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 head down working on my book, which goes way slower than I’d like. I find it’s pretty damn hard to get motivated to write sometimes, so grinding through produces pages but nothing I admire. I’ll probably just keep writing and hopefully go back and mix it up a little later. Then again HTTP is a boring as hell topic, and so absolutely irritating at the same time. It’s like writing about the damn tax code.

Lately though I’ve been exploring electronics and music in an attempt to combine them better. As I went through this learning process and tried to find other people interested in the intersection of art and hacking, I realized that something happened to us geeks. There just aren’t that many places where we can go to talk about our cool ideas or awesome hacks.

It’s like the entire scene was taken over by business pod people only interested in how they can flip their stupid startup to Google. There’s no hard core geeks left, but I know that can’t be true. There has to be at least 5 or 10 who want to talk about truly wicked weird cool shit they work on.

After months of thinking about the problem and talking with others, I came up with an idea. Read about it, and tell me what you think.