Ryan Tomayko

WTF - Haml —

I love this so much:

… one way or another it seems I need something called EMACS.. WTF..!!!!! I dare you to install it and see how many WTFsss you will say…. it’s like some text editor that is so smart that you dont use the mouse dont even use the cursor keys..if you want to go back one character you hit control then B!!! Brilliant!!! two random keys instead of one with an arrow!!!! WWWTTTFFFF!! ok I might not need this crap…. lost a day learning to use the Rubik cube of text editors.

It’s easy to pfft and blow off this kind of … criticism, but if you can look past the make believe grammar and punctuation you really do get a sense for how hard it is for newbies to wrap their heads around even very basic set of tools needed to build things on the web. Maybe what we do is just hard and complex and there’s nothing we can do to make it simpler. I’m just always surprised when I get to peek through someone else’s eyes and see just how fucked up everything must seem.

Cornify - Unicorns & Rainbows On-Demand —

If I was stranded on a desert island and could bring only one website …

Rails vs Merb ¿drama? —

You’ve got to be kidding me.

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

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

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.

Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane Video —

NFW!

‘I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!’: A Guide to Proper Usage —

I finally watched “There Will Be Blood” a few days ago and the milkshake line practically jumps out of the movie at you. I have no idea what the hell happened in the movie but that line made it all worth while.

The Speed-up Loop [thedailywtf.com] —

“Nothing – and I mean nothing – in IT takes less than 80 hours, and whatever you think it’ll actually take, multiply it by 20, and tell management that. You see, 80/20.”

Provide us with the email address we should not contact. —

Makes sense to me.

November 5th MoneyBomb #3 —

Whoa, Ron Paul’s on track to raise almost $3 million in the 24-hour period beginning 12:00 AM TODAY. He’s done $350K in the first three hours. I can’t imagine that’s going to sustain but he’ll end with $2.8 M if it does. That has to be a record.

Iraq, Afghan Vets at Risk for Suicides —

“The ongoing research reveals that at least 283 combat veterans who left the military between the start of the war in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, and the end of 2005 took their own lives.”

Legislative Inaction Forces [Michigan] State Government Shutdown —

The State of Michigan will shut-down most state operations for 15 days beginning October 1 (tomorrow). Medicaid, State Lottery, VA, The Courts, Dept. of Civil Rights, Dept. of Education, State Police, etc. all impacted.

The Mythical Business Layer —

“It was as if its architects were given a perfectly good hammer and gleefully replied, ‘neat! With this hammer, we can build a tool that can pound in nails.’” — that is THE SINGLE FUNNIEST SENTENCE ever assembled in the history of english language!

Sci Foo 2007 Gossip Liveblog [aaronsw.com] —

WTF is going on here? Neil Stephenson, Martha Stewart, The Dyson Family (as in vacuums), The President of The Royal Society, Sergey Brin, Nat, and Aaron kicking it on Google campus? This is apparently actually happening right now.

Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX? —

Is anyone actually falling for this crap? “‘The goal is to make it so people never have to see code’, said Gosling.” — Gag Me!

Dell joins the Microsoft-Novell alliance, hopes for Windows / Linux harmony —

I’ve read the following line five times but it refuses to compute: “… and now it sounds like Dell will be buying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft …” Huh? Looks like I should have further researched the MS/Novel deal.

You are kidding arent you? —

“Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve.” :)

Bill Gates (clearly on crack): "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day." —

“Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”

Amos O. Olagunju / St. Cloud State University —

This is the “home page” of a professor who teaches web design at St. Cloud State University. Don’t go there.

Oh Dear Lord! BEEEES! —

“OH DEAR LORD ITS SO BEAUTIFUL. I AM SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN RIGHT NOW.”

A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft —

I guess this could be good thing. Good people have a tendency of being taken advantage of in ways they wouldn’t expect at MS though so I have to give the whole deal a respectful thumbs-down.

Man Pops Eye-Balls Out Really Far —

“I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from God, I feel blessed.”

Chuck Norris Facts —

“Guns don’t kill people, Chuck Norris kills people” :)

... All Your Base Rhapsody —

oh hell no.

Microsoft Attempts To Shutdown MacSlash —

dumb.

An Alternative to "Traditional" Array Resizing —

The best wtf to date.

Los Alamos Hermit —

This guy is living the dream. I wonder if there’s room in his cave for me and my powerbook. Does he get wifi in there?

Monster washes up on beach in New Zealand —

One fish story to rule them all..

When (n<0) won't do. —

beautiful, beautiful code.

Writing Bugfree software —

nice..

When machines breed —

“…he helps machines design themselves, using principles borrowed directly from biological evolution.”

donwave.gif —

If only I still took acid..

Monkey Apes Humans by Walking on Two Legs —

Isn’t this how “Planet of the Apes 3” started?

Crowds Flock To See Jesus Image In Window —

Click the “Click here for a larger image” button. :)