June 2006
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Adventures with Ruby (part 1)
These are notes I’m taking while reading the Programming Ruby book. It’s excellent. General Ruby use parens in all but the simplest cases single quotes for non-escaped strings, double quotes induce more work escaped strings replace with binary val double quotes also used with expression interpolation #{name} the last expression evaluated by a method is the return value; no need for return...
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Paul Graham
I want to spend a day reading everything on Paul Graham’s essays and other writings. I can’t wait to hear him speak at RailsConf 2006
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It's Time to Go...Again
This past weekend, I spent most of the time packing boxes when not working on the new Pitchfork site. As always, I come across photos, letters, and cards from the recent past. Nostalgia, my best friend. And then, I find my dream journal. Oh, my long lost friend. How I enjoyed writing in you every morning upon waking. Here are a few lines that I found particularly interesting: “Sailing the...
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Fuck the Blackouts!
I’ve never rocked out so hard. The Blackouts are amazing. I might’ve rocked out this hard when listening to Pere Ubu’s Navvy