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This Is Your Brain on Kafka — Absurdist Literature Makes You Smarter?
TL;DR — it does
static  literature  cognition 
9 weeks ago by josephholsten
The Transparency Grenade
Surveillance doesn't get any more beautiful than this.
static  design  privacy  from instapaper
february 2012 by josephholsten
Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID
Outright wrong
static  openid  standards  authentication  identity 
february 2012 by josephholsten
Attention and Focus
Andre on focusing on the task you're working on while leaving enough attention to identify things you'll need to respond to
static  attention  productivity 
february 2012 by josephholsten
The infographic that saved a million lives?
Even the rich can be moved by great design
static  design  information-visualization 
february 2012 by josephholsten
When to use STDERR instead of STDOUT
Welcome to the right way.
unix  static 
february 2012 by josephholsten
Shoes and software
"Does it look good, does it feel good, is it comfortable, is it clear, is it easy?"
static  software  design  aesthetics  from instapaper
january 2012 by josephholsten
My Head is in the Cloud
What happens when you let the computer remember everything for you.
static  external-storage  transhumanism  cloud  memory  from instapaper
january 2012 by josephholsten
Why I Am Against Software Patents
"[F]or some of the proposed inventions, there may only be a handful of people in the world qualified to actually make a judgment on whether a development is sufficiently innovative so as to justify a patent. None of those people, presumably, will be employed by the patent office."
Which reminds me, whoever hired Einstein really deserved a bonus.
static  intellectual-property  patents  pragmatism  from instapaper
january 2012 by josephholsten
Feinstein: Senate Panel's Probe of CIA Torture Program Concludes It Was "Far More Widespread and Systematic Than We Thought" | Truthout
"...Coercive and abusive treatment of detainees in U.S. custody was far more systematic and widespread than we thought."
static  accountability  torture  from instapaper
december 2011 by josephholsten
Mark Schmitt Reviews Suzanne Mettler's "The Submerged State"
Government accountability is hard. Accountability without knowing what must be accounted for is impossible.
static  politics  accountability  from instapaper
december 2011 by josephholsten
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won’t do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you’ll be the only game in town!
static  profit  business  sustainability  from instapaper
december 2011 by josephholsten
Coilhouse » Blog Archive » In Defense of H&M’s Fembots
Replacing the product modeling industry with a shell script might not be terrible.
static  future  uncanny-valley  from instapaper
december 2011 by josephholsten
What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love performance optimizations at all costs.
static  c  dark-magic  from instapaper
august 2011 by josephholsten
The Future of Web Startups
Or perhaps: the wisdom of getting faster, cheaper and more out of control
static  startups  futurism  from instapaper
april 2011 by josephholsten
Push Email to an iPhone from a Linux IMAP Server
Just pretend to be exchange.
email  push  iphone  static 
april 2011 by josephholsten
TDD Anti-Patterns
Not that you might suffer any of these.
static  development  testing  antipattern  from instapaper
march 2011 by josephholsten
Must Be Nice
Just because it looks nice to watch doesn't mean it isn't hard to live.
perspective  static  relative-value  from instapaper
march 2011 by josephholsten
Chameleon
IconFactory's open-source port of UIKit to Mac, made for the most recent release of Twitterific. Very likely as awesome as twitterific, and a brief look into how industry pros write Objective-C in the large.
development  static  mac 
march 2011 by josephholsten
Mac App Store guide
For when you want to actually get that app into the app store
development  mac  static 
march 2011 by josephholsten
Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse
“I'd like to think that when Facebook – the next Google and Microsoft rolled into one – goes public in early 2012, the markets will react rationally. More likely, people will all collectively lose their damn minds again and we'll be thrust into a newer, bigger, even more insane tech bubble than the first one.”
internet  static  claimchowder 
march 2011 by josephholsten
Implementing Open Standards in Open Source
Boring, yet important. See also GIF, MP3 and H.264
static  law  patent  copyright  standards  open_source  from instapaper
march 2011 by josephholsten
Command-line OVF Deployments
VMWare dev blog has instructions for totally automating the deployment and configuration of virtual appliances to vSphere servers
vmware  virtualization  administration  static 
march 2011 by josephholsten
Anatomy of a feature
Simmons is clear, it's never as simple as it seems.
