Absolutely everyone should watch Inside Job, the excellent documentary on the financial crisis, narrated by Matt Damon. The level of Wall Street’s …Read more

I'm playing with upgrading zenbilling to Ruby 1.9.3, and need to add the magic encoding comment to the source files that need it. Here's my poor man…Read more

Simon Sinek, the Start with Why guy: As an adult nobody looks at my skills as survival skills, they look at me and say “what a talent you have.” Wh…Read more

Dave Winer on our crashing global economic and political system: Of course they all translate into money, and money has no intrinsic meaning. Ron P…Read more

I kept getting my CSS gradients in IE 9 messed up by the Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline. The symptom was that the colors were off - way off! Like purple in…Read more

I wanted to be able to see error traces in the browser when I'm the one visiting. Here's my hack, dropped into config/initalizers/ if Rails.env == …Read more

Louis C.K. in Fast Company:  The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2—and No. 2 always wins in America. Apple was a No.…Read more

I use the Rails server logs primarily to dig through a user's interaction with the site across requests to track down intricate bugs, like how did th…Read more

Seth Godin: What we can become the best at is being an idiosyncratic exception to the standard. Read more