Just because something is going to break in the end, doesn't mean that it can't have an effect that lasts into the future. Joy, wonder, laughter, hope—the world can be better because of what you built in the past.

Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code, adapted for JavaScript. This is not a style guide. It's a guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in JavaScript. Not every principle herein has to be strictly followed, and even fewer will be universally agreed upon. These are guidelines and nothing more, but they are ones codified over many years of collective experience by the authors of Clean Code.

This is an attempt to categorise different APIs scoured from the web which make their resources available for consumption.

Some good tips for getting started with Sublime Text 2 and using its many features.

‘Being ruthless to yourself is having the discipline to become a better developer - not letting yourself get away with the easy or convenient.’

Basically, he advocates shutting yourself off from the world as much as possible for an initial boot camp-style stretch for as long as you can manage in order to really commit yourself to wrapping your head around the concepts of programming (Rails, in this case). I want to do this, but finding time away from other commitments isn’t something I’m especially suited to do at the moment.

“Precision colors for machines and people.” “Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions.”

I'm going to read and internalize all of this one day. Yes I am.