Ilya Grigorik

is anyone actually excited about Koitlin or Xtend? short of JetBrains & Netbeans press releases, barely any coverage..

peepcode's latest "HTML5: Browser Caching" is worth every penny: http://peepcode.com/product... - Manifest caching, localStorage, etc.

Don’t be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then ‘Ole!’ And if not, do your dance anyhow. And ‘Ole!’ to... - http://quotes.igvita.com/post...

In the case of the chess game, the rules become more complicated as you go along, but in the physics, when you discover new things, it looks more simple. It appears, on the whole, to be more complicated because we learn about a greater experience — that is, we learn about more particles and new things — and so the laws look more complicated again.... - http://quotes.igvita.com/post...

When Feynman faces a problem, he’s unusually good at going back to being like a child, ignoring what everyone else thinks… He was so unstuck — if something didn’t work, he’d look at it another way. - http://quotes.igvita.com/post...

I [internalized] this idea that it didn’t matter whether I was called an artist or a designer or an illustrator or whatever else it was. The core value was always the act of making things, and the transformation of an idea that you hold in your mind that becomes real or material. That, to me, still is the glory of any creative activity. - http://quotes.igvita.com/post...

great way to wrap up a sunday.. full-length BBC documentary on Feynman - No Ordinary Genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch...

not my thing, but if you're feeling nostalgic about your warped CRT terminal... emulate the look: http://itunes.apple.com/en...

if Van Gogh had Processing back in the day... https://vimeo.com/36466564 - a work of art, literally and figuratively.

Simplicity in the interface and visual design of your website will push your work to the surface, where it should be. - http://quotes.igvita.com/post...

RT @peterc: Algorithmic complexity for structural programmers: All algorithms are O(f(n)) where f is someone else's responsibility.

#google: single repo, 2000+ projects, 20+ CLs/min, 50K builds and 100M test runs across 10K cores daily - http://www.infoq.com/present...

(my) minimalist gmail: https://skitch.com/igrigor... - love it. courtesy of the "Minimalist" chrome extension @ https://chrome.google.com/webstor...

huh, interesting.. RT @joshsusser TIL: "path/to/#@thing" is the same as "path/to#{@thing}" #ruby #syntax #strings

RT @joshsusser: Happy Friday! It's a great day to submit a proposal to speak at RailsConf! http://railsconf2012.com/proposa...

for those curious about Pregel, a simple Ruby version to play with: https://github.com/igrigor... - single node but good for learning.

Apache Giraph: http://engineering.linkedin.com/open-so... - implementation of Google's Pregel model for graph computation (on Hadoop) - awesome!

looks like rumors of Java's demise were overrated.. going strong and growing in 2011: http://redmonk.com/sogrady... - yay for JVM.

whoa, discovery of the day.. make mailto links use gmail in Chrome / Firefox: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012... - sweet!

interesting.. Intel's upcoming Haswell processor will offer "hardware transactional memory" / TSX: http://software.intel.com/en-us...

Neal Stephenson on (us not) getting big stuff done: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - thought provoking video..

nifty library for manipulating favicons: tinycon @ http://tommoor.github.com/tinycon... - even though alert bubbles like that drive me nuts..

RT @kevinweil: Current status: http://twitter.com/kevinwe...

Netty 3.3.1 now has SPDY support: http://netty.io/blog... - kudos to the @twitter crew!

IETF approved four new HTTP status codes! http://www.ietf.org/mail-ar... - "429 Too Many" aka, rate limit is a very handy one.

RT @MusikAnimal: @igrigorik Mobile Chrome scores 475 on mobile HTML5 test, runner up, Firefox 9 with 313, iOS 5 with 305. IT KILLS!!!

woot! Chrome on Android: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012... - with SPDY support, and many other goodies.

Lua on Heroku: http://leafo.net/posts... - the fact that you can run any runtime on Heroku is so awesome.

RT @progrium: alias urlencode='python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.quote_plus(sys.argv[1])"'

SSTable and Log Structured Storage: LevelDB @ http://www.igvita.com/2012... - a look under the hood!