Derek Gottfrid: Archive

“International hopes shifted to the airship, the latest transport sensation. American journalist Walter Wellman stepped forward. He had received a telegram from the editor of the Chicago Record-Herald with the order BUILD AN AIRSHIP AND WITH IT GO FIND THE NORTH POLE, surely a candidate for the most ambitious instruction ever to issue from a newsroom.” —Sara Wheeler, Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle, pg. 190 (via harrisj)

Vote Evan Korth for the NYTMB He greps it. #badass

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C:> iam-usercreate -u dns30 -p /app/ -k -

I just like that the example command line is C:> - personally I would have used the second floppy B:> but that is just me.

C:> iam-usercreate -u dns30 -p /app/ -k -

I just like that the example command line is C:> - personally I would have used the second floppy B:> but that is just me.

“First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.” - George Carrette” —Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time | TechSource

Brilliant but he is sweatier than I thought.

Reverse engineered “unofficial” Instagram API

“Percona just announced that they’re going to include HandlerSocket in the latest Percona build.” —

Percona and HandlerSocket

This excites me.

Best thing I heard all day - “I use asterisks a lot.”

hey, congrats on the semi-new tumblr gig! i have a little coding question i wanted to pick your brain about for neighborhoodr, can i get your email to explain further?

Cool. It is the very cryptic derek@tumblr.com

Derek Gottfrid

December 2010

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