Some people, when confronted with numbers, think "I know, I'll add them with JavaScript." Now they have 1.99999999999997 problems.

JavaScript is literally the worst computer thing. RT @jleedev: .@garybernhardt
> ['10','10','10','10','10'].map(parseInt)
[10, NaN, 2, 3, 4]

>>> def method_missing(n, *a, &b); send(methods.min_by { |m| levenshtein(n.to_s, m.to_s) }, *a, &b); end
>> p [1, 2, 3].elngth
3

It's fine.

If you watch the software industry backwards, it starts with kids flailing; ends with old guys solving impossible problems by thinking hard.

Linus is so mad  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1413835/focus=1414106 …

The Internet concentrates everything that's bad about people and sends it to a tiny square in your pocket so you can feel bad at all times.

Truly, this is the language of the future. http://t.co/8IisYeXs

My "Wat" lightning talk is now up (free) on destroyallsoftware.com. Appreciate the absurdity of Ruby & JavaScript. https://t.co/YYnfQVl7

This is your periodic reminder that "pragmatism" is "the linking of practice and theory". Not discarding theory to get things done.

I wonder why email never banned third party clients like Twitter did? The company that owns it must not like money. Isn't that illegal?

2002: "The web is great! Now we don't have to install applications!" 2012: "Mobile apps are great! Now we don't have to use the web!"

"What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?" by @fat. This talk is fucking awesome.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDb6VBO9os …

Type Emacs keystrokes into Vim: beeps come out! Type Vim keystrokes into Emacs: Perl comes out!

Let's pause to remember how lucky we are that Thompson and Ritchie went to a one-month dev bootcamp, then created Unix at a startup weekend.

After writing a parser, you will understand every language's grammar choices (except PHP and JavaScript, which were designed by coin flip).

I love you, Ruby and Ruby culture. You are horrible and flawed and warty and so much better than anything else that exists.

Software is hard. SO hard. It's hard for me and I know that it's hard for you. Please don't ever say that it's easy. That's insulting.

Yep, we do MVC. Inside the V there's a smaller MVC. Inside that V? Another MVC. And in that V? Russian doll MVCeption all the way down.

A Python programmer rejects a new idea without considering its value. A Ruby programmer accepts a new idea without considering its value.

"Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune": this is a great post.  http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/06/stripe-and-ab-testing-made-me-a-small-fortune/ …