static  complexity  architecture  style  development 
july 2010 by josephholsten
Don’t Invent XML Languages
Bray argues against needless invention to XML devs, who may never grasp the concept.
xml  static  standards  reuse 
july 2010 by josephholsten
View source has a posse
Messina makes a good argument against flash's moron friendliness. Unfortunately, the same arguments apply to today's mobile apps and tomorrow's 3D tools.
critique  static  style  openness 
july 2010 by josephholsten
Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases
Ryan Tomayko explains how Planwatch uses multiple databases for performance and how to do it in Rails
databases  development  rails  ruby  performance  postgresql  postgres  database  static  from delicious
june 2010 by josephholsten
Brain Crack
Perhaps the best video in all of the show with ze frank
inspiration  humor  static  ideas  from delicious
may 2010 by josephholsten
RCA student radically improves the UK plug
Beautiful redesign.
design  static 
may 2010 by josephholsten
Thoughts on Flash
Jobs own words on why flash isn't the future. Want portability? Use HTML. Want custom features? Use cocoa. Case closed.
static  apple  flash  html  from delicious
april 2010 by josephholsten
The Data-Driven Life
Gary Wolf gives a glance into the motives of the life loggers and self trackers.
static  attention  analysis  statistics  from delicious
april 2010 by josephholsten
Distributed vs. Fault Tolerant Systems
Joe Stump invokes the CAP Theorem to explain why master/slave and sharding != distributed.
programming  databases  distributed  static  from delicious
april 2010 by josephholsten
Points for everyone
If any reputation system I build is as nifty as this Ctrl+Alt+Del distopia, I think I win.
reputation  comic  static  from delicious
march 2010 by josephholsten
Real Estate on Rails (Working with RETS Data)
Brian Getting shows a good way to sync bad data.
rets  rets4r  ruby  development  static  from delicious
january 2010 by josephholsten
Clothes Discarded by H and M in Manhattan Are First Destroyed
For some reason, destroying a product when people won't pay the label price (which is almost entirely for "added-value") reminds me of patents and DRM. Is there a word for waste knowledge?
economics  capitalism  waste  static  property  from delicious
january 2010 by josephholsten
Going Nuts with CSS Transitions
Lovely demo with twisting, zooming, shadows and real fonts. So the new web has video, audio, vector graphics, transforms, real fonts and competition between implementors. Have we caught up with flash yet?
css  css3  transform  design  standards  web  static  from delicious
december 2009 by josephholsten
Jay Hathaway Doesn't Do Content, He Writes
"You may be a writer if: the right words keep you up nights." See also: hell, yes.
writing  static  inspiration  passion  from delicious
december 2009 by josephholsten
The Credentialed Account Provisioning Anti-Pattern
Johannes Ernst points out the trouble of usernames, passwords, and account numbers decreed from on high. The solution? OpenID, of course.
openid  static  anti-pattern  from delicious
december 2009 by josephholsten
Peer review and open science
Michael Jennings' take on how tech has let researchers route around the slow peer-review process.
research  static  from delicious
december 2009 by josephholsten
America in Afghanistan Since 2001
Ze Frank presents more information in five minutes than I'd grasped from mainstream news in almost a decade.
video  war  static  afganistan  from delicious
december 2009 by josephholsten
Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity
Alex Payne on embracing your harsh critics:
"Cheerleaders aren’t in love with your business. They care about your business, but from an emotional distance. If you treat them wrong, they’ll disappear and find a newer, happier company to cheerlead at. Critics, conversely, won’t just weather the storm with you, they’ll show up on Monday with a plan for a better umbrella. Who do you want to work with?"
passion  criticism  static  from delicious
december 2009 by josephholsten
On Baked Potatoes
Tim Bray waxes eloquent on tubers, while managing to reference Battlestar Galactica, Pascal, and his ancestry.
potatoes  cooking  static  food  from delicious
december 2009 by josephholsten
EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced
Most telling line, “We do realize (as does the Google Wave team) that Wave doesn't yet have all the functionality you rely on, and isn't yet as mature as EtherPad.”
