Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS

How we moved the Washington Post’s website to HTTPS in 2016.

Disable iTerm 2's animation display

Making things just a little bit faster.

"The Homely Mutt"

Testing out Mutt for email.

I’ve never been woken up at night by someone saying “Oh, this code’s ugly.” I’ve never gotten paged because my Clojure is inelegant. Ted Nyman, formerly Lead Engineer at Simple, now at GitHub

With success comes a level of sadness. You think, ‘I’ll reach this goal, and then I’ll feel a sense of completeness, of wholeness. I’ll feel that I have accomplished something. I will see myself as a worthy man.’ And it doesn’t really exist. Mad Men’s Pete Campbell: An interview with Vincent Kartheiser

The first box I opened was so filled with onionskin copies of Ben’s correspondence that its sides were bowed. I pulled one of the folders at random and came across a 1977 letter to Katharine Graham, then the Post’s publisher: Dear Mrs. Graham: Messrs. Eugene Meyer and Philip L. Graham must be turning over in their graves because of the way you are dragging down what used to be a wonderful newspaper.

Tim Tebow trying to throw a forward pass is like a moose trying to fuck a washing machine. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, in the New Yorker.

The problems began, as they sometimes do, with the king of England The Carolinas Work to Clarify Their Borders - NYTimes.com

Blogs usually seem to me like a a continuous, self-promotional orgy. Gary Gallagher, my history professor.

I want to live in a world where someone in Grand Forks or anyplace else can enjoy the Olive Garden. I want to live in a world where people can like things unconditionally, without irony, without sarcasm. Joe Posnanski, on the now famous Olive Garden Review.

Quotations in a story about the Istrouma High School-Broadmoor High School football game that appeared in The Advocate on Saturday, Oct. 29, were wrongly attributed to Broadmoor coach Rusty Price. The reporter who wrote the story thought he was interviewing coach Price after the game. Because the interview subject was not Price, the reporter is unsure whom he spoke with. The Advocate regrets the error. The Advocate (Baton Rouge), via Poynter

The rectangle probably blew their minds. My friend Phillip, on engineers’ propensity to think inside the box.