What's in my reader?
The following is my reading list direct from Google Reader
- *Anil Dash*: A Blog About Making Culture
- *David Cramer*.net
- *Seth's Blog*
- Adam Frisby
- as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge
- Avant Game
- Balkan Witch
- Bazaar developers' blog
- Beaming Beeman
- Bjorn Tillenius
- Boing Boing
- Brea Grant
- Brian's Blog
- Canonical Blog
- Canonical Design
- Code happens
- Code Singer
- collapsing geography
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan
- Copper Robot
- Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
- Davs Rants and Random Thoughts
- Defying Classification
- DeWitt Clinton
- Echo and Bounce
- Ego Food
- Elapsed Time
- Eric Florenzano's Latest Posts
- Felicia Day
- Gavin Panella
- GlobalCouch
- Google Blogoscoped
- grahambinns.com - Latest Blog Entries
- hackety org
- High Performance Web Sites
- Holovaty.com
- How Bazaar
- Ian Bicking: a blog
- intellectronica.net
- jacobian.org
- James Henstridge
- JeffCroft.com: Homepage
- Jeremy Zawodny's blog
- johnaugust.com
- jonobacon@home
- jorge's stompbox
- kottke.org
- Labix Blog
- Latest RSS Content for All Communities | Second Life
- Launchpad blog
- Leah Culver's Stupid Blog
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Martin Albisetti
- Massively
- Massively
- Massively
- Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
- Matthew Paul Thomas
- Matthew Revell
- Mere Code
- Natron Baxter Applied Gaming
- Neil Gaiman's Journal
- Neopythonic
- nerding.out()
- New World Notes
- NewTeeVee
- not enough minerals
- not waving but drowning
- One More Blog
- Planet OpenSim
- Player Versus Developer
- Professor Loire's Second Life
- Pumpichank
- pyx
- qLab
- Raph's Website
- robcurley.com
- Scott James Remnant
- Signal vs. Noise
- Simon Willison's Weblog
- Slashdot
- Snook.ca
- Something-driven development
- sourcefrog
- Stationary Traveller
- Steve A's stories from the present
- superpixel subscripts
- Talent imitates, genius steals
- TapBot
- The 10th Wonder Podcast - News Feed
- The Absolute Minimum Every *Software* Developer Absolutely *...*
- The B-List: Latest entries
- The Creation Engine No. 2: Posts
- The Django weblog
- The EveryBlock Blog
- The Global Couch
- The Iron Lion's Weblog
- The Long Tail
- The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers
- The SigB Weblog
- Tridge's Corner
- Web Browsers News and Reviews
- We'll see | Matt Zimmerman
- what a quiet stiff
- While the coffee is hot
- whump.com | More Like This WebLog
- why the lucky stiff
- Wilson Miner Live / Posts
- Yahoo! User Interface Blog
- ze's page :: zefrank.com
I do a lot of online reading. Here's a sampling from my Delicious feed.
GitHub -- Pull Requests 2.0
GitHub has launched their version of code review. Pretty standard stuff, though there are touches to that seem very GitHub appropriate.
Speaking UNIX: Bazaar
This is a nice IBM developer works article on Bazaar. While it's largely a bzr basics tutorial, I do appreciate that the author presents some of the power and flexibility of bzr, too.
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: No, You Do Not Have to Be A Gamer to Like Inception!
Inception has gotten a lot of attention lately, and I'm sad I haven't seen it yet. This post from Henry Jenkins makes me all the more sad. There are no spoilers here, rather a look at why the narrative style is confusing to some, as he argues that it's showing a generational divide about how people process narratives. He speaks of the story being appealing to gamers, and without having seen the movie, I get where he's coming from. But I don't think this is a gamer film, or else it would be less popular. I do think there is a general shift in the world toward how we want to talk about existence and such, which this post gets at. That shift is driven by a number of things -- games, the web, smart phones, and more. Jenkins is saying the same, I think, and this is worth a read for those thinking about the web, games, always-connected lives, and similar topics.
Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything | Magazine
I was struck by the opening question in this interview with Fred Brooks: "How does a guy who grew up in the 1940s among North Carolina tobacco farmers get into computers?" Brooks has an interesting story of how he came to be where he is today. He is the person he is because of where he came from, and I think that those of us living in rural parts of the U.S. sometimes consider this a liability when in fact it can be a great source of inspiration, motivation, and driver of success.
YouTube - Project: MyWorld Teaser HD
This looks interesting, but it's just a teaser trailer. It's an avatar-less world, I think, but the concept and ideas teased here are interesting. Via a Miguel de Icaza tweet.
the dude abides: Gwibber Concept - Part 1
I really like the designs here. I have no idea of the chances of this being brought into Gwibber, but the ideas here are really nice. Impressive work indeed.
Resetting Gnome's Settings in Ubuntu | Linux Journal
I mess with my desktop too much and make use of this rm command often. I do make a backup of the directories in case I shouldn't have done the rm. It's nice to see these little tips linked up in posts. (Via Lifehacker.)
