Ma.gnolia: Benjamin Kudria's Bookmarks

Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument

bkudria — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:13:05 PDT

1. That won't scale. 10. I had one of the interns try that approach for another project, and it scrambled the CEO's hard drive. So I think it's going to be a hard sell. 23. What? I don't speak your crazy moon-language. 35. If you make this change, I will fork the code. 70. I heard that the only real application for that technology was child pornography. How did you hear about it?

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Tags: funny, humor, losing, technical, argument, for:blog

Lyons House, Sydney

bkudria — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:52:04 PDT

An account of a house-visit to a modernist classic, with reflections on the importance of clients who know what they want, and can express it in terms that increasingly make sense 40 years later, and the results of a Melbourne architect working in Sydney.

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Tags: architecture, city, design, modernism, melbourne, sydney, robin boyd, for:blog

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

bkudria — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:50:56 PDT

A list of great ideas that PG's YCombinator would consider funding (if done right0. A great source of inspiration.

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Tags: yc, ycombinator, pg, paul graham, startup, invent, entrepreneur, idea, inspiration, for:blog

The Five Best Firebug Extensions

bkudria — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:43:24 PDT

Web Monkey reviews five extensions to Firefox's Firebug. Some cool stuff here.

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Tags: firefox, extensions, php, javascript, programming, development, web development, for:blog

Getting Started with Arduino

bkudria — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:14:17 PDT

Good set of resources on getting started with the Arduino board. Covers the board itself, books, parts, tools, etc.

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Tags: arduino, hardware, resources, for:blog

REST Anti-Patterns

bkudria — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:16:24 PDT

In this article, Stefan Tilkov explains some of the most common anti-patterns found in applications that claim to follow a "RESTful" design and suggests ways to avoid them: tunneling everything through GET or POST, ignoring caching, response codes, misusing cookies, forgetting hypermedia and MIME types, and breaking self-descriptiveness.

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Tags: rest, web, api, pattern, anit-pattern, for:blog

Unthinkable Futures

bkudria — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:50:43 PDT

Several lists by Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno about so-called "unthinkable" future scenarios. Meant to be totally implausible (at least in 1993), some are outlandish, outrageous, and completely deniable, but some ... some have an inkling of truth.

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Tags: unthinkable, future, prediction, humor, fun, haha only serious, kevin kelly, brian eno, for:blog, via:kottke

The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond

bkudria — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:35:46 PDT

"In postmodernism, one read, watched, listened, as before. In pseudo-modernism one phones, clicks, presses, surfs, chooses, moves, downloads. There is a generation gap here, roughly separating people born before and after 1980. Those born later might see their peers as free, autonomous, inventive, expressive, dynamic, empowered, independent, their voices unique, raised and heard: postmodernism and everything before it will by contrast seem elitist, dull, a distant and droning monologue which oppresses and occludes them. Those born before 1980 may see, not the people, but contemporary texts which are alternately violent, pornographic, unreal, trite, vapid, conformist, consumerist, meaningless and brainless (see the drivel found, say, on some Wikipedia pages, or the lack of context on Ceefax). To them what came before pseudo-modernism will increasingly seem a golden age of intelligence, creativity, rebellion and authenticity. Hence the name ‘pseudo-modernism’ also connotes the tension between the sophistication of the technological means, and the vapidity or ignorance of the content conveyed by it – a cultural moment summed up by the fatuity of the mobile phone user’s “I’m on the bus”."

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Tags: for:blog, philosophy, post-modernism, modernism, psuedo-modernism, realism

Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way

bkudria — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:30:09 PDT

How to host Git repositories on your Linux server, easily, with the gitosis tool. Good guide, and thorough walkthrough.

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Tags: git, repository, host, linux, debian, ubuntu, server, for:blog

Quality Without A Name

bkudria — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:07:43 PDT

Excellent piece on the proper way to design software.

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Tags: quality, design, software, programming, for:blog

10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it…

bkudria — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:14:38 PDT

Excellent detailed analysis and description of CSS and type design techniques used to create some great web type.

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Tags: css, type, design, web, font, times, for:blog

21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code

bkudria — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:41:05 PDT

A whole bunch of cool Ruby tricks I didn't know. Definitely worth a read!

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Tags: ruby, tricks, idiom, programming, for:blog

Distributed programming with Jabber and EventMachine

bkudria — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:09:07 PDT

Hooking up Jabber and EventMachine for remote command queuing, IPC, and other distributed programming hijinks. Crazy, and cool.

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Tags: ruby, jabber, xmpp, smpp4r-simple, eventmachine, distributed, for:blog

Luminaries look to the future web

bkudria — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:58:31 PDT

BBC interviews 10 prominent web community individuals for their reaction on the past 15 years, and their predictions for the next 15.

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Tags: web, www, internet, semantic web, for:blog

Up or Out: Solving the IT Turnover Crisis

bkudria — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:01:15 PDT

Applying the Cravath System to the IT Industry

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Tags: it, it industry, turnover, google, cravath system, cravath, for:blog

Drupal Modules - Search, Rate, and Review Drupal Modules

bkudria — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:20:43 PDT

A third-party front-end to the huge collection of Drupal modules out there, with fine-grained ratings, reviews, and more. About time!

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Tags: drupal, modules, drupal module, rating, review, for:blog, via:bmoreinis

Programming Languages study

bkudria — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:03:58 PDT

A survey of quite a number of programming languages, includes analysis of classification, syntax, and scriptability. Extensive.

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Tags: programming, code, languages, programming languages, syntax, survey, for:blog

Out of the Blue

bkudria — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:44:32 PST

Seed Magazine's story about the Blue Brain project, a successful neuroscientific attempt to simulate one neocortical column of a rat's brain on a giant supercomputer.

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Tags: neuroscience, simulation, supercomputer, bluegene, blue brain

A better backup system based on Git

bkudria — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:09:17 PST

"A fast, powerful backup system built upon Git and efficient, compact tools written in OCaml (faster than the C counterpart with 1/5th of the code :)"

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Tags: ocaml, git, backup, eigenclass, for:blog

blog.pmarca.com: An hour and a half with Barack Obama

bkudria — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:23:42 PST

Marc Andreessen (Mosaic, Netscape, Ning) describes his 1.5 hour sit-down with Barack Obama, back in early 2007.

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Tags: andreesen, pmarca, obama, interview, for:blog.