Painfully Obvious.

Since LazyWeb these days is the place where all the trackback spam hangs out, I find I have no choice but to turn my ideas into action. I envy the flexibility of tumblelogs like Projectionist, in which quotations, photos, chatlogs, and links commingle. That said, I don’t want to go…

Because I spun the Buzzword Roulette Wheel and landed on “Ruby” and “Wikipedia” on consecutive spins, I am finding myself writing a Ruby interface to MediaWiki. At work I use a great plugin for jEdit called mwjed that makes it about fifty times less annoying to edit wiki pages, and…

Garret Dimon’s post on front‐end architects is a good read, I think. But I’m usually biased toward articles that suggest that the skills I possess might become incredibly valuable in the very near future. I’m not sure I like the term ‘front‐end architect,’ but now I’m just being a weenie.…

I’m about to become what I secretly roll my eyes at: a Ruby on Rails evangelist.

A while back I wrote about my Azureus Widget and explained why it wasn’t yet listed at DashboardWidgets.com. DBW had a policy to reject any submitted widgets associated with P2P networks. They have since changed that policy and have invited me to resubmit my widget, which I will likely do…

I wouldn’t be a member of the blogosphere (ugh) if I didn’t link to this year’s Edge Annual Question: What is your dangerous idea? Like any good blog meme, this is a good way to waste three hours. I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out this gem from Daniel…

From The Elements of Typographic Style, my new favorite reference volume: Most writing and typography … remain contentedly abstract, like a theater script or a musical score. The script of Macbeth does not need to be bloodstained and spattered with tears; it needs to be legible. And the score of…