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2012

Vim (Nov 25)
The law of constant testing hassle (Oct 9)
&quot-un&quot (Jul 6)
The Front-End Future (Jul 3)
Goruco 2012 is over (Jun 24)
Ellipsifier (Jun 9)
EasyMailPreview (Jun 8)
Goruco: Six years on (May 28)
Speaking at Goruco (May 21)
That's what she or he or Michael Scott said (Mar 29)
How to simulate a POST request body in a Rails 3 functional test (Mar 16)
Rich clients: On mobile, and history management (Mar 6)
Should your web application be rich-client from day one? (Mar 5)
Rake tasks for running spec files that match a pattern (Feb 25)
Buy-vs-build for an early stage startup (Feb 19)

2011

Moar Rubyists: Boston's experiences (Dec 29)
That $2800 Rails class (Dec 28)
Hiring techies at startups: Go narrow (Dec 17)
What we mean when we say disruption (Dec 12)
Next steps (Nov 30)
Uncrossing streams (Nov 28)
PaperTrail + Sinatra strangeness (Nov 25)
New awesome coding thingy: Tddium (Nov 9)
So, just so I've got this straight, you're saying you're NOT dumb. (Jul 21)
admin_assistant 2 (Jul 4)
Hiring hiring hiring (May 12)
admin_assistant: Rails 3 support in pre-release (May 9)
When to mock (May 6)
Play-by-Play (Mar 31)
Profitably financing war stories, and investor advice (Mar 25)
Round 2 (Mar 22)
And build something you'll keep using (Feb 23)
The nuts-and-bolts of configuring Resque and resque-web for a production Rails app (Feb 13)
View from the Profitably office (Feb 9)
Hiring Rubyists at a large company (Feb 8)
Profitably is looking for a VP of Data (Jan 7)

2010

What's wrong with BlackBerry (Dec 12)
Gender in Diaspora (Nov 29)
So you want to tell your Korean mom you got a job in Silicon Valley (Nov 27)
In which your author manages to make others who are probably about as old as him totally freaked about being old (Nov 26)
AOL HQ (Nov 24)
Opting out (Nov 24)
Bangkok Knockout (Nov 9)
BlackBerry: Slowly sinking (Nov 8)
sample_models 1.0 (Nov 6)
Gears (Oct 27)
fuckyeahgoatsclimbingdams.tumblr.com* (Oct 15)
Tech Founders NYC: Thursday October 21 (Oct 14)
Abed's background delivery (Oct 11)
Age-inappropriate (Oct 4)
Seriously, Google? (Sep 28)
Testing Rails against a running Redis instance (and doing it with Hydra to boot) (Sep 23)
Profitably is one of VentureBeat’s 5 favorite DEMO companies (Sep 17)
DEMO 2010 (Sep 15)
Freud against the doctors (Aug 26)
Hipster fail whale (Aug 21)
Dirt style marches on (Aug 11)
I have to return some friendship bracelets. (Aug 8)
Our frumpy love is unstoppable (Aug 6)
Funded! (Aug 3)
Inception thoughts (and spoilers) (Jul 31)
I hate these people. (Jul 26)
Next Tech Founders NYC meeting: Thursday July 22 (Jul 16)
Meerkats & melons, together at last (Jul 8)
Winter's Bone (Jul 5)
Leviathan Melvilli comes for you (Jul 3)
They're just game controllers. They're just game controllers. (Jul 2)
Because American moviegoers don't like subtitles. Or being reminded that other countries exist. (Jul 1)
Wu-Tang Vs The Golden Phoenix (Jun 30)
Lara Logan, You Suck (Jun 29)
The Thriller Diaries (Jun 26)
You Can Get With This, Or You Can Can Get With That (Jun 21)
Seriously, people, backup your files (Jun 20)
Portal fucking 2 (Jun 16)
On transcendence, and on getting it done (Jun 15)
Tech Founders NYC (Jun 3)
Annals of law, ursine marijuana dept. (May 26)
On the backchannel, and civility (May 25)
Early-stage time (May 20)
The more things change (Apr 27)
Who Killed Bambi (Apr 23)
The Restoration of Stephen Baldwin (Apr 22)
A day with Werner Herzog (Apr 7)
Apps in hell (Apr 6)
Now you see me (Apr 5)
At least it's not a tramp stamp, Dame Commander (Mar 9)
There's a team deathmatch in my mouth, and everybody's invited (Mar 7)
City views (Feb 27)
Francis became the mayor of the produce aisle (Feb 13)
Cognitive regulatory capture--all the way to the top? (Feb 11)
Chatroulette: Occasionally funnier than some naked dude alone in his room (Feb 4)
Unleash (Feb 3)
Your neighbors are going to love this one (Feb 2)
"I forgot he was black tonight" (Jan 29)
A great society, ill-served by its government (Jan 27)
Dokdo Island is press, no crease (Jan 26)
FH hearts JT 4ever (Jan 24)
Mel Gibson's problem (Jan 23)
Is computer programming an art form? Let's get specifical. (Jan 22)
Infidels in our sights (Jan 19)
In which nerds tell jokes and other nerds laugh. (Jan 15)
Blind Men and an Elephant (Jan 12)
Squirrel monkeys, jello. Jello, squirrel monkeys. (Jan 11)
Movie decade list-o-rama (Jan 10)
Hell upon this Earth (Jan 9)
Agile in big companies (Jan 6)
The future is another country (Jan 4)
In the Ivies, too (Jan 3)

