monkinetic the blog

My man @rayners is a craftsman. Hire him. http://j.mp/b8VcWV

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Is there a good rsync wrapper for os x for backup purposes? I’m not looking for a bootable backup, just a scheduled backup of some dirs.

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@dbounds yeah, looking for something with a bit more Shiny™. :P Just don’t feel like futzing around on the cmdline.

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“How to OStatus-enable Your Application” — http://ostatus.org/2010/10/04/how-ostatus-enable-your-application #ostatus #fsw (via @evanpro)

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BTW - this is a great step-by-step template for describing adding support for a protocol to an app. Kudos to @statusnet http://bit.ly/b045Y5

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Leave: http://youtheuser.com/2010/10/04/you-and-your-job/ #ok

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Apparently, making your résumé “tell a story” doesn’t mean writing three paragraphs about each entry in your job history. #verbosityfail

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@mattgemmell Indy wore leather gloves from time to time. There’s a precedent.

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resume, resumé, or résumé? #englishsucks

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Error: Database full of cheese http://bit.ly/bOyvJL

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Just reduced my entire time with @sixapart to 5 sentences. Too long?

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I feel the need to lowercase “perl”, but uppercase “Python”. One is a tool, the other a language. But I love both.

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Ouch. Using @bnbeckwith’s great writegood-mode on my résumé. #noweaselwords

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writegood-mode: unit testing for composition #allgreen

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