Today is my lucky day. I had a fortune cookie with this gem inside: “Rest has a peaceful effect on your physical and emotional health.”
I interpret this as a message from Roy Fielding: “REST has a peaceful effect on your physical and emotional health.”
Chad Fowler’s talk at Ruby Nation titled The Passionate Programmer has got me thinking. After writing a review over at SpeakerRate, I decided that it would be better to share my thoughts here.
I have mixed feelings about Chad’s presentation. On one hand, discussions along the lines of career development and life decisions are needed in [...]
I want to find a way to personally get involved to improve change.gov. Just jumping into the site itself doesn’t seem to cut it for me. Submitting through the contact form doesn’t feel satisfying either. I want to engage more fully.
I’m not star-struck by change.gov. Yes, the team is iterating quickly, doing good technical work, [...]
I received a presentation titled SHOTINTHEFANNIEMAE.pdf.ppt recently from a forwarded email. First off, if you INSIST on using all caps, which is OBNOXIOUS, then please SEPARATE your WORDS with WHITESPACE_OR_UNDERSCORES. Or hyphens. Something! Please. Thanks.
All in all, it is a politicized perspective of the Fannie Mae situation and who is to blame. Which [...]
I value my attention; I’ve been paying attention to my attention for quite a few years actually. In this fantastic article from The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr connects together some disturbing trends about Google and the Web in general.
When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image. It injects the [...]
One of my favorite things about Twitter is that it is personal. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes serious. With the people I follow at least, the ethos feels pretty good. However, I’ve recently gotten many twitters in a row (echo chamber style) that are quite clearly all about marketing. Apparently, some of my friends have been [...]