The Perverse Nature of Performance Tuning. This explains why I often get it wrong.
Scrapes. From PMade, another approach to Web scraping with Ruby.
%s/SHOULD/DOES/g. Half of what standard bodies do is being benevolent. They do a good job writing specifications that tell us how the world SHOULD behave. By people who obviously know better than us. What if instead they captured how the world DOES(*) behave, and only do the minimum work required to smooth any frictions?
Kudos to Sam Ruby who’s keeping the HTML5 working group in check with the rest of humanity.
“I think my response was ‘What idiot dreamed this up?’” From InfoWorld’s collection of quotes from the year past.
hotspotr is going places. More cities than just San Francisco, and access from your mobile phone.
(*) Not an RFC 2119 word.