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XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it. Nokogiri project page Starting a new project today that will heavily involve, you guessed it, XML.

The key point is that there was no programming or learning involved to create the behaviors. The connectome of the worm was mapped and implemented as a software system and the behaviors emerge. “A Worm’s Mind In A Lego Body” http://i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/7985-a-worms-mind-in-a-lego-body.html via http://interconnected.org/home/

But after 1.0 there is no finish line, there is no bottom of the 9th inning. There are more bugs to be fixed. There are new releases ahead. The march continues, because software is not a product, it is a process. Mostly a reminder for myself. http://www.jessesquires.com/apples-to-apples-part-two/

The Template::Service module provides a high-quality template delivery service, with bells, whistles, signed up service level agreement and a 30-day no quibble money back guarantee. “Have a good time, all the time”, that’s our motto. http://template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Internals.html#section_Outside_Looking_In

Engelbart’s law of technology prediction says that all technology predictions overpredict what technology will do for you in the short term and underpredict what technology will do for you in the long term. –David Maynard Meta laws. (Busted: Yes, I was reading Fast Co. Yes, I’m sorry.)

Open up a terminal and type: $ cd /home/somedir $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer That’s it! Now your http server will start in port 8000. You will get the message: Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 … Now open a browser and type the following address: http://192.168.1.2:8000 You can also access it via: http://127.0.0.1:8000 If the directory has a file named index.html, that file will be served as the initial file. If there is no index.html, then the files in the directory will be listed. ...

Although the protocol is optimized for use as a payment scheme it is suitable for the transfer of larger amounts. The protocol is also suitable for use as an access control or resource allocation mechanism. With modification the protocol could be made to provide anonymity guarantees. W3C proposal for a micropayment transfer protocol…from 19 years ago. 

“Leaning in” is not the answer to our larger cultural problem and the unrealistic expectations the tech world sets for both men and women. Leaning in is an option, certainly. But, for most of us, “leaning in” will keel us all over into burnout. It will lean us all into lives we’re still inexplicably unhappy about living, always seeking the next way to “lean in” and “get ahead”, no matter what physical or emotional toll it may take. No matter what drugs you have to do. Never mind that you’re falling apart and haven’t had any time for yourself all week in between working and your commute back and forth to Palo Alto.What Sheryl Sandberg ignores is that whatever we’re leaning in to is an arbitrary boundary that will lead us into nowhere. To “lean in”, as she describes, or as society has taken it to mean, is to push harder in the workplace and to keep going despite the fact that our laundry hasn’t been done in weeks and our apartment is hardly lived in.And, personally, I feel that pushing into other people’s bullshit boundaries and arbitrary organizational frameworks is a waste of my time. An Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg from a Twenty-Something Woman in Tech | Techendo - Tech Life. Culture. News. (via slavin)

HOWTO: Open Your Work from Sublime in Chrome with a Key Command In Sublime Text, go to Tools > Build System > New Build System. A new tab will open in Sublime Text named untitled.sublime-build, with the following text in it: { “cmd”: [“make”] } If you use a Mac, replace it with the following: { “cmd”: [“open”, “-a”, “/Applications/Google Chrome.app”, “$file”] } Save the file. Name it Choose Browser.sublime-build. Sublime Text should be smart enough to put it in the right place for you, but if it doesn’t, save it to the following locations: ...

[I]nstead of constantly griping about having to type Hirb.enable, I found how to automagically load it in the Rails console: 1. In your home directory [ ~ ], type subl .irbrc 2. Paste in this bit: if defined?(Rails) && Rails.env require ‘hirb’ Hirb.enable end 3. Save and enjoy*. *Confirmed working with OS X 10.6.8 and [Rails] 4.0.2 Yes, my OS is old and janky - stop laughing. via Poop’s comment at http://tagaholic.me/2009/09/07/hirb-tips-for-rails.html