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Opting out of advertisements

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I’m a big fan of opting out of marketing crap. Now Yahoo and Google allow me to do just that. I think you should do the same, it’s only a simple mouseclick...

Typically.nl mentioned in the paper

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Oh boy I am so proud! My latest blog typically.nl got a mention in today’s nrc.next, thanks to old friend of mine Robbert Weij. Read more for what he...

Why are so many sites so bad?

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
For years I’ve been keeping an eye open for a new house in Amsterdam. So far, no luck. They are either too cheap or too expensive. (This is a common problem...

Ruby magic

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Ahhh, nothing like a little Ruby sugar to start the weekend. I did little refactoring of a particular ugly bit of code and couldn’t help to share. This...

Links in a new window, 2008-style

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
The first thing you learn as a web developer is probably how to make a link. It’s so basic to the web that it is hard to see what’s wrong with it. Still...

Segfaults in rcov

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
For all the apparent ‘l33tness’ the rcov tool is in a pretty sad state. Unusable, even. I get bus errors all the time and I know from experience I am...

Rails localization demo app

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
This is more a note to myself than anything else, but here is a Rails demo app that features full localization. What does that mean? It means that, as of...

Radio 1 re-relaunch

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Just a short while ago the website of Radio 1 was re-relaunched. You might recall that it was in fact relaunched at end of summer already. But that was...

Url slug now built into Rails

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Interesting commit to Edge Rails yesterday, bringing built-in url slug generation. I’m not too impressed by the algorithm though: it leaves out all non-ASCII...

Rails documentation

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
When a framework is coming of age, it gains some, errr, documentation. Sweet....