End the effing drought!!!
September 2022
W!!! #goms
#goms DROUGHT ENDED!!
Wish Felix, Seager, Zunino, and Cruz were here.
August 2022
These goofy fluff balls would have been 10 years old today. twitter.com/GilesCat/statu…
Michelle and I said goodbye to our sweet cat Jayne. @shell_foster was Jayne's human; he tolerated me at best.
June 2022
Fun fact: when we were selecting our hardwood floors we held samples up to the cats to make sure the floors coordinated with our existing decor. twitter.com/GilesCat/statu…
April 2022
The first photo of Giles after we brought him home at 5 months old. One of my favorites, really captures his personality. This is how I remember him. twitter.com/GilesCat/statu…
Missing this guy a lot today. twitter.com/GilesCat/statu…
February 2022
We were there! twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
January 2022
Damn, now all I want is to see _that_ movie!
Needless to say, it’s been a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds week. The Boatman’s Call, No More Shall We Part, and Push The Sky Away on repeat.
It’s been a hard week. I said goodbye to Giles, the best cat ever.
December 2021
Merry Saturday!
October 2021
Does anyone have thoughts on RAID enclosures? I have ~20TB of data and growing, with offsite backups of the important stuff.
Been using separate external drives; the largest one just died. Got me to thinking about local redundancy.
How do you handle local data storage?
August 2021
No Code is a desert island album for me.
I never had kids, but I always thought if I had I would have sung Around The Bend to them every night. (My cat doesn’t appreciate it as much as he should.) twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
July 2021
tl;dr: no matter what strategy you’re using, you’re doing git wrong. twitter.com/enkiv2/status/…
About 1 in 10 devs I’ve ever worked with even knew git-bisect existed, even fewer know how powerful it is. twitter.com/enkiv2/status/…
June 2021
Reminded of all those yesterdays. twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
May 2021
I can’t feel my legs, but look at that face!
April 2021
Woo! Warrior renewed for season 3!
variety.com/2021/tv/news/w…
November 2020
What the actual fuck?! The numbers are far worse—across the nation, not just locally—than they were in March. Why are we not _more_ locked down than we were then? seattletimes.com/life/which-pha…
Every time I think, “Twitter is stupid, I should stop wasting my time on this hell site,” something like this comes across my timeline.
Where else am I going to see a raccoon boop a bunny? twitter.com/raccoonhourly/…
OK, we can stop writing headlines. There will never be a better one than this. twitter.com/SatPaper/statu…
Normalize cats on shoulders while voting! twitter.com/Reuters/status…
October 2020
The only noun that can be said to have an “impact” is a planet-killing asteroid, because then I won’t have to hear you say it.
Don’t remember where I was when I first heard Vs.—feels like this album has always been a part of my life.
Vs. was the first CD I owned. (Had Ten on cassette.) twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
Vote.
I want it when I’m 40. twitter.com/shell_foster/s…
What is that, like 4 cartridges? twitter.com/pourmecoffee/s…
Apropos. twitter.com/CulturedRuffia…
Jfc. Put this image in the idiot hall of fame, right next to one of him squinting at the eclipse in 2017.
Even after the last four years, the stupidity is still astounding.
Fuck this idiot. #VoteBidenHarris2020. twitter.com/kaitlancollins…
My first attempt at making a rye old-fashioned at home came out pretty tasty.
September 2020
Fuck.
August 2020
Enjoying some fantastic Oregon whiskey in my new Seattle glass while sitting on my Auburn porch. Thanks @_branchpoint.
Happy Birthday to the fuzziest little bastards I’ve ever met. They are most cuddly murder machines you are likely to meet.
July 2020
I’m ignoring an open book on my iPad to tweet from my iPhone. twitter.com/moddedLimes/st…
A perennial sentiment, but somehow even more apropos right now. twitter.com/EffinBirds/sta…
This is a man-baby who hasn’t mastered object permanence. You can’t play peek-a-boo with a pandemic. twitter.com/JenniferJJacob…
June 2020
Who commits node_modules/ to source control? How is that a thing? Insanity.
Today marks 20 years of love and laughter with @shell_foster.
Here’s the very first photo of us, in Redlands, CA, and the latest, on our front porch.
May 2020
This is the BEST cider you’ll ever taste. Since we discovered @manroadcider a few years ago, we’ve made regular trips across the Cascades specifically to stock up. twitter.com/manroadcider/s…
When @WAStatePotatoes and the National Guard hand you potatoes, make potato chips.
April 2020
“For me?! Thanks @Chewy!” – Jayne
The best thing on this hell site are @darth’s frequent threads of potato porn.
Find someone who looks at you the way darth looks at potatoes, that’s all I’m saying. twitter.com/darth/status/1…
Yay! I was _just_ about to go through the original run of You Look Nice Today. twitter.com/scottsimpson/s…
March 2020
Remembered my old (very old) MacBook Pro has a SuperDrive. Dug it out of the closet...
How bad is this?
Just realized I have no way to play physical media except for the CD player in my car.
“”The best people.”” twitter.com/JoshKraushaar/…
Homemade Social Distancing Pizza: Tasty Pandemic Survival
Dammit. twitter.com/RATM/status/12…
We live in the dumbest timeline. twitter.com/RosieGray/stat…
Bummer, but not unexpected. twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
February 2020
Today I bought tickets to @RATM and @reignwolf. Really looking forward to both shows, but seriously, it’s 2020 and the experience of standing in line at the DMV is better than buying tickets thru @Ticketmaster
Anyone want to see Rage in Tacoma with me? twitter.com/RATM/status/12…
January 2020
YES!!!!! Scored tickets to @PearlJam in San Diego, too!
Three shows in one week is a lot of PJ and I cannot wait.
Woohoo! Scored tickets for both L.A. @PearlJam shows.
C’mon, San Diego!
I don’t always debug, but when I do...
This. So much this. Just announce it already. @PearlJam
November 2019
Wait wait wait wait.... there’s a rocket propelled, heavily armed *monorail* in the universe of The Man in The High Castle?! And we’re only seeing it in the series finale?! Way to bury the lede.
My cats still play with theirs, when it isn’t under the couch. #sassconf #pingpong twitter.com/anotheruiguy/s…
Too much coffee. Too much Rage.
It’s a Rage Against the Machine kind of day.
October 2019
Hey, pro tip: if you’re on the floor at a concert and you’re over six feet, don’t be this jackass. He held his phone over his head for most of the show, recording shitty video he’s never gonna watch. I hate him.
September 2019
I will bandwagon any team that sends Zunino to the playoffs. twitter.com/LookoutLanding…
NOLA!!!!!!!!
This right here. twitter.com/straczynski/st…
I was there and it was fucking fantastic!
Both Seattle shows were great, as was night 1 in Boston.
Our favorite was Missoula. twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
August 2019
Steven Sinofsky on Steve Jobs’s ‘Bicycle for the Mind’ Metaphor for Personal Computers daringfireball.net/linked/2019/08…
And specifically, this video of Jobs interviewed on Nightline in 1981, youtu.be/3H-Y-D3-j-M
Fake logos, modernized.
Especially like the Daily Planet and Umbrella Corporation logos. babooncreation.com/fan-art-logos-…
The History of Clarus the Dogcow – 512 Pixels 512pixels.net/dogcow/
July 2019
Just watched my cat catch a fly and carry it across the room—still alive, I could hear it buzzing!—in his mouth.
It was pretty badass.
It’s 2019. How are wind chimes still a thing?
June 2019
“They GOT... the mustard... OUT!” twitter.com/straczynski/st…
How a Seattle skyscraper became a refuge for falcons seattle.curbed.com/2019/6/13/1867… via @CurbedSeattle
Solar-powered loaf.
May 2019
FINALLY!! twitter.com/CityOfSumnerWA…
Well, that was disappointing. #goms
Rooting for our @Mariners @yankeestadium in very Seattle-esque weather. #goms
We’re rooting for the @mariners (and repping @RainiersLand) from Central Park in New York. And we’ll be @yankeestadium tonight. #goms
April 2019
Meanwhile, in the real world, I’m struggling with a code base that’s still on node 6. twitter.com/nodejs/status/…
March 2019
#Mariners still on track for a 162-0 season.
February 2019
Breaking a months long Twitter fast to retweet this. #cory2020 twitter.com/CoryBooker/sta…
December 2018
And a Merry Tuesday to all!
That’s some next level napping, Jayne.
November 2018
Securing Your Site like It’s 1999 24ways.org/2018/securing-…
My daemon is an octopus named Otto. twitter.com/AgnesJones87/s…
In related news, I am now a Tampa Bay Rays fan. #dipotowilltradeawayeverythingyouhaveeverloved twitter.com/LookoutLanding…
October 2018
brb. Adding husky to all my projects.
Thanks @typicode! github.com/typicode/husky
September 2018
I was at this show! twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
The forks of The Beast.
Epic show from @PearlJam to close out #TheAwayShows. Red Mosquito, Thumbing My Way, Imagine, Crazy Mary completes my Wishlist.
Boston Night 2 marks our fifth @PearlJam show this tour, and tenth overall. #TheAwayShows
Night 2 of #TheAwayShows in Boston with @shell_foster and @PearlJam
Celebrity sighting twofer! John Kransinski and Richard Jenkins
Present Tense, Tremor Christ, and Blood rocked. But this little girl’s enthusiasm was totally metal. #TheAwayShows @PearlJam
The netting in front of the stands along the base lines at #Fenway is not ideal.
Night 1 of @PearlJam’s #TheAwayShows in Boston with @shell_foster
August 2018
Good golly, the 4K iTunes version of From Russia with Love looks absolutely incredible!
Just googled a code question and the second result is a comment I wrote on a GH issue 3 years ago that answered my question.
BONUS BASEBALL!!!
This is a MUCH better game than last night. Ms are playing better and it’s gonna be a nail-biter. #goms
Notice, it’s not the #Dodgers fans starting the damn wave.
This game has gotten so ugly, @shell_foster and I are working on our grocery list.
The first of 3 @PearlJam #TheAwayShows with @shell_foster. It was a long road getting here with 3 states in our rearviewmirror.
Twitter, because sometimes you just need to scream into the void.
Eddie leading a Tom Petty sing-along. @PearlJam #TheHomeShows
#TheHomeShows Night 2 with @shell_foster and @PearlJam
Voting Software xkcd.com/2030/
“People will lie to you. If they can get one over on you, if they can do something that makes you less knowledgeable, that makes them make more money, that makes you into a slave, then they’ll do it.” newyorker.com/science/elemen…
July 2018
Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies theverge.com/2018/7/12/1756…
June 2018
Goddammit, 2018. twitter.com/cnn/status/100…
May 2018
All services are microservices if you ignore most of their features. xkcd.com/1988/
April 2018
“To catch everyone up, here’s a quick recap of what you need to know before the launch of the inevitable final chapter…” mcsweeneys.net/articles/every…
March 2018
Wooo!!! @mariners on track for a 162-0 season!! #OpeningNight #goms
That was not ideal. #MarinersST
Hail, King Felix
#MarinersST
First W of the 2018 season!
I miss @MarinerMoose here in Peoria. #MooseMigration #MarinersST
22
Our view for our first baseball game of 2018!
I love Seattle so much. Nothing but good things have happened to me here.
Me after too many alcoholic beverages, long after my usual bedtime.
February 2018
“You’ve somehow been condemned to spend some substantial portion of your life caring about this stupid game with the dirt and the bat and the ball with 108 tight stitches of bright red thread gleaming against immaculate white leather.” fangraphs.com/blogs/the-open…
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
A human being that was given to fly twitter.com/pearljam/statu…
January 2018
He could sit literally anywhere else in the house, but he chooses my lunch bag.
Safeco Field is THE place to be this August! Pearl Jam and the Dodgers!
Can't wait! Too excited!
Pearl Jam's Website Leaks 2018 North American Tour Dates - AlternativeNation.net alternativenation.net/pearl-jams-web…
Holy cow!! @christhile performing Bomb Track by Rage Against the Machine on @livefromhereapm is best thing that will happen in 2018!
December 2017
...and to all, a merry Monday!
And some days, twitter dot com is the best. twitter.com/pghpolice/stat…
November 2017
I... just... no... don't do this. twitter.com/nuragic/status…
Branded in Memory signs.com/branded-in-mem…
This whole thread, comments and all. twitter.com/ppk/status/918…
The 2017 baseball season has been a disappointment. A fun disappointment.
2018 will be better.
It has to be.
Right?
#goms
Stupid Astros.
Altuve is the reason is we can't have nice things.
Thwarting my favorite teams in BOTH leagues.
#stupidAstros #goms
October 2017
Trick-or-Treat with the Mariners lookoutlanding.com/2017/10/31/165…
Logical xkcd.com/1901/
September 2017
"Kingsman: The Golden Circle" was just as much fun as the first. Hilariously over the top violence. Enormously entertaining.
