The Powerball people seem like a cool bunch of people. Check this out. (via reddit)
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Dorodango: Fun Mud Balls
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Dorodango is the practice of making shiny mud balls by hand. This started out for kids, and for all of us kids at heart this looks like great fun. Wikipedia Web-Japan magiedubouddha kyokyo-u dorodango.com (via ikarus)
A Letter From M.I.T.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Check out this funny letter from a potential student to MIT. (via reddit)
What Would You Have Said?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
On my last project we had a lot of meetings that included “fluff”. This is not unique, especially in IT. What was different, though, was that every lead developer was expected to perform three-letter-acronym loaded monologues, nearly on a daily basis. On one particular afternoon I felt like I had really gone overboard. While the [...]
The Fun in Steampunk
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
the Steampunk genre possess a look of craftsmanship and cobbling. It’s an aesthetic that invites the touch of the human hand and it encourages engagement and foster curiosity and play. – Rachel Hinman
Popular Lisper Doesn’t Do TDD; Java Programmer Not Sure How To React
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Here is an article about how a Java programmer can’t wrap his mind around the fact that Rich Hickey doesn’t do TDD even though all of said programmer’s friends agree that TDD is the best thing ever. (via reddit)
Debugging With A Speaker
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Here is a good article about debugging using a speaker! :)
A Programmer’s Cover Letter
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
If somehow all programmers were to read this article, and follow its advice by aspiring to the gold standard of cover letters (for their company at least), it would be good for all of them, but it would surely create a DOS attack of sorts for the hiring managers! (via Signal vs. Noise)
Hand wiring an 8 bit computer
Friday, May 29, 2009
This looks like a real blast; designing, assembling, and running an 8 bit computer. (via reddit)
Calling it like you see it
Friday, May 8, 2009
Right now, pypy compiled with JIT can run the whole CPython test suite without crashing, which means we’re done with obvious bugs and the only ones waiting for us are really horrible. – Maciej Fijalkowski With a good sense of humor, sometime it is ok to explain your status as it truly is :).