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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Rehabilitating the professional rock star
I’ve been following the “Rails pr0n star” scandal, probably too closely for my own good, and making my share of grumpy twitter comments. Let me just get the standing and being counted out of the way first: I found the … Continue reading
Devver
One of my goals has long been to be paid to work on a product that I can be personally enthusiastic about. I’m happy to announce that that goal has been realised. At the beginning of this week I started … Continue reading
Ubuntu, Emacs, and Fonts
Ubuntu is a wonderful development environment in many ways, but let’s not beat around the bush: fonts in Linux have always been a disaster. It’s not as bad is it used to be; these days Ubuntu ships with some nice-looking … Continue reading
