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Uses For A Message Queue
Overview We've been working with, building, and evangelizing message queues for the last year, and it's no secret that we think they're awesome. We
ITunes 11 and Colors
iTunes 11 is a radical departure from previous versions and nothing illustrates this more than the new album display mode. The headlining feature of this display is the new view style that visually matches the track listing to the album’s cover art. The result is an attractive display of textual information that…
23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers
A statement upon 23andMe reaching its first one million customers.
Linux 3.7 released
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.7 development cycle
Checklist for Creating a Landing Page
Use the Unbounce landing page checklist to optimize your landing page and get the best results out of your marketing campaigns.
8-Bit Generation Documentary
UPDATE: Please read this later entry for update on this documentary. I’m putting this here to get some attention. There’s a documentary in production, or which was in prod…
What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap
I didn’t think I’d learn anything building Bootstrap. Actually, I was pretty confident I wouldn’t learn anything. As a technical challenge, Bootstrap just isn’t very interesting. It’s …
Lovelace – The Origin
This brief biographical sketch was done for Ada Lovelace Day 2009. I think I in was a pub at the time.
The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library
The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This...
Everything is my fault
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Ingress
It’s a new thing on the Internet, a planetary-scale augmented-reality game being played on a real planet: ours. It’s fun to play, particularly if you have kids. And interesting, I think, for anyone who cares about issues of Life Online, even non-gamers.
Forcing the CPU affinity can make a monothreaded process run 2-3x faster
Today, I chrooted in my system from sysresCD and I discovered that running eix-update (a gentoo portage indexing program) ran almost 3x fas...
I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit
Hartley writes about full stack software engineering and AI-driven software development.
Bootstrap 2.2.2 is out
Today we're launching Bootstrap 2.2.2, another larger bugfix release that focuses mostly on CSS and documentation fixes, with a few key JS issues mixed in as…
Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules...
Exploring Emacs
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.