By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: July 18, 2006
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
- Mark Pilgrim Is a Dapper Dresser ★
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The clothes make the man.
- Getting Answers ★
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Mike Ash on how to ask questions in programmer chats and forums.
- The Omni Group: System Guru ★
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The Omni Group has a job opening for a Mac OS X systems nerd.
- BetterZip 1.2 ★
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Better performance on large archives and support for additional archive formats.
- The Glare ★
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Wolf Rentzsch:
It was only a little while later I received verification that Steve does, in fact, exist. That was when I came close to hitting him with my rental car.
- Ruby Tuesday ★
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Jesper’s first impressions of Ruby:
This experiment has strengthened my small experience and general hunch of Ruby: it’s good in the ways that Perl is good, and it’s conventional in the ways that Perl is not conventional (everything is an object! sane OO model! iterators!), but its principle of least surprise introduces bigger surprises: things are less than useful in some common scenarios (threads and concurrency, regexes and multiple matches) simply because they simplify or deviate from the norm.
- John Battelle Interview With Vint Cerf ★
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Vint Cerf:
Here’s what (folks like [AT&T CEO Ed] Whitacre) are saying: “Well, we built this network and we can do anything we want with it. And by the way, the FCC has now essentially released us of any common carrier obligations we ever had, thank you very much, and so we can do whatever we want to and why don’t you just buzz off.”
- Dominic Giampaolo Gives ‘Mac OS X Internals’ Five-Star Review ★
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Dominic Giampaolo — who works on the Spotlight and file-system engineering team at Apple — reviews Amit Singh’s Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach at Amazon.com:
This book has to be one of the most comprehensive treatments of any operating system ever. I read through the sections with which I am most familiar (file systems, Spotlight and HFS). The level of detail and understanding expressed in those sections is very impressive. I thought I might find some errors or at least niggling details that weren’t quite right but I could not find any.
(Via Yuji Tachikawa via email.)
- Waferbaby Goes Open Source ★
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Daniel Bogan releases the Rails source code behind Waferbaby 3.