Musings

JPEG canaries: exposing on-the-fly recompression (tags: security printing) revealing the ActionController callback filter chain (tags: rails filter callback)

Invaders from Mars we have been invaded and we lost. Charles Stross on what went wrong with our socio-political system (tags: politics economics)

Magic Scrolls of Code: Behavior Trees by Example. AI in an Android game. (tags: game ai programming algorithms development) TMUX – The Terminal Multiplexer (Part 1) | Hawk Host Blog Introduction to tmux (tags: tmux terminal)

In the beginning, there was the flowchart… • The Register (tags: humor charts software-engineering)

Debugging Rails Applications With ruby-debug - Intridea Blog (tags: debug rails3 ruby howto) Creating the missing Instagram web interface Mislav explains how to sniff HTTP traffic from an iPhone and create a web app that talks to the Instagram servers. Lot’s of nuggets (json formatting library) (tags: api instagram ruby http json)

Pardon My French, But This Code Is C.R.A.P. (2) A simple measure to measure the quality of code: Cyclomatic Complexity and code coverage (tags: code metrics) What is “elegant” code? - Stack Overflow Good question and some good answers (tags: programming definition elegance)