etherpad  opensource  webapps  static 
december 2009 by josephholsten
Carnitas, Houston style
Lisa Fain delivers a hell of a carnitas recipe. She says it's Houston style, but don't hold it against her.
carnitas  cooking  pork  food  static 
october 2009 by josephholsten
Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How rake turned me into an alcoholic) | Rails Envy
Greg Pollack gives straightforward instructions to write periodic tasks for rails apps.
rails  ruby  rake  cron  static 
october 2009 by josephholsten
Creating a Blocks-Based Object System in C
Mike Ash tinkers with getting inheritance and polymorphism from C block closures. It's much more prototypical and functional than c++ or objective-c. Totally inefficient, though.
apple  c  object-oriented  inheritance  polymorphism  static 
october 2009 by josephholsten
Stuff
“As food got cheaper (or we got richer; they're indistinguishable), eating too much started to be a bigger danger than eating too little. We've now reached that point with stuff.”
minimalism  static 
september 2009 by josephholsten
staple / unstaple
Prototype of a new crypto primitive function: the all-or-nothing transform. If you know the difference between a stream and a block cipher, this is a big deal.
cryptography  research  static 
september 2009 by josephholsten
A black OS X Leopard Terminal theme that is actually readable
Makes unix geeks weak in the knees, myself included. I'm glad for it every time I open a terminal.
command-line  unix  mac  terminal  color-scheme  aesthetic  static  configuration 
september 2009 by josephholsten
Rise of the Tablog
Nick Cernis has given up on tabloid style blog crap. Don't make it, don't suffer it. There's something better out there. Promise.
style  aesthetic  writing  creativity  making  static 
september 2009 by josephholsten
There Is No Magic, There Is Only Awesome (Part 1)
Jamis Buck begins a series that seems to investigate why it's so important to really know what goes into the beautiful things around you, building what seemed like magic into a practical art, down into a rigorous science.
art  learning  mastery  static  inspiration 
september 2009 by josephholsten
Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications
Patrick McKenzie explains why he'll never develop a desktop application again. Considering his profit margin and shorter implementation time, it's hard to blame him.
static  development  webapps  business 
september 2009 by josephholsten
Until Medical Bills Do Us Part
Buried in this NYT sob story about health care lies a real nugget: 62% of all US bankrupcies are from medical bills, 78% of those had insurance. Even my libertarian streak doesn't know what to do with that.
heath-insurance  static 
august 2009 by josephholsten
The Smart Platform and Javascript
Jason Hoffman gives a high level overview of the Joyent Smart Platform.
joyent  javascript  platform  static  hosting 
august 2009 by josephholsten
RFC 4340 - Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
One possible protocol for a distributed virtual worlds signaling messages. Not that I'm working on that sort of thing.
protocols  transport  internet  static 
august 2009 by josephholsten
Making the Case for a New 'acct' URI Scheme for Accounts
Eran Hammer-Lahav introduces this weeks solution to the email-address-as-OpenID problem.
static  identity  webfinger  uris  openid 
august 2009 by josephholsten
Eulogy to _why
John Resig on _why's disappearance. It's odd to imagine the ruby community without _why.
ruby  static 
august 2009 by josephholsten
The Last Abortion Doctor
John H. Richardson of Esquire profiles Dr. Warren Hern, last American who performs late term abortions. Hern pulls no punches from the antiabortion movement nor from the true effects of his work. But it's clear Hern straddles the moral fence for only one reason, to make women's lives better.
abortion  politics  medicine  writing  morality  ethics  static 
august 2009 by josephholsten
New Kid
Remember what it feels like to find out you've got a younger sibling? Here, let this pampers video remind you.
advertising  video  inspiration  humor  static 
august 2009 by josephholsten
OpenID.net redesigned
Should help with all the attention they'll get with the talk of government adoption these days
static  redesign  openid 
august 2009 by josephholsten
Write When Inspired
Giving us a peek into his writing process, Zeldman talks about how he'd rather slow down and make sure the work is finished than to rush out something half-considered and squeezed-out.
writing  inspiration  static  creativity 
august 2009 by josephholsten
Lost in the Cloud
Johnathan Zittrain comments on the newfound benefits of cloud culture, as well as the risks, including lost privacy and control of personal information.