2009

Back-of-the-seat-in-front-of-you cinema (Dec 24)
Hollywood ballistics (Dec 20)
The Fanboy Strikes Back, or Something (Dec 19)
Worse than narcoterrorism? (Dec 18)
If you're looking to kill other people in a foreign country, there's an app for that. (Dec 17)
In Iran, infecting the currency with protest (Dec 16)
Conventional drift, stated with eloquence (Dec 3)
Where's Rob? (Dec 1)
Puppets (Nov 25)
Martin Margiela (Nov 13)
Objective updated. Endure tedious small talk. (Nov 10)
"The crabs were mine. I had gotten used to them." (Nov 10)
Not to be influenced by the name (Nov 4)
Peekaboo (Oct 27)
Inheritances in continental Europe (Oct 26)
Why is blackmail illegal? (Oct 20)
Signs from the National Equality March (Oct 15)
Gay Iraqis, hunted in their own country (Oct 13)
Street Fighter in 15 pixels (Oct 12)
I've got a tunnel to sell you (Oct 11)
Meow Mix (Oct 9)
In fire and in flood, extra help for the rich (Sep 28)
Doing it sideways (Sep 23)
Anti-semitism, the Durban Declaration, and reparations (Sep 22)
Pew pew pew (Sep 21)
Mainstream economics, and good economics (Sep 18)
iciousness (Sep 17)
Strains of libertarianism (Sep 15)
The ghost fleet of the recession (Sep 14)
Now that's heckling (Sep 11)
1.83 meters (Sep 9)
We could use gryphons, but we don't use gryphons. (Aug 30)
Taxonomy run amok (Aug 26)
Different forms of financing for different sorts of health care (Aug 25)
admin_assistant screenshots! (Aug 17)
Health care values (Aug 15)
Health care and incrementalism (Aug 14)
In a civilised manner (Aug 13)
Health care costs vs. coverage (Aug 11)
Casts (Aug 8)
admin_assistant 1.0.0 (Aug 2)
Miscellaneous transpo news (Aug 2)
Will Arnett reads "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" (Jul 25)
Random thoughts on health care (Jul 22)
"One or two people have enjoyed it, though." (Jul 20)
"Rock With You" unplugged (Jul 19)
admin_assistant documentation site (Jul 12)
RMS, and nerd sensitivities (Jul 12)
Arch that back (Jul 2)
Opus & Michael (Jun 27)
Crabcore? Screamo? Uh. (Jun 24)
Death in Tehran (Jun 22)
Turning back the police (Jun 21)
More on Iran (Jun 16)
RSS feed of English-language Twitterers in Iran (Jun 15)
Another porn conference brouhaha, this time in the Flash world (Jun 12)
Time Geithner can't sell his own house for a price he'd like (Jun 9)
Abortion stories (Jun 3)
Sequels for pwning n00bs in the 2009 holiday season (Jun 2)
Conspiracy or oligarchy? (May 28)
At your own doors (May 25)
HOLLA IF YOUR AT THE #FIRE (May 21)
The GOP: Nothing positive (May 18)
Artificial Owl (May 17)
The city, she speaks to me (May 16)
migreazy (May 13)
Sign of the times (May 11)
Interpretations (May 10)
Robot dance (May 10)
More reax on Ruby & Rails & women (May 1)
On diversity, and whether it's worth the trouble (Apr 30)
More on the pr0nage (Apr 29)
The gogaruco thing (Apr 27)
The English language had to disappear first (Apr 17)
Your business card is crap (Apr 16)
Apres nous, le deluge (Apr 15)
Gimme head with hair (Apr 13)
admin_assistant 0.0.1 (Apr 13)
Squatting in the leftovers of the housing bubble (Apr 11)
Talk to your roofer (Apr 10)
Congratulations, Vermont (Apr 8)
A New Way Forward (Apr 7)
Child abduction in China (Apr 6)
Chase that paper (Apr 5)
Burners, meet Native Americans (Apr 4)
I'm in your coral, biting through your fishing line. (Mar 29)
Obama and the financial crisis (Mar 23)
Visualizing the AIG bailout (Mar 21)
Obama wishes the Iranian people Happy New Year (Mar 20)
Liberals and economics (Mar 19)
School's out forever (Mar 17)
Full of sound and fury, signifying 0.000019% (Mar 16)
How necessary is refactoring? (Mar 14)
Quis custodiet ipsos pundits? (Mar 13)
Today in mermaid news (Feb 27)
Taxing a cash crop you've already got (Feb 26)
wallpaper_swipe.rb (Feb 24)
What's more important: American jobs or American companies? (Feb 19)
URIs in RubyGems (Feb 18)
What I like about capitalism: early thoughts (Feb 17)
Axis of Evil (Feb 11)
Why not YAML? (Feb 10)
On fixtures and first-time testers (Feb 9)
Rents coming down in NYC? (Feb 7)
Understructuring your code: Roughly right instead of precisely wrong (Feb 2)
Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith (Jan 29)
When you dilute water, it's still just water. (Jan 23)
Size matters (Jan 22)
Wild horses (Jan 11)
From Alt-As to ollies (Jan 5)

