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Some Useful COVID-19 Resources

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Like a lot of people, I’ve been closely tracking the COVID-19 pandemic. There are a lot of useful resources for keeping track of what’s happening with COVID-19, but there’s also a lot of misinformation. I wanted to put together a collection of the things that I’ve found to be useful, and more importantly accurate.

The Week In Links - Feb 8, 2019

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» Cal Newport on Why We’ll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes It’s a fair analogy, I think. I’m not ready to trade my iPhone in for a flip hone, but I’m rethinking my relationship with my phone and with social media in particular. » Watch a Homemade Robot Crack a SentrySafe Combination Safe in 15 Minutes Last Christmas, Nathan Seidle’s wife gave him a second-hand safe she’d found on Craigslist.

A Collection of Links About Github Actions

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Github Actions is really intriguing, and I’m excited to get my hands on it. It’s not enabled for my account yet, but once it is I’m going to dive in and automate a bunch of things, starting with the publishing of this blog (which I currently do with AWS CodeBuild). While I wait paitently-ish, I’ve collected some links to things I’ve read about it. » GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us The blog post where Github announced Actions.

The Week In Links - Jan 19, 2019

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These are the things that captured my attention in the past week. » A story of an online stalker takes a bizarre turn down the rabbit hole I watched this story unfold on Twitter over a weekend, and it kept getting crazier. You should also read Chloe’s own post on the matter.. » The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet A story of a completely different sort, but no less interesting.

The Week in Links - 12/4/2010

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Full-Ack: an Emacs interface to Ack Ack is a useful little app for searching source code. If you ever use grep for finding things in your code, switch to ack immediately - you won’t regret it. This is a handy front end to ack for Emacs users. Information architecture: A How to I’ve been learning about information architecture lately as it’s becoming increasingly important for my job. This is a good overview.

The Week in Links - 11/11/2010

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Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website Some of these are common sense, but there are quite a few non-obvious ones here. A good checklist. Running Shells in Emacs: An Overview | Mastering Emacs Working with shells in Emacs is very useful; I almost always have a small one running at the bottom of my window to run commands in. This explains the differences between the different kinds of shells in Emacs, how to use them, and how to change their settings.

Links for 5/27/2008

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I’ve built up a big backlog of links. Here’s the first batch. Unix Command Line Kung-Fu 33 Pages of command line goodness. I’ve been rocking the command line for almost a decade, but there’s a ton of stuff here I didn’t know. Update : Hal Pomeranz, who created this document, sent me an email with a link to the PDF version of the document. You can find it here. Thanks Hal!

Links for 4/2

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A list of random and assorted things I have found lately New York Times blog on open source technology at the Times “A blog about open source technology at The New York Times, written by and primarily for developers. This includes our own projects, our work with open-source technologies at nytimes.com, and other interesting topics in the open source and Web 2.0 worlds.” There are a lot of nice posts in there, including one on how they used EC2 to convert their archives to PDF.

Links for 1/29/08

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A list of random and assorted things I have found lately New York Times blog on open source technology at the Times “A blog about open source technology at The New York Times, written by and primarily for developers. This includes our own projects, our work with open-source technologies at nytimes.com, and other interesting topics in the open source and Web 2.0 worlds.” There are a lot of nice posts in there, including one on how they used EC2 to convert their archives to PDF.

Links for 8/4

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An assortment of tasty distractions. A fun collection of classy insults. Here are a couple of choice ones: “A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” - Winston Churchill “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” -Clarence Darrow What 120 calories looks like. Nice reminder. Via Jeremy Zawodny A productivity tip from Jerry Seinfeld I really didn’t believe this until I read it.

Links for 10/31/06

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The latest in a long series of things distracting me from other things that are likely far more important: Sun: Learn about JRuby - I look forward to playing with this someday soon. Yahoo: Ruby Developer Network - Yeah, I’m a little late on this one. Included just in case you have spent the recent months in a cave. Free CSS Templates Very nice stuff here. The Shire of Bend, Oregon - Middle Earth-ish homes.

