By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Fantastic news. I’ve been bitching about the design of The Times’s web site ever since it launched — The Times is one of the best-designed print periodicals in the world, and, I think, the best-designed newspaper, but their web site has always been scattered and rather junky-looking. Vinh is the perfect man for the job. Who’d have thought the brains behind The Onion’s recent web redesign would end up as Design Director for The New York Times?
Hawaii woman says the box for the iPod she bought her son for Christmas had no iPod inside, but instead a piece of “mystery meat”.
Be sure to read (or at least skip) to the end.
Dan Benjamin explains how to create a launchd item to startup up LightTPD — an alternative web server popular for deploying Rails applications — on your Mac.
James Duncan Davidson:
To help you learn how to DIY your Rails deployment and show you the easiest way to get going, here’s my recipe for deploying onto a server with LightTPD.