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Just a quick note to say that I do not recommend chopping off the tip of a finger. Not that I did, but I got eerily close on Wednesday night when I cut halfway through my left pinkie in addition to th…

There’s a webcast up of Derek Powazek’s talk about community-first publishing at the Knock Knock conference. It’s definitely worth viewing, it’s a very interesting and hot space—and exactly the market…

Everyone’s doing it, and so are we: The Boxes and Arrows Job Board is live!

The staff frequently gets email from people asking if they can help fill a position—well, now we can.

So if you’re looking…

My server got hacked once again. I’m not sure what I’ve done to attract this kind of unwanted attention – I’m doing all the obvious things like keeping the system patched, passwords secure, moved SSH …

Most sites have a “Remember me” checkbox of some sort, which will store a permanent cookie, rather than a session cookie, so you don’t have to login again the next time you visit.

JPG magazine takes th…

I just realized that my production servers were running the Ruby version of the MySQL driver, to the tune of a performance penalty of 10-15%, according to Riding Rails.

It turns out the compilation h…

Do you ever get the feeling that the captain has simply forgotten that the fasten seat belt sign is still on? And thought it’s probably because they’re not themselves affected by it?

Yes, I’m back in…

In a single day, we’ve managed to fly to New York, along with our 1-year-old daughter, had an afternoon meeting with Martin Niesenholtz, the head of New York Times Digital, with my partner Christina W…

The Rails-Commit mailing list has been down since August 19, and though it was a nice relief from the ADHD of the core team for a while, it is really useful to follow what’s being committed, especiall…

I’m a big fan of companies that tackle hiring differently, like the print-on-demand company Lulu with The Lulu Quiz.

Note in particular the Renaissance skill set and the living abroad/multilingual pa…