read moreI don't have a particular problem with the biological inevitability of personal oblivion. Someday, some hour, some moment I will cease to be. An instant of black, and then non-essence. No afterlife with ancestors, and no higher plane of consciousness. I don't believe in those things ...
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Matt Alexander on Apple and Google:
read moreIn spite of all of these perceived incompatibilities, however, I cannot help but think there ought to be harmony and symbiosis between the two. Google's acumen with web services and its keen desire to work for the benefit of a broad swath of ...
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A nice quick introduction to writing Vim plugins in Python.
Worth the read if only for the awesome gems of prose1 like this:
read moreYou see, the ancient legend says that before the universe was compiled, the creator deity pondered for a spell, and then on the first day said ...
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Feed Wrangler is a modern, sustainable RSS reader.
Unlike some people, I didn't run around like my hair was on fire when Google announced they were shutting down Reader. I was sad, but I was patient because David Smith pre-announced Feed Wrangler.
And now it's here. I'm ...
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From the BitTorrent Blog:
read moreSync is unlimited, secure file-syncing. You can use it for remote backup. Or, you can use it to transfer large folders of personal media between users and machines; editors and collaborators. It’s simple. It’s free. It’s the awesome power of P2P, applied to ...
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The videos from PyCon 2013 are available1.
That is all. Carry on.
And probably have been for a while. I'm slow like that sometimes. ↩
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Teddy Wayne at McSweeney's:
Caught some allusions to The Odyssey. Nice.
As a lover of Joyce and general disparager of writing groups, this made me chuckle.
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