Denver Vacation
In which our protagonist spends a relaxing week with his wife, Laura, and their friends Kittie and Danny
Travel
Laura drove out early so I got to fly out on Southwest after taking a taxi up to Omaha. I got to the airport so early that I had time to have lunch at The Hanger and enjoy a fine beer before boarding. I forgot how much I dislike free-for-all seating on Southwest, even though the rest of the experience is fine. You really get . . .
Apple's Multi-Device Workflow Needs to Be Razed and Rebuilt From the Ground Up
Thanks to Merlin Mann for the exquisite narrative.
Apple was really big on the “Back to the Mac” in 2010 and while iCloud has brought so much unification to the mac workflow there is still plenty of room for improvement. iPhone syncing piggybacked off of iPod syncing through iTunes and we can certainly understand why Apple . . .
Hate-reads and How For-profit Sites Work
The way to stop supporting terrible media is to stop watching or reading it
Marco talking about Ariel Meadow Stalling’s post:
The way to stop supporting terrible media is to stop watching or reading it.
The corollary: Why are you consuming terrible media?
Link-baiting articles are a blight, and the only way for change is by people voting with their clicks. There’s plenty of sites . . .
Guitar Practice Tips From John Petrucci
One thing I miss about private guitar lessons is learning small exercises that improve your hands’ dexterity and agility. John Petrucci of Dream Theater fame has two excellent articles over at Guitar World that are really solid.
His advice on practicing is spot on:
Of all the things that can frustrate a guitarist the most, . . .
Kittie Writes a Song
The corn city central
is where we play
corn city central
fructose all day
run that ball, plow that field
all the sugars is what we yield
This hymnal of corn, brought to you by chefkittie.com.
How Not to Sort by Average Rating
How Not To Sort By Average Rating
PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of “score” to sort by.
The solution:
lolmath
Algorithm . . .
Unsecured Mass Assignment Is Bad
A slew of github gists. I don’t understand why people don’t make these blog posts, I can only imagine the traffic they’re getting. Embedding gists is easy.
- Homakov shows us how he was able to compromise Github.com
- Jbarnette shows us how to make your Rails app warn on ActiveRecord::Base#update_attributes
- Wycats creates a . . .
