Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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In Support of the Outrage Machine

In Rage Against The Outrage Machine, published by The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf industriously picks apart the umbrage taken against an article by George Will published in The Washington Post titled, “Colleges become the victims of progressivism.” In his article, Will puts forward the notion that colleges are “conferring privilege” (Will’s words) – perhaps in the […]

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The (Web) Skills of Leonardo da Vinci

For the craic: if Leonardo da Vinci were a software developer sending his cover letter to that hot new startup. Adapted from Letters of Note: The Skills of Leonardo da Vinci. My Most Illustrious Lord, Having now sufficiently seen and considered the achievements of all those who count themselves masters and artificers of software, and […]

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Receive.js – simple mocking of remote HTTP requests

This is a quick and really basic node.js snippet for mocking up remote HTTP requests, like API calls. During initial development of an API client, sometimes you just want to see what the server is receiving in real time, so you can hack things together quickly. This script sets up a HTTP server which spits […]

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I’m joining EngineYard to work on Orchestra

Today, I finish up three and a half great years with Boards.ie, and next week I join Eamon, David, Helgi and Gwoo with Noah, Elizabeth, Davey (and a couple of others) to help kick Orchestra into orbit by joining EngineYard. At EngineYard, I hope to build upon my experience bringing scale to web applications within Distilled Media, and […]

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Kevin Smith, Dublin, October 14th

Kevin Smith announced a one day presale of tickets to his show in Vicar Street, Dublin, An Evening With Kevin Smith, on his Twitter account last night. Tickets are on sale starting today from 9am.

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Bolshevik Bingo!

Noticed that the proles are getting restless? Spotted someone looking for revolution? It’s time to play Bolshevik Bingo!

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When non-programmers design websites (comic)

A light hearted response to this post from Steve Hanov.

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Buying Root Beer in Ireland

Update: 2012-03-05 Someone kindly dropped me a mail letting me know that A&W root beer is stocked at a Spar near the Vicar Street venue. Update: 2011-06-13 According to Bargain Alerts, Amazon will soon start shipping groceries to Ireland, in which case you’ll be able to buy A&W Root Beer from them! Woo! Update: 2011-01-13 […]

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