Taking #Ruby #metaprogramming countermeasures.

A new word is being added to my vocabulary today: “Highlanderism”.

http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2013/05/08/nerds-ruin-everything/

Eww. Ack v2 is searching in PDFs.

Acquitted of a crime in Cook County? Go back to jail. http://www.wbez.org/news/cook-county-courts-not-guilty-go-jail-anyway-107018

“LOST CHILDREN & articles found will be taken to the LION HOUSE Losses should be reported there”

[www.shorpy.com/node/1518…

Detailed transit. photos.app.net/5361969/1

Speaking as someone who doesn’t like REPLs (“irb is pointless; the shell is my REPL”), Pry is awesome. Having the object graph acting as a filesystem with a shell on top is a great idea.

What’s the devops equivalent of a “code smell” called? As in “It’s a [devops smell] to have an uptime greater than 90 days.”.

Backed the Dr. Demento documentary Kickstarter [www.kickstarter.com].

Guy on the L is listening to a seriously beat-up Zune with Apple headphones.

Even though #Felix and @riposte are better iPhone clients, I mostly use @netbot because that is still the best iPad client, and I do social stuff way more on the iPad, and it’s easier having a consistent experience across iOS devices.

Juh-heez. Yet another app with a v1.0 that can’t deal with “unusual” characters in passwords. What kind of crappy passwords do these devs test with? Ones that are typeable?

/cc @feedwrangler

Vim regexes are awesome [briancarper.net] /via @vimtips on that other service.

Read http://everything.badgods.com/view/mm-earseeker/ and thought of @rjbs’s complaints about his players.

Welcome to the future. Live Boston local news is playing on my no-antenna/cable/satellite TV in Chicago via AirPlay. Weird feeling.

Ack v2’s project-specific rc files are great!

Stop #Rails from including .bak files in CSS/JavaScript: Change Hike::Index#entries() (line 80 in gems/hike-1.2.2/lib/hike/index.rb):

 @entries[key] ||= Pathname.new(path).entries.reject { |entry| entry.to_s =~ /^\.|(?:~|\.bak)$|^\#.*\#$/ }.sort

Ack v2 is out! [petdance.com] #tools #beyondgrep

«vcs rm public/javascripts/vendor/jquery-migrate-1.1.1.js» Woohoo! The code is clean!