesheep and Chinese hijacking talk right now, EFF puts up some tips on setting up HTTPS correctly
• If you ever get into the situation, here's some tips on how to win a fist fight
• I like OpenID very much, but I tend to agree to that
• Microsoft builds Montage
• Funny little Ruby WebApp
• 18 minutes in China
• I think there's never been a better explanation to CSS positioning than this one on A list apart
• Ah, that's what these new Amazon EC2 GPU instances are for.
• In the Grip of the New Monopolists, about the Internets and the rise of information monopolists such as Google and Facebook.
• HTML5 3D examples.
• Balsamiq Mockups is great. Just sayin'.
• The Java Crisis, and what it means to developers.
• Trinidad, for JRuby apps on Tomcat
• Visual proof that people use IE in the office only.
• All the lonely people. Oh, reminds me of my favourite song of The Beatles, ever: Eleanor Rigby (Wikipedia)
• Ruby Refinements, about to come with Ruby 2.0
• Rabbit, a Ruby presentation software
• Tracking custom events with Google Analytics
• Integrating Ruby into various languages, here.
• The Ruby Object Model
• s4.io, a distributed stream computing platform.
• The difference between regular and decaf coffee :-)
• A day in the life of a programmer.
• jQuery added Microsofts' contributions jQuery Templates, jQuery Data Link, and jQuery Globalization to the list of official jQuery Plugins. There's official jQuery documentation too. Statements by Scott Guthrie and John Resig are also available.
• The jQuery Validator plugin looks promising.
• A gem for formatting and parsing phone numbers.
• How could I have missed Twitter Data?
• Enjoy the weather. Hurricane umbrellas…
• Die Legende vom Salzstock, Prädikat sehr lesenswert. Danke an die Zeit.
• Google Refine is great for some use cases such as data cleansing
• Awesome HTML5/CSS3 demo from @tobeytailor at #gddde
• Why burgers won't rot (with results)
• MySQL on steroids
• “Optional features are what you look for when you're about to buy, and quickly forget about the moment you own.“ —John Maeda
• Google vs Facebook, another take
• Arte über WikiLeaks: Krieg dem Staatsgeheimnis
• Google Developer Days 2010 are pretty good so far. And pretty packed with more than 1100 devs.
• BBC Dokumentationen auf EinsPlus, Sonntags abends als Alternative zum Tatort
• Gangsta Lorem Ipsum
• Ayende on NHibernate Worst Practices
• Das Katholikenproblem
• Ruby amazes me every day: Experiments with arrays and procs
• Google's Sawzall Language
• mod_pagespeed
• British humour?! Did somebody just try to buy the British government?
• Didn't even know there was an iTerm2 project

• Great presentation on CSS etc.
• Free ebook on Windows Phone development by Charles Petzold
• Async CTP and whitepaper about C# async language features
• Nice idea: MapCrunch
• How does Google Maps compute directions?
• Real-time searching with Solr and Hadoop
• Difference between UI and UX
• A git branching model for teams
• Color trends 2011+
• Developer comments RIP Microsoft
• Node.js on SSL
• VC without the M
• Rails validates_timeliness gem
• Now that there's a simple UI for session hijacking, it'll (hopefully) make the problem more visible: Firesheep
• Reader mode in Safari is simply the best innovation in browsers in 2010. Use Readability Redux if you're the Chrome-kind.
• An invisible bike helmet by Hövding
• A Short, Simple Introduction to Information Theory
• Facebook Disconnect
• MVVM with JS: Knockout
• JavaScript, Enterprise-style
• Prädikat besonders lesenswert: Ein Hoch auf das Wachstum
• There are guys who say that you can use Twitter to predict the stock market
• Warum das iPhone für Blinde genial ist.
• Mount your iPad on the wall
• Download YouTube videos with dirpy Studio
• Alain de Botton on Distraction: “One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible.“
• “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.“ —Soren Kierkegaard
• Design inspiration
• Just look what you can do with JavaScript and CSS nowadays, and don't tell me about those powerful desktop apps…
• Themes for Rails might become helpful sometimes… as well as web-app-theme
• Hey… parallel tests
• Great alternative for Menlo on the console: Mensch
• Solr 4.0 and beyond… PDF
• Back to the roots: Der Telefonhörer für's iPhone
• Very neat for webdevs: Live Reload
• For god's sake, Software Architect is #1 on the best jobs list in America. Even better: DBA is #7. sigh does this BS ever stop…
• How DOM events work
• Die Ausgaben für Verteidigung sind mit 31,1 Mrd. € die drittgrößte Position im Bundeshaushalt. Sie sind etwa 3x so hoch wie die Ausgaben für Bildung und Forschung (ca. 10,9 Mrd. €) und knapp doppelt so hoch wie die Ausgaben für Gesundheit (ca. 16,1 Mrd. €). Wenn also demnächst mal einer fragt, wo man sparen kann… Quelle: Bundesfinanzministerium, Bundeshaushaltsplan 2010
• How to write unmaintainable code. I don't know how often I've seen these principles at work.
• Kim Jong Il, North Korean internet expert, built his home page: http://175.45.179.68/. According to the HTML source he used Microsoft Office.
• A MS employee resignation letter
• RESTful APIs are clearly outgrowing SOAP-based APIs
• Guerilla Trucks, or why those Talibans do have a Canadian maple leaf tattoo?
• Oh how I like these spherical Radiohead songs
• Let there be Tabs for Finder
• Fastest XML processor?
• Thou shalt not translate: Google Poems
• Right? Wrong? “Never buy hardware at list price. Sales at Dell has quarterly quotas. Call 2 days before the quarter ends and get 30% off.“
• JavaScript Guide (self-reference)
• Rails Notifications writeup
• Parsing HTML in JavaScript, Hpricot-style: Apricot
• SCSS Bundle for TextMate
• The Wiki Game
• “Sich Sorgen machen ist wie im Schaukelstuhl sitzen. Man bewegt sich zwar, kommt aber nicht weiter.“ —Van Wilder
• The INTERNET
• Very useful: Stylebot
• A web server in PostScript
• Zur Causa Stuttgart 21.
• Just send a balloon to the sky.
• “Oracle rennt technologisch in die völlig falsche Richtung.“ —Jim Hagemann Snabe, CEO SAP. Dow Jones

