The REAL stuff white people like...


… and blacks, Latinos, Asians, Indians, Middle Easterners, and Pacific Islanders according to the awesome OK Cupid blog.

Old school color cycling in HTML5. Check out the demos

Old school color cycling in HTML5. Check out the demos

“The fundamental steps of all software development are analysis and coding.”

paraphrased from Winston Royce, 1970

Sal Khan, founder and entire faculty of the Khan Academy. Has made over 1,600 free educational videos. Amazing. (via 37signals)

“Too many songs, weak rhymes that’s mad long Make it brief son, half short and twice strong”

GZA, “The Genius” echoing 37signals’ Half, Not Half-Assed ethos.
Robocop riding a unicorn.

Robocop riding a unicorn.

Auto-scaling Redis-backed workers


The money quote:

Now, your workers only run when they need to. You don’t need to have a bunch of workers running for those times the job queue does get a little backed up, and you don’t even need to keep track of it, because it will scale itself without you having to mess with it.

“Maggot Brain” P-Funk cover by Gov’t Mule, played at BOA Pavilion in Boston last Friday.

The original paper on Lisp


“Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I”

John McCarthy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass

April 1960