This Mariners game is peak 2017.
I love you Ms, but it's time for 2018. #goms
Mike Trout will catch everything you love. #goms
RUIZ HOME RUN ALERT!!!! RUIZ HOME RUN ALERT!!!!
I mildly regret my earlier comment about DIPOTUS, but I'm still really going to miss Leonys Martin. twitter.com/jed_foster/sta…
Thanks @Mariners!!! The Mariners Navigators came by my seat and gave me a sweet swag bag!
ZUNINO!!!!!!!!!!
2 runs in the top of the first. #goms
Jerry Dipoto will trade away everything you ever loved. #goms
August 2017
The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too. - Vox apple.news/AlqmHXO5iQamB8…
Eclipse Science xkcd.com/1877/
"And the Oriole, never flitting, still is shitting, still is shitting"
Macabre Mariners Retell ‘The Raven’ lookoutlanding.com/2017/8/15/1614…
Yes, Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value. Neither Does a $1 Bill - WIRED apple.news/AcnIR6y8kT0qti…
July 2017
It's a Rage Against The Machine kind of day.
June 2017
Seriously, SUCK IT Zunino haters!!!!! 2-out grand slam!
Suck it, Zunino haters!
May 2017
Meanwhile, @RainiersLand is tearing up the PCL North.
#CallUpRhubarb twitter.com/rainiersland/s…
So… Zunino scored the only run? And… he’s been in Tacoma this whole time why? twitter.com/mariners/statu…
Day started on a loss, but ends in a walk-off win! #goms
Chris Cornell: Soundgarden’s dark knight of the grunge-music scene seattletimes.com/entertainment/…
The music in the stadium ROCKS tonight! But for the worst possible reason. :-(
Soundgarden, The True Pioneers of the Seattle Scene, Paved the Way for Nirvana and Pearl Jam variety.com/2017/music/new…
Black days indeed.
Has anyone checked on Ed, Mike, Jeff, Stone, and Matt? Can we put them in protective custody? Maybe some bubble wrap?
Goddammit.
Soundgarden Singer Chris Cornell’s Death Being Investigated As a Suicide variety.com/2017/music/new…
OMG!! OMG!! Is it December yet?!
‘Psych’ Reunion: Cast Reuniting for Holiday Movie on USA Network in December variety.com/2017/tv/news/p…
Yay!!! @Mariners win. Now 3-1 on games I've attended this year.
⚡️ "B.C. shop offered Liam Neeson free sandwich, so he showed up"
twitter.com/i/moments/8598…
That was an awesome double play.
BONUS BASEBALL!!!
Well, that was a disappointing showing from Diaz.
GOODBYE BASEBALL!!!
April 2017
America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People via @ineteconomics bit.ly/2q1dHRk
Take my money now!! This looks even better than the first one!!m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nxc-3…
‘X-Files’ Event Series to Return to Fox variety.com/2017/tv/news/x…
M's now 2-0 on games I've attended this year.
Mariners win!!!
Well, there goes Miranda's no hitter.
Trying the Crackerjack dog from @theredhotCheney at @RainiersLand opening night! #WeLoveRhubarb
From dirt to diamond: How Safeco Field has matured since its groundbreaking 20 years ago seattletimes.com/sports/mariner… via @seattletimes
Mariners win!!!!
I _need_ this! Been trying to think of an actual use for a Raspberry PI Zero since it came out. I think this is it. jann.is/lego-macintosh…
This was the beginning of the rabbit hole that led to my new life goal. jann.is/lego-macintosh…
I just learned about "knolling." And I now see that my life has been empty and void of meaning. #alwaysbeknolling en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolling
What luck: We dithered so long, Bertha’s tunnel now makes more sense seattletimes.com/seattle-news/w…
“It’s a substantial undertaking.” mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/sci…
Pearl Jam’s early road to success | The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…
March 2017
Don't blink: The science of a 100-mph fastball | Mariners Preview 2017 projects.seattletimes.com/2017/mariners-…
The story of Pearl Jam, from a Seattle basement to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…
Nerf John Wick might be as badass as movie John Wick - The Verge theverge.com/2017/3/23/1503…
In honor of #piday, I present the world’s most accurate pie chart.
When you start the day live coding on a conference call in front of a dozen people around the world.
February 2017
Really cool video on the history of my favorite font. vox.com/videos/2017/2/…
The last photo in this list was taken from our front porch. twitter.com/kuow/status/82…
Every tech CEO wants to change the world, now’s their chance theverge.com/2017/2/3/14495…
January 2017
So, apparently Likes are now effectively Retweets, huh, @Twitter?
Run around the bases, check.
#MarinersFF
Moose sighting, check.
#MarinersFF
Zip line, check.
Photo with Leonys Martin, check.
Season ticket holder breakfast, check.
#MarinersFF is off to a great start.
The people may have spoken. This may be legal. He may be legitimate.
That doesn’t make it right. We must remember none of this is right.
Finally, a reason to get Prime. I loved this book.
Amazon Greenlights Neil Gaiman Adaptation of ‘Good Omens’ variety.com/2017/digital/n…
This Apple Watch stand turns your smartwatch into a miniature Macintosh theverge.com/2017/1/12/1425…
The local classic rock station just played Yellow Ledbetter—a live version!—which made my day better and me feel old.
December 2016
"La La Land" A gem. An exception to my thesis that musicals set post-WWII suck. (I challenge you to name a _good_ musical set after 1945.)
"Office Christmas Party" Exactly what it says on the tin, plus Cortney Vance's ass.
"Why Him?" A very funny movie with an awful title. Walter White makes the comedy with the guy who killed Kim Jong-un.
We had our traditional Christmas. Saw two movies today (and one yesterday.) Tweet-sized reviews to follow.
Happy 25th of December! Hang in there, 2016 is almost over.
November 2016
Watching "The West Wing" because real life politics is fucking scary. #BartletForAmerica #ElectionNight
October 2016
I have yet to meet a self-proclaimed “full-stack” dev who knows HTML/CSS as well as their back-end tech of choice. twitter.com/anotheruiguy/s…
So… They killed the function keys… but there’s still a FN key?
Apple sure has a thing for “Touch”
Apple needs to show some “”courage”” and kill the CAPS LOCK key.
That trackpad is yuuuuge!
I don’t see any Thunderbolt ports.
Wait... No ESC key, but there's still a damn CAPS LOCK?! twitter.com/dz/status/7909…
People are writing tutorials on how to use a thing I wrote in a day, four years ago.
Glad someone finds it useful. twitter.com/jessschillinge…
Well, we made it through the storm. Time to pick up the pieces.
Wonder if I could BS the interview…
I could break out my favorite graph…
The latest is a _voicemail_ from a recruiter today—SATURDAY—interested in my “data visualization” background, offering $200k+.
“I have the biggest data! The best data! My data is huuuge!”
Absolutely nothing about my portfolio suggests that I even know what “big data” means—I do—let alone have “experience” with it—I don’t.
Been getting a lot of recruiters interested in my experience with “big data” and “data visualization.”
Do they know something I don’t?
Is it April yet? #GoMariners
Final @Mariners record for games I attended in 2016: 20-18
September 2016
Tonight's win puts the #Mariners at 20-17 on games I have attended this season.
The road ahead huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-road… #
This thread. twitter.com/lookoutlanding…
Happy Felix Day? *sigh* twitter.com/GregJohnsMLB/s…
At least it wasn't a shutout.
That scene from Carrie, but with maple syrup; that's the @Mariners right now.
These Blue Jays fans are the most obnoxious visiting fans I've ever seen here; they're the Raiders fans of baseball. #toomanycanadians
The @MarinersVision cameraman is having a hard time finding Mariners fans.
I wish @Mariners fans were this enthusiastic back home in Seattle.
I hope M's fans on the road aren't as obnoxious as these Blue Jays fans.
Fuck.
If only we had as many @Mariners fans here the rest of the year. #toomanycanadians
There are so many Canadians here I'm worried I may need my passport to leave the stadium. #toomanycanadians
The @Mariners had better bring it tonight. Canadians in numbers can be unruly.
Never seen this many fans of the visiting team here at a @Mariners games. M's fans easily outnumbered 4-1.
Surrounded by Blue Jays fans. #toomanycanadians
There are entirely too many Canadians here at the @Mariners game.
August 2016
You can’t trick your dog by being mean in a happy voice theverge.com/2016/8/29/1270…
24 reasons why you should date a Mariners fan lookoutlanding.com/2016/8/25/1264…
The alt-right is weirder and more nuanced than reheated white supremacy vox.com/2016/4/18/1143…
How conservative pundits helped break reality seattletimes.com/opinion/how-co…
ZUNINO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! Iannetta _can_ smile! #HernandezZunino2020 twitter.com/mariners/statu…
Mike Zunino is the reason why the Seattle Mariners are in the playoff race outsidepitchmlb.com/mariners-zunin… via @opsn_mlb
Derek Jeter on Ichiro Suzuki theplayerstribune.com/derek-jeter-ic…
Stop me if you've heard this one—A Puig, a Canó, and Trout walk into a stadium...
Well, the @Mariners gave us a nail biter of a ninth, but Diaz pulled off save #2.
Now 12-13 on games I have attended this year.
With tonight's win (EDWIN DIAZ!!!!!) the @Mariners improve to 11-13 on games I have attended this year!
EDWIN DIAZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tonight's loss drops the @Mariners to 10-13 on games I have attended.
#CishekIsTheNewRodney
After last night, why does Cishek not get a night off? Looking like the new Rodney.
July 2016
I give up.
Buying tickets is the fucking worst. Temple of the Dog somehow sold out before they went on sale.
Well that's baseball. @Mariners now 10-12 on games I've attended. Not a great game tonight. But at least we had this
Beautiful night for @Mariners baseball.
Would Turkey be justified in kidnapping or drone-killing the Turkish cleric in Pennsylvania? interc.pt/29I2fC8
With today's loss, @Mariners now one game below .500 on games I have attended. Now 10-11.
The Bartender and @shell_foster
Now pitching for @RainiersLand, Charlie Furbush!
Surprise!!! C-Fresh on the mound for @RainiersLand!
Felix on the mound, where he belongs.
Ready for King Felix to claim his throne!
I love everything about this, esp. the headline:
US gov't plans to use drones to fire vaccine-laced M&Ms at ferrets theverge.com/2016/7/12/1216…
How it feels to write a new Vim command in .vimrc—and it works on the first try!
That's a sweep!
@Mariners now at 10-10 on games I have attended. Yay .500!
Seager, on what to give Cruz for his birthday: "Well, we got him a win, so that's something."
With tonight's win, the Mariners are now 9-10 on games I have attended this season.
June 2016
Why aren't we all talking about this? This is huge news! twitter.com/seatimessports…
Hey web devs, there's no such thing as a "serverless" web app. It's on the web, ergo, it's served from a server. #ThatsJustHowTheWebWorks
With that incredible walk off home run, the Mariners are now 7-9 on games I have attended.
People have trained a LinkedIn algorithm to be awful theverge.com/2016/6/22/1192…
#Mariners now 6-7 on games I have attended.
Seagull masala? Bird falls in vat of curry, turns orange seattletimes.com/nation-world/o…
Seattle friends, I have an extra ticket for the Mariners game this Saturday. Hit me up and this view could be yours.
May 2016
#Mariners fall to 3-7 on games I have attended.
Is it me? The @Mariners now 3-6 on games I have attended this season. I keep missing the good games. #GoMariners
The Mariners are at 3-5 on games we have attended.
The #1 skill anyone in software or technology can have is knowing how to report a bug or issue. 8 out of 9 people get it fucking wrong.
Looking through the issues on my open source repos frequently makes me regret sharing my toys.
That was a heck of a game. Thanks #Mariners!!
146!
My coworkers are constantly hanging out at my desk. Makes it hard to actually get work done.
April 2016
Time Machine is _the_ most frustrating software. Frustrating, because it _could_ be amazing, and yet it _never_ works when I really need it.
Rolling out the red carpet for #MarinersOpener 2016
October, here we come!
March 2016
Ugh. SVG is a brilliant technology, but it’s full of land mines.
Inside Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Fight With the FBI time.com/4262480/tim-co…
Via @nprmusic: From Television To '10 Cloverfield Lane,' A Composer Plays With Surprise — And Luck n.pr/1QPyTQ6
Fun fact: My cat Jayne is a big fan of monster and dinosaur movies. He stared at the screen for the entirety of Jurassic Park and Godzilla.
Of course as soon as the talky part comes on, he's off.
Further proof that cats are all about chaos & murder, Jayne hasn't taken his eyes off the opening scene of Gladiator
This is going to be good.
‘American Gods’ Casts Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday variety.com/2016/tv/news/a…
February 2016
Hey Hollywood, stop saying, "That's an order!" Those who take orders don't need to be told that. Especially if they're good at their jobs.
