The gradual mental decline of a developer called Tom.

Some people have trouble sleeping, others have trouble getting up. Others like me just need to put the fucking laptop down and go to bed.

This is not the story of how I put my laptop down, but of how I wrote some code to help with going to bed failure states. Because failing to go to bed is what I do best.

A little while ago twitpic change their terms and conditions making it so they owned all your pictures.

People[1] got all pissy, as people do. So I made justpics. It's a very simple image hosting site that you can host yourself, on your own hosting, using your own s3 bucket.

The Reevoo dev team recently upgraded all our desktops to SSDs. I forget the model, but they are those ones that don't need trim support, or some shit like that.

Keep on reading though, I made graphs and everything.

I was recently trying to silence webrick (the noisy bastard) to let me run it in a test suite. The bastard just wouldn't stay quiet, it kept saying stuff like:

[2010-06-22 15:29:11] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start done.
[2010-06-22 15:29:12] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2010-06-22 15:29:12] INFO  ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11) [x86_64-linux]
[2010-06-22 15:29:12] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=18324 port=4001

… like I give a shit.

Recently some people copied this image and put in all over the internet without credit, or a link back to see more of the awesome.

This made me sad.

So here is the pic and a link back to the source

The year is 2010AD and Reevoo has a new designer, sent from the future to make things more nice looking than they previously were.

This new “Govias” brought with him a grid exactly 960 pixels wide, with a 10px gutter on each side, and several columns of 60px separated by gaps of 20px. Apparently it's not rocket surgery (designers have been doing this stuff for years), but the developers were astounded by how this grid was the root of all alignment.

We call it the Govias Grid.

A gem to cripple caching. Because sometimes pressing ⌘-R repeatedly in development mode makes you want to stab things in the face. Neither my colleagues, nor my monitor appreciate a good stabbing like they used to.

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Arial black is the shit.

A simple gem to direct all traffic to a single canonical domain.

Your own personal gemcutter, but without any bells or whistles.

FIRCKING SNOW ON THE FRICKING COMPUTER SCREEN!!!!

The incredible true story about a man and a hat. (Cross posted from facebook).