Mixed into a story about the author trying to learn to program.

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

A lot of good advice, or at least a perspective to be well acknowledged.

“Documentation for the Ableton Live MIDI Remote Script _Framework classes, based on decompiled Python sources and docstrings.” Someday.

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.”

A TextMate mod. Maybe check this out at some point; I think Dean uses it.

What we (try to) do at FamilyID.

A pair of commands for stripping whitespace from a document and saving it so as to avoid diff cruft.

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

A good edit-in-place plugin for jQuery.

"Despite his initial reaction, he decided to dig deeper into this case, and he uncovered a bug that had been sitting in the code of all BSDs (including Mac OS X), including a lot of old releases. He confirmed the bug was already in 4.2BSD, released in Aug

Nice function for renaming the current document, then automatically switching to the renamed version.

On why entrepreneurs and health food nuts are living right, and cubiclones are missing something. "In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally."

"what software developers do best is learn. Employers should be loooking for passionate, driven, flexible self-educators who have a proven ability to code in whatever language -- and serving them up interesting projects they can engage with."

"JavaScript Regex Tester." Put in your test data and your regular expression and see if it works.

Tutorials, examples, patterns, and reference.

"In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules."

On programming well. Devote time to it, rewrite it completely, work without distraction. Echoes of "Getting Real."