Posts

• Software Tools I use - 2021 edition Feb 13
• 2020 GTD and life hacks - pandemic battle-tested Jan 30
• How to Hire Data Scientists Jan 18

• 2020 Reading List and Recommendations Dec 31
• GTD Tools Shootout Dec 20
• The SCIL+R GTD bucket system Nov 14
• GTD, Emacs, and the age of remote collaboration Oct 29
• What to Spend Money On Oct 17
• Organizational Foundations for Data Teams Sep 28
• Career Progression and Discovery Framework Sep 12
• Rofi Org-mode Todos Aug 30
• COVID Career Advice Aug 12
• The Seven Wonders of the Modern World: 21st Century Edition Jul 23
• Linux on the LG Gram 14" 2020 Jul 10
• On Happiness Jun 26
• Organizing Effective Data Teams Jun 13
• harsh - a minimalist CLI habit tracker May 26
• Productivity buckets, reviews, and visibility May 12
• The Nine Useful Business Books for You Apr 30
• Tracking your finances with Reckon and Ledger Apr 9
• Migrate to ECC Encryption Keys Mar 30
• Linux distro survey for a 2016 12" Macbook Mar 17
• Password Management with gopass password-store, gopass bridge, and Pass for iOS Mar 2
• Renewing SSL security certs with Amazon's Certificate Manager Feb 22
• The Information Overload GTD flow Feb 14
• Software Tools I Use - 2020 edition Feb 2
• Resolution keystone habits and foundational hacks Jan 7
• 2019 Reading List and Recommendations Jan 1

• Timezone bug fix and NaiveDate conversion for habitctl Dec 16
• Warning sigil added to habitctl habit tracker Sep 20
• Skips added to habitctl habit tracker Aug 31
• Be More Mensch Jun 25
• Switching to Gatsby Jun 3
• Habits and habit tracking Apr 27
• CLI Life Starter Apr 11
• Looking for a Linux laptop Mar 27
• A better GTD and CRM flow for emacs org-mode Mar 11
• Static site hosting on Amazon S3 with SSL, http/2, and Amazon's Cloudburst CDN Feb 27
• Systems and Habits for Focus and Productivity Feb 14
• Desktop Tools I Use - 2019 edition Jan 27
• 2018 Reading List and Recommendations Jan 1

• Archiving in emacs org-mode Mar 23
• Email flow for GTD Mar 7
• Easing into Emacs org-mode Feb 17
• To travel happily, travel light Feb 2
• Desktop tools I use - 2018 edition Jan 24
• 2017 Reading List and Recommendations Jan 5

• Supercharging Padrino admin with Datatables, will_paginate, and RABL May 10
• Desktop tools I use - 2017 edition May 3
• Easy Excel exports from Padrino Apr 30
• Mapping global viral epidemics in real time Apr 26
• Securing Padrino apps with https and ssl on Heroku Apr 22
• Padrino with Foreman and Puma on Heroku Apr 19
• 2016 Reading List and Recommendations Apr 18
• The Reboot Apr 17
• Hiatus Mar 5

• Migrated to Jekyll May 29
• A better vim markdown preview May 26
• The GTD Bullet Journal experiment May 24
• Make Good Art May 12
• Enabling cron in OSX 10.10 Yosemite Mar 17
• Design for Hackers by David Kadavy Feb 20
• User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton Feb 3
• Clojure for the Brave and True by Daniel Higginbotham Jan 24
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Jan 12

• Adding indexes with Padrino migrations Oct 1
• Why I Switched Back to Taskpaper Feb 27
• Setting up Hadoop on OSX Mountain Lion Feb 24
• Setting up a Rails Development Environment on OSX Mountain Lion Jan 3

• Pushing Kobayashi Dec 29
• Setting Gmail as the default mail program on OSX Dec 26
• Amazing Dolphin video from GoPro Aug 18
• The Advantage of Awe Aug 9
• The Planets to Scale Jul 29
• The Tundramonkey Cometh Jul 20
• Disk Galaxy Formation Simulation Jul 19
• This Is Our Planet Jul 18
• Taronga For the Wild Jul 8
• Beatbox+Freestyle Jul 7
• 100 Riffs Jul 4
• The Book Burning Party Jun 30
• Bronies and Real Men Jun 27
• Picture of the Big Bang Jun 26
• Seven Minutes of Terror Jun 25
• Exoplanets Jun 21
• Be Yourself Jun 13
• The Boss Jun 2
• Why You Need to Check Backups May 21
• Welcome to the Anthropocene May 11
• Sinatra, SimpleNavigation and Bootstrap May 8
• Live Wind Flow Map Mar 29
• Perpetual Ocean Mar 28
• I <3 People Mar 27
• How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries Mar 26
• Unfolding Origami Rhino Mar 26
• Animated Short::Ruin Mar 25
• The Most Astounding Fact Mar 10
• The Muppet Show that never was Mar 9
• The Earth is full Mar 7
• Everything is a Remix: System Failure Feb 28
• Don't let Vic peek. Kill Bill C-30. Feb 23
• Meaningful Work Feb 3
• Best City in the World analysis contest Feb 1
• Waterforward Jan 31
• Wastelander Panda Jan 29
• Vote Canada Jan 7

