Radical Liberation

Autotune?

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:53:00 -0500

I’m considering leaving the isolation of my cave and rejoining society. Is the autotune fad over yet?

St. Patrick's Breastplate

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:08:01 -0500

Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left, Christ in the fort, [i.e., at home] Christ in the…

The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity - pmarca ARCHIVE - bit.ly/1z2b3V

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:20:29 -0500

The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity - pmarca *ARCHIVE* - bit.ly/1z2b3V:

Don’t keep a schedule. Keep three and only three lists: a Todo List, a Watch List, and a Later List. Each night before you go to bed, prepare a 3x5 index card with a short list of 3 to 5 things that…

TDD Derangement Syndrome

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:53:38 -0500

TDD Derangement Syndrome:

From the article: In the George-William study teams that practiced TDD took 16% longer to claim that they were done than the teams that did not practice TDD. Apparently tests are more accurate than…

Mac OS X Automation

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:29:21 -0500

Mac OS X Automation:

Apple’s official site for automation in Mac OS X. Great library of scripts, though they require Snow Leopard.

Dan Lyons: Why We Need Steve Jobs | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:12:43 -0500

Dan Lyons: Why We Need Steve Jobs | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com:

“Cook is a great manager, a whiz when it comes to managing supply chains and keeping the trains running on time. He is vital to Apple. Jobs cannot do what he does. But neither can Cook do what Jobs…

Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:29:42 -0500

Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument:

Geeks, as a general rule, are pretty easy-going. We like to think things through, so passionate confrontations aren’t commonplace for us. When we get well and

Code Collector Pro

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:33:07 -0500

Code Collector Pro:

“Code Collector Pro provides the best solution for organising, using and sharing your code snippets.” Heard about this .on the MDN show.

"As the trend in technology moves further towards “open source,” where every user can..."

Mon, 04 May 2009 09:23:49 -0500

“As the trend in technology moves further towards “open source,” where every user can access the underlying source code of a product, the press becomes more addicted to anonymous and “closed” sourcing, where the reader is expected to accept every claim at face value with no ability to assess the credibility of the source.”

- S.M. Oliva, The Fall of Old Media, Continued - Mises Economics Blog

"Legalism is as much a danger to the Church as [theological] liberalism."

Sun, 03 May 2009 17:45:39 -0500

“Legalism is as much a danger to the Church as [theological] liberalism.”

- Rev. Wayne Carson (my Dad)

Level & Tap

Sat, 02 May 2009 17:21:49 -0500

Level & Tap:

Beautiful photos with easy printing and optional framing.

"The best camera is the one that’s with you."

Sat, 02 May 2009 17:10:16 -0500

“The best camera is the one that’s with you.”

- Chase Jarvis

Cultural Literacy: A Reading List for Beginners

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:46:14 -0500

Cultural Literacy: A Reading List for Beginners:

Austro-libertarians often rightly complain about the economic illiteracy of traditional conservatives and most mainstream political commentators. I am no exception. In my own classes I have to spend…

Kent Beck: Meeting commitments vs. testing and refactoring: false dichotomy

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:36:15 -0500

Kent Beck: Meeting commitments vs. testing and refactoring: false dichotomy:

Kent Beck responds to an attack from Andrew Binstock:

Removing the inflammatory emotional words from the above, I get: “Kent Beck [Bob can answer for himself] supports testing and refactoring in ways that don’t advance the project.” What?

Untitled Document Syndrome by John Gruber

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:54:47 -0600

Untitled Document Syndrome by John Gruber:

If you want to understand why they call him “Chairman Gruber” read this great example of his writing. I’m not sure exactly how to explain what he does that is so important for the Mac community, but it has something to do with making ultimately simple points that seem obvious to everyone once he makes them but were not at all obvious before he makes them:

Everything on your computer is ultimately saved somewhere in the file system. But that doesn’t mean that you want to handle the actual filing by hand for everything. You don’t really want to know a lot of things about the specific technical details of how your data is saved, or if you did, you’d write your own app.

G. K. Chesterton

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:47:25 -0600

G. K. Chesterton:

Many GK Chesterton resources, including whole books.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Becoming Productive in Xcode

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:50:54 -0600

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Becoming Productive in Xcode:

2 $5 screencasts that give tips on how to use XCode more efficiently.

Speed Kills

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:47:28 -0600

Speed Kills:

Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin:

If you want to be a craftsman. If you want to be someone who builds software quickly, accurately, and repeatably. If you want to be someone that your employer respects and values. If you want to respect yourself. Then remember this simple fact. Speed Kills.

Interview With Ward Cunningham, Inventor of the Wiki and Extreme Programming

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:00:00 -0600

Interview With Ward Cunningham, Inventor of the Wiki and Extreme Programming:

This interview on FLOSS Weekly of Ward Cunningham by Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz is really remarkable. I did not know that the wiki and extreme programming (now usually known as Agile programming) were invented by the same guy. Even more enlightening was to hear him describe what the two have in common… Both allow for “incompleteness” while still being useful. Wikis allow for links to pages that haven’t been written yet, while extreme programming requires that the software always be working and passing tests even if it has only a limited set of features initially. That is, both are Incremental (see his Wiki Design Principles).

Near the end of the interview he envisions languages that support unit tests natively rather than as something tacked on. Intriguing stuff!

The Joy of Multiple Children

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:08:53 -0600

Holding my fourth child, and second son, Ransom, I’m thinking about how my experience of him is different from my first child. With our first child we noticed a lot of things that weren’t specific to her. Things that had more to do with the novelty of having a baby and seeing a little person develop from the very beginning. But with subsequent children, we have focused less on this since having a child is less and less a novelty.

Sure, we take less pictures of our later children than we did our first. But being obsessively documented doesn’t necessarily seem like the greatest thing. What we do have is more and more ability to focus on what is unique about the new baby as opposed to what he has in common with pretty much every other human baby.

We enjoy the particular personality of each child. In fact, I think of our newest baby less in terms of being a baby then of being a very small person. Like a detective I look eagerly for clues as to who this person is. Is he intense like our first child? Is he mellow like our second? Is there anything distinctly boyish about him, even at this early phase?

It is staggering that Ransom, Lord willing, has a life ahead of him. A life that will certainly be tremendously impacted by us just as his siblings. But a life that will ultimately be his own to make through a million choices. A life that will be shaped to some degree by God-given gifts and talents that we can even now faintly begin to detect. Little gleams that someday will be apparent to all but, for now, we treasure these things in our hearts.