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I don’t get spam

But I sure do get a ton of it on this site.  Not sure which of my updates irked Messieurs bobeCoila, sadaamozy and gepedgerm the most, but they’re posting an annoying amount of comments that makes even coming to my sites admin page a depressing venture.  The terrorists win again.

Overrated, May 2008

Arguments about multiple Ruby VMs
Discussions about Twitter’s demise
Clueless clients
Every self-important blog posting I’ve read this month
Everything I said in April and May

Another Ruby VM

Excellent news from RailsConf regarging GemStone’s new Ruby VM. Although, with all this work, I do sorta wonder why can’t we just push Smalltalk more into the mainstream? Or is it already secretly mainstream?

Harpers is Priceless

If you don’t already know about it, check my blogroll for Harper’s weekly updates. They’re just too damn good (and often depressing). From this past week:
House Republicans began using a new slogan, “the change you deserve,” which turned out to be the slogan of the antidepressant Effexor.11

There’s an Emacs Command for That


Favorite New Gap.com Feature

Gap recently redesigned their sites to support a single basket across all brands. Looks like every site is using a hidden iframe to register events that observe Prototype posts to the cart DOM element in the upper right. Probably some funky session stuff going on as well. Here’s my favorite feature:

“Including the [...]

Overrated, April 2008

Juno
Pitchfork recommendations
CSS frameworks
Javascript libraries
Insisting on always “rolling your own” (there’s a balance).
Tagging
A lot of Rails Plugins
Most social networks
Being a programmer
Being a manager of programmers
Being consistent
Being right
Having a strong opinion to blog about
What else?

Visualizing Your Next Domain Name


Mandarin Mishima

Once you leave your blog idle for awhile, it can be surprisingly difficult to want to go back.

Optimize Your Page Rendering

Here’s how Google went about doing so.