• David Attenborough's Wonderful World Dec 11
• Jonezing for the snows Nov 30
• Drawn Mag Cover Timelapse Nov 29
• Rosa Nov 16
• Housing for the Zombapolcalypse Nov 8
• Income inequality hurts countries Nov 5
• NPR's Top 100 SciFi and Fantasy books list Oct 18
• The very model of a modern US President Sep 30
• Rendezvous - The Murf Sep 18
• Real estate price rollercoaster Sep 17
• Exorcist Ad Sep 17
• 40 Years of Greenpeace Sep 16
• 30 Gifts for 30 People Sep 14
• Five years of Kiva microloans Sep 8
• Dr. Seuss vs Shakespeare Sep 7
• Great Plains Milky Way timelapse Sep 2
• Lurv Warren Buffet, Love Jon Stewart Aug 22
• The Evolution of the Hipster Aug 6
• Move Aug 5
• Be Human Remain Human Jul 25
• Remixing the Remix Jul 22
• This is the Remix Jul 21
• Cook like Hitchcock Jul 13
• Try Something New for 30 Days Jul 9
• The Southern Ocean Sky Jul 8
• Plot Device Jul 7
• Anatomy of a Virus Jun 30
• The Curfew: Games for Change Jun 29
• Don't Play Games with Me Jun 17
• Mind Your Step in Stockholm Jun 15
• Chill classical animation Jun 11
• Smooth Criminal Cello Duel Jun 6
• Limbo game artwork Jun 6
• Cigarette Product Recall video Jun 6
• Who Forgot About Dre? Jun 6
• Cassini Fan Film Jun 5
• Plenty more fish in the sea? Jun 5
• 50 Years of Amnesty International May 31
• Very Large Telescope Timelapse May 30
• Why you shouldn’t eat farmed fish May 28
• The Photopic Sky Survey - Super detailed map of the skies May 22
• Enjoy the Apocamix May 21
• Charlie Bit My Finger - The Horror May 17
• I'm a Climate Scientist May 13
• Timelapse: The City Limits May 7
• Surviving the Amazocalypse Apr 23
• Wanderlust: InfoGraphic of History and Fiction's Most Famous Travels Apr 20
• Civilization Starter Kits Apr 15
• Virgin Oceanic Apr 9
• If you're young and Canadian, vote! Apr 9
• Time lapse of the Aurora Borealis Apr 3
• Awesome ad for journalist Mar 26
• WWF Earth Hour: Moths Mar 26
• Seth: Bring Me Stuff That's Dead Please Mar 17
• Amnesty.fr : Projection' Mar 16
• Novels Everyone Should Read Mar 15
• Are You Typical? Mar 10
• Time travel and the Information is Beautiful process Mar 7
• Government of Canada abolished and replaced with 'the Harper government' Mar 7
• Epic Rap Battles of History Mar 6
• Shadow Sword Fight Feb 21
• IKEA Instructions for Stonehenge Feb 21
• Solar Sail circles the Earth Jan 25
• 22 Reasons to go to Space Jan 9
• The switch (back) to vim Jan 7