It's 5:09 AM and @npr has already given me news rage.
Fun fact: I started working on an Angular rewrite of @sassmeisterapp exactly one year ago. “”Almost”” done.
2 Days
This is a fantastic piece, even if you don’t care about baseball. You should read it. lookoutlanding.com/2016/2/17/1104…
Lemmings came out 25 years ago today, watch a 6-hour playthrough | The Verge
The last video game I was any good at. theverge.com/2016/2/14/1095…
How American Voters Turn Into Suckers t.umblr.com/redirect?z=htt…
Gravitational Waves xkcd.com/1642/
Something for everyone; romance, adventure, and braaiiins. #PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was incredibly fun! Even better than "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". And I mean that in all seriousness
Ooh, just in time; my copy can vote!
twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
January 2016
We met @MarinerMoose, baseball can begin now. #MarinersFF
Going topless at Safeco. #MarinersFF
Safe at second. #MarinersFF
I can confirm, it feels exactly like getting kicked in the nuts.
Gotta keep 'em separated.
A Conversation With Erik Spiekermann pi.co/erik-spiekerma…
The last answer fixed the real issue, but I suspect that was accidental.
This issue makes me sad. stackoverflow.com/questions/1069…
The accepted answer misses the point & isn’t really correct. No one spotted the real issue
But no PNW dates. :-( twitter.com/PearlJam/statu…
I find it curious that the vast majority of projects listed in the open letter to GitHub are JS/Node-related.
github.com/dear-github/de…
Counting down to the beginning of Mariners Spring Training lookoutlanding.com/2016/1/10/1074…
Best piece I've read yet on bloated web development. If you build stuff for the web, you should read this. idlewords.com/talks/website_…
December 2015
Ten years ago, this happened. I love you, @shell_foster!
Related: "Bridge of Spies" was a fantastic movie; has a lot to say about timeless American values.
Merry Friday, everyone!
Double-oh fuzzy.
Ready for the holiday party. Where's the nog?
November 2015
And we can’t even make lame jokes like, “Why don’t they put in the same place as status.slack.com?” because that’s down too.
THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US!
Slack is down.
October 2015
I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm doing both Angular and React wrong. Perhaps even JavaScript itself.
Computers are are hard, you guys.
In all seriousness though, I totally could've written this app in Angular in like 1/5 of the time. I'd just have no idea what it meant later
Angular is the Perl of JavaScript, it completely makes sense at the time, but 6 weeks later... What the fuck?
React is *way* easier after a bottle of wine.
On the downside, though, JavaScript in general is *way* harder.
React makes very little sense to begin with, but it’s completely inscrutable after two double rum and Cokes.
September 2015
It’s a Rage Against the Machine day, apparently.
For the record, developing in Firefox blows.
Clearing the cache basically requires getting a new computer.
Capturing Baseball With an iPhone 6S Plus si.com/mlb/photos/201…
The command is `grunt`, but the package is `grunt-cli`. Because, obviously.
Our row got upgraded. The view from our new seats.
I see now why React-ers use inline styles; the markup React generates makes sane CSS incredibly difficult. At this point, inline is easier.
OMG. Excessive nesting much?
JSX is an abomination.
Eating a corned beef sandwich at Rain Shadow Meats.
Remembering great conversations with @andrewmaier.
Here's How Every Argument Against a Minimum Wage Hike is Bullshit kitchenette.jezebel.com/heres-how-ever…
August 2015
I made a (slightly) better PhantomJS rasterize script.
Options incl “retina” scaling & specific element grabbing.
gist.github.com/jedfoster/59a8…
Google tells developers how to bypass Apple security and keep selling ads on iOS 9
““Don’t be evil”” recode.net/2015/08/27/goo…
Sara Watkins playing guitar, with Fiona Apple.
Sara Watkins, John Roderick, and Sean Watkins.
Fiona Apple just brushed past me carrying two pizzas.
So far @MikeMcCreadyPJ's national anthem is the highlight of this game.
I have the laziest, most self-important coworkers in history.
This makes Vim even more difficult.
Was True Detective season two just a less satisfying Pretty Little Liars? A study theverge.com/2015/8/10/9126…
The view from our seats on the 200 level for today's "bonus" ball game. Go #Mariners! Thanks @KPLU.
How baseball’s tech team built the future of television theverge.com/2015/8/4/90908…
"Show me on the iPad where the bad web app wouldn't let you touchmove it."
Touch scrolling in this app is proving harder than I anticipated. Safari losing its connection to my iPad every 30 seconds isn't helping.
July 2015
There's something you don't see everyday. Third base ump hit by line drive, left the game.
Our hill is on fire. NBD. twitter.com/KIRO7Seattle/s…
June 2015
My coworker does not seem to care that I have work to do.
It's not even 8am and my lazy bum coworker is already napping on my desk.
It’s Thursday. You know what that means. #SaveHannibal
Why NBC's Hannibal deserves (and can easily get) a second life online #SaveHannibal theverge.com/2015/6/23/8834…
To Serve Man newyorker.com/magazine/2015/… via @emilynussbaum #SaveHannibal
A perfect day for A Prairie Home Companion.
The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling techcrunch.com/2015/06/06/the…
TIL: My cat doesn’t like Vanilla Ice. Does that mean he has taste, or just doesn’t know how to party?
#wordtoyourmother
My coworker takes pair programming very seriously.
I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve wanted an `inline-block` image.
Dammit! I _still_ maintain that <img> should have a default display of `block`, not `inline-block`. #fourfuckingpixels
Why It Pays To Be A Jerk theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
May 2015
Rockin' out to 4 Non Blondes at #MarinersFireworks salute to the Nineties.
Perks of being a #Mariners season ticket holder: being on the field for #MarinersFireworks
I love Twitter.
Maybe I'm already drunk, but that last RT made me literally laugh out loud.
Happy Hour in the 'Pen at Safeco really is the happiest of hours. Go #Mariners
My coworkers are lazy bums.
It is simply astonishing how bad this code is that year-ago-me wrote. I broke this app in so many new and interesting ways.
Longest work week ever is finally over. Time to reward myself with some wine, Game of Thrones, and… more work.
My coworkers are constantly bathing and napping *ON* my desk.
Ugh. That was a rough game. I really don't get the hype around Fernando.
The Curious World Of Baseball Re-Enactors : NPR History Dept. npr.org/sections/npr-h…
WTF, TX?
Texas Governor Deploys National Guard To Stave Off Obama Takeover npr.org/blogs/itsallpo…
April 2015
It’s really shocking how much acreage a 14 lb. cat can cover in vomit. Good morning!
How Texas Ranchers Try To Clinch The Perfect Ribeye npr.org/blogs/thesalt/…
Cranking Sublime today.
Mid-nineties, SoCal ska/punk was something special.
#DaddysGotANew45
That was a hell of a baseball game! #Mariners pulled out a nail biting win. Cruz is fantastic addition to the team.
If you haven't seen "Rome", you should really give it a watch.
"Why we have Rome to thank for Game of Thrones" theverge.com/tldr/2015/4/13…
“How To Cook A Fucking Steak” theawl.com/2009/11/how-to…
A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Committing.
Always be committing, always be committing.
First at bat, first strike out of the season!
It's even prettier without the roof.
The view from our home for the next 7 months.
After 150 years, Dixie still a place apart seattletimes.com/opinion/after-…
March 2015
Re: previous tweet about a Less mixin, here’s that same mixin in Sass. sassmeister.com/gist/0571ecd5f…
Notice how this doesn’t suck.
This is a _single_ mixin in Less. #doingitwrong
Why is Mark Zuckerberg so angry? Did Superman not respond to his poke?
“@ZackSnyder: ew.com/article/2015/0… ”
I’ve visited this site several times, not sure how I missed this. /cc @sassmeisterapp
“Maybe -- maybe -- what you hate is not the Apple Watch, but your human frailty.” - @macalope macworld.com/article/289679…
One Foot Tsunami: Giant Pandas Are Poorly Designed onefoottsunami.com/2010/12/06/gia…
But I’m not in Latin America!
“@PearlJam: Announcing the 2015 Latin American Tour! PearlJam.com #PJLatinAmerica2015”
Oh, c’mon! I can’t take the suspense.
“@PearlJam: 10am PT.”
Hey @SeattleFrontEnd, I’d like to start a conversation about csswizardry.com/2015/03/more-t… Am I nuts, or is this dumb? What am I not understanding?
Friday is gonna be big day for me, as it will also be my last day at Urbanspoon.
Moving on to thrilling and unspecified new challenges.
I don’t know what this means, but I am unspeakably excited to find out.
“@PearlJam: Friday.”
Daylight Saving Time aka Your Semi-Annual Reminder That Watches Have Batteries, Which Don't Last Forever, And Is It 5:55 AM Or PM?
Given to Fly against Alive? WTF?! Even Flow against Rearviewmirror? C’mon! They’re all SO GOOD, how can you ask me to choose?
All four of my #PearlJamMadness finalists are from the first three albums—nothing from the later records. But they’re ALL so good.
Did my #PearlJamMadness bracket bit.ly/pj-madness2015
Learned a lot about my favorites. Final 4: Alive, Better Man, Daughter, Elderly Woman
I don’t understand why so many people completely misunderstand Robert Heinlein’s writing.
There’s NOTHING right-wing about “Moon”.
In fact, “Moon” is _why_ I lean left. That book made me question everything conservative.
“Moon” is about a revolt against a conservative colonial power, with a huge subplot revolving around a “line marriage”.
“Bryan Singer to direct The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/…
“classic right-wing libertarian science-fiction novel” WTF?!
Vim over SSH is **AWESOME** usevim.com/2012/03/16/edi…
And no, tab-completion should not factor into that naming decisions.
The number of times you will type a variable/class/method name should factor into naming decisions.
That’s not architecture, that’s a naming convention. And not a very good one at that.
I have an inexplicably visceral reaction whenever I see BEM mentioned as a “solution” to CSS architecture.
“More variables.”
“Less variables.”
“Just use an explicit child selector and an *. No problem.”
“Go with BEM, because it’s 2015 and everyone uses Emmet, so no problem having to type War & Peace as a fucking selector.”
CSS architecture is a complex problem, but I’m convinced there exists a Right Way to do it. Just not anything I’m seeing in that thread.
So many reasons to yell at this thread. github.com/zurb/foundatio…
I have to say, I’m _really_ enjoying #angularjs. I still find it obtuse at times, but it’s expressive in its own way & refreshingly modular.
A pox on you if you use JavaScript to disable pasting into a form on the web. Especially password fields. There’s NO good reason for that.
February 2015
For the .02% of you who might find this useful: Using Vim keybindings in Ace, via #angularjs ui-ace directive plnkr.co/edit/0iZLt7hO2…
Live long and prosper, friends. Live long and prosper.
.@pushprocessor was a photographic Bob Ross, now he’s channeling J.J. Abrams: “If I Had A Boat || flic.kr/p/r2DNrp”
#lensflare
All of sudden my Twitter feed is all @emberjs, all the time. I blame @kiwiupover
I needed this! “@hcatlin: How do you pull off those nice inline validations with @emberjs? @malrase shows you how! teamrarebit.com/blog/2015/02/1…”
This morning I used @sassmeisterapp in a way I never would have imagined when I started building it. Very surreal.
This is a really cool resource for quick JavaScript tutorials: adripofjavascript.com/archive.html. Concise and very well written. Thanks @joshuacc!
A blog post on my #angularjs rewrite of bad-grizzly will be coming soon.
I rewrote the front-end of bad-grizzly, github.com/jedfoster/bad-…, in #angularjs—in under 8 hours!
And I have to say, I don’t hate it.
Fun fact: No two #angularjs tutorials do things the same way. And, so far, none of the code in O’Reilly’s book works with v1.3.x
Why is #angularjs so obtuse?! I'm inclined to use something else.
Why Tesla's battery for your home should terrify utilities theverge.com/2015/2/13/8033…
Bootstrap without all the debt #protip coderwall.com/p/wixovg via @coderwall
I rarely drink when I get home at the end of the day, but today was... a day.
2015 needs to improve soon.
Dammit 2015! Why did you have to start out with so many changes? This kind of tumult needs to be spread out.
‘So the Opposite of Addiction Is Not Sobriety. It Is Human Connection.’ huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/th…
Wrote a gem to make it easy to use icon fonts built w/@befontastic in a Sass project.
$ gem install fontastic2sass
github.com/jedfoster/font…
Been using this really cool app sassmeister.com Very helpful for sketching out ideas.
Wish someone would’ve told me about it sooner.
Hey Seattle friends, drive safe out there today. I know it’s raining and your instinct is to drive faster & dodge the raindrops, but don’t.
January 2015
The narcissist.
2015 will be the year of full-stack JavaScript for me.
