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Cheating

Daniel — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:03:20 +0000

I feel like I’m cheating on you, WordPress.

This Amateur Life

It’s not you, it’s me. Scout’s honour.

Recent Work

Daniel — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:45:58 +0000

Zillow Home Value Index

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Lies We Tell Kids

Daniel — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:45:54 +0000

Paul Graham’s latest essay, Lies We Tell Kids, is long, insightful, and well-thought. I don’t agree with everything Mr. Graham writes, but I do try to read everything he writes. Whenever my muse decides to wake up from its long slumber, I hope to approach the craft much as Paul does.

Facebox WordPress Plugin

Daniel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:51:58 +0000

I wrapped Facebox in a WordPress 2.5-compatible plugin for easily implementation on a recent freelance project. It’s pretty slick.

Go to the project page to download

If you’re on github (and you should be), follow me here.

Update

1.2.1 is out! Download it from the WordPress Plugin Directory

Cold Comfort

Daniel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:20:02 +0000

Ignorance more frequently begets conﬁdence than does knowledge
Charles Darwin

Also of interest, the Dunning-Kruger effect. This Google-trail brought to you by sidebar on page 30 of Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactoring Your “Wetware”, which I am thoroughly enjoying so far.

The Speech

Daniel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:51:51 +0000

I cannot express how important this speech is to my generation, my community, my country. If you’re not misty-eyed (at the very least) by the end of it (and you will watch all of it, I guarantee it), you’re not listening.

Dubya Tee Eff

Daniel — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:03:27 +0000

X-UA-Lemur-Compatible

Daniel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:45:56 +0000

Some much-needed levity, with monkeys.

wewt

Daniel — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:36:32 +0000

All you ever wanted to know (and more) about “woot”

Rhett Butler

Daniel — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:24:51 +0000

It occurs to me that re-introducing myself to Ruby on Rails (new shiny 2.0.2) after ~2 years in Siberia (VBScript, for $deity’s sake) and digging back into the legacy trenches of ColdFusion (in the past 2 months) might not be the smartest thing I’ve ever done. In fact, it’s downright stupid to taunt my inner developer, starved of grace and beauty for lo these many years. Like pouring out a glass of water in front of a man dying of thirst.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

(Which is a roundabout way of saying I’m loving every goddamn minute, poking things with sticks and regaining my Ruby-legs (I was sad that I couldn’t work in the glorious pun “sea-legs” until I realized that meant I’d actually be dealing with C. (shudder)(When you think about it, I’m practically writing Lisp, as it is))