NickPersico.Com: Why I Hate Buying Tickets
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I’m Not Japanese | SachaGreif.com
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Best online app for instant video/voice group chat
(This was originally posted to the internal blog at work, but since there isn’t any secret stuff to hide, I’m cross-posting here with a little tweaks)
College was my biggest mistake by Steve Corona
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Why Rails 4 Live Streaming is a big deal — Phusion Corporate Blog
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Plack 1.0 and the future
I’m proud and excited to announce the long-awaited release of Plack 1.0 on CPAN.
The Elephant Vanishes
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YAPC::NA 2012 recap
…aka better late than never, mandatory blog post for the conference.
MacBook Air 13 + The new iPad, match made in heaven
I carry Macbook Air 13” and the new iPad to work in a coffee shop / public library and i think it’s a match made in heaven. Here’s how:
Straight Talk, the best way to save some bill with an iPhone (locked or unlocked)
I bought an iPhone 4S using wife’s AT&T upgrade, but didn’t want to open another AT&T line to use with my new phone. Because the phone is not unlocked, there doesn’t seem to be many choice other than tethering with a hotspot like an iPad. That is actually not really true.
On calling someone writing about perl events spammers
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iPhone tethered with the new iPad: Bad Idea
iPhone’s WiFi periodically sleeps and disconnects from WiFi when the screen is locked.
Android to iPhone
Wife has been an iPhone 4 user and her contract just got eligible for upgrade to 4S, and now that AT&T allows unlocking iPhones that got out of contract, thought it’s about time to get an iPhone for myself!
rjbs’s rubric: how I spent my Perl QA Hackathon
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Perl QA Hackathon 2012
Over the weekend I travelled to Paris, France for the wonderful Perl QA Hackathon 2012.
Today I was looking around a way to override/patch Net::HTTP requests to a Sinatra app in tests…
Today I was looking around a way to override/patch Net::HTTP requests to a Sinatra app in tests, and happily found that the sham_rack gem exactly does that.
resque-top
resque-top is my first Ruby gem released to the world of rubygems.
Exciting Times
Here’s a quick (big) announcement: I’m parting ways with DotCloud and will join COOKPAD in February.
Lumix DMC-GX1 JPEG settings
One of the problems I see with GX1 has been that the default JPEG output is so “flat” and it’s not my taste, especially when compared to the GF1. After a bunch of trial and errors, also with reviews on kakaku and 2ch, here’s something I came up with.
Shit San Francisco hipsters says at hipster cafes.
Shit San Francisco hipsters says at hipster cafes.