Here’s some stuff I learned last year: jedfoster.com/blog/bad-grizz…
What? I don’t… I can’t… Ugh. Why does all the bad code have to happen to me?
View from the Safeco Field roof control room. #MarinersFF
Kodak moment with Mariner Moose! #MarinersFF
.@shell_foster letting the arrow fly. #MarinersFF
.@shell_foster ready to zip.
The zip line at #MarinersFF was even more fun than I expected.
Hello Safeco Field! I've missed you!
Our Savior, The Supervillain popsci.com/our-savior-sup…
Pattern libraries as style API contracts. I think there might be something in that.
Double argh! “localhost” is hardcoded, too. Now I don’t get any images when viewing the app from an IE vm. So dumb.
Argh. Be nice, don’t hardcode port numbers in config files. Now I _have_ to run this app on 3000, otherwise—KABLOOEY!
It’s _ten minutes_ long! I don’t think _I_ could talk about it for that long.
… And then I find a YouTube screencast on how to use the thing I built.
youtube.com/watch?v=jMpcVQ…
That’s just crazy.
I’m reluctant to spend so much time building a thing that needs to exist, but which I myself don’t actually use.
It sucks to realize on day 3 of a 12 day code vacation that 6 months of work needs be ditched. Glad I had something else to occupy my time.
Readmore.js v2 is done; now to re/write docs & publish.
Not what I’d intended to do during this code-cation, but I’m happy w/the results.
Now I can finally use the ice cream maker attachment my mother-in-law gave me off my Amazon wishlist _5 years ago!_
Got a new toy.
December 2014
Saying “No” to pull requests on OSS makes me feel like a jerk. Someone spent THEIR time improving MY project and here I am rejecting it.
OMG. Just spent 5 hours debugging code that worked flawlessly when I wrote it 3 weeks ago.
This is NOT the vacation I had planned.
Happy Thursday everyone!
OMG! An slow, orchestral version of “Lukin”! pearljam.com/setlists/1025/…
Normal paced, string version from the prev. night is also worth hearing
PSA: `brew upgrade git`
github.com/blog/1938-vuln…
Moral Madness theatlantic.com/politics/print…
Oddly, I enjoy deleting Sass more than writing it.
Side-by-side highlighted diffs on the command line: jefftk.com/icdiff
`brew install icdiff`
Works very well with git, too!
I miss ska.
I _really_ want to use SVG icons, but they’re just too heavy. My hand-optimized SVG sprite is 12K, but adding to a PNG sprite is only 3K.
November 2014
“Wanderers” vimeo.com/108650530
$ memecached -p 11211
Someone needs to run with that. I’m just an idea guy.
I can’t wait for @PearlJam to release the Milwaukee, WI #PJFall2014 bootleg. Yield from front to back.
pearljam.com/setlists/1087/…
That Moline, IL show from the #PJFall2014 tour is AMAZING! No Code from front to back. Check it out bit.ly/pj-fallbootlegs
“…that’s the moss in the aforementioned verse.”
One of my favorite lines in any @PearlJam song.
Drop whatever you're doing right now and go see Interstellar.
It's the best sci-fi film since 2001—arguably better in some ways.
I’m totally over invitations to try beta software; by the time I receive my invitation, I’ve forgotten what it was and why I cared.
“Manslaughter charges overturned for Italian geologists”
How long until this stupidity happens here? theverge.com/2014/11/11/719…
I want to stab this horrible code in the eye, but it’s so bad I can’t _find_ its eye.
Listening to NPR; hearing a lot of Rebuplican pols talk about fixing the economy "from the bottom up." Did they give up on "trickle down"?
This dependency chain is going to be the death of me.
#newdesktop #winteriscoming “@pushprocessor: Admired || #photography #photo #foto #flickr || flic.kr/p/pDLgPa”
Christian Bale can't play Steve Jobs. Here are 8 people who can | The Verge theverge.com/2014/11/3/7151…
Finalized our 2015 @Mariners season tickets. Now trying to convince the wife that we _need_ a vacation to AZ next spring. Doesn’t look good.
October 2014
Eat your heart out, Michael Bay. @nasa knows how to blow shit up. nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news…
When you google for answers and all you find are your own questions. That’s my life right now.
If you use something like LiveReload, but haven’t enabled auto save in your editor, what are you doing with your life?
If your text editor doesn’t offer auto save on lost focus, it’s time to get a new editor.
I can’t RT or favorite this one hard enough!
“@pushprocessor: Strange Déjà Vu || #seattle || flic.kr/p/pAd8YW”
Do I know anyone (or anyone who knows someone else) who knows Sequelize.js? Code review &/or pairing.
The upgrade from 1.7 to 2.0 is hard.
Someone just compared my Vim to sticks and rocks. It’s really more like the tumbler from “Dark Knight”, I’m just can’t drive it very well.
Vim function for toggling relative line numbers: gist.github.com/jedfoster/0559…
h/t @jkreeftmeijer
How iOS 8’s Time-Lapse Feature Works studioneat.com/blogs/main/154…
September 2014
That said, if a human dosen’t have to read or edit it, JSON is a pretty decent serialized object transport.
JSON is a shitty format. There, I said it.
Spent 2 hours debugging. Linters actually obfuscated the issue.
JSON, you can die in a fire.
How is it possible I've written nearly 10,000 words and _still_ don't feel like I have a solid grasp on the subject?
I just hope this epic tutorial has more fact than fiction.
I've somehow managed to write the "War and Peace" of hello world tutorials. I know I should stop, but the barista just refilled my coffee.
Current status: procrastitweeting
It's a thing. I looked it up.
Really enjoying Harp.js. harpjs.com Just might ditch Jekyll.
The Pentecostal Serpent — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER bittersoutherner.com/the-pentecosta…
Wait, wait... don't tell me. @ The Paramount.
@waitwait
A beautiful day for our last baseball game of the season. Really looking forward tour season tickets next year!
At minimum README should include:
• How to install ($ [gem | bower | npm] install <lib>)
• How to use (@import ‘lib’)
• List of key APIs
PSA: “fully commented” code is _no replacement_ for a proper README. If you can comment the code, you can write a README.
I wrote a gem that makes it easy to use icon fonts built w/@keyamoon in a Sass project.
$ gem install icomoon2sass
github.com/jedfoster/icom…
nvm, just needed to RTFM.
Surprised I actually documented something.
Damn it! I wrote this code _A MONTH AGO_ how can I not understand it?!
Test-driven development can be TDD-ious, but it should raise expectations for quality code.
Very nice! “@github: Introducing split diffs: github.com/blog/1884-intr…”
This is really cool: Game of Thrones title sequence in the style of Saul Bass. youtube.com/watch?v=cMTq4S…
Real Vanilla Isn't Plain. It Depends On (Dare We Say It) Terroir npr.org/blogs/thesalt/…
August 2014
Mariners fireworks.
A gorgeous night for baseball.
A suffusion of yellow.
The mermaid.
SAFE!! At third.
Grounder.
King's Court
Enjoying the view from the visitor's dugout during the Safeco Field tour.
Safeco Field tour with @shell_foster earlier today.
Loads of fun baseball trivia.
Let game begin.
No, seriously, let's get this game started already.
"the Zen-like performance by the llama" washingtonpost.com/express/wp/201…
"Llama Cop" is a TV show. And it's AMAZING!!!
Episode 1 is titled "Llethal Weapon": m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrUey0…
Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte And Its Unlikely Triumph seattlemet.com/eat-and-drink/…
HALP! Anyone have experience with Sequelize? Been banging my head on a problem for 2 days. Docs and Google no help. Gotta be a better way.
Node.js callbacks are like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, except you can’t flip back chapter 5 and choose a different adventure.
callbacks
all
the
way
down
yes,
down here, too
It feels like I’m going insane, so I must be doing something right.
get anything done How with asynchronous callbacks does anybody in Node?
Lately I feel like most of my tweets are RTs of @pushprocessor’s amazing photography. But this, flic.kr/p/oyWbnL, MUST be shared. #ff
“Specialization is for recruiters.” ma.tt/2014/08/specia…
Robert A. Heinlein is great even when paraphrased.
Also, Bazaar, for Heroku-like names. rubygems.org/gems/bazaar
For when you need a codename. projectcodename.com
I really love @SassMeisterapp for prototyping, but I really wish it had feat—wait… oh, right… damn.
The Great Potato Dishes of Urbanspoon: urbanspoon.com/blog/2014/08/g…
I <3 taters.
TIL: A 13 pound cat can cover 30 square feet of floor and furniture in his breakfast.
Just achieved peak cat puke.
Are rhetorical questions stupid? Yes, yes they are.
Heard this on NPR the other day: npr.org/blogs/thesalt/….
Mise-en-place can be applied to code as well, especially on the front end.
Pearl Jam 20 screening at The Triple Door.
@shell_foster should go out of town more often.*
* No, she shouldn't.
M's win, eh?
#usausausa
11 runs, 10 hits. It's been that kind of game.
Fuckin' A! 7 run inning! Go M's!!
He's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. What are mine? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball
That was a great game, #mariners, thanks! Looking forward to tomorrow night.
Best. Sports bar. Ever.
Beer && #mariners baseball. Only way this would be better is if @shell_foster were here.
TIL: The Pen at Safeco Field has happy hour with $5 beers. #besthappyhourinseattle
Beautiful night for baseball. #mariners
Go Ms! #mariners
Nickel Creek at Chateau Ste. Michelle on a gorgeous evening.
July 2014
Great day for some wine and Chris Isaak.
I’m going to have to go back re-read “All You Zombies” now. I know I have it, just can’t remember which collection of short stories it’s in.
A new film based on a Robert A Heinlein —how am I only now hearing about this? RAH + Ethan Hawke = take my money! insidemovies.ew.com/2014/07/21/eth…
I found this article to be very helpful for fixing a memory issue I had with Dokku. blog.parkermoore.de/2013/12/21/fix… Thanks @parkr!
Big thanks to @wedtm for turning me on to Dokku. github.com/progrium/dokku
Dokku + DO == game.change!
Node is a sweatshop.
nodejs.org/api/cluster.ht…
Also, very violent.
nodejs.org/api/cluster.ht…
Node is a cluster.fork().
rowanmanning.com/posts/node-clu…
Plan To Make 6 States Out Of California May Head To Ballot
[I’m not sure six is enough.] npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w…
Jeans 'Designed' By Lions And Tigers To Benefit Japanese Zoo npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w…
Brazil’s Secret History of Southern Hospitality | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told. narrative.ly/extra-time-in-…
What Burritos And Sandwiches Can Teach Us About Innovation npr.org/blogs/alltechc…
Oklahoma farmer loses iPhone in grain pit, finds it in Japan 9 months later tuaw.com/2014/07/08/okl…
June 2014
/cc @shih_lee “Tomorrow at @seattlerb, Matthew Kirk (@mjkirk) will be speaking about machine learning with ruby: seattlerb.org/talks/417”
The gate at the entrance to my neighborhood has been stuck open for a week. Someone no longer feels secure.
I've never seen New Zealand Venison & Apples on a restaurant menu. And I've eaten in some high end places.
_I_ don't even eat Black Forest Rabbit & Blueberry. The fuzzy bastard eats better than I do.
TIL: "Novel proteins" are high end, hypoallergenic pet foods. My cat now eats Black Forest Rabbit & Blueberry Entrée.
This is the important work I’m doing now.
“@urbanspoon: We did a taste test and tried 6 of the weirdest #Oreos: bit.ly/1lqnDwY”
How is it that something that _causes_ allergies can, itself, _have_ allergies?
(My cat has allergies. The fuzzy little bastard.)
This is really cool! gist.github.com/psebborn/18855…
Drop that in your browser console and see how many rules are in your CSS.
Craziest thing: Since starting the new gig I’m _always_ hungry. Why do you think that is? cl.ly/image/0S2a1R22…
#newdesktop
“@pushprocessor: Spring City Nights || #seattle #cityscape #photography #photo #foto #flickr || flic.kr/p/nSzuTD”
Why A Pack Of Peanut Butter M&M'S Weighs A Tiny Bit Less Than A Regular Pack npr.org/blogs/money/20…
Digesting WWDC: Cloudy ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…
So, managed to get through my second day at the new gig without spilling water on my laptop like I did yesterday. #winning
May 2014
Beer && baseball
I am unemployed.
Until Monday, when I start new adventures at @urbanspoon.
@GettyImages was a great experience; but all good things end.
Current status: 301 / Moved permanently
“It’s an all around mandate. Everyone cares.”
Just go read this: fastcodesign.com/3030923/4-myth…
“…everyone at Apple--from the engineers to the marketers--is, to some extent, thinking like a designer.”
fastcodesign.com/3030923/4-myth…
“Everybody there is thinking about UX and design, not just the designers.”
fastcodesign.com/3030923/4-myth…
Everything Is Broken medium.com/message/81e5f3…
This is the coolest tool I’ve found this year!
explainshell.com/explain?cmd=gi…
“@PearlJam: 21 years ago this month: The recording of VS. concluded. ”
My copy’s old enough to drink.
