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Keep Ruby Gems in Your Home Directory

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I like keeping my Ruby Gems in my home directory. I don’t have to type sudo in front of every gem command, it’s easier to remember the path...

How To De-Asshole-ify Links

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I loathe sites that set unvisited and visited links to be the same color. There are exactly two reasons that sites do this: A graphic designer thought...

Post: Politics and Blogs

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
The Politics team has kept me busy the last two weeks at the Post, so I’ve got plenty to mention here. The 2008 Campaign Tracker has gotten some big...

Post: The Moby Quotient

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
On Friday I put up an app to let folks calculate and share the Moby Quotient of songs — a measurement of how much an artist sold out by allowing their...

Me Want Toy

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I don’t know what I would do with a Monome sixty-four, but I know it’s a box of awesome and I want one. So I’m now struggling mightily...

These Elves are People

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
It’s important for journalism address virtual worlds because they’ve become the “third place” after Home and Work that Starbucks...

Oh Noes!

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
Recently I was bullshitting about former employers and described one as a “tramagedy”. When I went to look it up, nobody else had ever used...

Post: Politics Glossary

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
Today the first project I built launched, the Politics Glossary. It’s a small site cataloging political jargon and all the writing is done by the...

WashingtonPost.com

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
Today I added code to the Washington Post’s 2007 Presidential Field to show campaign events by type. I’ve joined Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive...

Mocha

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I posted yesterday that I was dropping my own little custom mocking code and considering Mocha. A few hours later I made a pass at it and was blown away...