June 2012
4 posts
Public Readable Amazon S3 Bucket Policy →
Amazon S3 allows you to set bucket policies, which allow you to define permissions for an entire bucket. This saves a lot of time updating individual ACLs if your entire bucket needs the same permissions.
May 2012
27 posts
An Analysis of Blaster Fire in Star Wars →
by Rhett Alain, Wired
Using the Amazon S3 Enhanced Uploader on OS X Lion →
From Sid@AWS:
With OS X Lion, Java applet plugins need to be explicitly enabled in order for them to work in browsers, and this may be the issue being encountered with the enhanced uploader. Please try the following steps: 1. Go to Safari -> Preferences -> Security, and ensure that both Java as well as Javascript are enabled. 2. Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Java Preferences...
“The theory of machinery is that it saves time, but Stanford himself noted of...”
– From Rebecca Solnit’s River of Shadows (via viafrank)
Dieter Rams On Good Design As A Key Business... →
In this transcript of a speech he delivered in New York in 1976, Rams articulates the role of design in differentiating a business and the importance of sustainability — decades before the popularity of green design.
Better Off Dead — Why Quitting The Movie Industry... →
by Bobcat Goldthwait
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ruby: Open A File, Write To It, And Close It In... →
File.open(local_filename, 'w') {|f| f.write(doc) }
“An object shall not be improperly used before its lifetime begins or after its...”
April 2012
43 posts
How to Build an Owl
by Kathleen Lynch
Decide you must.
Develop deep respect for feather, bone, claw.
Place your trembling thumb where the heart will be: for one hundred hours watch so you will know where to put the first feather.
Stay awake forever. When the bird takes shape gently pry open its beak and whisper into it: mouse.
Let it go.
“For at least five years, we’ve been working with the same operating logic...”
– The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic
Mystery company backed by James Cameron and Google... →
WatchThe Elwins & Luke Lalonde (Born Ruffians) performing a cover of Beyonce’s “Countdown”
“Look, I don’t think Google’s making us stupid. I don’t think Twitter’s the...”
– Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works (via chuckolsen)
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(via wreckandsalvage)
Twitter Engineering: Introducing the Innovator’s... →
“The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive litigation without their permission. What’s more, this control flows with the patents, so if we sold them to others,...
“The basic plots of Western Literature depend on separation by distance –...”
– The Reader and Technology (via youmightfindyourself)
Growl Fork: Growl Notifications Free on Mac OS X... →
Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What... →
by Michael Abrash