• Isle of Tune Dec 16
• Visualizing Girl Talk Dec 15
• Visualizing Facebook's Social Graph Dec 14
• Installing a Hudson CI Server on Amazon EC2 with Cucumber and Capybara and Github integration Dec 12
• World Map of the Most Popular Social Networks Dec 11
• Anonymous and the Low Orbit Ion Cannon Dec 11
• How Not to Cock Up Open Data Dec 4
• Singing Fingers Dec 3
• Why cuts are the wrong cure Dec 2
• Reuters Photos of the Year 2010 Nov 29
• How Germany Got It Right on the Economy Nov 29
• The Scale of the Universe Nov 28
• Quantitative easing explained Nov 28
• Cookie monster auditions for SNL Nov 25
• You Suck at Powerpoint! Nov 24
• Eco Joe Nov 24
• Animated Films for Grown Ups Nov 22
• Focusing on Worst Practices Nov 22
• Rails for Zombies Nov 20
• The Catchphrase History of TV in 146 seconds Nov 20
• Creating a Data Driven Startup Nov 18
• No, really... Why aren't you using git flow? Nov 13
• xkcd 576 cartoon made real Nov 11
• Speedflying in Switzerland Nov 10
• How to Prototype and Influence People Nov 10
• Humans vs Zombies Nov 10
• Go Beyond Oil Nov 9
• The Gettysburg Address Animated Nov 9
• Shooting for the Sun from the Atlantic Monthly Nov 8
• Hold Fast Nov 8
• Timescapes: Rapture Nov 6
• 5 cloud computing conundrums Nov 5
• Peak Break Up Times on Facebook Nov 4
• FedEx's Changing World Nov 3
• Award Your Own Genius Grants Oct 17
• Great Idea: A Taxpayer Receipt Oct 17
• The Singularity won't be Heaven Oct 16
• The Chokehold of Calendars Oct 11
• Re-imagining investment for global prosperity Oct 10
• How to be a data journalist Oct 5
• IRC dance movement Oct 5
• 100 Best First Lines from Novels Sep 27
• The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking Sep 24
• Ancient Australian megafauna Sep 22
• By Implication’s Wildfire Sep 22
• Being Jane Goodall Sep 21
• Banned Australian euthanasia ad Sep 17
• Serving up static sites on heroku - redux Sep 15
• Speak Up. Don't Be Afraid. - Amnesty International Sep 11
• Asteroid Discovery 1980 - 2010 Aug 30
• MLK's I Have a Dream Aug 29
• Why Eliminating Government Waste is a vacuous election promise Aug 18
• Australia seeks to keep Canadians out Aug 12
• This election is boring Aug 11
• Möbius strip library building Aug 9
• Harness the power of being an idiot Aug 7
• EpicWinApp - Getting Things Done as RPG Aug 5
• Deliver Me to Hell - an interactive zombie adventure Aug 2
• Aus federal election debate a travesty Jul 26
• Rural Indian women with big sticks Jul 24
• Fossil fuel subsidies in America Jul 16
• Great WWF biodiversity animation Jul 11
• 20 years of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Jul 10
• Amnesty Matyroshka dolls ad Jul 6
• 2010 Australian election spoof trailer Jul 5
• Popcorn Shrimp a la The Swedish Chef Jul 5
• Best Acquisition comms: Woot acquired by Amazon Jul 1
• Excellent Ad - Mr. W. Jul 1
• Guillaume Nery freedive at Dean's Blue Hole Jun 16
• Fog: Switch easily between cloud services Jun 15
• And Man Created Life May 22
• Jupiter: Now Less Stripey May 21
• The Betterness Manifesto May 21
• ReclaimPrivacy shows what Facebook is sharing about you May 18
• Laser mapping ancient Mayan temples May 13
• Pull the plug on Australia's Internet Censorship scheme May 10
• What Business is Wall Street In? May 10
• John Cleese on Proportional Representation May 9
• Using rvm to check out Rails 3 May 3
• How Strong is Your Password? May 3
• Budget Cutting Infographic May 2
• Solar System Music Box May 2
• ZeFrank's ChillOut Song Apr 29
• If you can’t design, don’t be proud about it Apr 28
• Learning Ruby with Rubywarrior Apr 17
• Still working on the first million, thanks Apr 14
• The Pale Blue Dot Apr 13
• On Sabbaticals and Why You Need One Apr 12
• Why you can't work at work Apr 11
• Employment contracts: What are they good for? Apr 11
• Enumerating the US census Apr 6
• Lost Generation ad Mar 18
• Details of CIA waterboarding crimes from Salon Mar 9
• Managing Heroku deploys Mar 9
• Think of travel as a metaphor for how you live your life at home Mar 1
• When Sea Levels Attack Feb 25
• Be that first follower Feb 14
• The Robin Hood Tax - Resurrecting and Rebranding the Tobin Tax Feb 11
• The Story of Human Rights Feb 5
• First impressions deploying to Heroku Jan 26
• Fear the Boom and Bust - a Hayek vs Keynes rap Jan 26
• Products, Not Prototypes Jan 22
• The Builders' Manifesto Jan 11
• Seeing Old Age as a Never-Ending Adventure Jan 8

