Category Archives: Opinion

It is with great regret that I have to announce that Grabb.it will be shutting down operations at the end of this month. After almost two years of operation, we’ve simply run out of resources and can no longer keep … Continue reading →

Bit delayed compiling this month, but here ya go… Waltz with Bashir (Movie) Waking Life meets Shoah. (Note: there are some valid moral criticisms of this film.) 08 February 2009 Nightwatching (Movie) It’s consistently shocking that a director with Greenaway’s … Continue reading →

I’m proud to announce that I’ve been accepted at NYU ITP for this coming fall. I’ve been dreaming of going to ITP since I first heard Clay Shirky tell the story of Dodgeball and Pac Manhattan in 2005. Before discovering … Continue reading →

I found out yesterday that my proposal for RailsConf 2009 was accepted. My talk is: Giving Rails the Big ‘F’: Surviving Facebook Integration Unscarred. Here’s the description: “If you want a vision of the [Facebook], imagine a boot stamping on … Continue reading →

At first, I wasn’t sure about the Tumblr Dashboard. Why would a blogging site re-implement a feed reader as an internal service? Why would I want my blogging software to encourage me to repeat other people, to be less original? … Continue reading →

photo by kiddharma jQuery brings web sites to life. It’s great at getting data from services, capturing user interaction, manipulating web pages, etc. However, when you start building large swaths of the page from scratch based on javascript-resident data, it … Continue reading →

A while back, why let loose with a tweet that made me sit up with a start: I immediately knew that this was something I had to build; moreover, I knew just how. It was the perfect project to combine … Continue reading →

Speaking of speaking, I realized that I’ve been woefully behind in blogging speaking engagements the last few months. The first of them was RubyConf 2008 back in November. My talk, Ruby Arduino Development: Physical Computing for Everyone was very well … Continue reading →

In Regional Ruby Conference Speak, that’d be the Golden Gate Ruby Conference, which is being held April 17-18 in San Francisco. I’ll be giving a talk on RAD and participating in a discussion panel on Ruby frameworks. My talk will … Continue reading →

During the course of my media consumption, I often jot down quick notes about the things I read, see, or hear. These capture my immediate reactions and are by no means well-considered critical opinion. As an experiment, I thought I’d … Continue reading →