The boy and I have been making bread (almost) every morning for the past few weeks. I find it a relaxing way to start the morning as he picks at breakfast. The loaf in the photo above, I made this morning. The simplicity of bread-making is compelling. 4 ingredients: flour, water, yeast, salt. Separate they …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
My 11 Favorite Eponymous Laws
Amara’s law — “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run”. Brooks’ law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Conway’s Law : “Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.” Edwards’ law: “You cannot apply …
Soft Landing?
I’m not a fan of roller coaster rides, so this is almost comforting compared to California, Florida, or Arizona. Thanks to Mark Perry for the pointer.
“It’s been devastating to innovation”
While listening to John Gruber & Dan Benjamin’s – The Talk Show #24, I was reminded about one of my pet peeves with all the free software – it completely kills the innovation1. John and Dan were talking about email. I feel the same way about email clients as I do about feed readers – …
First Crack 110. Bruno Bornsztein on Open Sourcing CommunityEngine
Bruno Bornsztein and I talk about; Open-sourcing CommunityEngine – the social network code behind Curbly, Uncooped, Teacherly, and many other community sites. Bootstrapping and maintaining a successful niche community site. [24 min].
I’d Rather I Could Read You Here
“the more time I spend w/ FriendFeed, the less I like it. I’d rather read y’all through my own blog.” If services like Friendfeed, Twitter, etc, have an innovation, it’s in present reading and publishing in the save view. This single view – often described as ‘presence’ or ‘social-ness’ – makes it easy to write …
Are Some RSS Formats More Reliable/Faster than Others?
via Twitter, I was asked the above question. It’s a good question, cutting to the core of my ambivalence over the religious wars between RSS, Atom, etc. The flavor of XML a feed is published in shouldn’t matter. Neither to the publisher nor the receiver. Any parser able to handle multiple flavors should be able …
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Presentation for MIMA’s Info Overload Panel
4:30 minutes of my own back channel. Quicktime Here’s the recording of the full event: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/563535
Snippet: Copy MySQL Databases Over SSH
I needed to copy a database and the idea of backing it up just to re-import1 seemed like double the work. Here’s a snippet to pipe a mysqldump into a remote database. Keep an eye on the user names and passwords – you’ll need 3 sets; one for the database your copying, one to get …
Summer Camp Hookie
On this beautiful Saturday, I missed PublicRadioCamp. Unfortunate for many reasons, including – many of my favorite people in town were there. Hell, some of my favorite people in town organized it. Instead, I had one of the best days ever with my family. Our Day Sleep until after 7am Pick up a few things …