This was very helpful: http://www.scribd.com/doc/31915761/Ruby-Debuggi...

I finally found the options in chrome to log xhr requests and preserve log upon navigation. Sorry, Firefox, we'll be spending less time together. That gear icon in the chrome console means something! http://imgur.com/5xPWl

Nyan Cat Rspec Formatter. http://www.mattsears.com/articles/2011/11/16/ny...

I'm actually surprised this is the first day I've encountered a throttling problem against a local site in Chrome: chrome://net-internals/#httpThrottling

Registration is open for the Stanford online ML class! http://www.ml-class.org/. I registered for the basic track.

I knew the answer to my problem was going to be "you're a dumbass" but that still didn't take anything away from finally pinpointing exactly *where* I was being an dumbass. Moving on...

It has long seemed to me that getting women interested in computer science & programming would be easier if it were presented as a way to solve problems women are interested in. This article starts off with a good example. http://bit.ly/puhhIf

Another handy js lib, if you use rails routes: https://github.com/railsware/js-routes

Handy javascript pluralization: http://code.google.com/p/inflection-js/. I updated pluralize to take a count parameter so it returns the original string if count == 1.

Playing with mustache.js and icanhaz.js. Undecided on how to structure it for client-side rendering. Anyone have experience with either/both?

Pomodoros beat standing desks? http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html

My search for an automated restful api document generator like rdoc or yard is coming up short. Internet seems to agree the answer is to write it out manually. Do you know a better solution?

I just registered for free online classes from Stanford on AI and machine learning this fall. Awesome! http://www.ai-class.com/ (via @TheOctagonTheory)

The color #bababa makes me giggle when dealing with css.

Do you use a black background or white background (or other) in your terminal/editor/etc?

If you bind 'touchstart' to an ancestor of a textarea, it makes it impossible to dismiss an autocorrect suggestion in the textarea. I'm working on a fix for Subjot's mobile version now. http://sjot.it/oz4bTx (Autocorrect will be back soon!)

Handy bash commands for sorting out email lists... this will save me some googling next time: https://gist.github.com/1134095

I moved my blog this weekend and made becarella.com a landing page for funsies. http://becarella.com now shows recently shared media from subjot. Thinking more seriously about what a subjot api should have and how to get that out.

Idea: detect new trends in your own vocabulary. I believe "ick" and "also" are on the rise in my own writing.

Idea for a ridiculous running app: You set your desired pace and distance. If you fall off pace, an audio overlay makes it sound like footsteps of someone chasing you.

30 minutes into @davedotluebke's webinar on GPU computing. Initial impression: computer science is cool. 1 hour to go! http://www.gputechconf.com/page/home.html

What do you use for client-side form validation? We are using http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation which I like well enough but keep fighting with.

Idea: a chrome extension that keeps track of your fresh direct browsing history. If you made it to step 5 of 6 in the checkout process but failed to hit the final "OK" button, it will remind you shortly after you close all fresh direct tabs.

I don't know if it's the vacation days or the sudafed or the particularly weird problem I was working on today, but I can't remember the last time I had such intense focus. This day is flying by.

Postgresql doesn't have anything like INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. Boo.

I'm up late coding so http://turntable.fm/coding_soundtrack seemed appropriate. These guys like electronic music when coding. I left in favor of musicals that I can sing along to without even noticing. Different strokes.

I am tickled every time I push to the dev server with @giff's redesign: "git push giff giff:master"

Detailed post mortem from heroku on the outage last week: http://status.heroku.com/incident/151

It's annoying that there's not a good gender neutral third-person possessive adjective. Using "<user> commented on its jot" or "<user> commented on their jot" are just wrong. Going with an indefinite article instead: "<user> commented on a jot."

Do you have strong opinions on the following? css class naming (with-dash vs with-underscore), javascript function and method names (camelCase or with_underscore), html attribute quotes ('single' or "double"). I'm a mess of mixed practices :-(