April 2011
9 posts
Hashbombing
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened more. It’ll be interesting to see how companies deal with this sort of namespace collision in the future, especially when a corporate entity (even one as tech-savvy and fluid as O’Reilly) has to deal with an “off-brand” bottom-up use of a “claimed” hashtag like this. This one wasn’t even intentional...
Apr 26th
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Apr 24th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →
Owl City (22) Jack’s Mannequin (14) Matt & Kim (8) The Style Council (2) Alien Alright (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 20th
“Let’s build something awesome and be home for dinner.”
– Mark Brown
Apr 13th
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A Thing I Made: OmniAuth for Sinatra
I’m not sure if I’ve talked at all about how much I love the programming framework Sinatra. It’s fun and “gettable”, especially for someone approaching programming from the perspective of a front-end developer. But — like Rails — Sinatra doesn’t come with an out-of-the-box user authentication program. You have to code up the whole “create an account /...
Apr 12th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Faded Paper Figures (14) Idioteque (10) Owl City (8) Norah Jones (3) Andrew Bird (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 11th
“How can you change your mindset into a fear of not shipping rather than a fear...”
– Joel Gascoigne
Apr 10th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3) →
J.R.R. Tolkien (20) Dashboard Confessional (13) Kate Nash (13) Death Cab for Cutie (5) Ben Gibbard (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 6th
“I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived...”
– Flannery O’Connor
Apr 2nd