Links for 9/18

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A random sampling of the things that I’ve found interesting lately: Airplane Seat Etiquette If you ask me, reclining your seat on an airplane is a declaration of war. There are few things in the world that are ruder. Mark Fletcher leaves Bloglines He’s technically leaving Blogline’s owner Ask, but that’s a minor detail. I was a happy Bloglines user for a long time, but it started to lag behind the other readers.

Links for 8/28

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Free Programming and Computer Science Books - No explanation needed Getting Started With Getting Things Done One of the most popular posts on 43Folders, and a great introduction to Getting Things Done 16 Year Old Guitarist Plays Pachelbel’s Canon Pretty amazing Guy Kawasaki - Ten Things To Learn this School Year - Includes “How to survive a meeting that’s poorly run”, and “How to explain something in thirty seconds” among other great advice.

Links for 8/24

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Ten Things You Shouldn’t Buy New The usual suspects are here, but there’s some things I hadn’t considered. The Complete Running Network - New blog dedicated to running. I’m trying to get back into running, so this is a useful resource. Writing a Typo Sidebar Test First Just what it says, good insight into the process. Datebocks - Intuitive Date Parsing - Javascript library that let’s you handle dates like “Tomorrow”, and “Next Friday”, as well as more traditional date formats.

Links for 7-19

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The various shiny objects that caught my eye lately. 11 Ways of Staying Focused Probably my biggest challenge, I need all the help I can get. Top 14 Stumbling Blocks for New Businesses Some of this I’ve seen elsewhere, but there’s soom good points in here. What is a Wiki - And How to Use One for Your Project I know what a wiki is, but this is a good introduction on how to leverage them for projects.

Links for 7/6

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The Garden State Effect Good movie, great post Mark Pilgrim’s Essentials 2006. - Mark just switched to Ubuntu Linux after many years with Macs. Nice Markets for the Potential ISV Ian Landsman’s list of good potential markets. There’s some interesting thoughts in here, but his reasoning is more interesting. Rewired Brain Revives Patient After 19 Years The title says it all. Amazing.

6/25 Random Links

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These are the shiny objects that captured my attention the last couple of days. Five Things Every Micro-ISV Should Know About Intellectual Property - Primer on IP Pricing a Project - Good advice on setting rates, as well as how to price a project as a whole Seth Godin - How to get traffic for your blog - My shameless fan-boying of Seth continues.

6/23 Ruby & Rails Links

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A few links that caught my eye today: An introduction to Ruby on Rails for DB2 developers Nice article if you’re a DB2 user and want to know what the fuss is about. Written by Edd Dumbill. Ruby-Gnome2 Website - Appears to be a decent GUI toolkit for Ruby. I wish someone would get QT’s Ruby bindings working on Windows. The thing I miss most about Python is PyQT. Sapphire in Steel: The Little Book of Ruby - Nice introduction to Ruby with plenty of code samples, in PDF form.

Links for 11/7

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Creating a header background Good information for the design challenged (like me). Tag database schemas A good look at a variety of database schemas for “taggable” information. Creating a business logo Ian Landsman walks through the process of creating a logo for your business. Creating printable documents with Ruby Discussion of PDF::Writer, both standalone, and with Rails.

Links for 8/27

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MySQL Cheat Sheet - Commonly used MySQL commands, all in one convenient HTML page. Explaining TDD to a non-techie Great way to explain Test Driven Development. Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? - I’m really surprised (or perhaps frightened) at how wrong I was on this quiz. Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby - Yeah, this is an oldie, but a goodie. This is chapter 3, the best (and funniest) introduction I’ve seen to the Ruby programming language yet.

Links for 8/10

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Martin Fowler has a great introduction to Rake. If you’re not familiar, Rake is similar to Ant, but instead of build files written in XML, they’re written in Ruby. If you’ve ever written a complicated Ant script, you know how verbose and complicated they can be. Rake is the answer to your prayers. Novell has put OpenSUSE 10 into beta. Google Sightseeing is a cool collection of images from Google Maps.

Links for 8/6

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A collection of links from the last week or so: Linux Command Line Tips A web site of Object Oriented Tips A very lengthy explanation of the f/stop A good collection of XHTML templates
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