I find using #Ruby’s Object#tap() for anything but debugging to be code obfuscation. Just create a regular temp variable.
Hooray for privacy! http://blog.pinboard.in/2013/04/little_green_locks/ Now why doesn’t this URL have an “s” in the protocol?
If #homeopathy were real, tap water would be a panacea. http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/the-pseudoscience-behind-homeopathy/
Booked flights and hotel for OSCON.
Did someone say “Gotham”‽‽‽ https://posts.app.net/4759875 Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease.
It’s just not possible to keep up with all the music out there. sigh
Awww… no fun. #Ruby doesn’t support “#line” directives.
Amazed that my forehead isn’t flatter from all the head desking from Rails v2 to v3 migration project. (Just in time for v4 to come out.)
Live in a text editor and not an IDE: http://nealford.com/memeagora/2013/01/22/why_everyone_eventually_hates_maven.html
Don’t copy from your browser and paste into your terminal: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
Blixa Bargeld and Amanda Palmer together? https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/321670027411587073 Holy genre mashup, Batman!
Nokogiri description: “XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.” 😕
Juh-heez. How fricking often does Ubuntu really have to release kernel updates? What a royal pain.
Getting ebooks delivered via Dropbox is awesome.
Taking defensive measures against the #Ruby community’s propensity for magic and buying the PragProg Metaprogramming Ruby book. Fight fire with fire?
Ummm… Wow… I’d never heard of pedobaiting, before. Pretty scary story: http://soundcloud.com/loveandradio/jack-and-ellen
For #Perl people missing Data::Printer, the #Ruby equivalent is awesome_print.
Browse the directory of the current file in #vim: «:e %:h».
“%” is a shortcut for the current file name and “:h” basically does a dirname(1) on that (see «:help filename-modifiers»).
I’d rather write programs that write programs than write programs.
— Dick Sites, DEC
Avocado: the lard of the vegans.