I have a new favorite pencil,¹ almost as dark as charcoal (but without the mess). Great for UI design, comic design, and random sketches.

1. A General’s Extra Black No. 555 ↩

Someone asks what if Apple released OSX for the PC? I can’t see it happening, mostly because random PC hardware tends to suck¹.

1. Drivers, MOBOs, flakiness, and other pain+suffering ↩

The official set of online Rails manuals, including a Rails cookbook and a good guide on Rail’s URL routing/rewriting. The docs for a user login plugin and an overview of plugins in general.

Some tips on improving how you use your Bash history (and some other random bash tricks).

A Multics engineer writes about the hiring process, and a random follow-up set of phone screening questions.

A Flickr tagging game, in the spirit of the new Google image tagging game. Isn’t tagging fun?

Kevin Smith writes about Jason Mewes’ struggle with heroin, alchohol, and other random narcotics. Kevin is an entertaining writer, and the story is moving. Congrats to Jason too, on his year of newfound sobriety. The whole story: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9.

AJAX Edit In Place With Prototype, Version 0.2.0.

PHP Database Functions vs. PEAR::DB vs. ADOdb (and PDO).

An example of edit-in-place with prototype.js. Prototype is the excellent JavaScript library for hooking events and doing asynchronous HTTP.