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I saw this spiffy new Typo theme over at Jamis Buck’s site, and decided that it was time finally to update to the latest Typo code, put on a theme from the Typo theme contest, but most importantly, pl…

My mac is feeling exceptionally sluggish this morning. Is this part of a larger conspiracy to get me to upgrade to the MacBook Pro?

OSx86 Project: “It’s all quite predictable – nothing is getting done because the sharing of information has stopped. Were there no contest, IRC channels would be full of dedicated developers sharing …

OhmyNews goes global. There are a lot of us out here who have been impatient waiting for citizen journalism to take hold on a large scale outside of Korea. Perhaps this will help? (Via Memeorandum.)

SIGNAL VS. NOISE: “The best designers and the best programmers aren’t the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with photoshop or vim, they are the ones…

I enjoyed using a bluetooth headset (Nokia HDW-3) with Skype on my Mac for a while, but got fed up with all the complaints from people that the sound was bad. Just this week I bought the Jabra JX-10 a…

What do you do when MySQL complains about “Too many connections”? It seems you can just restart mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql restart), and the Rails processes will simply establish new connections transpa…

This interface really is nifty. Go try it now, just hit g then l, and it’ll pop open. Neat. (Via Ajaxian.)

Technorati Tags: webapp, design, ajax, user interface

It’s interesting to see how 37signals the company has progressed in the technical challenges they take on. First, with Basecamp, they solved the traditional web application problem. I’d been doing web…

Campfire has launched, and it’s looking very good. I’m working with people in both New York and Silicon Valley, and having a standing, logged chat room is going to be really helpful. The 37s guys shou…