Ryan Tomayko

Pull Requests 2.0 —

I’ve been working with kneath on this pretty much since the day we started at GitHub almost a year ago. Not full time but whenever we could steal time away from other projects. We’re both stoked to have finally shipped it.

I wrapped the original blog post draft with this sentence:

Pull requests elevate the collaborative aspects of development to creative works in their own right. We can’t wait to see where you take them!

We ended up striking it — a little too floaty for a product/feature announcement. I believe every word of it, though.

/dev/fort —

A master plan:

Imagine a place of no distractions, no IM, no Twitter — in fact, no internet. Within, a group of a dozen or more developers, designers, thinkers and doers. And a lot of a food.

Now imagine that place is a fort.

They’re serious:

Primer (2004) —

In honor of the greatest xkcd ever, this is Primer in its entirety. It really is that fucked up.

rtomayko forked defunkt/github —

It’s with great pleasure that I today announce:

I’ve taken a full-time engineering position with GitHub! It starts today.

25 And Over —

“If you have reached the age of 25, I have a bit of bad news for you, to wit: it is time, if you have not already done so, for you to emerge from your cocoon of post-adolescent dithering and self-absorption and join the rest of us in the world.”

Very well done.

Danny MacAskill on a Bike —

Sick.

Sinatra —

We gave the Sinatra website a major face lift. Check it out. Don’t leave without subscribing to the feed.

Why specs matter —

I’ve linked to this before and I’ll link to it again.

The Web is Agreement —

This is really close to what “the web” looks like in my brain:

I try to stay in the general vicinity of the “principles mound.” :)

On Bacon and Simplicity —

Thomas Jefferson: “I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”

Spotted on bacon.reddit.com…

Typography for Lawyers —

For lawyers?!?? This site is way too useful and right to limit it to lawyers.

bacon.reddit.com -- Bacon - Nuff' Said... —

An active community of bacon lovers with 2,356 members.

Richard Feynman: Take the world from another point of view —

One of the better pieces on Feynman I’ve seen. First aired February 2, 1975 on NOVA. I know what I’ll be watching on the Muni for the next few days :)

Caganer —

“… the caganer is often tucked away in a corner of the model, typically nowhere near the manger scene. There is a good reason for his obscure position in the display, for ‘caganer’ translates from Catalan to English as ‘pooper’, and that is exactly what this little statue is doing — defecating.”

Today is the Day —

The greatest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet.

The Cunning Linguist (George Carlin, RIP) —

The man was a genius: “‘the unlikely event of a water landing,’ discussed in every preflight safety lecture, sounds suspiciously like ‘crashing into the fucking ocean.’”

The Letter in the Pond —

Letter found hidden beneath a backyard pond to the person who would eventually remove the pond. One of the best pieces of writing I’ve seen all year.

Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane Video —

NFW!

Say hello to the (GitHub) Network Graph Visualizer —

Now this is the kind of direction I hope to see GitHub and Gitorious go in the future.

HyperText.m - source to TimBL's first implementation of hypertext (Sept. 25, 1990) —

From the comments: “HyperText is like Text, but includes links to and from other hypertexts.”

Vimperator —

Make Firefox like Vim. No, like, insanely like Vim. Not just h,j,k,l mappings but everything. Looks like it’s been around for awhile. I’m not sure how I missed it.

Unfortunately, I think it's a little more complicated than that... —

“Math class is tough; let’s go shopping!”

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder —

“Like with unix, cells are not ‘spawned’ – they are forked. All cells started out from your ovum which has forked itself many times since. Both halves of the fork() are identical to begin with, but they may from then on decide to do different things.”

Mr. Peabody Explains fork() —

Brilliant!

Google gtags version 1.0 —

Best idea ever. EVER!

Oodalolly! A Disney's Robin Hood Appreciation Thread —

Friar Tuck was a complete bad-ass, son.