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This week, I released an update to SE Block, the Chrome extension that removes some of the cruft from the otherwise-excellent Stack Exchange pages. I had initially struck upon the idea for the extension shortly after I started my last job. Spending a lot of time on Stack Overflow, I found myself getting distracted by whatever was trending on the rest of the network—analysis of characters in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy? efforts to build supercapacitors using graphene sheets? mining the bowels of the English language to satisfy an itch for the perfect word choice? #relevant to this blog’s interests #productivity drain ...

npmjs: Last year, shortly after returning from JSConf 2014, where npm had sponsored the coffee, I pinged Chris Williams on IRC: 19:07 -!- voodootikigod is away: Auto-away 19:07 isaacs: First of all, jsconf was amazing and awesome, as always 19:07 isaacs: I hope that you're taking some time to decompress... [goto](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/120056493625/sponsoring-captioning-at-jsconf-2015)

Stormpath: User Auth & Management as a Service [UAMaaS?] Discourse: an open source forum, designed for reading SSO: single sign-on; “… a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them.” [src] As we’re moving toward an open beta for the company’s new product, web work to promote, support, and disseminate information is ramping up. I was tasked with using Stormpath as the SSO provider for our Discourse forums. If I made a mistake with this configuration, I would be locked out of any settings panel on the Discourse side. The only way to regain access would be ssh-ing into the Discourse box and executing some commands from irb. The catch was that no one knew the address for that hosted box. The solution? ...

It’s strictly an 8-to-5 kind of place — there are late nights, but they’re the exception. The programmers are intense, but low-key. Many of them have put in years of work either for IBM (which owned the shuttle group until 1994), or directly on the shuttle software. They’re adults, with spouses and kids and lives beyond their remarkable software program. That’s the culture: the on-board shuttle group produces grown-up software, and the way they do it is by being grown-ups. It may not be sexy, it may not be a coding ego-trip — but it is the future of software. When you’re ready to take the next step — when you have to write perfect software instead of software that’s just good enough — then it’s time to grow up. ...

And after you’re sufficiently hyped, this.

Come for the dial-up tone, stay for the philosophical & practical discussions. [goto](http://frankchimero.com/talks/the-webs-grain/transcript/)

im-simply-me: I will never not reblog this. 

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