2008

Attack of the Invisible Hand of the Free Market (Dec 13)
40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes (Dec 11)
Milk (Dec 5)
Inside the world's most annoying economic crisis (Dec 4)
Looking for a new faction (Dec 2)
Testing heresies video (Nov 30)
Please don't let it be an Asian guy (Oct 28)
Wassup 2008 (Oct 24)
North Korea's "video revolution" (Oct 8)
Eve's to Keep (Sep 27)
The Dark Bailout (Sep 27)
Talk at RubyConf 2008: Testing Heresies (Sep 14)
Way down low where the streets are littered (Jul 22)
validates_with_block (Jul 18)
There are worse things than a coup -- right? (Jul 11)
The audacity of eloquence (Jul 6)
Two great tastes that taste great together (Jul 4)
Sometimes sincerity is the meanest form of irony (Jun 19)
Yay! (Jun 18)
On linkrot (Jun 16)
Rich, deep-dark amber (Apr 30)
Inflatable cockroach (Apr 16)

2007

Conversations vs. Laws (Dec 15)
RubyConf 2007 talk (slides only) (Nov 17)
Halo 3 (Nov 8)
RubyConf 2007 (Nov 7)
Speaking at RubyConf (Sep 9)
Speaking in Rochester (Sep 7)
Letter from Azeroth (Aug 18)
Media arts preservation panel, Wednesday June 6 (Jun 2)
(Very late) GoRuCo wrapup (May 27)
GoRuCo 2007 tomorrow (Apr 20)
Rhizome benefit on Monday, April 16th (Apr 7)
On GoRuCo, and chix who dev (Apr 6)
Gotham Ruby Conference (Feb 4)
Annals of fashion, January 2007 (Jan 6)

2006

Yellowface (Dec 10)
Starting a local Ruby group (Nov 26)
Wiremap at Dorkbot NYC, Nov 1 (Oct 28)
RubyConf 2006 (Oct 27)
On slideware (Oct 12)
Instead of LAMR, how about MyLAR? (Sep 9)
Cached Rake tab completion for bash (Aug 31)
Flying in the upper strata (Aug 13)
The perils of image swiping (Jul 29)
Lafcadio 0.9.5: Mending mock transactions, considering continuations (Jul 3)
Funny pictures (Jun 25)
MockFS 0.1.3 (Jun 11)
Scene from a deli (Jun 9)
Tiny dance videos (May 3)
NYC needs Ruby/Rails programmers (Apr 26)
"Post post modern" panel discussion next Friday at SVA (Apr 22)
My new friend Astrid (Apr 15)
Fictohedron: An alternate Ten-sided reader (Apr 14)
Lafcadio 0.9.3: PostgreSQL support, eager loading, more (Mar 21)
Ten-sided launches (Mar 18)
Powerbook deconstruction (Feb 26)
Send in the ... (Feb 19)
Ruby/DBI 0.1.0: Not Dead Yet (Feb 18)
The virtuous pain of writing your own manual (Feb 12)
Idiotarod 2006 (Feb 9)
Brack people ruv us (Feb 5)
Annals of medicine, February 2006 (Feb 1)
Looking for nine fiction writers (Jan 15)
Redesigning Rhizome (Jan 1)

