I remember watching Steve Jobs' commencement speech for the first time and being fairly touched by the three stories he told in it. The major one that resonated with me at the time, and has since made more sense to me, is the first story he tells about joining the dots later on when you're looking backwards. To quote from ...

Any rubyist that's defined a class should understand the following class definition:

A while ago I read a blog post that Elizabeth N wrote, on the value of writing self-serving code. Ever since I've been moderately aware of when I've written self-serving code, usually either at hackdays, or just little projects where I'm either experimenting with something or just bashing out a new idea.

As of Xcode 4.2 Apple have stopped bundling GCC with it, shipping only the (mostly) compatible llvm-gcc binary instead. The suggested fix is to install GCC using the osx-gcc-installer project. However, I wanted to build and install it from source, which apple provides at http://opensource.apple.com/.

I've had a dream for a while. A simple webapp that takes the last tweet in a conversation and outputs that conversation in chronological order on a page you can link to forevermore. Occasionally I'll google to see if anything new's turned up, but they all seem to do far more, require the start and end tweets or are covered ...