New

You can help it get better

Patton Oswalt2010112 points9 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

How To Use SSL To Secure Your Rails App Against e.g. FireSheep

Patrick McKenzie2010115 points43 commentsSecurity & Privacy details

Why I call myself a Javascript Programmer

Apple and the future of Java

This is how you write a reverse job application

Tweet is cheap

John Graham-Cumming201076 points15 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Holla - An open source Campfire

Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox

Eric Butler2010714 points341 commentscited by 10Security & Privacy details

The Happiness-Suicide Paradox

Yahoo Pipes compiled to Python now run on Google App Engine

Yahoo! Pipes is an excellent tool for processing data. It provides a visual way to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. It's very much like plumbing with data and is a great metaphor. I'm convinced that this approach is just the beginning, and look forward to connecting systems using pipes in…

Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you

Paul Buchheit2010421 points54 commentscited by 3Life, Learning & Writing details

Here is an interesting comment from Hacker News, on a story about someone turning down an early Google offer: Similar thing happened t...

You need to use social services to understand them

programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups

Single input login form

A Way Back201091 points58 commentsWeb & Frontend details

An Illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure

Data Sorcery201076 points7 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Here are my Clojure Conj slides, From Concurrency to Parallelism: an illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure. The version of clojure.par I used isn’t publicly available yet, bu…

The Crazy Lady Speaks

Redfin Blog2010122 points40 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

How not to Pitch To Y Combinator (2006)

How to Become a Game Programmer

Shawn Presser2010143 points44 commentscited by 3Career & Management details

When App Engine Went Wrong

The High Falls hike was my first with the Vancouver branch of the Alpine Club...

Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult

Stop the Internet blacklist

Free Software Foundation2010143 points24 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X

John Gruber2010102 points83 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Starting with this week’s new MacBook Air models, Flash Player is no longer bundled with Mac OS X.

What We Look for in Founders

Paul Graham2010362 points174 commentscited by 72Startups details

(I wrote this for Forbes, who asked me to write something about the qualities we look for in founders. In print they had to cut the last item because they didn't have room.) 1. Determination This has turned out to be the most important quality in startup founders. We thought when we started Y Combinator that the most…

Stop Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, Learn to Code Yourself

Watching Apple: A closer look at iPhone transition animations

On a New Road : James Gosling on Apple and Java

James Gosling2010101 points82 commentsTech Industry & Business details

How to write cross-platform code

Backblaze Blog2010109 points40 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.

Taco Bell Programming

Chromeless: Build your own browser

Mozilla Labs201080 points16 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Defer, Panic, and Recover

The Go Blog2010cited by 11Software Engineering details

An introduction to the Go's defer, panic, and recover control flow mechanisms.

Jim Hugunin leaves Microsoft and IronPython

Today marks the end of a crazy six year journey for me at Microsoft. I clearly remember my brutal first 8 months at this company as I worked with lawyers, marketing folks and execs to figure out if and how we could release IronPython as an open source project from Microsoft. The final approval for that release came…