Why I gave in and started carrying a folding clasp knife after moving to Portland and meeting American consumer packaging up close
$ cd ~/posts/2012/
Knives Best and Worst Hacker Movies Ever A run through Hackers, Swordfish, Firewall, WarGames, Sneakers, AntiTrust, and The Net with notes on what each gets right and wrong
Puppet and Flowdock Releasing a Puppet report processor that pushes notifications of failed runs to a Flowdock team collaboration room via the Flowdock gem
$ cd ~/posts/2011/
James & Nigel A short post sharing an animated graphic a colleague made of me alongside Nigel from the Spinal Tap movie
Cloudkick and Puppet Releasing a Puppet module that handles Cloudkick agent installation and node creation via the Cloudkick API
Why I hate product comparisons Why most so-called product comparisons are really subjective case studies, and how to identify and write objective ones worth using
World of Warcraft Why World of Warcraft never grabbed me despite a fair shot: repetitive grind quests and a social model that depends on awkward time zones