That’s right, I just connected with my cat on LinkedIn. Everyone should have a Cuddle Concierge in their network.
Don’t Go to Work slate.com/articles/busin…
She may not be a mother, but my special lady deserves a special day of #Mariners baseball.
How Efficiency Killed The Department Store collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-e…
Thanks for morning chuckle, @hotdogsladies kungfugrippe.com/post/850000003…
Take Me Out to the Ballpark—All of Them slate.com/articles/sport…
The Complete History Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mentalfloss.com/article/30862/…
The real fake film.
Code name PIGEON.
Dead drop rat.
April 2014
“Pow + nginx configuration aka give me back my 80 port!” gist.github.com/teamon/1112295
I <3 the @codeforamerica space. So much design-y stuff. Esp. the Lego history in the men's room—I had that exact set!
I'm a Sasstronaut. And a SassMeister.
Conference swag.
I Coded.
Hello, San Francisco!
13 Things You Didn’t Know About Del Taco: thrillist.com/eat/los-angele…
Learn something new every day.
What is this “cascade” you speak of, and what has it to do with me?
Just put a bang important on it.
These are amazing! kickstarter.com/projects/padbu…
If I actually played card games, I’d back this.
The Invention Of The Slurpee priceonomics.com/the-invention-…
Ugh. Dammit AT&T, that last tweet should have gone out 3 hours ago. Y u no connect?
Opening night. Go M's!!
3 run homer! Suck it Angels.
I've missed baseball.
I wonder what this looks in IE6? ie6death.com
In a surprise twist, 47 Ronin is a better film than (most of) the two Matrix sequels. Well worth the $3.50 ticket, though not the $6 popcorn
Something's wrong with @yelp's search algorithm.
I'm Darth Vader, And I Approve This Message npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w…
March 2014
Handy. Markdown table generator. tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables
Wow! S3 pricing is dropping 65%. Now starts at 3¢/GB.
aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/eff…
Content-out Layout alistapart.com/article/conten…
A Typographic Dating Game typeconnection.com
Using Embeddable Getty Images alistapart.com/blog/post/usin…
This is the best Tumblr ever: animalssuckingatjumping.tumblr.com
'Street Fighter: The Movie' — What Went Wrong polygon.com/features/2014/…
According to this tutorial, I have already mastered regular expressions… which seems unlikely.
Problem w/invite-only software is by the time I’m invited, I don’t care anymore. Happened w/Editorially & now Atom. #StrikeWhileTheIronIsHot
HTML is apparently a sexually transmitted disease: latimes.com/business/techn…
No wonder it hasn’t been working for me.
February 2014
OH on a street corner in South Lake Union: "They do all their shit in PHP. I don't know how it works."
Presented here without further comment: dhtmlconf.com
It’s disconcerting when your DNS host has to resort to posting status updates on Hacker News because _their_ status domain can’t resolve.
The President's done kicked out the jams!!
At the Triple Door to see The Presidents of United States of America! #millionsofpeachespeachesforme
Made a bunch of improvements to my jQuery plugin, Readmore.js, yesterday. You should check it out: jedfoster.com/Readmore.js/
I don’t have enough stars to give to this photo. “@pushprocessor: The Morning Of 2/9/14: It Snowed In Seattle flic.kr/p/jUXJE8”
Damn you, recommended tweets. That was actually a good one. But this is the last time. No more.
A reminder that these guys you're celebrating make more money in a season than you will make in a lifetime. For playing catch. In tights.
Starting to wish I had decided not to go into the office. There's a ridiculous number of people getting on the train in Sumner. At 6:17am.
Ironically, I have to install Less in order to add Sass to this new library.
January 2014
YES!! autocmd BufLeave,FocusLost * silent! wall
stackoverflow.com/questions/4637…
#vim
“Relying on implicit insertion can cause subtle, hard to debug problems. Don't do it. You're better than that.”
“Semicolons: Always use semicolons.”
google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/java…
And now every new developer who reads youmightnotneedjquery.com is going to omit semi-colons. Is it me? Am I too old? #WhoKilledCodingStandards
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This is also a nice resource for doing JS right: jstherightway.org
Re: my JS code style rant last night, I found this github.com/rwaldron/idiom… today. **THIS** is how you do it.
Automation xkcd.com/1319/
Promoted tweet fail.
Current status: working with three unfamiliar technologies at once; because I apparently hate life.
Related: Computering is _harrrd!!_
Even if your language doesn’t care about punctuation & white-space, *other* developers do! Don’t try to make your JS look like it’s Python.
OMG, JS-people, pick an effing coding style and effing stick with it.
Three different tutorials with three different coding styles.
ARGHHH!!! Looking at an *actual* tutorial for a Node.js package that omits all the semi-colons. I thought we determined that was bad?!
A search for “postgresql” on NPM returns a **ridiculous** number of results. Likewise, “mysql”.
Twitter friends, I’m looking for recommendations for a Node.js database library (PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite/etc.)
There needs to be an emoji for air quotes.
All these whiz-bang features on this cool web app, but it still looks like crap on my phone. Whoever made this should be asham—oh, right.
I want you all to see what I’ve built, but I don’t want anyone to see the code. The code is baaaad, but the app is sweeeet.
I a simultaneously proud of and disgusted by the JavaScript I’ve just written. That means it’s good, right?
Now that’s how you start a new year! @seanlikewhat made a Ruby gem for installing my Readmore.js in a Rails app! rubygems.org/gems/readmorej…
December 2013
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Ugh. The deeper I dig, the more fragmented this community appears. No single solution to problems; no authoritative source of information.
Really?! There’s an NPM module called “Hooker”?! Has the Node.js community learned nothing from Ruby & Rails?
Really, @Rackspace, I filled out the online form and *still* have to call you?!
Semantic HTML, modular CSS, and responsive web design; or "no plan survives contact with the enemy.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_v…
The CSS I’m writing now makes me feel *very* dirty.
For the record, styling HTML w/CSS is the least intuitive, most unnatural aspect of modern web development.
(Yes, it’s one of *those* days)
This is what you missed.
A truly memorable show. Thanks @PearlJam!
This is gonna be an epic show! Pretty good view and no one in front of us.
"“Pearl Jam” is next up on your calendar"
Olé!
Might have to buy one of these tonight. “@PearlJam: Poster for tonight's show in Seattle! Artwork by D*Face. ”
Great show. @EDDIEKLIVE rocked it, acoustic-style. I was skeptical of hearing LIVE songs without the rest of the band, but that was amazing!
Wow, the Triple Door is a great venue! Classy. Not a bad seat in the house. This should be a really fun show. @EDDIEKLIVE
Ordered @bearmccreary’s Defiance soundtrack. Hope I got in early enough for an autographed copy. Building quite the collection of signed CDs
November 2013
Well, that and it's not Washington.
That I can't pump my own gas is the number 1 reason I'd never move to Oregon.
The Oregon regulation against consumers pumping their own gas is _the_ most dumbest state law ever. I can pump my own gas in 49 other states
That was an AWESOME show!
Second encore break. I hope this never ends.
That was the best version of Rats I've ever heard.
I wonder what wine Eddie's drinking?
This show rocks!!!!!!!!
Looking forward to an amazing show.
Our view of the stage! I **LOVE** the @PearlJam 10Club!
Heellloooo Portland!
The guy has a point: “… all the problems we have with websites are *ones we create ourselves.*”
motherfuckingwebsite.com
"Good design is as little design as possible."
- some German motherfucker
motherfuckingwebsite.com
"Traditional" marriage is antithetical to the values of individual agency so prized by traditionalists. collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-r…
Screw open source software, the future is all about OPEN SOURCE TACOS!! github.com/sinker/tacofan…
I don’t care what “number” it was, if you leave the restroom without washing your hands with water AND soap, you just killed a kitten.
October 2013
Time for my annual PSA to parents of trick-or-treaters: if a house has no porch light & no decorations, odds are there's NO FUCKING CANDY!!!
Ok, @fieldnotesbrand, either stop making such awesome stuff or take *all* my money right now. fieldnotesbrand.com/newsletter/ind…
Sorry internet friends, I’ve been forced block @doge_css. much tweets so pointless
“and some guys from the home depot parking lot who look like they know how to build a compound”
louisvsrick.com/post/654398404…
The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic slate.com/articles/arts/…
It amazes me that the web works at all.
I’ve seen clearfix applied to elements that aren’t floated. Or, worse yet, applied to the everything but the correct element.
“clearfix” has become a magical artifact that can cure all your layout woes.
It’s astonishing how many front end devs don’t understand what the “clearfix” hack is or how it actually works.
The funniest Sandwich Monday yet. “@waitwait: Live Free or Die Lard: It's Sandwich Monday.
npr.org/blogs/thesalt/…”
And before you say anything, yes, I have a problem with taking multiple frames of the same shot. I’m seeking treatment, go easy on me.
More of my photos from @SassConf can be found here: flickr.com/photos/jedfost…, here: flickr.com/photos/jedfost…, and here: flickr.com/photos/jedfost…
Bowing to peer pressure, I have added a bunch of photos from @SassConf: flickr.com/groups/sasscon…
/cc @anotheruiguy
If you leave the restroom without washing your hands with water AND soap, you're what's wrong with America.
Ordered @bearmccreary’s Da Vinci’s Demons soundtrack. Hope I was fast enough to get an autographed copy. Human Target & Caprica need a mate.
Nice! “@Dan_S_Blanchard: Check out this cool Gist-powered blogging tool some guy came up with: roughdraft.io”
(I’m the “some guy”)
Weird seeing a tweet from the guy at the desk next to me (whom I don't follow) show up in my timeline as a retweet from a guy in Brooklyn.
Wow. Someone asked a question on Stack Overflow about my jQuery plugin. My quest to dominate the internets is almost complete.
Wow. I took more than 5,300 photos on Sunday. Thank you iPhone 5s burst mode.
Ladies & gents, Fashion 101: new suit jackets & skirts have a small X of thread at the bottom of vents (slits)—remove it! For shipping only.
.@SassConf was a blast, but it's good tone home.
Fuckin' NY pizza!
I'm secure and in no way ashamed of wearing a pink shirt while playing ping pong in a nightclub in NYC.
Chillin'
Billable bowel movement
Red line FTW!!!!
FML.
The whitest cat I know.
A half-assed solution is not a solution.
“PEARL JAM 10C VERSION LIGHTNING BOLT C shipped”
YAY!!!!!!!!!
September 2013
Let’s make this the last word on “unicorns”, “ninjas”, and “rockstars”. the-pastry-box-project.net/geri-coady/201…
It’s time for our profession to grow up.
Resisting the urge to buy the store's only copy of Stranger in A Strange Land, just so a great work doesn't go unloved. I already have three
And don't tell me it's because of all the sex in Game of Thrones; RAH wrote the book on free love.
Why does this George R. R. Martin guy get 3 whole shelves, but Robert Heinlein barely gets half a shelf?
I'm lost in a book store. Please send in the St. Bernard and the brandy.
Lightning Bolt could be the best @PearlJam album yet.
But of course, I've said that about every PJ album since 1996.
Sirens, the new @PearlJam single, is an amazing addition to an incredible catalog. Completely unlike any other PJ song.
Either way, iPhone 5s ordered.
Can’t decide which was less pleasant: waiting for hours in line to get my iPhone 4, or staying up til midnight to get my iPhone 5s.
My new favorite photo of Seattle.
“@pushprocessor: If We Were Sunlight... (Good Morning Seattle) flic.kr/p/fQq7Hu”
If you ever VNC from a Mac laptop to a Windows PC, this may come in handy:
Fn-Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-Del
(sends Ctrl-Alt-Del)
Current status: Fixing bugs and writing new ones.
An AWESOME fan-made video for @PearlJam's Mind Your Manners. youtube.com/watch?v=1m4y8G…
'Death Ray II?' London Building Reportedly Roasts Cars npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w…
Responsive red line #trollin
Yeah, I spent Labor Day building websites for my cats. What of it?
August 2013
This either the best or worst thing ever. Can't decide. consumerist.com/2013/08/30/spr…
“10 Steps to Becoming a Ridiculously Agile Developer” by @gittower
My fav: #2 “Try pair salary negotiations, pair coffee sugaring…”
Iconizr: takes your SVG drawings and processes them to a CSS icon kit (SVG sprites + Sass): iconizr.com
#BookmarkSass
Percentage-based, absolute horizontal/vertical centering: jsfiddle.net/bCQUd/
Comparing and contrasting ins, del, and s html5doctor.com/ins-del-s/
Why didn't anyone tell me that it's National Rum Day?
font-size: 8pt;
bukk.it/sadface.gif
If you aren't following @hotdogsladies, you're missing out on something really special.