• Shoot that ad
• “Any idiot can tell you why death is bad, but it takes a very particular sort of idiot to believe that death might be good.“—LessWrong
• The Complete History of Lemmings
• Squerly: Scala ORM and DSL.
• Spoon: Another virtualization solution.
• say -v Fred "Fitter, happier, more productive, not drinking too much, regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)"
• Evil and brilliant hack: Evercookie.
• Why didn't Twitter pull a month earlier?
• Simulating a 6502 with JavaScript: Nice
• Insider view of developing a feature for Windows Vista. Ouch.
• These Windows System Repair Discs saved me a few hours yesterday.
• Animated map of unemployment in the US during the recession.
• Literate programming for Ruby with Rocco
• Der deutsche Widerstand, vor und nach 1945.
• “Enrolling your daughter in Gymnastics: 1% chance she'll be an athlete. 100% chance she'll be the drunk girl doing backflips in a bikini.“ —@kellyoxford
• Where Brokers meet: Nuclear Phynance
• Eat less is the answer.
• Weil München auch so schon teuer genug ist: MVV Blitzer, aka Crowd Sourcing Kontrolleurmelder.
• Hipster Hitler. Not sure if it's politically correct.
• “Java is to Javascript as ham is to hamster.“ —@johl
• Readable JavaScript with CoffeeScript
• Facebook open-sourced Online Schema Change for MySQL.
• The Editors: The Racing Rats, An End Has a Start, and best of all Munich (acoustic).
• Now go and build your own Shazam.
• For the internet addicts.
• Still feeling slightly sick…
• Diaspora has been releasing their code. Pretty standard Rails app if you ask me.
• Been using EF CTP4 today for a small sample. Looks alright—for building samples at least.
• JavaScript is the least understood and most bashed programming language in history. This attitute is often expressed by people who think that JavaScript is some sort of Java. Or people thinking OOP is how real programmers code.
• Node.js is amazing. Yeah, I keep repeating myself.
• Google is invad^H^H^H^H^H building a data center in Finland
• Gave IE9 beta a test drive. Best IE ever. Seriously. Won't switch nonetheless. Wonder if this will help turning IE6 down since Vista is required at least.
• Wie unsere (deutsche) Diskussion um Privatsphäre von außen gesehen wird.
• Selbständig vs. Unternehmer
• Insider stories from a former employee of Goldman Sachs
• Like Patternry for UI design patterns and inspiration.
• RTL biegt sich die Welt zurecht…
• Since when has Google an integrated site search? Go search for Urban Dictionary and watch the first result. It contains a text input field along with a Search urbandictionary.com button.
• With HTML5 and CSS3 coming along, there's only a few advantages left for desktop-development (ask Google for a nice introduction to web development). There are so many gems in those two specs that aren't even discussed yet. Maybe people like Yehuda Katz going to work on SproutCore client-side web frameworks is showing the direction for future application development. Interesting to see when MS will release their SproutCore/ GWT/ Cappuccino clone.
• Doing some spikes with CSS3 transitions. Nice. Safari with hardware acceleration is top of the line. Hope HW-accel will be added to Chrome soon. Update: It will (and even has–trying).
• It's the small things that count… Some Chrome tips here.
• “The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed.“ —William Gibson
• Rethinking the Mobile Web is not only right to the point but illustrates how presentations should be: Engage, tell a story, images, use simple wording, no bullet points whatsoever.
• Thumbs up for Ayende
• MetaWhere: Future.where :sql.not_in => ['code']
• “In Sterling, Colorado muss eine freilaufende Katze Rückstrahler tragen.“ —@Wissensbox
• Seems like DuckDuckGo gets all the hype these days
• His Steveness introduces: iNinja
• Linus is American after all
• What is this centuries' equivalent to Led Zeppelin? 10 minutes of Rock music seems so old-fashioned these days? But who am I to argue when Madonna is filed under Rock in iTunes.
• Why does Twitter need all this OAuth bullshit for its API when HTTP Digest/Basic works fine, is standardized, and reasonably secure (over https)?
• Lateness is also a pet hate of mine
• A post that hopefully gets into a series about probability
• Oops. The HDCP master key
• So they do several thousand trades per second, yet it takes days to send money from one bank to another.
• Today is Programmers' Day. According to Wikipedia, this is an official holidy in Russia, celebrated on the 0x100th day of each year. This must be fake.
• Beim Sex stoppte ich und bewegte mich nicht mehr. Sie: “Was machst du?“ Ich: “Das habe ich bei Youporn gesehen, nennt sich Buffering.“ (via @ferkl)](http://twitter.com/ferkl/status/24364607324)
• Had a flu over the weekend. Still recovering.
• Never underestimate the power of a great story
• How the Blade Runner opening scene was created. Great hacks!
• This month gave birth to a new buzzword: Instant.
• Salvatore Sanfilippo of Redis fame shows how to do instant with Redis ;-)
• What Google did to make themselves instant: Google Colossus etc.
• MacRuby: The Definitive Guide
• Maybe we'll see Ruby on the iPhone anytime soon? Update #1 #2
• Jeep (dis)assembly in sub 4 minutes.
• On IE6: Lot of webdevs complain about IE6 being a pain in the … But maybe people took the web more serious in early 2000 than you might think. Maybe they wanted to create business applications with HTML/JS etc. as a platform. Maybe they are not able to change their architecture every two years or so. You want IE6 to go away? So you're putting pressure on those guys who started to use HTML etc. in the business world. Guess what they're doing: Start anew on HTML5? Or go and write another Windows Forms app?
• All this magic just for checking NULLs: Null checks and the Maybe monad. If the syntax is too noisy, maybe the programming language is not right.
• Copper can't keep up
• Lanyrd is a wonderful website to find out which conferences your friends and followers are going to.

