I hereby resign
How obligatory employee Facebook monitoring can ruin a company's HR
privacy  hr  facebook  hiring  management 
7 weeks ago
How big are PHP arrays and values really?
... So, where does that extra factor of 18 come from?
php  memory  performance  compiler  fortwitter 
february 2012
Interactive git cheatsheet
Click on the area of git storage (stash, local, staging, repos, remote) and see a list of the commands which let you interact with it
dvcs  reference 
september 2011
Laws of Productivity
"Not only is workaholism unnecessary, it's stupid. Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more."
forwtitter  productivity  management 
september 2011
Web Sequence Diagrams
WebSequenceDiagrams.com - Draw and Edit Sequence Diagrams in seconds
workflow  diagram  architecture 
august 2011
dotjs hack the web
GreaseMonkey-style scripts for Chrome, by putting in ~/.js
javascript  hack  plugin  browser  ruby  fortwitter 
june 2011
Creating and Formatting Man Pages
Man pages, including general structure suggestions and basic nroff codes
documentation  formatting  tutorial 
june 2011
troff and nroff quick reference
Quick guide to troff and nroff command codes for writing man pages
formatting  documentation  howto 
june 2011
Mark Batty Publishers
Independent  publisher of beautiful books on sound systems, Joyce, autism...
books  design  independent 
june 2011
Python’s super() considered super
Subtleties of the new super() method in Python 3
python  discussion  method 
may 2011
Fuzz Box: Resign Patterns
Design patterns you should never follow but almost always do
architecture  software  pattern  humour 
may 2011
Everyone sucks at interviewing.
So don't interview. Contract for a few days or weeks and work with them.
management  hiring  employment  interview 
may 2011
MySQL: TEXT vs. VARCHAR Performance
Diagnosing disk writes and CPU usage to work out how changing from TEXT to VARCHAR actually killed a SORTing query
fortwitter  database  optimization  performance  diagnostic  tool 
may 2011
Why I Run a Flat Company
37Signals has to make difficult decisions, partly because of its "inbetween" size
management  culture  problem 
april 2011
PNG transparency and IE6
Including the mythical "palette with 8-bit alpha channel" PNG
image  web  ie6  design  graphics  fortwitter 
march 2011
Where the Unix philosophy breaks down
A pipe is a transaction; but every transaction has its cost
paradigm  programming  design  linux 
march 2011
I hate my iPad, by John Swansburg
"Get married. Then you can use it to ignore your wife."
hardware  mobile  forwtitter  technology 
march 2011
Write software that will get your 22-year-old user laid
"Groupware" is all about... "the chairman of the committee has emailed me this checklist, and I'm done with item 3, so I want to check off item 3, so this document must be sent back to my supervisor...." Nobody cares about that shit. Nobody you'd want to talk to, anyway.
software  social  enterprise  fortwitter 
february 2011
Why movies are getting worse
Plotting standard deviations on the Y axis, apparently: one of the best visualizations I've seen.
fortwitter  data  graphics  analysis  media 
february 2011
Breaking the Web with Javscript hash-bangs
"Gawker/Lifehacker have violated the principle of progressive enhancement, and they paid for it immediately with an extended outage on day one of their new site launch."
torchboxshowandtell  javascript  ajax  google  search  hack  content 
february 2011
DryDrop
Update App Engine site by pushing to GitHub
torchboxshowandtell  gae  website  html  git 
january 2011
Face detection with jQuery
var coords = $('#myPicture').faceDetection();
jquery  programming  javascript  ai  image  processing  fortwitter 
december 2010
Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic
Compares the traffic flow of different applications against each other to see if your ISP is shaping it.
network  performance  service  speed 
december 2010
Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD
Meta-framework for managing jQuery, dynamic CSS, multiple in-parallel JS includes etc.
torchboxshowandtell  javascript  framework  browser 
december 2010
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