Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. –Martin Golding

Twitter, Rails, Hammers, and 11,000 Nails per Second pokes the thinking stick at the Twitter + Rails-suckfest by doing the arithmetic. The claim is that Rails sucks based on poor performance at 11k “somethings” per second, but 11k of what? It’s a good question.

Wow, BoingBoing has gone all out with the flare. Today I counted 39 ads, ranging from unobtrusive chicklets to full flash-animated nonsense. At least they have a full RSS feed, otherwise they would have lost me already.

[stars: 5] Getting Real, the dead-tree version. A damned inspiring read, well worth the price of admission. The book is targeted to web development projects, but makes sense for many types of businesses. The mantra cuts to the core of the hacker/maker ethic: Enjoy what you do, do it simply, and do it fucking well.

Another way to look at agile development. Like everything, you need to use tools with bit of sense.

If you haven’t read Getting Real from 37Signals, you should. It’s the hacker way of thinking about business and software, with a sense of balance that’s downright respectable.

Havoc Pennington suggests that they stick with compiz compositing, instead of attempting it in Metacity. I’m happy if Metacity does 2d well, it’s simple and solid (no sense in buggering that up).

The Damn Interesting blog talks about our seventh sense, which sounds a lot like a set of meta-senses.

Shaking up tech publishing, a smart rant about how self-publishing makes sense for the tech book author.

13 things that do not make sense. Mildly interesting.