mutewinter

Some early visual evaluations: https://x.com/mutewinter/status/1993037630209192276

So good. Can't wait for the icns.

I've often wondered that too. Console2[1] is the best alternative I've found for cmd.exe. Mintty[2] is a decent alternative to Cygwin.

[1]: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Console2ABetterWindowsCommandP...

[2]: https://code.google.com/p/mintty/

I did something like this in my presentation[1] about Ember.

It uses Ember.js to maintain the state of the code samples and proved to be very stable. I don't have interactive sliders on specific values, but the code is parsed and run after every character the user types. e.g. you can change the size of the squid on this page[2] and see it reflected immediately on the right.

[1]: http://mutewinter.github.com/why_ember/#/slides

[2]: http://mutewinter.github.com/why_ember/#/slides/data-binding

Here's another good list, and it takes contributions on GitHub. http://iwanttolearnruby.com/

The suggested criteria for selecting a framework fails to ask the most important question, what are you building?

The lightweight libraries have their place in weekend-long hack projects. The larger frameworks lend themselves to multi-view, complex applications.

I've got a few friends who are affected by this who haven't tweeted in months. All posts come from the web interface. Can't find any news or security sites with more info.

A new feature in Jellybean allows you to download city maps for offline usage.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-maps-offline-andro...

s/Velocipede/Vooza

http://www.vooza.com/

Same experience for me with HN Thread http://kaspa.rs/hn-bookmarklet/. This seems to work much better.

Let's take this url as an example http://daneden.me/animate/.

With HN Thread I get one page.

With Hacker Panel I just get the submission screen.

With this bookmarklet I get all three times the page was submitted to Hacker News.

Thanks OP.

Those avatars look familiar http://eightbit.me/.

The source code is a treasure trove for those looking for an example of a larger Backbone.js application with a Rails backend and Faye for push notifications to the browser.

Backbone code - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/tree/master/app/assets/j...

Faye (on the Backbone side) - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/blob/master/app/assets/j...

Faye (on the Ruby side) - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/blob/master/app/models/a...

I built http://gitego.com a few months back to keep track of watchers, forks, size, and issues over time. I'm glad they're enhancing the code-related graphs. Stats for those would be much harder to gather externally.

Edit: Looks like Metior was tracking code stats externally from GitHub as well http://metior.herokuapp.com/.

Apropos.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_likes

Scanning through the Ruby styleguide for GitHub-specific changes I found this gem:

"The and and or keywords are banned. It's just not worth it. Always use && and || instead."

sad trombone

Surprised the default content of the page isn't set to the readme, if one exists.

Yes. A thousand times yes. I used to have a vim plugin[1] for reloading Chrome also. LiveReload[2] is far and away the way to go.

[1]: https://github.com/mkitt/browser-refresh.vim

[2]: http://livereload.com/

A while back I wrote a post about what I listen to: http://pileofturtles.com/2010/12/music-for-programming/. tl;dr Electronic Music / Podcasts.

After listening to music while programming for so long now, I actually find it hard to program without music.

I run a website that tracks watchers on GitHub projects, http://gitego.com.

What I see is that it is incredibly rare for a project to lose watchers. It seems that people are using GitHub's watch feature as a bookmarking service.

On a side note, GitEgo tracks two[1,2] of paulasmuth's GitHub repositories, and neither of them has "lost lost around 30 watchers by the evening." He may be referring to other projects on GitHub, but even Twitter Bootstrap[3] (the most popular GitHub project), almost never loses watchers. Granted, these projects could all be gaining just a few more watchers than they are losing per hour, but the net effect is almost always a gain each day.

I think the real problem is that watching a repository doesn't engage a user in its contents. Watching commit messages fly by isn't as entertaining as reading 140 characters someone groomed for public consumption.

[1]: http://gitego.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric#watchers?interval=b...

[2]: http://gitego.com/paulasmuth/recommendify#watchers?interval=...

[3]: http://gitego.com/twitter/bootstrap#watchers?interval=by_hou...

GitHub Repo - https://github.com/viatropos/tower

Source for towerjs.org (written with Tower.js) - https://github.com/viatropos/towerjs.org

I was not a fan of the old icon[1], but the new one isn't better. Way too much detail on the new icon at smaller sizes.

[1]:http://static.tumultco.com/press/media/HypeIconShadow.png

No way that I know of. I tend to leave my buffers open indefinitely for the entire session. I work in splits and am constantly rotating buffers using Command-T, NERDTree, and LustyJuggler.

I'm down to 47 plugins[1]. Only 27 if you don't count the language additions and Vundle. I've whittled it down over many months of scrutiny. I do actually make use of almost all of the plugins daily.

[1]:https://github.com/mutewinter/dot_vim

There's a fairly decent vim plugin for all of the JetBrains IDEs called IdeaVIM. Here's a post from the same blog about it:

http://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2009/08/rubymine-for-vim-addi...

And here's the direct link to the plugin:

http://plugins.jetbrains.net/plugin/?ruby&id=164