Posted on June 24, 2008 at 5:12 pm

say ‘there will be cake’

An excellent collection of little songs using OSX’s internal speech system. Now THIS was a triumph!
osascript -e ’say “oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to [...]

Posted on May 21, 2008 at 11:07 pm

Web 2.0 users unite

Ah, the new Internet and their participative users. While some focus on helping OTHER users better use the services they love, others form real fanclubs to support their web heroes, working around the clock to keep services alive and resisting the bad weather of diggin’, slashdottin’ and plain usage hammering. Pizza and Twitter FTW!

Posted on April 25, 2008 at 6:34 pm

If you’re over 25, buy a Mac

Same arguments apply to myopic people, of course. Nice thoughts from a wannabe fanboy on his pursuit for a usable OS (and why fonts are a very important portion of that matter!)

Posted on April 2, 2008 at 11:18 pm

How to sell features on featureless products

I guess oeople on all kinds of web 2.0 “we’re a social network too!” startups all over the Internets have something to learn from this Blizzard’s April’s Fool joke…

Posted on March 24, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Ruby Haiku

A very clever usage of Ruby’s “almost natural” language style!

question = !!(:to_be or not :to_be)

- Shakespeare.rb
More Haikus on the reddit comments page

Posted on September 21, 2007 at 9:05 am

“Mac Sucks” - propaganda fake

A verdade às vezes é cruel… Especialmente para os “seguidores sem cérebro” de qualquer crença/tecnologia, como dá pra ver nos comentários do vídeo.

Posted on September 21, 2007 at 4:59 am

“Mac Sucks” fake ad

The truth sometimes hurts… Specially the devotees of anything, as the comments really demonstrate.

Posted on August 30, 2007 at 9:09 am

Improving Ruby

So, after some experience with Ruby’s dirty syntax, I finally feel confident enough to propose some deep changes to it. I hope Mr. Matz reads this blog, so he can incorporate some of my ideas on Ruby 2.0!
1 - elsunless
I love unless. It’s very neat, and although it’s a lot more typing than [...]

Posted on July 13, 2007 at 5:30 pm

Friday night special: quizes

Which programming language are you? What OS better represents your personality? Which file extension fits you best?
A whole bunch of quizes to lighten up every geek’s home-alone friday night.
Damn, I’m Javascript!

Posted on June 12, 2007 at 3:59 pm

Schizophrenic Search Dog