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Peter Norvig is a big name in computer programming. I stumbled across some of his code and was struck by how he could often accomplish in 4 lines of code things that might take me pages....

OpenResty is a bit of an enigma. I first heard about the project a few months back when reading about some benchmarks of various web application platforms. OpenResty was WAY ahead of all the others....

As I’ve given this blog a little refresh, it’s caused me to look back on what I’ve written so far and think about what I want to write in the future....

This blog is now compiled with Middleman and deployed with Wercker (still deploying to S3). I’ve updated the look/feel as well, mostly taking stuff away to make it really clean & simple....

I haven’t been doing a lot of JavaScript lately, but every time I do i try to explore the idea of doing everything event driven. “I want the world to be made of hooks” -Andrew Plotkin...

When Google announced that Reader was to be no more, I, like many other geeks took things into my own hands. I was, until recently, a daily user of Reader. There are only a handful of RSS feeds that I follow, but I like them for the very fact that they are not Rich content or an Immersive Experience....

…for a number of reasons. One reason, which is often addressed, is the challenge of effectively communicating your ideas. This is partly technical, but has more to do with how effectively you communicate in any manner....

In an effort to make the static site workflow a little less manual, I’ve created a little web-service to automate things a bit. Here’s how it works: Edit posts/pages/layouts etc with prose....

This post caught my eye: Why you need a home lab to keep your job. Your boss won't pay for training, so your partner has to put up with servers at home What intrigued me, as a web developer, was not setting up servers with the latest and greatest hardware....

I’ve been learning Haskell. It’s been a very interesting experience to learn to think in the Haskell way, but I have been unsure whether it will actually have any practical benefit in my day to day work....