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.
Just bought http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/ and cloned the repo.
Features that keep me using Firefox, even w/o plugins:
• Turn off HTTP_REFERER • Turn off GIF animation • Prompting before accepting cookies
#Cucumber isn’t a test framework. It’s a test framework framework.
Amazed at the hoops having to be jumped through to maintain the pretense that #Cucumber is “plain text”.
Getting tired of the B.S. The programming methodology people should be using is S.T.F.U.A.W.S.C.
#Vim plugin of the day for me is definitely https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic .
States are looking more like political echo chambers: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/03/29/175698193/a-state-apart-and-politically-a-world-away
Today’s #Ruby non-fun: There’s no method for testing whether a path is absolute, though there’s rb_is_absolute_path() in file.c in the MRI source.
The future has arrived. Guy in coffee shop is having a conversation in sign language via Face Time on an iPad Mini.
Hello #PDX. I hear you have some fine drumming this weekend.
Current mandatory Firefox plugins:
• BetterPrivacy • Ghostery • HTTPS-Everywhere • It’s All Text! • Link Widgets • NoScript • RequestPolicy