One of my biggest pet peeves is any time someone tells you (the notional Internet user) to run something akin to the following:

curl http://somesite | sh

Few things drive me more bonkers than developers insisting on some form of the following. Worse, sometimes the program won't work at all …

I updated the blog to use Pelican instead of Wordpress. I'll post more on why I decided to make the move but suffice to say I'm loving the change already. Static blogging FTW!

I just completed the excellent biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. it took me a while to listen to because it's frankly a painful account of a man who was both brilliant in his attention to detail and execution of vision, and a complete jerk when it came to …

Had a rather interrupted and not particularly good day today. Mostly because I incorporated mowing the lawn which took up a good chunk of he evening. But I did make some progress in the first chapter of Eloquent JavaScript (where it discusses the peculiarities of JavaScript's type-handling and coercion. Honestly …

Today was the first day of my learning challenge for learning JavaScript. I started off slow with just 10 minutes reading through the excellent book Eloquent JavaScript 2e. I read through the first edition and it got me the closest to learning JavaScript of any of the books relating to …