Matt Brubeck: Planet Matt

Asides: Time-saving idea for home buyers: software to extract PDF files from incoming email, sign them, and return them to the sender.

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:50:30 +0000

Time-saving idea for home buyers: software to extract PDF files from incoming email, sign them, and return them to the sender.

Bookmarks: Pencil Project

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:29:29 +0000

"A free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use," based on Firefox 3.

Bookmarks: Perfect multi-column CSS liquid layouts - iPhone compatible

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:10:16 +0000

"This series of website layouts use percentage widths and relative positioning, and they work with all the common web browsers including Safari on the iPhone and iPod touch."

Bookmarks: Easy Git -- git for mere mortals

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:58:56 +0000

"Unlike other wrappers for git, eg does not remove or limit any capabilities of git in order to simplify it; it just tries to layer concepts and present the capabilities in a more orderly fashion."

Bookmarks: Free open source project hosting - Gitorious

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:28:52 +0000

An open-source GitHub-style site.

Bookmarks: Frozen desserts go organic, local -- and unusual

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:39:22 +0000

"Full Tilt Ice Cream, scheduled to open in White Center June 20, favors local and organic, but also will have flavors influenced by the different ethnic populations in the neighborhood, thus the likes of sweet red bean and mango-chili."

Bookmarks: subversion: Subversion 1.5 Release Notes

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:43:58 +0000

With real branch/merch support! "The merge tracking support in Subversion 1.5 is 'foundational': its basic functionality is implemented, but there are still parts of our original spec that remain to be done, and merging is sometimes too slow."

Asides: House update: The seller did not accept our offer. Time to decide whether to raise or fold.

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:41:44 +0000

House update: The seller did not accept our offer. Time to decide whether to raise or fold.

Asides: House update: The seller was in surgery today and couldn't respond to our offer.

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:42:57 +0000

House update: The seller was in surgery today and couldn't respond to our offer.

Journal: Tuscan inspired bathroom

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:44:44 +0000

We decided not to make an offer on the porch house. Instead we revisited this house from our first home tour.

Yes, it's every bit as fun and funky as the listing suggests. Possibly a bit too fun and funky. But on the plus side:

Great location: walking distance to Sarah's work, public library, produce stand, playground, grocery stores, shopping center.
Just the right size, with plenty of space for storage, home office, guest room.
Great interiors with hardwood floors and lots of light.
Spacious fenced yard with lots of garden space.
Good kitchen and dining room.
In the Seattle school district.
Skylights!

Minus:

It's three houses past where the sidewalk ends.
Partial basement with possibly inadequately-sealed crawlspace.
Oil furnace; no natural gas (but there is a gas main in the street).
Only one bathroom.
Near the top of our price range – may strain our cash flow if we need to hire contractors or buy appliances right after closing.

Anyway, we decided to make an offer. Now I must initial many pieces of paper and make many phone calls.

About me: FriendFeed page

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:18:37 +0000

Yet another way to stalk me online.

Bookmarks: Seattle's Most Walkable Neighborhoods - Walk Score

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:26:58 +0000

With a heat map!

Bookmarks: Luis Villa’s Blog / the state of tablet software in linux

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:29:19 +0000

Asides: Blist gets an extra 30-60 minutes per day of my time (compared to Amazon) by letting me buy a laptop I can use to develop on the bus.

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:21:40 +0000

Blist gets an extra 30-60 minutes per day of my time (compared to Amazon) by letting me buy a laptop I can use to develop on the bus.

Bookmarks: Joho the Blog » Simple sabotage

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:30:01 +0000

"Advocate 'caution.' Be 'reasonable' and urge your fellow-conferees to be 'reasonable.'" - 1944 CIA manual on how to sabotage a business.

Bookmarks: Inkboard User Manual

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:51:14 +0000

"The network capable whiteboard extension for the Inkscape SVG program."

Asides: With six full-time engineers, Blisters are already getting concerned about time spent on meetings and communication.

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:52:56 +0000

With six full-time engineers, Blisters are already getting concerned about time spent on meetings and communication.

Bookmarks: Deploying Rack Apps on Dreamhost via Passenger (including Sinatra)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:23:35 +0000

Journal: Porch house

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:58:21 +0000

We're thinking of making an offer on this house.

Pro:

Great location: easy walking distance to the library and lots of restaurants and shops; across the street from Safeway.
Two blocks from Sarah's current workplace.
Two blocks from a playground.
Less than one block from several bus lines, including express buses to/from downtown.
Really nice, big, open kitchen.
Really nice big living and dining room space.
Space for a home office, and some other good extra rooms.
Not too big or too small.
All wood (actually laminate) floors. (Necessary because of dust mite allergies.)
Huge master bedroom with its own bathroom and walk-in closet. (Not necessary, but nice.)

Con:

Yard is adequate but not great.
No garage or basement.
Right at the intersection of two busy streets; across from a giant parking lot.
Half-block outside of Seattle city limits. This may change soon.
Relation between the house and street is weird. (The "front" door faces sideways into the driveway.)
No natural gas hookup?

Bookmarks: The Comonad.Reader » Linear Bloom Filters

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:01:22 +0000

"To recap, we took a normal (or counted or spectral) Bloom filter, crossbred it with Litwin's linear hash table and found that the mutant offspring is an approximation of a set that is better suited to sharing over the network than either structure alone"

Journal: Imagination

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:11:52 +0000

One of Eleanor's latest developments is playing pretend. It's interesting because unlike her other skills, she started it without really being taught or shown how. Also, it's cute: She carries around empty food containers and "feeds" Sarah and me, or has her stuffed animals eat from them. She "opens" doors inside the house with her toy keyring (note these are doors without keyholes). And most recently, she holds her stuffed animals by the hands and has them "help" pick up laundry or toys.

Sarah and I are spending our free time hunting for houses in West Seattle. Not much to write about yet, but our favorite from last weekend's tour was this house with an amazing yard and nice basement. This weekend we're touring more homes, including this one with a nice floor plan and good location.

Bookmarks: Reia

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:24:42 +0000

"A Python/Ruby-like mixed-paradigm language targeting the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM) and high-performance native compiler (HiPE)." Improved string handling and regexes: yay! Mutable variables: tentative yay?

Bookmarks: Thingamajiggr II: Seattle, June 13th - O'Reilly Radar

Sat, 31 May 2008 02:02:23 +0000

The only technology conference to feature Dan Savage?

Bookmarks: Sinatra

Thu, 29 May 2008 20:59:26 +0000

"Sinatra is the easiest way to a Fast, RESTful, web-application in Ruby with few dependencies, setup, and LOC."

Bookmarks: Sun Labs: Lively Kernel

Wed, 28 May 2008 16:49:18 +0000

Smalltalk-like "live" programming environment in JavaScript.

Bookmarks: Howto use Git and svn together | Flavio Castelli

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:19:09 +0000

Bookmarks: Home - Art of Illusion

Tue, 20 May 2008 10:56:29 +0000

"Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio." Implemented in Java. Looks easier to learn than Blender.

Bookmarks: Cat and Girl: Obligations

Tue, 20 May 2008 10:30:08 +0000

They're making fun of me.

Bookmarks: Hardened Stateless Session Cookies (PDF)

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:41:15 +0000

"This paper discusses the construction of a session management system which is robust against disclosure of the authentication database."

Bookmarks: ivan krstić · code culture » Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:56:56 +0000

"OLPC is dropping those pesky education goals from the mission and turning itself into a 50-person nonprofit laptop manufacturer, competing with Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Asus, HP and Intel on their home turf, by using the one strategy we *know* doesn't work."