Was not expecting Harry to bring the funk. #respecttheclavinet
Watching a couple in front of us waltz to Harry singing "Just A Closer Walk"
I'd've stayed in church if Harry'd been in the choir.
Seriously, hymns take on a whole different feel after a full bottle of wine.
A guy is fighting with three girls as Harry plays "The Old Rugged Cross".
Apparently "gospel guitar" is a thing. #canigetanamen
Me & @shell_foster are about to see Harry Connick, Jr. at Chateau Ste Michelle. I'm on my 2nd glass of wine.
Got my @GetEditorially beta, but it’s been so long since I signed up for it that I don’t remember why I wanted it in the first place.
Next time someone asks me what the CSS box-model means I’m going to reply with this: flickr.com/photos/cmdshif…
Urggghh. How does a 10 month old app already have a "legacy" API!?
International Man of Mystery - WineLuxury.com
j.mp/13txutD (via Instapaper)
Pale Blue Dot
(As always with XKCD, the real punch line is in the alt text.) xkcd.com/1246/
Listening to my wife explain Facebook to her mother. How does anyone consider this time well-spent?
I tweet. With no irony.
July 2013
“Becoma a Vim Genius” vimgenius.com
Very cool.
Hardcore arithmetic.
Just bought my ticket to @SassConf. Have you got yours?
A Pearl Jam app?! Can’t install it fast enough. itunes.apple.com/us/app/pearl-j…
How to think like Sherlock Holmes: See and observe to fight attention blindness; be happier. - Slate Magazine j.mp/TY2rjj
Composing the New Canon: Music, Harmony, Proportion j.mp/14KmWYu (via Instapaper)
Mad props to the girl applying eyeliner on the train in a bumpy section of track. I can't bear to watch.
"...on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
Cassini's Version Of 'The Pale Blue Dot' npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w…
Healthy competition is one thing; a fragmented community with the attention span of that dog from Up is another. #squirrel
Contrary to previously stated opinions, it is possible for a JS file to have too much white-space & too many comments. Can’t read this code.
"Is the NSA using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM Data?"
Tl;dr: new word of the day: yollabyte. #yollabyte blog.backblaze.com/2013/06/09/is-…
NEW FEATURE: Roughdraft now supports plain text, Textile, and Haml!
Check it out: roughdraft.io
Let's have a moment of silence for the mouse I just ran over on the freeway. Poor bastard's legs just weren't fast enough.
It’s so hard to tell if midnight code is any good. Will the tests still pass in the morning?
NEW FEATURE: Comments!
If a Gist has comments, you can now view them in Roughdraft!
Check it out. roughdraft.io
Mind Your Manners. pearljam.com/lightningbolt
Lightning Bolt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suspect a new Pearl Jam album is in the offing. pearljam.com/countdown#coun…
Trying to contain my excitement.
Pearl Jam is touring again!!!!!
Gonna try to go to Portland on 11/29 and Seattle on 12/6.
Now I know why I’m so grumpy.
“@jamesrbuk: Amazing: "Is there an atheist in your neighborhood?" pic.twitter.com/ZT1SYLbKbI (HT @shufgy)”
NEW FEATURE: Roughdraft.io supports adding/deleting/renaming files in your Gists. Log in with @GitHub & check it out. roughdraft.io
New on Roughdraft.io: log in with your @GitHub account to create and edit Gists!
Check it out! roughdraft.io
Eating popcorn, watching tests run.
(Am I doing this right?)
This is cool! An interactive Git Cheatsheet, arranged by the phases your repo goes through.
ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet…;
June 2013
Hey, internets, I get it already, Google shows something special on the results page for “gay”, you can stop telling me to “check it out”.
Remember: XML is like violence; if it doesn’t solve your problems you’re not using enough of it.
New favorite musical group: Pharis & Jason Romero. As good as Nickel Creek. Amazingly beautiful music & lyrics.
itun.es/i6xg4qS
"It's Saturday, the band is playing, honey, could we ask for more?"
Attending our sixth live A Prairie Home Companion broadcast.
"No virtual cows were harmed in the making of this." #wwdc2013
“We do not want to be the first software in history to be delayed because of a dwindling supply of cats.” #wwdc2013
Designing for Breakpoints cl.ly/2L0D1m1n3C1P
May 2013
I just said Von's instead of Safeway—in front of people. Now they know I'm not from around here.
A second-hand compliment is doubly so. Especially when it arrives unexpected.
"Percy was _not_ pleased with the renovation."
via Unhappyhipsters.com unhappyhipsters.com/post/512159862…
Check it out: Roughdraft.io now has Twitter Cards!
cl.ly/0H0c420L3F1t
cl.ly/1q3q2g402q0z
This is AWESOME!!
A frame-by-frame recreation of the opening sequence of Casino Royale… with Lego!!
devour.com/video/lego-cas…
Very cool web app for organizing your GitHub Gists. gistboxapp.com
And have you seen roughdraft.io yet?
“Maybe I should have just used Octopress.” winstonyw.com/2013/02/24/jek…
Best closing line of a Jekyll walk-through. Thanks @winstonyw
So apparently <hgroup> is obsolete (already). I *just* completed a story to add <hgroup>s to 100s of pages. #cantwin feedproxy.google.com/~r/html5doctor…
Whoa! @sassmeisterapp got a mention on @smashingmag this morning. So cool!
Huge spike in traffic: cl.ly/image/1A091s3q…
Thanks @heroku!
April 2013
Screw you, Chrome. “Delete” doesn’t mean “Back”.
Forget the Blink/WebKit shit, just give me a browser that doesn’t fuck up my form input.
Searching Twitter for the names of my apps makes me sad for humanity.
The rest of Twitter looks like Pioneer Square (not in a good way.)
A tweet from @sassmeisterapp got “Favorited” by the Godfather of the Web!
cl.ly/image/2f0z3l0d…
The Martian Chroniclers newyorker.com/reporting/2013…
It’s 2013. Why is it so hard to vertically center elements with CSS?
PSA: If you want a job as a “web developer” a GitHub account isn’t optional.
Seriously, go get a GH account. Now.
github.com
Holy cow! I had no idea this existed. So cool. HTML5 FTW!
svarden.se/blog/2013-04-2…
More tulips.
More tulips.
Tulips
Mariners Win!!
2-0. Will the Ms pull out a win?
Bottom of the seventh, and it's starting to look like the third quarter of a Sounders FC game.
It's the seventh inning. You know what to do.
Few things in life are better than a cold beer at a ball game in the middle of a weekday.
Harrison Ford Will See That 'Wookiee Sack of S#@!' Chewbacca "In Hell!" movieline.com/2013/04/18/har…
Excellent advice, just in time. Getty Images is looking for a front-end dev.
“Hiring front-end developers” — j.mp/YqL6zI
The bunnies are no longer with us, but their endurance & tastiness in the face of adversity should be an inspiration to all of us.
Siamese-triplet bunnies. Not for the faint of heart.
Always amazed at how easy the internet makes finding & buying cool niche stuff.
So going to outdo myself for @shell_foster’s bday this year
I warn the guy next to me in the restroom that the sink he’s about to use is out of soap. He says, “That’s OK, I don’t use soap.”
Ewwww!!!
Use the cascade, that’s what it’s there for.
Don't know who scribbled this or why, but it freaks out the markup Nazi in me.
March 2013
My new laptop does purrrrr-allel computing.
Ducks. In a pool.
Enlarged to show texture.
What a hamburger is all about.
California food tour status:
✓Miguel's Jr.
✓ In-n-Out
✓ Manna Donuts
- Maria's
- Tokyo Wako
- Wienershnitzle
Ahh, yes, my hometown.
That was the best burrito I've had in 5 years.
Friends, this is what heaven tastes like.
SoCal, I am in you.
(Really wish I weren't. I feel dirty already.)
Eavesdropping on a frontend dev & noob designer. Dev is explaining how designer should build a PSD comp. bukk.it/facepalm-sisko…
@jed_foster: Announcing Roughdraft: Gist-powered writing for the web.
Check it out at roughdraft.io.
Typography is the mother of all rabbit holes.
Current status: staring into the abyss of typographic ratios.
Must resist urge to jump.
I'm about to launch a new mini web app. It's really sweet! Second best design I've done. To quote one advance tester: "This is bad ass!"
"8 tips for no-touch flying: a completely serious survival guide to economy seating." Also applicable to train & bus. feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrettTerpst…
APIs are way more fun after three beers.
Wish I could do serious coding from my iPad while I sit in this bar.
Wish I had an iPad.
February 2013
Committing code, on the train, from a slab of glass, steel, and silicon. The future is here. (And it's sloooooooooow!)
I don't always issue ALTER TABLE queries, but when I do, I do it on 'db_production'.
Unbomb.rake jedfoster.com/blog/unbomb-do…
Bit the bullet this weekend & ported my site to Jekyll, incl. my blog (all 4 posts)
Thanks to @mislav for a great example of a Jekyll site
<sup>Dawg</sup>
Second prize is a set of pull-requests. Third prize is you're rebased.
#GlengarryGitRoss
These are the new commits. These are the Glengarry commits.
#GlengarryGitRoss
Put. That coffee. Down.
Coffee's for committers only.
#GlengarryGitRoss
A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Committing.
Always be committing, always be committing.
#GlengarryGitRoss
Sass had 99 issues, until _I_ showed up!
Now it has 100.
The Int'l District is a bit crazier and a lot more stinky today.
101
Watching "Mousetrap" at Village Theater. You should totally see this play; there's a good reason it's the longest running play in US history
Awesome!
`$ traceroute 216.81.59.173`
Attempting to code with two kittens on laptop. Please forgive any typooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Singing along to "Fuck tha Police" by Rage Against the Machine. 'Cause apparently that's how I roll now.
This is horrible... But hilarious... But really, really horrible. konstantkitten.com
98.
I think I just won buzzword bingo… And I'm still on the (Flash) splash screen.
January 2013
A humble offering, in the hope that it will save someone else some time when installing gistio locally: gist.github.com/4679002
Perhaps it's an availability bias on my part, but Sass seems oddly popular amongst Drupal devs. What's up with that?
Just spent 15 minutes composing a tweet, only to decide not to tweet it.
#youllneverknowwhatyoumissed
Looking a Gift Coupon in the Mouth onefoottsunami.com/2013/01/25/loo…
How awesome is it that I can use @sassmeisterapp on my phone, over 3G, on the train?! The future is now, bitches!
"The Administration does not support blowing up planets."
petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-…
This is really cool! githubfantasy.com
What's your score? (Mine is 161)
I love the smell of @heroku in the morning.
An explosion of interest in @sassmeisterapp killed it. Spun up more dynos & back in business.
Death is Your Gift – In Praise of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Fifth Season « The Blank Projector j.mp/10aLeJu (via Instapaper)
15 Years after Buffy: She Influenced Pop Culture. A Lot. - Mindhut - SparkNotes j.mp/10aLetd (via Instapaper)
Will Science Someday Rule Out the Possibility of God? - Yahoo! News j.mp/10aLg4d (via Instapaper)
3 seconds of cheerleaders; 11 minutes of action; 67 minutes of players standing around. Sounds about right.
online.wsj.com/article_email/…
December 2012
"If everyone is a hipster, is anyone really a hipster?" should be a new a Zen koan.
FASHION TIP: Hipster Lumberjack is _the_ look in Portland this season.
Somehow, this project ended up with _three_ different Rakefiles.
Day-old movie theater popcorn isn't as bad you might think.
"Skyfall" on the other hand was not as good as everyone has been saying.
“@anotheruiguy: gist.io such an awesome idea.”
Fucking A! My last blog entry looks amazing now: gist.io/4370358
Ok. Seriously… My current coding status may be "Awesome", but I'm really failing at Twitter editing today. Last two tweets had missing
Hells yeah! Writing JavaScript like I actually know what the I'm doing.
A Christmas tradition continued.
Ok, I fail at Markdown. Fixed an issue in my blog post from this morning where the links didn't work.
gist.github.com/4370358
BLOG: Introducing Readmore.js
gist.github.com/4370358
Readmore.js, my first jQuery plugin. jedfoster.github.com/Readmore.js/
It doesn't suck.
Don't know how it happened, but I think I just wrote my first jQuery plugin. Demo or jsFiddle to follow shortly.
Pro tip: when you release a cool jQuery project, be sure your demo webpage—and the demo in your repo—actually fricking works.
Why is it so hard to find a decent "read more/less" jQuery plugin? Found many & each is lacking in one way or another. Maybe I'm too picky
"Well the book was obviously wrong."
whatthecommit.com
(I'm amused and avoiding actual work.)
