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https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/twitter-as-a-weapon · 4 Sep 2013
A short thought-piece on reports of a person paying to promote their complaint tweet.
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/the-extra-mile · 27 Mar 2013
A short story of someone being unusually thoughtful.
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/rest-and-how-to-do-it-right · 21 Mar 2013
gregbeech.com Bossman Greg has posted a thorough and readable rundown of REST design concepts. Well worth a read.
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/pretty-json-in-the-terminal · 20 Mar 2013
kaspertidemann.com This was _exactly_ what I was looking for. If you're investingating JSON returned from a web service, get the control you need with the terminal and jsonpp: BOOM. As they say.
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/thoughts-on-storing-passwords · 20 Mar 2013
Yesterday at work I was discussing the design of password databases with my boss. I don't claim to have any deep knowledge in the area, but we came out with the following structure which seems to have good inherent security as well as the possibility to im...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/ruby-and-jenkins · 1 Mar 2013
I was trying to integrate my Cucumber and RSpec tests with Jenkins earlier this week and came across a bunch of character encoding errors. It took me a while to figure out the problem, essentially Jenkins loads a session without all your usual environment...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/die-hard · 14 Feb 2013
{{% importnote 2023-05-27 %}} I don't normally prefix my very old and imported blog posts like this (I quite like them to stand alone as an artifact of my past) but I find this review I wrote particulaly hard to read! I know my sense of pacing has had a ch...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/mini-magic-apache-passenger · 23 Jan 2013
A note out there to anyone else having the same problem as me: If you're trying to use mini_magick in a ruby application being run via Passenger on Mac OS X Mountain Lion's Apache2, when you've installed imagemagick via Homebrew - _mouthful_ - then you ma...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/speakable-web-links · 8 Oct 2012
A long time ago benosteen wrote that he'd link to make a URL shortener that creates speakable URLs. Looking back over this (hideously unkempt) blog I realised I finished building exactly this a few weeks back. Take a peek at Iconic.im[^1]. [^1]: Import n...
https://www.byjp.me/posts/tumblr-musings/crunch-boxes · 20 Oct 2010
After a quick support request from the Plex team I mentioned how much I'd like a linux version of the Plex Media Server so I could look to getting it working on a Drobo FS. As the anonymous Plexian noted, the major issue with this would be the lack of pow...