Worst. Ideas. Ever.
Aaron Patterson and Ryan Davis

"Writing an operating system is a bit harder than writing a conventional program, by its nature: you're actually writing the code that works the machine and runs other people's code."

"This pattern attempts to be practical. It makes no attempt to parse URLs according to any official specification. It isn’t limited to predefined URL protocols. It should be clever about things like parentheses and trailing punctuation."

They start at "2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV"

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Think of it as JavaScript's less ostentatious kid brother — the same genes, roughly the same height, but a different sense of style.

Whenever someone thinks about building databases, web servers or other high performance pieces of server software the natural assumption is that it has to be written in C or C++ (or maybe java). The argument is usually something along the lines of only C or C++ provides the necessary performance, scalability etc. I think this is fundamentally missing the point of what makes high performance and highly scalable server software.

"Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend, Unicorn, is an inspiration. I’ve studied this file for a couple of days now and it’s undoubtedly one of the best, most densely packed examples of Unix programming in Ruby I’ve come across."