A few days ago I wrote about upgrading my linux box to Ubuntu Natty Narwhal and mentioned that I hate the new user experience the system offers. tl;dr –> I don’t care, take me to the screenshots! I was wrong. It. Is. Fucking. Awesome. But what I wanted to talk about today was how a [...]

Yesterday I finally broke down and took the time to fix Lestat, my desktop computer slash file server slash home network router slash all ’round good bloke, room warmer and white-noise producer.   A few months ago, can’t really remember how many, he suddenly decided not to load up the graphical interface and get stuck [...]

Yesterday I was playing around with javascript trtying to find the cleanest way to implement callbacks in functions. Primarily I wanted a readable way to make certain the last argument passed is a callback, withut having to rely on knowing how many arguments there are and so on. Instead I stumbled upon a pretty cool [...]

This is a continuation from the last time I benchmarked node vs. clojure for hard computation, sort of. This time ’round I decided to benchmark how many concurrent requests a single process of technology X can handle. Threading is fine.   tl;dr —> node is fast but a bit unpredictable, django fails a lot, tornado [...]

For the longest of whiles I’ve been working on a speed comparison between Node.js and Clojure. Today I had some time in a place with unreliable internets and finally gave it a whirl since there was nothing better to do, I certainly wasn’t going to merely enjoy the sun. The comparison I chose to go [...]

My circadian rhythm has always followed its own sort of clock and I’ve never quite been able to look like anything other than a raging insomniac to most people. Lately though, it’s gotten absolutely bonkers. Last Friday I actually got to sleep at a pretty reasonable hour, about 4am. This is still pretty normal. I [...]