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Github is my resume
I remember the first time I heard that statement - a couple years back Eric Florenzano said it to me on Twitter when I posted my resume pub...
The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design
Hi! My name is Rob, and I find the best website design leads for agencies on the web. Save hours finding great projects to pitch.
W3C finalizes HTML5 specification
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Google Earth Fractals
The following is a "photographic" gallery of fractal patterns found while exploring the planet with Google Earth. Each is provided with a KMZ file so the reader can explore the region for themselves. Readers are encouraged to submit their own discoveries for inclusion, credits will be included. Besides being examples…
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Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
10-year-old problem in theoretical computer science falls
Interactive proofs — mathematical games that underlie much modern cryptography — work even if players try to use quantum information to cheat.
The exercise habit
This morning, my alarm sounded at precisely 5:50am. Within a few minutes, I was up and had my running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt on. Minutes later at 6am, I opened my MacBook Air, switched to the desktop with TextMate open and got coding. I worked for just under one hour on some important new functionality for Buffer…
Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons
TL;DR: if you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon.
How I got into MIT when I was 14
Hi guys! A few folks have asked what it was like to grow up outside the traditional academic route - here's a quick piece written for GHF (G...
B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It
Discuss this post on Hacker News. When I tell people I do B2B software I get some very interesting reactions. “Why do B2B? It’s so unsexy.” And that’s true
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A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript
I believe the day-to-day practice of writing JavaScript is going to change dramatically for the better when ECMAScript.next arrives. The coming year is going...
Let's ride this bull
The signs are all here: There’s now an incubator on every corner, even your uncle is donning angel wings, and IPO expectations for Facebook are exceeding the hype for a new Twilight movie. But that’s all circumstantial evidence. What we needed was some public testimony to really put eve…
Attention to Detail
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Mechanics of a Small Acquisition
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PyPy 1.9 Released
We're pleased to announce the 1.9 release of PyPy. This release brings mostly bugfixes, performance improvements, other small improvements ...