Emil Sit

Once you get past the trip to NY, a flexible looking pumpkin-bread recipe that involves teff and brown rice flour. Want have. - Emil Sit

Mixed in some russet, and, of course, bacon. - Emil Sit

"The right questions rely on the leader's ability to communicate authentic interest in learning the answer. They come from a place of not knowing. The right questions are open-ended, carry the possibility of true discovery, and demonstrate a willingness to share and bestow credit." Classes of questions: perspective, evaluative, action, knowledge. - Emil Sit

Uses dbus to make a panel applet that acts like xmobar. - Emil Sit

never could get this to work. kept asking for libpanel-applet.2 for configuring. - jan

"Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with." Runs on JavaScript, and you write code in something called Objective-J which looks like Objective-C. Sometimes it is scary what you can do in JS. - Emil Sit

If you're not in computer science, you typically receive no training in how to write good programs--part science, part art, part engineering. This blog has many posts about what you want to think about in terms of developing good code. Probably takes a bit more work up front but will pay off for your science in the long run. - Emil Sit

Discussion (in comments) between the developer of haproxy and a user of ldirectord on considerations when choosing a load balancer. Application level proxy versus layer 2 proxy, performance, etc. - Emil Sit

What one person thinks you need to get productive pair-programming coders. Looks like a good list to me. - Emil Sit

Double the quinoa, add some turkey and chard. Very filling, super healthy. - Emil Sit

Chris Messina on what he needs to install to get comfortable using Snow Leopard (and OS X in general, presumably). - Emil Sit

Chris Messina on what he needs to install to get comfortable using Snow Leopard (and OS X in general, presumably). - Emil Sit

Nice detailed write-up on canonical pthread usage. - Emil Sit

Archive of recipes from the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. - Emil Sit

-1 15 oz. can of unsweetened coconut milk -4 sweet potatoes, quartered -1 c quinoa -1/2 c water -1 15 oz. can of black beans, drained -1/4 c agave nectar Place all ingredients in the crockpot and heat on low for 6 hours. - Emil Sit

"Our industry has collectively taught average people over the last few decades that computers should be feared and are always a single misstep from breaking. We’ve trained them to expect the working state to be fragile and temporary, and experience from previous upgrades has convinced them that they shouldn’t mess with anything if it works. They’ve learned to ignore our pressures to always get the latest versions of everything because our upgrades frequently break their software and workflow. They expect unreliable functionality, shoddy software workmanship, unnecessary complexity, broken promises from software marketers, and degrading hostility from their office’s IT staff." - Emil Sit

A stack-based language (with variables) designed to write (complex) programs in the fewest number of characters. Basically, all functions are a single ascii character. - Emil Sit

Good basic reference, with pointers to more. Looks like part of a series. (Maybe the article should be "It's not bandwidth, it's latency"!) - Emil Sit

Potato leek soup, without any cream. Can be gluten free. - Emil Sit

Sean Quinlan talks with Marshall McKusick about the evolution of the Google File System. In particular, Sean discusses how each of the original design decisions (single master, throughput over latency, 64MB chunks) ran into issues as number of applications using GFS increased. - Emil Sit

"What were the walls I built as a child to feel safe and secure? And, are these walls serving me now? If not, what are they keeping me from?" - Emil Sit

An interactive js tutorial from John Resig. - Emil Sit

A fine overview of nanoc related resources plus a walk-through of how to convert from Typo to Nanoc. Links to a comparison with some other systems too, and the complete source for the site. - Emil Sit

More on the Unicorn server, from a more intro to Unix architecture POV. pthreads boo, processes yay? - Emil Sit

Intro to the Unicorn mongrel webserver for Ruby, which normally wouldn't be interesting to me but it's a nice piece of unix architecture. I like especially the way it does transparent restarts. - Emil Sit