privacy  security  cloud  web  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
Being Open is hard, as we have seen this week
Dion Almaer reviews some recent attempts at opening up projects, and gives some practical advice to people considering opening up their own work.
openness  open-source  law  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
There’s No App for That
Riverturn shares the conversation with Apple where their app is rejected ostensibly for duplicating features. Unfortunately the Apple representative couldn't give a lick of detail about exactly what features, or if there was any way for the app to be changed to comply. Sounds like a potentially unenforcable contract to me.
law  licensing  apple  app-store  iphone  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
“All I do is work here”
Seth Godin challenges the claim that working for a company doesn't make responsible for the company's actions. Especially on point is his remark, “Do you really think someone who worked for Bernie Madoff will go far with this line? ‘I'm not Bernie, I just worked with him every day and took a great salary when times were good...’”
responsibility  brand  culture  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
He’s Only in Field Service
Steve Blank recalls the time he landed a gigantic sale to Apple without even realizing it to make the point that you just don't know who your biggest customers are going to be.
marketing  sales  business  startup  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
Ramen Profitable
Paul Graham writes about how lucky software startups are when they're just getting by. Unlike most businesses, software startups are in a position of strength just so long as they're making enough to pay the bills.
business  startups  static  essays 
july 2009 by josephholsten
When all I seem to do is bitch, bitch, bitch
Chris Messina critiques his recent approach to technology evangelism and finds he hasn't been living up to his “this can all be made better” mantra.
evangelism  politics  culture  persuasion  openness  open-source  encouragement  static  negativity 
july 2009 by josephholsten
How To Actually Win A Fist Fight
Joe the Peacock shows exactly what to do when talking and running stop being options.
fighting  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
Showmanship
The waiter visits a hot dog stand and a homeless guy, but he only tips the one who begs with flair.
tipping  showmanship  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real
Anil Dash gives a high-level introduction to push technologies like PubSubHubBub, branding them with the term Pushbutton. He likens this tech's importance to that of AJAX a few years ago.
static  protocols  push  http  web  architecture 
july 2009 by josephholsten
Comment on XSD 1.1 from Rick Jelliffe on 2009-05-13 (www-tag@w3.org from May 2009)
Rick Jelliffe speaks truth to power about the frustrating direction of recent XML Schema work.
ºWhile each individual decision may be well-founded, and each change justifiable and beneficial, the total effect will not help get us out of the mess that XML Schemas has created, but mire us further in it.”
specs  static  xml  schemas  xsd 
july 2009 by josephholsten
A Community-driven Proposal for Developing HTML5
Manu Sporny proposes significant changes to the structure of the HTML5 spec and working groups. By breaking the text into small pieces, he hopes that smaller groups can make better progress and focus on what they do best.
standards  culture  html5  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
In Silence
At my lowest moments, this world can fill me with anger and bitterness. But when Robert Krulwich speaks about those tragic circumstances which normally make by fists clench, I find myself in tears. He tackles the most difficult situations life could demand of us, sending children off to die, standing by as lives are taken. Krulwich finds no answers, but still leaves us with hope. Not a hope which could satisfy and leave us whole, but the hope that we may sometimes suffer and sometimes struggle and sometimes thrive and sometimes understand.
religion  purpose  life  meaning  static  audio 
july 2009 by josephholsten
Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers
Jeff Atwood sees that, sure, most software sucks, but for programmers most software sucks hard.
static  software 
july 2009 by josephholsten
CSAs; Gush For je'
Alex Payne investigates his idea of the Cool Shit Aggregator.
feeds  recommendations  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
fever again
Michal Migurski reviews the interface eccentricities of Shawn Inman's Fever.
fever  interfaces  design  review  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
Crema
James Hoffman talks about how he has decided that crema is rubbish.
coffee  espresso  crema  video  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
Thoughts, Hopefully Relevant
Tara Bowen shares her hopes to learn more about coffee.
coffee  books  mastery  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
Linked data vs. Web of data vs. ...
Andy Powell investigates what happens when you remove RDF from Linked Data.
linked-data  semantic-web  web  http  standards  static 
july 2009 by josephholsten
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