Blow
We are, each of us, a little wind. Mostly, we are good little winds. We blow a little, here and there. We do what we can to increase joy and diminish …
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Not-so-wondrous strange
I watched Stranger Things in a remarkable-for-me 4-day binge this past weekend. I had mixed feelings for the first episode, but it gradually won me over …
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Help! Why does git think I have been decapitated?
Or: all about “detached HEAD” in git
You’ve been using git for awhile and you’re finally getting the hang of it. Then one day …
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2013
Ah, Ye Olde Neglected Blogge.
I wrote a year-in-review thing a few years ago and kinda meant to make a habit of it, but other things kept getting in …
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Working like a Hubber
GitHub’s Approach to Distributed Work as I Have Experienced It
When I told people I was joining GitHub, there was a familiar response from friends and …
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Nordic Ruby 2011
Here are some rambling notes on the themes and connections – intended and mostly otherwise – I saw in the material presented and discussed in the halls at Nordic Ruby.
Expressiveness
In Tom Preston-Werner's opening session, he talked about …
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... and the wisdom to know the difference
The tech community has a diversity problem. Take gender diversity, for one thing. By most counts, the average open source project has 49 male participants for every female participant. Women at conferences – rare enough already! – are …
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2000-2010
On January 1, 2000, I was in Florida, with Liz and her family. We'd only been back from our year in Europe – her in England, me in various parts of Germany – a few months, and I was still adapting. When it turned out that Y2K didn't kill …
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Exploring a new frontier
Beginning a few years ago, there have been a few projects – Rhino, Jaxer, more recently Narwhal – that proclaimed we were about to enter a golden era of server-side JavaScript programming. But the implementations always seemed to fall …
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Scottish Ruby Conference
I'm very excited to be speaking at the Scottish Ruby Conference on Saturday. I've been an attendee at the conference (well, in its previous incarnation …
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