March 31, 2011

Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104 good points
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

March 27, 2011

MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web Development

http://teddziuba.com/2011/03/osx-unsuitable-web-development.html well, it's amusing
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

March 26, 2011

Redshift | jonls devblog

http://jonls.dk/redshift/ a linux specific tool like f.lux for adjusting screen settings based on time of day
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

High-tech industry on hiring binge in California; Google, Facebook and Zynga lead the pack | Technology | Los Angeles Times

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/03/high-tech-industry-on-hiring-binge-in-california-google-facebook-and-zynga-lead-the-pack.html "San Francisco's Twitter, which is valued by investors at billions of dollars, has more than 400 employees and plans to grow to 3,000 employees by July 2013. A year ago, it had just 140 employees." Yikes!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Hacker News | Flux: Better Lighting for Your Mac

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369788 windows and linux versions too
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

March 25, 2011

O+P Insights: Improving Linux performance by preserving Buffer Cache State

http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise/ it would be great to see this make its way into rsync, scp, and a host of other tools really
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

March 24, 2011

Best Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe, Easy Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe

http://www.famousfrenchdesserts.com/chocolate-lava-cake-recipe.html gonna have to try this and see how it compares to our "normal" recipe
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

LearnBoost/cluster - GitHub

https://github.com/learnboost/cluster Node.JS multi-core server manager with plugins support.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

kriszyp/multi-node - GitHub

https://github.com/kriszyp/multi-node Multi-node provides launching of multiple NodeJS processes for TCP/HTTP serving
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Zile - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/ wow, it's like a tiny emacs
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

March 23, 2011

Welcome to the Tomato USB web site - TomatoUSB

http://tomatousb.org/ runs great on the new ASUS router
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

133 Cities Now Have Their Own Broadband Networks - 54 Cities Run FTTH Networks, 79 Run Cable Networks | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/133-Cities-Now-Have-Their-Own-Broadband-Networks-113346 man, I wish we could get some of this going
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

An EventMachine Tutorial

http://20bits.com/articles/an-eventmachine-tutorial/ a very simple but useful introduction to eventmachine in ruby
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

March 22, 2011

snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor - Google Project Hosting

http://code.google.com/p/snappy/ fast compression lib from google
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

My Life Without A Cell Phone: An Amazing Tale Of Survival | The Awl

http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/my-life-without-a-cell-phone-an-amazing-tale-of-survival heh, that's amusing on multiple levels
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

March 18, 2011

Sight - Google Chrome extension gallery

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epmaefhielclhlnmjofcdapbeepkmggh#v1.6.2 make code easier to read in chrome
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Geologist: Alarming magnetic field changes signal major quake for West Coast - by Terrence Aym - Helium

http://www.helium.com/items/2117269-magnetic-field-changes-signal-major-quake-for-west-coast I guess we'll know soon... heh
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Zed Shaw

http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html yes, there are some very good points here
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

AT&T Global IP Network Home

http://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att.net/pws/index.html at&t ip network health
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html this would be amazingly powerful
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Ann Cooper talks school lunches | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/ann_cooper_talks_school_lunches.html I had no idea that Berkeley was doing this
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

March 16, 2011

UTILITY POLES

http://annsgarden.com/poles/poles.htm for some strange reason, I find utility poles utterly fascinating
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Lessons from 11 years of community (my SXSW 2011 talk) on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/21043675 interesting to see what sort of tools metafilter has built up (and how similar some of them are to ours at craigslist)
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

March 14, 2011

Nelson's Weblog: aviation / flight-sim-for-instrument-training

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/aviation/flight-sim-for-instrument-training.html interesting stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Chili Lime Peanuts | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/02/chili-lime-peanuts-recipe.html I want to make these sometime
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

March 13, 2011

"File not found: lib" when installing rails-3.0.0 - Ruby on Rails: Talk | Google Groups

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/7f8dd116fdcfe0f8?pli=1 this just bit me in the ass
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Get Organized with Emacs Org-mode | Linux Journal

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9116?page=0,1 I'm actually starting to dig this a bit
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

March 12, 2011

YouTube - Santa Cruz Tsunami Up Close 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgt8qBSZEn0 did more damage than I expected
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

The Little Habits

http://zenhabits.net/lil/ I couldn't agree moe
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

More Redis internals: Tracing a GET & SET - Paul Smith

http://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2011/03/redis_get_set.html a good walk thru of some common redis server code paths
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

March 10, 2011

Bug #662847 in openvpn (Ubuntu): “multiple DNS search domains not supported by update-resolv-conf”

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn/+bug/662847 yay, my patch was accepted into Ubuntu
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

YouTube - Y Combinator's Graham Doesn't See `Bubble' in Technology: Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBTRf1kgm8 Paul is a smart cookie
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

March 09, 2011

YouTube - Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs it's amazing to see how far Khan Academy has come
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Worst Automatic Garage Door Opener Installation Ever Video

http://www.break.com/cue-the-cuervo/worst-automatic-garage-door-opener-installation-ever-2020629 that is full of awesome... and fail
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

March 08, 2011

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bill_gates.html interesting to see Bill Gates getting into next-gen nuclear power
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

March 07, 2011

Welcome to Ledger - GitHub

https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/wiki open source command-line accounting
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Men’s Journal » Print » Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness-is-a-lie/print/ interesting perspective on how most people are doing it wrong (if they're doing it at all)
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ this all seems very sensible to me
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

March 03, 2011

YouTube - Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14&feature=player_embedded all I can say is: wow
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html a classic that explains most of his book in ~18 minutes
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html probably the single most important TED talk I've seen
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Michael Pollan gives a plant's-eye view | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pollan_gives_a_plant_s_eye_view.html some ideas I haven't seen in his books (those that I've read) or other talks/presentations.  I think the farm he refers to was in the movie Food, Inc.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

March 02, 2011

(1/1) TED Talks: What are some must-see TED talks ? - Quora

http://www.quora.com/TED-Talks/What-are-some-must-see-TED-talks wow, I've seen many of these, but many more I have not
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Easy WebSocket - a WebSocket client to broadcast messages to webpages

http://easywebsocket.org/ this could be fun to play with
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM