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.

bcat -- pipe to browser utility —

I’m pleased to announce the first public release of a small project I’ve been working on: bcat is a command line utility that streams text or HTML input to a web browser. Input is unbuffered and displayed progressively as it’s read from standard input, so bcat works great with programs that generate output over longish periods of time like build tools, tail(1), etc. It’s also useful for previewing HTML output when working on Markdown, Textile, AsciiDoc, Ronn, DocBook, etc. source files.

The plan is to bring as many of TextMate’s excellent HTML output capabilities as is feasible to the shell and to editors like vim or Emacs.

My take on the GitHub process —

I’ve received a lot of positive feedback on this blog post length comment left on Rafe’s recent post about GitHub’s process, or lack thereof. In it, I try to address some of the common objections people have when they hear how things work inside GitHub.

ron(7) -- the opposite of roff —

I’ve released a tool for authoring UNIX manual pages using a markdown-ish source format:

Ron is a humane text format and toolchain for creating UNIX man pages, and things that appear as man pages from a distance. Use it to build and install standard UNIX roff man pages or to generate nicely formatted HTML manual pages for the web.

It still needs some work but can produce useful output for both roff and HTML. The sources are on GitHub.

ANN: node.js (JavaScript) BERT-RPC implementation: node-bertrpc —

I’ve released a bertrpc library for node.js. If you haven’t play with node yet, set aside a night and dig in. Hacking async server-side stuff in JavaScript is every bit as awesome as I’d hoped: easy to install, good docs, fast VM, clean and simple event idioms. I’m impressed.

rtomayko's dotfiles —

I recently started a repository for my dotfiles, shell environment, vim config, and utility scripts. As of right now, I’m about 25% through all of the stuff in my $HOME — it should all fill in shortly.

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.

Stefan Tilkov's REST Book: References —

Whoa. How do I get my hands on an english copy?

Sinatra Rack And Middleware —

Amazing! I put Ben under the table that night. Tucked him into bed and gave him a kiss.

HTTP's Best-Kept Secret: Caching —

Here’s the slides from my RailsConf 2009 presentation on HTTP caching. I doubt the general info will make much sense without me talking over it but the diagrams should be fairly useful.

Ryan Tomayko on the Ruby on Rails Podcast —

Geoffrey Grosenbach interviewed me yesterday for the Ruby on Rails podcast. We had a nice chat about Python/WSGI, Rack, Sinatra, Rack::Cache, Heroku, and other random stuff.

Minimalism —

Hilarious! What Mark doesn’t know is that much of my “minimalist redesign” was ripped directly from what he’s had in place for 2-3 years; “administrative debris” was just a convenient alibi.

My initial reaction to Google App Engine (in Simon Willison's comments) —

I’ve since went to sleep and reawakened. I’m typically fairly curmudgeony when I wake up but I’m still having the same reaction.

New Blog Name - { |one, step, back| } —

Patch accepted!

InfoQ: Interview: Pete Lacey Criticizes Web Services —

Wow, I’m flattered blush Turns out I do know something about SOA after all. Speaking of “Motherhood and Apple Pie” – I quite liked that essay but it was one of those that never really took off.

The "Server side" Zeldman —

Holy crap he did not just say that.

Dealing with marketing types... —

Nice python-list thread with Paul Rubin challenging my ibm-poop-heads article and Andrew Dalke (and quite a few others) champions it. This discussion is worth more than the original article!