• Yummy… Jamie serving Chicken Nuggets…
• Paul Oakenfolds best mixes ever… Goa Silver and Gold Mixes

• Async Rails
• I'm pretty sure Apache HTTPd and nginx will borrow some stuff from Mongrel2
• Unix toolbox: Hardware, statistics, users, limits, runlevels, and whatnot.
• NoSQL document database for .NET users: RavenDB by Ayende

• How Google Wave does (part of) its magic: Understanding and Applying Operational Transformation
• Huge and great non-profit education site: Khan Academy
• Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems

• I've been trying to find out what the future will hold when it comes to webdev and frameworks. I'd not be surprised to see asynchronous frameworks like Node become mainstream. CPUs these days so goddamn fast that they just sit there waiting for I/O.

• Every time you make a PowerPoint, Edward Tufte kills a kitten.
• Mercurial tutorial with wonderful quotes: “The system administrator, whom everybody calls Taco, is too shy to eat lunch with the rest of the team. On those rare occasions where he is away from his swivel office chair, you will notice a triangular-shaped salsa-colored stain on the seat where drippings of his many Mexican lunches fell between his legs, insuring that nobody takes his chair, even though it is the superior Herman Miller variety that the company founders bought themselves, not the standard-issue Staples $99 special that causes everyone else back pain… Anyway, yeah, there’s no backup.“

• The Cloud, version 2
• Solaris no longer free. Wait and see what happens to MySQL…
• Been doing a screencast with ScreenFlow.

• Daten sind keine Dinge, und deswegen kann man sie nicht stehlen?! Unsere Justizministerin. Unglaublich.
• Next Windows will be… uhm… different promised…

• Those were the days: Windows 3.1, browser-based
• Simple JAVA web framework… finally: Let's get to Play!