July 2011
15 posts
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Coding Horror: Nobody's Going to Help You, and... →
“You should be working” - love that.
I agree completely with Krugman here — Marginal... →
Hey Republicans, you are failing America.
When design kills: The criminalization of walking →
Friday Night Lights: Series finale: "It's my... →
Perfect ending to an amazing show!
Actually making changes
Until recently, I had never actually visited my blog from a Windows PC. And to be honest, I was happy with that because I didn’t design my blog for PC users. I designed it for myself.
Then I got a job that is stuck in 2006, and I can’t escape Microsoft any more. I opened the blog in Chrome and hated the look, so I made a few small tweaks.
* I switched the paragraph font from...
Two Decades of the Web: A Utopia No Longer →
The internet is a child with many fathers. It is an extremely complex multi-module technology and each module—from communication protocols to browsers—has a convoluted history. The internet’s earliest roots lie in the rise of cybernetics during the 1950s. Later breakthroughs included the invention of packet switching in the 1960s, a novel way for transmitting data by breaking it into chunks....
Gilt Technologie: Welcome to the Mothership →
gilt-tech:
In the summer of 2010, our Ops team was tasked with migrating our production systems from one hosting platform to another and immediately began to take stock of the challenges presented by our tools and processes. At Gilt, we make extensive use of both Cobbler and Puppet for our provisioning…
