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Software engineering lessons from production, raw and honest from the heart — almost 20 years of them. Jump to a year in the sidebar, or browse categories.

January 2011

A case for multi-tasking

Tweet a photo every time your mac wakes up with a simple hack

Execution shapes ideas

December 2010

DjangoCamp was bangin'! (before unseen epic last slide of my talk)

The Internet at war

Twitter censoring the WikiLeaks debate?

November 2010

Evolving a poem with an hour of python hacking

Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn

Clients need deadlines too

Clients need deadlines too

A wit

600 word essay on the positive merits of politeness

Some general impressions of the US

October 2010

A flight

Doing nothing is the hardest thing ever

September 2010

Hard work is a total waste of time

RSS not dead, just misunderstood

Apple's Ping is a big pile of steaming dung

August 2010

On the buying of new hair and other silly stuff

The strangestest Hello World I ever made

Programatically uploading to blobstore in python

Django protip #2: Forms are awesome

July 2010

The mountains are beautiful magnificent beasts

Django protip #1: A better App structure

Small trick for seamless base64 password storage in django

Barefoot running

June 2010

Today was the worst day I've ever had

This summer a bunch of hackers might realize your crazy idea

List of things I need to do before I'm 30

The best post in the history of posting on the internets