Quick note… personally, I’m coming to see that good programmers need also have some measure of designer in them. While there is a sense of art in the constructs of the code, tonight I’m talking on a purely visual level.

Most of the time, my little hacks are command line apps, without much flash. But lately I find myself doing more and more artsy ( Read more... )

So my little project while I’m bored at home is PumaCreed - a poorman’s Google MapReduce. (astute hunter-types will notice the anagram name)

I’ve been toying with the idea for the past few days since I got inspired by the MapReduce chapter in Beautiful Code. Mostly it’s a cute little project that’s trendy and scratches an itch of mine - namely, ( Read more... )

A quick note before I make another post about why the other day was awesome:

My Ubuntu install on eponine had been freezing. Just up and freezing. So I built a FreeBSD install from scratch - decided that, for the desktop, it was lame (though the next time I overhaul fantine, my server, it’s going FreeBSD; what I learned makes it kinda rule for non ( Read more... )

http://www.unsanity.org/archives/haxies/leopard.php

That’s what was wrong with my Leopard install. I was using (an uncompatible) hack to run Witch, a really nice power tool (which I hope, once they update, will remain Leopard-compatible)

My take on Leopard, now ( Read more... )

tar -cvvf /Volumes/BARAKPOD/backup.tar michener/

So I got Leopard today, and, throwing caution to the wind, decided to upgrade my system.

bzzt Wrong! I am hosed!

So I’m lifting my userdata out onto my iPod - praise be unto the gods of the command line - and am going to do a fresh install.

I guess it all works out; but I would be lying if I ( Read more... )

Wow. That works too well.

In my news cycle this week was this article on Improving your photography through classical art. I took the time to try it out today (and by “time”, I mean “five minutes”) and applied the first colorful art piece I could think of offhand, Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte to an appropriate swing ( Read more... )

More 164 rantage:

So today I woke up and rewrote my crappy parser from scratch, having had a showertime epiphany about not only how to write a good one, but write one with features we’ll need for the next part of the project.

In the end, I came out with exact same linecount. So I was +0 in lines but plus several million in functionality.

We didn ( Read more... )

• Drinking a beer
• Listening to The Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible album
  • This is thanks to Jyte’s observation that 8 of the top 10 Last.fm tracks are from this album
• Messing with photonzero.com
  • In such ways as my new 404 page for anywhere that doesn’t exist

So I changed all my Flickr pictures to be under Creative Commons: Attirubution-ShareAlike, under the heading of being a good sport while retaining what I really want (which is largely attribution - the sharealike merely perpetuates the CC) - so yeah, if you care to use them, you can totally do so and it’s fully legit. This also from the fact that I ( Read more... )

Today I co-hosted Lindy on Sproul! And played DJ, photographer, and danced to my heart’s content - in short, I was in full multitask mode.

I built the playlist the night before - good thing too; making selections on the fly is hard. Heck, I still was changing the order every few songs or so.

My DJ cred is rising - I did it wholly from the swing ( Read more... )