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- 19 March 2025, 5:29pm rachsmith.com
Such a good morning’s writing I’d planned, and wasted the cream of my brain on the telephone.
- syntax - YAML: Do I need quotes for strings in YAML? - Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com
There have been some great answers to this question. However, I would like to extend them and provide some context from the new official YAML v1.2.2 specification (released October 1st 2021) which is the "true source" to all things considering YAML.
- Optimize for now! - (37signals) 37signals.com
"The best way to get to the point of needing more is by optimizing for today. Use the strengths of your current situation instead of being so eager to adopt the hassles of tomorrow." Half agree, half disagree.
- rude words from 1811 (8 January, 2008, Interconnected) interconnected.org
I find that certain mental states are good for certain tasks. No caffeine is good for doing my taxes, running and washing up. Walking with no music and being in the shower is good for insights into problems.
- Space and time and the future thewire.co.uk
We’re still making cutting edge shit, man, it’s wild shit, man, it’s raw, I love that ghetto perspective on space and time and the future, because it’s warped like a motherfucker, and as long as they’re making it, I’ll put it out.
— The Wire: Mike Banks interview
- High Performance Web Sites books.slashdot.org
"Teams are so fluid, project work is chaotic and project management is driven by marketing considerations (read: "get it out", not "enterprise stability") that site performance is seen as a server hardware issue."
- TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase slashdot.org
"As a musician [...] I've often thought about this. I've come to the realization that the price factor is a "problem" that is going to grow exponentially as time moves forward."
- Highly self-indulgent quotedb.com
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
- Dave Barry
- The brainstorm - a trojan horse of mediocrity adliterate.com
A facilitators main task is to ensure that 'everyone goes home with a balloon' after a brainstorm - that they all feel that their pointless lives have been made somehow better by this semi cathartic experience and by the lovely little warm up games that they all played. Not to mention that they all got to vote on the most simplistic and incompetent ideas with a little stash of post it notes like some kind of mutant pin the tail on the donkey game. Facilitators like pariticipants to have a nice time more than they like delivering actionable output.