2005

Stepping down as Rhizome's Director of Technology (Nov 25)
"What time is it going to rain?" (Nov 4)
urirequire: I got yer Web 2.0 right here (Nov 1)
Sunday panel: "Net Art: What is it and Can it Survive?" (Oct 26)
RubyConf 2005, the wrap-up (Oct 18)
RubyConf 2005, Day 1 (Oct 14)
Pre-RubyConf dinner (Oct 10)
Eyes! (Oct 7)
Face time for RubyConf 2005 (Oct 5)
Lafcadio 0.8.0 (Sep 21)
MockFS 0.1.2 (Sep 19)
Amusing spam of the week (Aug 27)
Bonafide art exhibit news (Aug 23)
RhizMail 0.1.1 (Aug 14)
LibInject 0.1.0: Small Pieces Smooshed Together (Aug 11)
God bless you, Lewis Lapham (Jul 21)
"London Hurts" (Jul 11)
ContextualService 0.1.0 (Jul 4)
More on Agile methodologies and lawsuits (Jun 29)
Ruby Month 0.1.0 (Jun 7)
Is an Agile methodology going to stand up in court? (Jun 4)
The arc to obsolescence (May 27)
Rhizome opens (May 24)
HtmlClipping 0.1.0 (May 15)
Blogging and the Arts 2 (Apr 25)
The shadow over Taiwan (Apr 24)
Running your own auction (Apr 17)
Adieu, iPod (Mar 25)
RhizMail 0.1.0 (Mar 19)
Seven days left (Mar 7)
Syndicate-a-go-go (Mar 6)
MockFS 0.1.1: The rename release (Feb 23)
U2 vs. Negativland vs. Apple vs. eBay vs. me, take 2 (Feb 21)
Re: Re: Re: (Feb 20)
FileSystem 0.1.0 (Feb 16)
The Gates (Feb 13)
Waiting for the final count (Feb 6)
Yesterday's news (Jan 27)
Lafcadio 0.7.0: Excessively Clever Query Caching (Jan 20)
EasyPrompt 0.1.0 (Jan 16)
Holding pattern (Jan 9)
Lafcadio 0.6.0 (Jan 2)

2004

Shut down! (Dec 6)
Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition (Dec 1)
How to play rock 'n' roll (Nov 29)
FeedBlender 0.1.0 (Nov 21)
Next Tuesday, Nov 20: Blogging and the Arts (Nov 20)
Coming to Ruby from Java (Nov 14)
Liberal optimism in a conservative year (Nov 8)
Scene from a Maryland gas station (Oct 5)
RubyConf 2004, Day 3 (Oct 4)
RubyConf 2004, Day 2 (Oct 3)
RubyConf 2004, Day 1 (Oct 1)
More more more (Sep 10)
Hooray for Hollywood (Sep 6)
The choice of obesity (Aug 14)
Virtualizing the ummah (Aug 11)
Your HTML could use some X (Jul 26)
Automating the implosion (Jul 24)
HOPE 2004, Day 3 (Jul 12)
HOPE 2004, Day 2 (Jul 11)
HOPE 2004, Day 1 (Jul 10)
Get outta town (Jul 3)
Auto-graffiti from RC cars, cargo vans, and now bicycles, too! (Jul 1)
Lafcadio 0.4.0 (Jun 27)
The BSA's hall monitors, hard at work (Jun 22)
The social nature of the shortened URI (Jun 12)
Empire of the Sunset (Jun 11)
Defining distance (May 28)
The incident (May 18)
You can't stop culture (May 16)
Building the egoist toolkit (May 14)
But I like rewriting software from scratch. (May 6)

2003

What will happen when there are no more pages in the red notebook? (Oct 21)
Lafcadio (Sep 25)
Get your feed on (Aug 28)
www.whatever.com (Jul 25)
He's not the zeitgeist, and neither am I (Mar 29)
Focus on what's changing, not on what stays the same (Feb 22)
Dial up, log in, drop out (Jan 29)

2002

Eager for a shot at the lexicon (Oct 11)
Net-art day job & other aspirations (Aug 2)

2001

Angry, so angry (Dec 2)
Post-terrorism satire; Adieu, ArtByte (Nov 1)
Too little fun; too much work (Sep 1)
State of the (cheating) art (Feb 1)
d00d l3ts h4x0r m3tr0p0l1t1c; snide news parody; fragmentating the DNS (Jan 1)

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