Latest News >> 2008-11-13

Well, DHH seems to be caught in a lie in his latest blog post on Rails myths so I feel I should correct it. An outright lie that Mongrel caused his 400 restarts/day problem. However, David must have forgotten that I have a full log of the chat where he admitted it, so let’s get into some nice clean truth for a change.

2008-11-11

I’m quickly coming to the end of my first semester in music school and am considering taking a consulting gig for the two month break we have. Not really sure what’s available these days, as I actually haven’t touched a computer for the entire semester.

2008-10-30

In this world there are these weird little dickheads who think that they have some kind of magical powers manipulating others to do their bidding. They spend their days making people around them dance like marionettes in a sick little play that only they find funny. The sad truth about manipulators is their machinations are only powerful and effective in their own mind.

2008-10-28

UPDATE: Read my follow-up post to this where I explain Matt is alright.

I’ve been completely fed up with news/feed/rss/atom readers these days. I use Linux as my primary operating system, and I only have a few feeds that I want to rip through quick so I can get to reading the content. Yet, trying to find a reader that doesn’t suck donkey balls has been a chore.

After a long search through the world of open source feed readers, I finally found a great one named Newsbeuter that is what I want: “The Mutt of Feed Readers”. Apart from some build and dependency issues, it’s been great. All the features I need, none that I don’t, fast console operation, and it’s cut down on my information overload quite well.

However, in the process of trying to find a new reader I wrote up my experiences as a ranting product review of open source readers covering nearly all of them and just generally why most suck.