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On Medium: A defense of Pretty Lies
This week’s Medium post is In Defense of Pretty Lies. It’s about all our favorite pretty, lying tools, like Haml, or ActiveRecord, and why I love them anyway.
The End Result Is Not The Cost
There’s been some discussion this week about the TSA’s airport security randomizer app, which you probably remember as being that thing being held by a bored TSA agent that would point an arrow left or right to tell you which security line to go to.
2015 Books That I Liked, Part 1
Thanks to the literally one person who encouraged this list last year, I’m presenting the 2015 list of books I liked. Last year, I split between Fantasy Books I Liked and SF Books I Liked. This year, the split didn’t work out evenly, so I have “Books I Liked”, and...
An Annoyed Rant About Writing Tools
I will grant that I am very much not the market here, but if I’m being super nitpicky, there are five things I want from a writing tool for my technical writing:
Back to Mastering Ember
This week I sort of broke ground on the book that will probably be called Master Space and Time with Ember. Here are some things I know or am reasonably sure about.
SF Books that Make Me Happy in 2014
After last week’s Fantasy novels that made me happy, here’s part two. These are the Science Fiction books that I read in 2014 that made me happy. Again, alphabetical order by title.
Things That Make Me Happy: Fantasy Novels, 2014
Every year, I’m determined to write a post about my favorite books of the previous year. Every year, I fail at it, in part, because of my tendency to want to write a 2000 word essay on each one.
Hey, I have a blog
One of the things I want to do in 2015 is write more. This, like all New Year’s type resolutions, is invariably doomed, but we’ll take it as it comes. I also want to write more about things that aren’t programming, because, well, there are a lot of things that...
Rails 4 Test Prescriptions Beta Day!
It’s book day! Rails 4 Test Prescriptions is available for Beta purchase today. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell random strangers on the street.