maggie nelson

A while ago ago, I quit Flickr to work on a “social geo...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:32:40 -0800

A while ago ago, I quit Flickr to work on a “social geo mobile local” startup that was secret to everyone except some closest friends and family. Today, we are finally able to talk about it in public!

The great team at 2bkco is happy to announce Pinwheel (for now in private beta). Our fearless leader Caterina Fake has posted an introduction to what I think will be an awesome service for years to come.

If you’d like to leave some notes around the world for people to find, come on over to Pinwheel and sign up!

PHP Advent 2011: Out with the Old, In with the... Old?

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:03:02 -0800

PHP Advent 2011: Out with the Old, In with the... Old?:

Hey, I’m in this year’s PHP Advent! Check out some MySQL goodness and how it’s changed over the years!

Feminist Consciousness, or Escaping the Matrix

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:43:27 -0700

Feminist Consciousness, or Escaping the Matrix:

gamesandtrips:

Developing feminist consciousness—the awareness of the sexist systems of oppression—is very difficult at first because sexist oppression is so built into culture, into life, into the most mundane and exalted things, in a word, so ubiquitous, that one is tempted to believe that this is how has…

Games and Trips: The Maggie Test for Video Games

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:34:33 -0700

Games and Trips: The Maggie Test for Video Games:

The tech industry isn’t the only one that’s male-dominated. Videogames suffer from this as well. In some musings with a friend of mine at the Games and Trips blog, we’ve come up with a test to determine whether a videogame at least tries to include women at all. Behold:

gamesandtrips:

To pass the Maggie test a video game must have:

a playable female character

which is available to play right away, and not as a special bonus feature

In a previous post, I alluded to this video game corollary to the Bechdel test. We talked about it a bit and my friend agreed to let me use…

It’s Clouds All the Way Down by : Nils on Flickr.Flickr...

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:09:32 -0700

It’s Clouds All the Way Down by : Nils on Flickr.

Flickr Architecture Plan 2012

At Palace of Fine Arts on Flickr.

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:53:05 -0700

At Palace of Fine Arts on Flickr.

From “Amount of profanity in git commit messages per...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:34:51 -0800

From “Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language” by Andrew Vos.

Other words included, too. @waferbaby calls this graph “the Maggie graph”.

Alligator in the Bathroom

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:59:30 -0800

Alligator in the Bathroom:

“Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin on productivity, communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and more.”

Merlin came by Flickr the other day and talked about meetings and how much they suck (truth). In this podcast, he calls me “a huge vim nerd”. Hmm.

What Is Data Science?

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:21:10 -0800

What Is Data Science?:

Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.

"ls -R | grep “:$” | sed -e ‘s/:$//’ -e..."

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:34:38 -0800

“ls -R | grep “:$” | sed -e ‘s/:$//’ -e ‘s/[^-][^\/]*\//—/g’ -e ‘s/^/ /’ -e ‘s/-/|/’”

- ls + grep + sed = tree

Stick it in tree.sh, then alias tree=’sh tree.sh’, and ta-da! You can now see your directories as a graphical tree on any system!

If you love vim and you use Firefox for development, check out...

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:01:24 -0800

If you love vim and you use Firefox for development, check out this awesome Pentadactyl addon. It makes your Firefox act and behave like vim, including almost all options at :, search by using /, common vim commands like j, k, etc. So sweet!

:open xkcd[Tab]

A great visual explanation of SQL joins on Coding Horror, a...

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:10:48 -0800

A great visual explanation of SQL joins on Coding Horror, a rewrite of Lig’s awesome post: “Getting” Joins

Before you think about sending an email “hey, can you optimize my query”, please read this article and make sure you’re using your joins as expected.

Also, yay Venn diagrams!

old blog archives

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:10:33 -0800

old blog archives:

Finished wrangling with the data dump of the ex-WordPress blog (including proper 301 redirects - o hai search engines!). All the pre-Tumblr blog archives can be found in the archives now, in all their n00b CSS glory.

(Instead of obsessively importing my old blog posts to here,...

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:05:00 -0800

(Instead of obsessively importing my old blog posts to here, I’ll just mention some of the highlights.)

Angering Database Gods was one of my conference talks. It was was basically a knee-jerk reaction to people not going the distance and instead leaning on frameworks to interact with databases, which meant being mean to databases.

Goodbye, self-maintained blogging software. Hello, Tumblr!

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:55:00 -0800

wall of text inc: I’m in a good mood today, holidays and all, so perhaps it’s simple serendipity that some omg h4x0r kids found that one of a million WordPress vulnerabilities and posted a lolpost on my blog. Not a frequent blogger, I still wrote blogging software for myself (PHP, baby!), but that was lame, and made me realize that I like to use a pretty UI for posting stuff on my blog. So I got MovableType, but srsly, Perl? Not very customizable (it is a write-it-and-forget-it language after all). So against all the red flags and against the gut feeling that “hey, even a script kiddie can get thru this”, I migrated my posts to a WordPress installation. Well, that didn’t end so hot.So, why move to a hosted blogging solution? Because it’s someone else’s job to maintain it. Tumblr had some downtime recently, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and check’em out. And hey, the free themes are cute!

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:44:04 -0800

Happy Holidays, everyone!