Woman walked by with a huge green bag under her arm with blocky white letters: “GOD HATES BAGS”. #ecojokes
Arseny Avraamov, “Symphony of Sirens”
Getting dizzy listening to Steve Reich’s “Come Out”. The effect would probably be less intense if I were listening via speakers instead of headphones.
TIL more #bash brace expansion insanity: it works in the middle of variable names: «echo $BASH_COMPLETION{,_COMPAT}_DIR».
Canoe collection photos.app.net/5710512/1
Spreading .bak files through the “gems” directory while trying to figure out my latest issue with Rails’ magic.
#Ruby’s Pathname’s + operator truncates the path if the parameter starts with a slash. E.g. «Rails.root + ‘/public’» results in a Pathname for just “/public”. sigh
I hate mobile websites. They always end up hiding what you know is on the regular site.
High intellectualism— Edison’s boxing cats: [www.youtube.com/watch
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”
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.