• How Software Development is like Kung fu Dec 24
• Climate Shame As Canada Named “Colossal Fossil” at Copenhagen Dec 19
• The Known Universe from the AMNH Dec 19
• Sultry World Found Circling Star GJ 1214 Dec 18
• Bernard Keane’s guide to writing to Politicians Dec 17
• Toshiba Space Chair Project Dec 8
• The Story of Cap and Trade Dec 6
• Quicksilver Releases Update, Improves Performance Dec 5
• Cop15 Rap Battle: Al Gore v. Lord Monckton Dec 2
• The Charter for Compassion Nov 15
• Denver to Singapore and back in 5 minutes Nov 7
• Putting bloated mongrels on a diet Oct 29
• Seven questions that keep physicists up at night Oct 29
• Sinead's Hand Oct 27
• iCoal 2.0 Oct 13
• The Duct Tape Programmer and Shipping *is* a Feature Sep 26
• Compiling Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails on Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 Sep 1
• Social Network Analysis using R Presentation Aug 20
• What Am I About to Merge with Git? Aug 18
• Eric Ries on The Startup CTO Aug 16
• Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D Aug 13
• mySociety Call for Proposals for Civic, Social and Democractic Tools Aug 8
• Tactics drowning out strategy Aug 7
• Signal v. Noise: Strangers at a cocktail party Aug 1
• Tough and Competent - The Kranz Dictum Jul 28
• Surveillance Self-Defense International Jul 24
• Startup CTO mistakes I'd rather not repeat Jul 23
• Apollo 11 and the importance of BHAGs Jul 17
• Australian Internet Censordyne Anti-Censorship Ad Jul 16
• Lazy registration and engaging users Jun 18
• Great Memcached screencast on scaling Rails Jun 15
• Whenever - Making cron easy for Rails Jun 10
• Venn diagram for business happiness Jun 8
• Unnovation and How Not to Hummer Your Business Jun 7
• Tiananmen Square and the effects of censorship Jun 3
• Star Wars: The Old Republic game trailer Jun 2
• Mapumental your London neighbourhood Jun 2
• Killing the troll in your conversion copy May 30
• Google Wave Developer Preview May 29
• The Amnesty International Annual Report 2009 May 28
• Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps May 27
• The Five Whys May 27
• Building your personal business model May 24
• 10 lessons from a failed startup May 24
• Setting time zone on Ubuntu Hardy May 22
• DHH on how to make money online May 21
• What do you need to do to be happy? May 20
• The Four Tasks of the CEO May 20
• Testing outbound emails with Cucumber May 14
• Photo of Lone Pearl Farm in Tahiti May 13
• Wanna Get Lucky? May 11
• Sphinx and full text search engines May 10
• Anthropology and the art of the social software May 4
• WWF: Wildlife’s Fate is in your Hands May 2
• Dark Age Temple Found in Turkey May 2
• Open Source Business Intelligence in the real world - MySQL Conf 09 Apr 26
• IaaS, Heroku and the 2 minute Rails deploy Apr 26
• When do nothing is not an option Apr 25
• How to Get a Free Yacht Apr 24
• Hours Worked versus Success Achieved Apr 23
• Great little essay on why we travel Apr 19
• Canadian MP voting records finally online Apr 18
• Scary ass interactive map of job losses across the USA Apr 17
• Building communities from scratch Apr 17
• Wake up, freak out - then get a grip Apr 15
• Build a bug tracker in 5 mins Mar 25
• The cute cat theory of digital activism and eluding the cat Mar 20
• Kutiman and The Mother of All Funk Chords Mar 12
• Warren Buffet's 2008 Berkeshire Hathaway Shareholders' letter Mar 3
• Cornetto: DJ Goodwill - Ice Cream Fight Feb 20
• The Credit Crisis Visualized Feb 20
• CouchDBX - CouchDB for OSX binaries Feb 20
• Understanding relational and key-value store databases Feb 14
• Cutting through the noise and marketing reality Feb 11
• Comparative job losses chart for the current recession Feb 8
• Add Art firefox plugin to replace browser ads Feb 8
• Bittorrent world connectivity map Feb 6
• Penn and Teller Explain Sleight of Hand Feb 5
• Git Status in Your Prompt Feb 4
• Prototyping for communication and innovation Feb 4
• The new geek chic in publishing systems Feb 1
• Deli.cio.us bookmark backups via shell Jan 31
• Scalr - Roll your own server farm on top of Amazon's Web Services Jan 31
• Pushr for painless github deploys and notification Jan 14
• Skype Beta for Mac OSX includes screen sharing Jan 9

