RailsConf 2006: why the lucky stiff and the Thirsty Cups

20 years ago

(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.) The Ruby community are a bunch of lucky stiffs because why the lucky…

RailsConf 2006: Where AC/DC, Stravinsky and Ruby on Rails Meet!

20 years ago

(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.) I had the distinct honour of being invited to play an accordion opening…

Blogging Has Officially Jumped the Shark

20 years ago

Back in the Archie Goes Goth entry, I wrote "It's a little-known fact that your subculture is over the minute…

A Year’s Worth of Girl Trouble

20 years ago

The web statistics suggest that I'm getting a crop of new readers, partially because of the Love/Hate T-shirt entry, partially…

Meanwhile, in the Blog I Get Paid to Write…

20 years ago

Over at Tucows Farm, an entry about being both a developer and a marketer, with a link to a particularly…

"Bender" and Al Gore Promote "An Inconvenient Truth"

20 years ago

Click the image to see the video. Here's a strange collaboration: "Bender" from Futurama and Al Gore in cartoon form…

A Sense of Scale

20 years ago

My best math teachers and professors used to encourage the class to get a better feel for numbers by playing…

RailsConf 2006: A Bag of Squishy Cows is a Bag of Trouble

20 years ago

Pictured below is the inside of my knapsack as it appeared in the late morning on Thursday, June 22nd. The…

RailsConf 2006: Nathaniel Talbott: “Homesteading: A Thriver’s Guide”

20 years ago

(This article also appears in Tucows Farm.) "Paul Graham might have be the first speaker at this conference to quote…

RailsConf 2006: Paul Graham: "The Power of the Marginal"

20 years ago

(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.) "Well, well, well..." said Paul Graham at the start of his keynote to…