Monthly Archives: June 2008
It’s all details
They say the devil is in the details. Sometimes subtle details are a place to shine.
I was reading notes on a lecture by the great Joshua Schachter, developer of Del.icio.us, when I was thunderstruck by a detail.
You have to speak the user’s language. “Bookmarks” are what you call them if
you use Netscape of Firefox [...]
The beauty of Ruby’s array subtraction operator
Today I had to a set of email addresses, one per line, from which I had to remove the addresses of folks that said “Don’t email me.” Those emails were in a separate file, one address per line.
I figured I’d have to do this again, so I wrote a ruby script to automate it. [...]
Books: Anathem by Neal Stephenson