RockYourFirefox.com recently reviewed TwitterFox er… TwitterNotifier er… Echofon! It’s a Firefox extension to interface with Twitter, with a very unobtrusive and intuitive UI. That, with a bunch of other nice features made it a pretty slick addon. Until about five weeks ago. In mid-August, Naan Studio released an update—1.9.6.5—that basically breaks any non-Mac, non-Win32, unofficial Read More
A couple of months ago now1, I finished Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work. It’s a compilation of “interviews with some of the top programmers of our time,” including people like Jamie Zawinski, Brendan Eich, and Ken Thompson. It was an accomplishment for a couple reasons: I am embarrassed to admit I don’t have make as Read More
Anyone who has struck up a conversation with me about release engineering1 will tell you I make a lot references and analogies to aviation and the operational characteristics of the national airspace system. Most people have had the experience of flying2 and I find it an easy, familiar way to explain, using concrete terms, my Read More