It's hard to overstate the genius of In My G4 Over Da Sea, a mashup of modern rap and Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. If you're a fan of NMH, you may not love it, but it's certainly a thing.
Aug 29th: It might be 4 years old now, but this explanation of establishing an HTTPS connection is still full of excellent information. If you don't understand how TLS works under the hood, read it.
Aug 19th: Sarah Lyall's piece in the New York Times gives a little insight into the cultural differences between us and them.
It's hard to overstate the genius of In My G4 Over Da Sea, a mashup of modern rap and Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. If you're a fan of NMH, you may not love it, but it's certainly a thing.
If you've never been to Defcon (like me) but are curious about it, you might find this documentary interesting. It's pretty slowly paced, but I'm 35 minutes in and it seems much like I imagined.
Anyone who was a kid in the UK in the late 80s/early 90s will remember the genius of Knightmare. There's a new episode up on youtube … it's terrible. Really does not stand the test of time.
Gizmodo has a little more detail.
It probably seems that about 50% of then things I think about are Lego related, but it's probably closer to about 40%. That being said, Pleygo looks amazing.
Netflix-style Lego rental. Why aren't there more subscription rental services?
Lego's new Architecture Studio set (#21050) looks like a lot of fun. You can download a 400 MB PDF of the instruction booklet to see what you'll be getting into.

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Save the date is a great little game that's a cross between a dating sim and Groundhog Day. Keep trying, and maybe it'll work out.
Aug 5th: Tile seems like an interesting device - low power bluetooth tags for stuff you might misplace. Pretty cheap, works for a year, "find" things via iOS.
Test your regular expression skills via some interactive regex crosswords. I'd suggest signing into Facebook before you start (if that's your sort of thing), since it will lose any progress when you do. It took me a little under an hour to complete them.
This is the personal website of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles.
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