Adding to Luke Kanies' rule about avoiding food in transportation hubs with my own hard-earned rule: never eat the breakfast buffet
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$ cd ~/posts/2012/
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Sinatra and Sub-URIs Fixing 404s and broken asset paths when deploying a Sinatra app under a sub URI, using sinatra-static-assets and the url helper
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That time she danced with me in Brooklyn A short personal piece on loving cities, their noise and smell, mass transit, the rain on concrete, and the crush of people
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Hiring Challenges How Puppet Labs uses written exercises and short coding challenges to filter candidates before phone screens and reduce screening time
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How we use IRC at Puppet Labs Why the Puppet Labs ops team picked IRC for team chat and how a Cinch-based bot called Lampwick handles tickets, alerts, and assorted memes
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Please take an Arts degree Why so many Arts graduates wind up in IT and how consuming, assimilating, and synthesising information makes us well suited to it
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Knives Why I gave in and started carrying a folding clasp knife after moving to Portland and meeting American consumer packaging up close