"Become a programmer, they said. It'll be fun, they said."
via whatthecommit.com
"put code that worked where the code that didn't used to be"
For the next time you can't think of a good commit msg: whatthecommit.com
Now *THIS* is how you do a long form article on the web: nytimes.com/projects/2012/…
Of the movie "The Hobbit," his review … was brief: "Overly long," he said, "and fairly boring." news.yahoo.com/man-left-gun-u…
"How to 'send' Sass output to your clipboard."
gist.github.com/4348560
Vim, Day 7
gist.github.com/4339935
"Do Armed Citizens Stop Mass Shootings?"
Turns out... Probably not so much. feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=9…
"No more bacon, motherfuckers." theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_w…
Good news: JS bug wasn't actually JS.
Bad news: it was Flash.
So now I have to figure out how to NOT execute a bit of JS for IE 7.
#FML
Oh, nothing, just debugging JavaScript in IE 7.
(Oh god, I'll tell you anything! Just make the pain stop!)
The Science of High Frame Rates, Or: Why 'The Hobbit' Looks Bad At 48 FPS movieline.com/2012/12/14/hob…
“I Am With the Uprising of Arab Women” feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=6…
I'm going to alias `man` to `dude`.
Thanks to @shell_foster for the idea.
And that's the last `man` joke for today.
.@shell_foster and I made a new friend Wild Lights.
I promise, one of these days I'm going to stop making stupid `man` jokes.
Really. I will. Promise.
"man date" is a thing I just typed….
In my terminal. BOOM!
Guess which city I used to live in ranked #6 in the top 10 dirtiest cities. homes.yahoo.com/news/the-10-di… Ought to be #2; can't argue with #1.
Vim, Day 1. gist.github.com/4270250
A very welcome GitHub update!
“@github: Welcome to a New Gist github.com/blog/1276-welc…”
If anybody needs me, I'll be over here: fontsinuse.com
#fontporn
Holy crap, this looks good! youtube.com/watch?v=KVu3gS…
Comment 'Foo!', and let slip the lines of code.
Friends, it's a sad, sad day...
I'm out of port.
On a happier note, I still have a nearly full bottle of Myer's rum. All is not lost.
How to annoy a web developer.
So true. xkcd.com/1144/
Practiced this today & solved the issue in < 5min
“@pragprog: Don't Panic When Debugging: Take a deep breath & think! ow.ly/dQjeN”
The 967 Grid System, for all your devices that get the internet.
ogvidius.com/967/
`git commit -m "Fixed Kristen Stewart's name."`
That JUST happened.
Where did I go wrong?!
Subcompact Publishing — by Craig Mod j.mp/V5rtKX (via Instapaper)
Give And Take: How The Rule Of Reciprocation Binds Us : Shots - Health News : NPR j.mp/R6nlyW (via Instapaper)
OH: "Assistance needed at the growler station."
I'm in paradise.
November 2012
In what way is any of this ""agile""?
Twelve man-hours for something that could've been done in one.
BASIC j.mp/11qpuX8 (via Instapaper)
OH: "I saw it in a comp, so that means I can implement it."
Avert your eyes. I'm doing some __obscene__ things with this code.
It's times like these I wish I were a smoker, just so I'd have a lighter handy.
This whole project needs to be thrown on the barbie.
Would someone like to come over and set this PHP on fire?
What do you guys think a 2 week old commit labeled simply, "WIP", means? I have no idea where I left off.
Must write better commit messages
So very, very many semi-colons!
9 months, 4 Gems, 3 Sinatra sites, 2 Rake files, & 1 big-ass Thor script later...
Fuck this PHP shit.
Didn't used to bother me. But now...
Just finished a very productive bathroom coding session.
Packaged @thoughtbot's Neat as a Compass extension.
`gem install neat-compass`
Oh, and @sassmeisterapp now supports Neat.
Yes, there're more productive ways I could have spent the day, but the bitmap logo has been bugging me since I launched SassMeister.com
In related news: Here's how I make icon fonts: goo.gl/SN7nx
Only took 12 hrs & half a bottle of wine, but I finally managed to convert the SassMeister logo to an icon font glyph.
Where's Waldo?
There are entirely too many soccer moms at this show.
“@TheSassWay: Using SMACSS with Sass: railslove.com/blog/2012/11/0…”
No. SMACSS is like Hungarian Notation for CSS. But worse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian…
Backblaze Blog » Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis j.mp/QTXPZw (via Instapaper)
October 2012
"Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure, & don't worry about the numbers." @hotdogsladies
Halloween Needs More Death j.mp/TXKjst (via Instapaper)
Who knew Comcast had a GitHub account?!
OMFG, just survived the most excruciating 2 hrs of community dinner theater.
There isn't enough rum in the world to make me do that again.
Travis Shrugged: The creepy, dangerous ideology behind Silicon Valley’s Cult of Disruption | PandoDaily j.mp/TH3f8P
The Battle for Best Buy, the Incredible Shrinking Big Box - Businessweek j.mp/OXAwQt (via Instapaper)
How to Kill a Bad Idea j.mp/XVagHM (via Instapaper)
Shedding Bikes: Programming Culture And Philosophy j.mp/XV8Xsi (via Instapaper)
Thor task to remove BOM from UTF-8 files.
It's da BOM! gist.github.com/3947705
I love the smell of APIs in the morning.
OH: "If anybody tries to steal my computer, save the stickers."
/via @anotheruiguy
Holy crap! I know what I'm going to code today. SassMeister.com is going to get a MAJOR improvement.
Iterators gonna iterate.
Rain on my face, coffee in my hand, Pearl Jam in my earbuds, and code on my mind.
Today's going to be epic. How could it not?
She didn't know it was a musical...
Is it any wonder why I love her?
She's never seen the movie. Will any of what she is about to see make sense?
Here be dragons.
Wicked.
"You're not entitled to your opinion" theconversation.edu.au/no-youre-not-e…
My Terminal tabs and windows are nearly as out of control as Safari.
Too. Many. Terminals.
Yesterday, for the 1st time in my career, I released a site that was such a hit the server crashed!
Check it out: sassmeister.com
SassMeister should be back online.
Note to self: don’t use request time compilation of Sass in production.
Announcing SassMeister. sassmeister.com
Play with Sass (*and* Sass libraries like Bourbon and Compass) in your browser.
The Great New England Vampire Panic j.mp/RZtIno (via Instapaper)
Branded for Life j.mp/U1UexD (via Instapaper)
September 2012
If there were a Hell, people who chew gum with volume and vigor would SOOOO be headed there.
I have more free RAM on this MBPr than available RAM on all the previous computers I’ve ever owned, combined.
This is @hotdogsladies at his best!
"Speaking for Yourself" j.mp/PpBCkP
His advice has applications far beyond just speaking gigs
"It is SO not worth the time and effort to deliberately fund your own clusterfuck. Clusterfucks must never be funded." j.mp/PpBCkP
"We are gentlemen, and we can disagree on value, but it’s unseemly to tell another gentleman what he’s worth." j.mp/PpBCkP
Geez, iOS 6 is taking a long time to install.
Well, that's unexpected… it's a Rage Against the Machine day.
The Truth of HTML5 goo.gl/V5ifj /via @anotheruiguy
All I can say is: bukk.it/catwtf.gif
What does it say about me that my bash history file has about 50 instances of "man touch"?
"Not enough people pay income tax? What about Boeing?" j.mp/OEWtz2
Is it possible to somehow wear out an MP3? Asking for a friend.
Crap. Now I can't stop hitting repeat on track 3 on "The Fountain" soundtrack.
"The Fountain", though, some of his best work.
Also, the soundtrack to "Requiem for a Dream". Really great, unsettling techno.
Apparently it's a Clint Mansell kind of day. Really digging the soundtrack to "Moon".
"I don't think the level of invention has been matched by anything we've ever done." The MacBook Retina team sobs quietly.
/via @verge
"Jony Ive is in a large, white room." @verge live.theverge.com/apple-iphone-5…
When is Jony Ive ever NOT in a large, white room?
The first ding in my MBPr. The saddest part is I don't even know how it happened, so no fond memory or lesson learned.
A Berry So Shiny, It's Irresistible (And Inedible) j.mp/P8k796
It's a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds kind of day.
What’s a $4,000 Suit Worth? - NYTimes.com j.mp/RU8zVE (via Instapaper)
Plain Text Primer: nvALT 101 j.mp/Ru6WNM (via Instapaper)
Deadweight: A CSS coverage tool that determines which selectors are actually used & which can be "safely" deleted. github.com/aanand/deadwei…
August 2012
A Brief History of Money - IEEE Spectrum j.mp/LvLffH (via Instapaper)
What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory? - Boing Boing j.mp/NbAl2a (via Instapaper)
Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell’s Political Mind | Culture | Vanity Fair j.mp/MrppJ1 (via Instapaper)
I, Nephi j.mp/NfBcRm (via Instapaper)
Top In-App Purchases kungfugrippe.com/post/296967870…
Just bought tickets for the IMAX re-release of Raiders of the Lost Ark! So excited!
Found this handy QuickLook generator for Markdown files. github.com/toland/qlmarkd…
Just one more reason to make the leap to Vim.
New (Slightly Less Than) Half-Year's resolution: learn Vim well enough to use it full time.
Can't believe I heard about this from @anotheruiguy first. goo.gl/9c6MO blog.macromates.com/2012/textmate-…
Feels like Quicksilver all over again.
Would someone please explain how, exactly, the Safari 6 Web Inspector is ""better"" than the previous version?
I find nearly unusable.
OK. Someone should take away my keyboard. Wasn't the firewall; vhost was pointed at the wrong directory.
But the OS X firewall still sucks.
I simply cannot figure out how to open port 80 without resorting to the command line—it's too early and too hot for that right now.
Overall OS X 10.8 is nice, but with Web Sharing no longer in SysPrefs, OS X's firewall is even more useless than when it was intro'd in 10.6
July 2012
Previous Tweet sent with MoLo Safari's integrated sharing feature. I approve.
OS X Mountain Lion removed "Web Sharing" from System Preferences. This PrefPane fixes that. Thanks @clickontyler! clickontyler.com/blog/2012/02/w…
You've got to jiggle the handle.
Belated movie review: Ted. Hilariously vulgar. Animation so good this was the first time I've forgotten that a CG character was CG.
Movie review: The Dark Knight Rises. Loud and long. An extraordinarily satisfying ending to an exceptional trilogy.
“@daringfireball: Jason Alexander: df4.us/k1c”
If only more political standpoints were as well-reasoned and reasonably stated.
ARGH!!!! Hey, Ruby, I've got your ""Encoding::CompatibilityError"" right here!
Nice Web Type – Responsive Typography j.mp/yAsaAV (via Instapaper)
Wow. Twitter really needs to update the Mac desktop client for retina displays.
HELP!!! I'm on a train with no WiFi and my new MacBook Pro doesn't have Git installed.
Not sure which of those is more frightening.
Why does the OS X Energy Saver System Pref pane on an SSD-equipped Mac list an option to "Put the hard disk to sleep when possible"?
2.7GHz Core i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD.
Behold, the MacBook Pro.
On a truck, out for delivery.
Flowchart: how to retinafy your website mir.aculo.us/2012/06/26/flo… by @thomasfuchs
Handy.
Dammit, there goes my day.
“@lancemcculley: Holy crap, I just discovered reddit.com/r/exadventist”
SHIPPED!!!!!
Preparing for Shipment
Movie review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, exactly what it sounds like, but way cooler! According to my wife, the book was even better.
Quite possibly the greatest GitHub repo ever: github.com/mattdiamond/fu…. Certainly the best license.
The Pacific Ocean extends all the way to Washington! Who knew?
After sending a series of texts to my wife about good news I just received, my iPhone is now telling me it is out of exclamation marks.
Fun fact: in 14 years I have seen exactly 5 movies in a theater without a movie buddy.
June 2012
Wow, even Menlo looks better.
(I noticed fonts in general looked better in TM2, but Menlo is strikingly better in @chocolatapp than TM1)
File encodings and line-endings in the status bar!
Built-in clipboard history!
Where have you been all my life @chocolatapp?!
⌥ click == killer feature I never knew I always needed.
See, this is what I'm talking about!
"Chocolat can import TextMate tmbundles and themes." chocolatapp.com/w/index.php?ti…
Thank you @chocolatapp
Bought @chocolatapp 10 minutes ago for $10 less than I paid for Coda 2 and I've already used it 10 times longer.
“All your bookmarks on single page. "Must-have" list for web designers." ow.ly/bbq8h
Don't miss page 2! That's where the ads are.
Damn it, these TextMate updates are coming at a blistering rate! It's only been 15 months since the last one.
Best exit sign ever.
“@petersagal: At Twitter HQ. ”
Vim Clutch is one of the geekiest (and awesomest) things I've ever seen! github.com/alevchuk/vim-c…
7 High-leverage life skills they should teach in grade school j.mp/uXYXKz (via Instapaper)
5 minutes with the the MBPwRD made me rethink the fuss over responsive images. I think the pixel as we've know it is dead.
