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meissner bodies are fascinating. Wikipedia has a little on them. »« 16:01 14/05/12 | permalink | geometry

if you play wow on intel integrated graphics and you've been freezing on the last boss in hour of twilight, this thread contains the answer »« 10:00 04/05/12 | permalink | wow

pathod seems like it'd be useful for testing any code that consumes a service over http [via torrez] »« 20:49 02/05/12 | permalink | http testing via-torrez

12 factor app says a lot of good things that i agree with, but the server-process model rule is odd. there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason why the php/apache/processes model is wrong, but it's not allowed. uh? »« 22:54 01/05/12 | permalink | development web programming architecture

i'd like to check out travis-ci, but loading it crashes chrome. how does it even do that? »« 15:44 25/04/12 | permalink | development ci github testing

oh god, i need to get all of these. especially the narwhal »« 13:51 25/04/12 | permalink | cute animals toys plush

this piece of genius advice just got me back into a borked server. how did sshd get removed from chkconfig to begin with? »« 10:27 19/04/12 | permalink | sshd servers

a nice read about facebook's release engineering approach. should sound very familiar to flickr alumni »« 19:22 18/04/12 | permalink | development programming scalability deployment release-engineering php software facebook

a lovely list of simple trick problems from mjd »« 15:47 18/04/12 | permalink

bank of america has sued itself more than 9 times in the past month. lulz »« 00:22 18/04/12 | permalink

cheathco points out the kobe lie. you should read all 3 parts »« 15:40 16/04/12 | permalink | scam meat beef trademarks japan

the mechanics behind zxcvbn are fascinating. »« 14:29 12/04/12 | permalink | passwords javascript algorithms security

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From World of Theorycraft: Noblegarden is upon us again, with only minor changes from last...  »

rev dan catt has written up a nice piece on image processing for backgrounds. a really nice effect »« 19:46 31/03/12 | permalink | javascript images programming code

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