“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” ~ Bertrand
Russell

Jun 12, 2011

I just re-read
What I Believe by Bertrand
Russell, and I am now more convinced than ever that this is my favorite
es…

Man, this is a stunning site.

Very few things make me as happy as strong typography—especially when done
in a simple style.

It honestly makes me want to associate with that thing, whatever it is. It
feels as if it makes m…

Modern Republicans have succeeded in promoting a narrative of being for the
middle class in America when in fact they are the single largest enemy of
it. Here I will explore a number of points that combine to form an extremely
cl…

One of the most commonly held debates between non-believers is that of
whether someone is agnostic or atheist. The problem is that both terms have,
in addition to their various, actual definitions, a number of associations
that g…

The horse is dead. Design, feel, features, openness, customizability — we’ve
heard it all. The main arguments are well understood by anyone with an
interest in this discussion.

But there’s another one that I’ve not heard ar…

My web configuration makes use of Varnish as a front-end, and I noticed a
bug recently where asking for “/study” was failing, while asking for
“/study/” would succeed.

But when I moved Varnish out of the way, Nginx handled …

Consume content
Think about it
Produce output
Share that content
Repeat

[ Jul 16, 2011 ]

I spent yesterday on the front page of
Hacker News
for
my git primer, which resulted in over 12K page views and some fascinating insight into
what technologies are being used by HN’s readers. Here are some of the main
dat…

Our entire universe consists of matter and energy interacting with itself
according to the laws of physics. That is reality. This is a world of
subatomic particles smashing into each other trillions of times per second
according …

I believe too many people take the wrong approach to security, or “hacking”.
Most who seek this ability clamor for answers to questions like, “How can I
hack SQL?” “How can I hack Linux?” “How can I hack web applications?”
There’…