If it can't be done with CSS and/or web-fonts, perhaps it shouldn't be done at all.
(I'm looking at you, 16x16 mini icons.)
I will NEVER use text-as-images or images for gradients again. On the MBPwRD, my old designs look like crap. Web fonts & CSS gradients FTW!
Prediction: the high-DPI ("Retina") trend is going to change the web dev industry as thoroughly as "mobile" already has—perhaps more.
Just ordered the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Truly the most amazing piece of computing hardware I've ever seen.
"They released a dairy product…"
Whoa! Green grapes and coffee do NOT go well together.
Just FYI.
May 2012
‘Minimalist book covers set in Helvetica... j.mp/L7eKHT
I'm just not sure what to think about this... on so many levels.
It's a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds kind of day.
The OS X Problem: xkcd.com/1056/
April 2012
Just used a Mandelbrot set to explain Git.
Not entirely sure I was doing right, but I sounded really cool.
It's about damn time! Hot pink was a ridiculous default.
“@h5bp: R.I.P. Hot Pink text-selection github.com/h5bp/html5-boi…”
Zombie Survival Map: bit.ly/Jiv2Lf
Basically, when the zombie-pocalypse hits, I'm screwed.
Do you love the WP Audio Player as much as I do?
Do you hate that it's Flash?
Well, I fixed it. github.com/jedfoster/html…
You're welcome.
Why is there never enough pineapple?
Speaking of progressive enhancement…
“Sure, it takes a bit longer. Doing a good job always does.” news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3836847 by @drewm
Apple receives certification to sell Brazilian ass
.DS_Store files interfering with tab path completion?
Add "export FIGNORE=DS_Store" to your .bash_profile.
via stackoverflow.com/questions/7058…
The Google We Lost
andrewbadr.com/log/16/the-goo…
My play count of @bearmccreary's "Mandala in the Clouds" reached a milestone today.
999!
Thank you, Bear!
March 2012
Canada is eliminating the penny. If America is so great, why can't we do the same?!
cbc.ca/news/business/…
"If PHP Were British"
<?php
perchance (£condition) {
// Code here
} otherwise {
// Code here
}
?>
addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-we…
"What happened when one of the world’s most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers disappeared." j.mp/wVELlz
That's the code that kills kittens.
New @ylnt!! Must. Download. Now.
February 2012
About to see @NoReservations
WTF is a "Facepile"?! What does that even mean? Why is this site so frakking popular?
FU, FB.
January 2012
Ice
Are Seattleites 'snow wimps'? L.A. Times thinks so
"...the worst drivers in Seattle are California transplants..."
j.mp/yXtDSe
Current weather conditions: snowing.
December 2011
I thought this day would never come!
wastm2released.com
My new favorite thing!
"Death to Pennies"
youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04…
November 2011
Now here's an "Occupy" movement I can support!
Occupy Flash occupyflash.org
No peeking.
Type study: Sizing the legible letter « The Typekit Blog j.mp/vThHFy (via Instapaper)
BPS Research Digest: How walking through a doorway increases forgetting j.mp/trsBvF (via Instapaper)
Why do software manufacturers still illustrate their product pages with physical packaging?
E.g. store.vmware.com/store?Action=D…
Back in business.
Thanks @FieldNotesBrand!
"...it’s possible we were holding the ratings guide wrong"
macworld.com/article/163473…
Pennies, printers, and daylight saving time.
Medieval torture devices, every one of 'em.
October 2011
"I use an iPhone." youtube.com/watch?v=-KLwVf…
"Ten Things I Have Learned" by Milton Glaser j.mp/f2lBFZ (via Instapaper)
When will @Starbucks stop playing the frakking Beatles?
September 2011
So this exists.
INTERNET! Oh, how I've missed you!
August 2011
Mead.
Nectar of the gods. (And at least one goddess.)
Seriously, if you're ever in the area, check out Blue Moon in Bellingham, WA.
Sunset
Vodka Nation j.mp/nGcsC5 (via Instapaper)
"SO, BASICALLY, IT'S LIKE A MAPREDUCE QUERY FOR EX-GIRLFRIENDS!"
itsthisforthat.com
Great primer on the London riots.
"Why London Exploded Last Night" j.mp/qa7Abp
A trio of articles on the intersections of religion, reason, and politics.
j.mp/pcZRUo
j.mp/qJSRe7
j.mp/oopNDT
Getting Bin Laden j.mp/pj17U2 (via Instapaper)
“@gruber: However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
i.imgur.com/JyA4H.png”
Words to live by.
Google in a Nut j.mp/nMjwDa
July 2011
Sifting through the risks and benefits of coffee. j.mp/nbcaBc (via Instapaper)
Finally managed to delete the frakking Google Apps account.
For the first time in 8 or 9 years, I am completely without a Google account
Well, frak you too, Google!
Everything's gone.
Analytics. AdWords. Calendars. Reader subscriptions.
Everything gone.
Somehow, rather than delete the Google Apps account I no longer wanted, I managed to delete the "temporary" account that I *DID* want.
Google hates me.
And I'm none too fond of it, either.
Lunch.
I was paraphrased on the latest @changelogshow! ~12:03
twitter.com/jed_foster/sta…
Others likely had the same question, but I'll say it was mine.
“@neiltyson: ... Only 20-min of actual playing time in a 3-hr game.”
Which is still about 10x the amount of play in (American) football.
Couldn't agree more.
"I believe the future of humanity lies beyond our Earthly origins."
/via tinyurl.com/42wwc8n
Thanks @bearmccreary
As if the final Shuttle mission wasn't epic enough, now this tinyurl.com/42wwc8n from @bearmccreary
John Adams: ‘It Is More Important That Innocence Be Protected Than It Is That Guilt Be Punished’ j.mp/qqu1Oo
June 2011
Loving the new Git cheat sheet from @gittower. blog.fournova.com/2011/06/git-ch…
The most common Git commands and a primer on best practices.
Email Charter: j.mp/m2do3U
A few good points. I don't agree with no. 8; most acronyms require far more mental overhead than is saved
Quiz: Match ingredients with processed foods. feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=27b4c8f3754dda1ed3cea1aeb1df9562
"Photos might not even be a part of Color in the future" - nyti.ms/kkfWQI
In other words, they have no idea what they're doing.
Rands In Repose: A Nerd in a Cave j.mp/dWcGDr (via Instapaper)
"Everybody who wants a Chromebook seems to want it for someone else."
datamation.com/mobile-wireles…
Canadians have been too nice for too long, they just needed an outlet.
news.nationalpost.com/2011/06/16/pho…
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com) j.mp/gFhoVc (via Instapaper)
Witches! Witches changed my phone!... j.mp/klg38y
"Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen."
daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted
An Incomplete List of Untrustworthy Adults
j.mp/jx0Nu3
1-2-3. And the Ms win!!
That was fun; 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th. Ms now have a 3 run lead. Will they keep it?
Weather's really nice, but the forecast called for "mostly sunny".
Oh, and the Ms just blew a 2 run lead in 4 hitters.
Is it possible that I will actually get to see the Ms win a game?
2 runs up, top of the 8th. Looking good.
Compensating for lack of view with Mac & Jack's and nachos.
Seem to have found the one less-than-perfect seat at Safeco Field.
Waiting for the train.
The perfect Friday afternoon.
May 2011
"Note to self, religion freaky": When 'Buffy' Met Biblical Studies < PopMatters j.mp/lJcC60 (via Instapaper)
Frank Chimero - Running Towards j.mp/ecqZlr (via Instapaper)
Can't figure out which is moving slower right now, me or my laptop?
One of us needs a nap.
Designing in the open j.mp/iG91BC (via Instapaper)
Batman j.mp/j6oiWd (via Instapaper)
Quote of the day: "He's in big trouble with God" sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl…
Roast chicken and sex: They're good for you! j.mp/mgiW2g
I just knew it!
Yet another dead LaCie ext. HDD power supply. That makes 9 in the last year.
Used to love the D2 cases, but they don't age well.
Logical punctuation FTW. slate.com/id/2293056/pag…
In related nerdery, use serial commas. preciseedit.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/use…
Sounds like every Google product ever. (Except the classic home page)
“@daringfireball: Google Music Beta First Look: df4.us/hlg”
Frak yeah! Placed my order for @bearmcceary's #SOCOM4 2-CD set!
lalalandrecords.com
Obama looks like he's fighting back a smile!
April 2011
Can't wait! @peepcode's screencasts are fantastic!
“Updated our "upcoming and in process" page: peepcode.com/pages/upcoming”
Remember what's important.
“@hotdogsladies: 43 Folders: "Cranking"
i-0.us/cranking-crank…”
“@Arlen: ...Fixed-width layouts are the leisure suits of the web.”
LOVING Quicksilver β59, first stable (for me) version in 3 years.
MUCH faster and all my favorite plug-ins work.
qsapp.com
Well, that didn't take long.
“@jseifer: doihavetousecoffeescriptinrails.com”
One of best albums ever recorded gets the deluxe treatment!
Oh, yeah, and that other one.
The field of (broken) dreams.
Oh, the hopes and dreams between crack of bat and slap of glove.
But seriously, the Mariners are killing me.
Home is were the plate is.
My new motto:
"When in doubt, ALTER `table` ADD INDEX;"
Only took 3 days, but I finally got my app's install procedure down to 2 Rake tasks.
Saves <10 min. for each install.
Yay, efficiency(?)
March 2011
"rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'Work.dammit!'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)"
I just stubbed my toe on a rusty Rakefile.
Cool Mail.app trick:
Command-click folders to see the contents of multiple folders in the message list. No more bouncing between folders.
I got Ruby all up in my PHP. github.com/thuss/standalo…
Rake to the rescue!
Nice! “@hemantmehta: Hmm... there's a website called godhatesjapan.com. And I like it. #fb”
What's this? A new TextMate update?!
They're coming fast and furious now. Can hardly keep up.
Waves expected between 6" to 12" tall. No coastal flooding in Seattle area.
komonews.com/news/national/…
#tsunami
February 2011
Really enjoying @gittower. It's like @versionsapp for Git.
Don't think I'll be using SVN for much longer.
Hilarious video with fantastic cinematography.
coudal.com/abovethesun/
“@pourmecoffee: The 16% of Americans unaffiliated with any particular religion have zero representation in Congress. bit.ly/gvNN9i”
ING Direct: "[...] begin using this line of credit within 72 business hours."
Is that 9 8-hour days? Or did they actually mean 3 bus. days?
January 2011
My MacBook Pro has died.
Preliminary c.o.d.: USB bus failure.
You will be missed, old friend.
~sniff~
1st comment solved an extremely frustrating frustrating issue w/extra padding on images when using the HTML5 doctype. campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3132…
This can't possibly be true. worstpreviews.com/headline.php?i…
"It’s like Animal Farm. The pigs make all these noble rules, and then systematically subvert them." johnaugust.com/archives/2011/…
Holy crap! Listening to @hotdogsladies & @danbenjamin has just made my week! And the show has just started. 5by5.fm
Excellent analysis. “@daringfireball: ★ Bull’s-Eyes and Crosshairs: df4.us/gwv”
December 2010
Excellent piece on American religiosity. SPOILER ALERT: We're not as devout as we claim to be. mee.bo/h39Swq
QS, I just can't quit you. But this is a fitting send-off. @hotdogsladies: i-0.us/Hold-CMD-Q-to-Quit
The effect of syntax coloring on code is amazing; been using the same TM theme since '06 & I hardly recognize my own code in a new theme.
Anonymous Pro (j.mp/7m58S) at 16pt is also very nice--unusable below 14pt and it has a funky @ symbol--but very crisp and clean.
Playing with fixed-width fonts in TextMate. Used Monaco for years, but I just discovered Menlo; @ 14pt it's like I have a brand new editor.
I LOVE the trebuchet! RT @oatmeal Cat vs Internet - The Oatmeal bit.ly/fg5lk9
Damn! Just saw the Paramount's marquee; we're going to miss Penn & Teller tomorrow night. Why doesn't anyone tell me these things?
And is that Verdana on the location titles?! WTF, Human Target?
I used to enjoy Human Target's title sequence. Now I can't FF fast enough. I miss @bearmccreary's theme.
The first season of Human Target was one of the best adventure shows I've ever seen. Season two, not so much.
The second season of Human Target just isn't as much fun without @bearmccreary's score.
November 2010
T+30 and counting
Green beans and fried onions. Yum!
Turkey!
Go stuff it!
Brining the bird
I love photographing snow
Now with MORE snow!
The view from my office.
Flash is evil. RT @gruber: This is with one tab open, Chrome in the background, video paused: cl.ly/3LXq
Wow! 2 #TextMate updates in one week! Is it possible TM isn't dead? Maybe it's just pining for the fjords.
October 2010
Interesting: Safari 5 doesn't save PNG webpage previews while my MBP is on battery.