iamcal.com Since May 2000

making fun of seo warms my heart

chess just isn't as good as wc2

the best part about this article on perceived egg quality is all the egg-cellent egg puns

noting down for later - when building memcache from source, make sure libevent is correctly registered with ld - its installer does not do this.

git submodules are like svn externals, but with the added benefit of being almost impossible to remove

wrote a little library to compress JS & CSS into PNGs today and wrote about the results

part of me wants to see kings of pastry, but i suspect the failures will be pretty painful to watch

not sure if 'contact juggling' is really what it's called, but this video is very impressive

thanks to kastner for pointing me to this thread from 6 years ago. guess what retarded commenters? i was right all along. see also: everything written on large distributed databases since then.

noting these down for later reference - two excellent answers on quora from adam d'angelo on why quora uses mysql instead of postgres or a nosql solution. he says everything i've been saying for the last few years, but more eloquently