New World Notes: Linden Lab Confirms: We're Developing a Second Life Viewer Accessible FROM the Web
I'm fascinated that Linden Lab has decided to restructure their entire business around making Second Life run in a web browser. There's always been this noise that virtual worlds need to run on the web to be accessible to the mainstream, and clearly Linden thinks this or there would not have been this restructuring. I'm not sure I'm convinced. World of Warcraft requires a download. iPhone apps confirm that you can build a business around requiring people to install software. So let's assume Linden gets Second Life running in a web browser and nothing really changes for usage and retention rates -- what then? I suspect the SL-in-browser work is solving the wrong problem, and I can't believe how boldly the company is restructuring to go off and fight the wrong battle. I seriously hope I'm wrong.
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx: free OS that Just Works - Boing Boing
Cory Doctorow has high praise for using Ubuntu in this review on Boing Boing. I like his analogy for getting used to a new OS. He's even a Python user.
Second Life Blogs: Features: A Restructuring For Linden Lab
There's no secret to the fact that I love Second Life. Prior to applying at Canonical, I applied at Linden Lab and was offered a job conditional on relocation. I turned it down, applied at Canonical, and now I have the best job in the world leading the team working on the bug tracker in Launchpad. Seriously, I'm extremely happy about the job I have, for a lot of different reasons. When I read this -- that 30% of the people at Linden Lab were laid off, many of whom I interviewed with -- I can add one more reason to why I'm glad I work at Canonical and not Linden Lab. Canonical is hiring, btw, if any ex-Lindens are looking for work. :-)
Android and iPhone, and Then Everyone Else | Linux Magazine
Linux articles love a good fight. kde vs. gnome. vim vs. emacs. And now, iPhone vs. Android. I own both, so I win either way.
"Likejacking" Takes Off on Facebook
I was actually like-jacked on Facebook yesterday. It's a particularly bad problem, and it's also proof that the social plugin system needs to be opt-in only. I'm being patient with Facebook on this mainly because I have hard to reach friends and family on there I enjoy connecting with, but I'm given a few more weeks to see if there's action to harden against this. If not, I'm done and deleting my account.
dhrb tagged bugs in Malone, by heat
This is my nice little cheat-sheet way of using tagging to keep up with bugs we need to fix in the short term. I sort on heat to give me an idea of which bugs to take on first.
YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
From now on, when people ask me, why do open source developers work on software for free and give it away for free, I will point them at this video.
How Bazaar: Wikkid Wiki
Ah, to be able to code as much as Tim Penhey. He wants a wiki for Launchpad and off he goes and starts working on one.
Why Launchpad Rocks: Great Bug Tracking | jonobacon@home
Jono Bacon continues his series on "Why Launchpad Rocks" with a post on the bug tracker, which is the part of Launchpad I work on. I really appreciate Jono doing these posts. There's a lot written among Ubuntu and Debian developers on the web about Launchpad's shortcomings, and as a Launchpad dev I'm honest about the areas we could improve, but Launchpad does offer a lot that no other hosting platform offers. Not to mention, Launchpad is more than a hosting platform. It a platform for cross-project collaboration, and the bug tracker is unique because it was designed with this in mind.
A hungrier, more aggressive Mozilla | The Open Road - CNET News
Matt Asay comments here on what Mozilla could do to be more competitive as Chrome gains popularity. Matt's views here are particularly interesting concerning the importance of Chrome to Google's business versus the importance of Firefox to Mozilla.
Sinzui » Speeding up page loads
sinzui explains how he used memcached to speed up pages on Launchpad. I can't wait to make use of this myself.
Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So
I hope the rumors of Firefox's demise are a bit exaggerated at this point, especially because it's bad for everyone if any one browser wins out. I can't say, despite how much I like Google generally speaking, that I want to live in a world where Google is the only mediator to web access either. Chrome is impressive, and I use it myself regularly, though I continue to use Firefox as my main browser. Mozilla may be sitting back, as Ross suggests, but I hope articles like this will light a fire in that camp and get Firefox moving aggressively against Chrome. This kind of competition would be good for everyone.
Saying information wants to be free does more harm than good
How much better can you get than changing "information wants to be free" to "people want to be free?" Cory Doctorow also lays out some nice principals that are held by many of us who support the digital rights movement. The digital rights movement is about making "better science, better knowledge, and better culture," not about just getting free movies or music from the Internet, despite what many in old media business will argue loudly at every opportunity.
YouTube - UDS Maverick Kickoff Video
This was shown at the opening talk at UDS for Maverick this morning. I still like watching it.
Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
To borrow from mpt, I like this alot. I will now picture an Alot creature instead of hearing my high school English teacher's voice in my head whenever someone uses "alot."
Matt Zimmerman - Video of Ubuntu Inside Out talk
I watched this off and on yesterday and really enjoyed Matt's talk. There's even a bit on Launchpad bugs in here. (Via Matt Zimmerman.)
Matt Cutts: Google incorporating site speed in search rankings
Google is starting to use site speed as one of its "200 signals that we use in determining search rankings." Matt Cutts has more info here. The upshot is that search results are likely to change very little, and the change benefits smaller or more agile sites that can adapt to change quicker and get a site sped up more easily.
WebKit2 is Coming, More Stable than Ever Before
Looks like Webkit is getting updated to use to the split-process model that was made popular by Google Chrome.
