Beyond excited to be attending Railsconf in Austin, TX this year! Can’t wait to finally meet the rest of Site5 Engineering team in person. If you’re at any of the bars afterward, make sure to flag down Site5 for a drink!

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This was a pretty cool story about how the developer of the original Prince of Persia game was able to recover it’s source code after 20 years. It almost makes me wish I had kept my pile of floppy disks!

This is a pretty comprehensive article that discusses the overall shittiness of PHP. Many of the points listed here are reasons I love Ruby over PHP.

Today I learned that gifs can have more than 256 colors. Using more seems unpractical, but it’s still a cool trick.

This was an interesting article about resizing vector icons — in short, the details count, and SVG is no replacement for a designer’s keen eye.

This is just a test post from Heroku :)

While working on a project managed with Git, I needed to split some files into a new repository. In order to maintain the git history on these files, I used git filter-branch. Here are two methods I used.

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Take note of the Apple products. I had no idea they were so, inspired, by Braun.

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Bundler has a feature called binstubs, which places stubs for gem bin scripts in ./bin. Unfortunately, ZSH doesn’t seem to complete these files out of the box.

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I found these excellent cheat sheets for Vim — nice and simple keyboard overlays.