• Rails MySQL gem and OSX 10.5 Leopard MySQL 64 bit compile flag Dec 8
• Moving over to using Phusion Passenger Dec 8
• Got a novel in you in November? Oct 27
• Excellent Get Out the Vote viral from moveon.org Oct 27
• Great Warren Buffet quote and interview Oct 19
• Prioritizing Your Product Backlog Oct 19
• Carrotmob Makes it Rain... Environmentally Oct 13
• Sequoia Capital RIP Good Times presentation Oct 13
• Things are fine. Don't Vote. Oct 12
• Usability and design improvements to the Amnesty International website Oct 11
• Animated Universal Declaration of Human Rights Oct 10
• Survive The Outbreak Sep 26
• Props to New Bamboo and their launch of Protect the Human Aug 24
• Old Infocom games playable over the web Aug 22
• Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech Aug 12
• The Third Approach to Attracting Great Talent Aug 1
• Cracking the Tarantino Code Jul 27
• Dr. Horrible and Joss Whedon's Latest Jul 19
• Feist on Sesame Street Jul 14
• Where the Hell is Matt? Jun 22
• Some time with the IBM Lenovo X300 laptop on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Jun 8
• The State of the World's Human Rights 2008 May 27
• Phoenix Lander Arrives at Mars May 25
• Amnesty's new anti-waterboarding ad Apr 24
• Back up and running on Rails with Simplelog Apr 20
• Breaking in the roomba - first impressions Jan 26

• Firefox 3 beta 1 is great Nov 27
• Do Hand-Me-Down Computers Help the Environment? Oct 15
• Some new OSX software you need to check out Sep 5
• OSX Meteorologist Patching Fix Jun 19
• The State of the World's Human Rights 2007 May 23
• A faster Mail.app for OSX - vacuuming the Envelope Index sqlite database May 9
• Hacking a fix for OSX's Meteorologist application not updating problem May 6
• Apple says they will become greener May 3
• Two fantastic pieces of software released Mar 27

• Upgrading Ruby and Rails on Mac OSX and Moving to Mongrel Dec 17
• Timelapse from the Vancouver Office Window Oct 1
• Majora Carter on Urban Renewal and Environmental Justice Jul 28
• The Mongol Rally Jul 23
• Open Culture and the Open Prosthetics Project Jul 15
• OffsetMyFlight - A modest proposal for a mandatory air travel carbon tax in ticket prices Jul 9
• Understanding redistricting and gerrymandering with zefrank Jul 8
• Mail management with the trusted trio Jul 4
• The Debate Is Over - Climate Crisis Smackdown May 29
• Learn Better English May 7
• HassleMe for your New Year's Resolutions Jan 17

• The Good Experience list of good online games Dec 11
• The 50 Greatest Indie Films of All Time Nov 10
• Openoffice 2.0 and Firefox hits 100 million Oct 20
• Improved Vienna Blog to MarsEdit script Oct 18
• Vienna RSS reader and news aggregator for OSX Oct 10
• Three things to make you happy May 5
• Tiger's Rough Bumps May 5
• Tiger OSX 10.4 first day impressions May 3
• Activism, Googlemaps and the new Keyhole technology Apr 10
• The Vancouver Public Library vs. Amazon Mar 2
• Wordpress 1.5 Changes Feb 17
• When Simplicity is the Harder Option - Calendars for Tiny Distributed Workgroups Feb 11
• Guerrilla Solar Feb 2
• Why you need to check out Ruby on Rails Jan 24
• On collaborative simplicity, wiki complexity and the Word2DokuWiki macro Jan 17

• Siyathemba: Design like you give a damn Dec 22
• The BioDiesel Economy, Net Energy and Overhauling Economies Dec 21
• On the Canadian Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling Dec 9
• Stickiness, Sesame Street and Storytelling Nov 26
• Social software and web presence Nov 20
• SimplyMEPIS Desktop Linux Nov 2
• Spook Security Guides Oct 30
• Flickr's PHP architecture Oct 28
• Excellent CSS presentation from stopdesign Oct 23
• My OSX desktop software inventory Oct 18
• A poverty of educational software Oct 16
• Community, aggregators, IM and the economics of attention Oct 10
• The To Don't List Oct 7
• Blog like you email and UI design Oct 5
• Building Big Blog Communities Oct 5
• Why the X Prize is Important Sep 29
• Social interfaces, behaviour and tools Sep 27
• AdBusters weighs in to free the airwaves Sep 21
• Wikipedia vs. Brittanica Sep 7
• Wikipedia and broken window syndrome Sep 7
• Pensées on Fear and Loathing in America Aug 31
• Oh, the Places You'll Go Aug 14
• What's on my desktop Jul 3
• Blog tech notes Jun 15
• Enter Stage Left Jun 11