I was curious about QuickLook generators and decided to write a quick generator for previewing Markdown files. QuickLook generators are pretty simple and it didn’t take me long to throw something together. This plugin creates an HTML preview from the Markdown source and renders that in the QuickLook window.

If you are interested you can download […]

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One of the points that I’ve been trying to make since I’ve gotten back in to the languages space is that a lot of what is happening in languages now is unpausing the nuclear winter that Java imposed on the programming language space. If you haven’t been following this space […]

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New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock:

“I was blown away,” said Cara, a 27-year-old homemaker from Forest Hills in New York City. “I’m not a no-carb type of person, and I usually don’t even think about it. But you pick up a little muffin with your coffee, and it has […]

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Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen

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Ars Technica reports on a quirky 9th Circuit decision that has significant implications for privacy in the workplace. According to the Ars story, “the ruling provides an extensive space for workspace privacy,” but I am not so sure. It turns out that the case hinged on a police officer who claimed that the department he […]

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The Myth of the Interchangeable Programmer: Can’t We Just Offshore Him?:

The problem here is that the [Software Management Formulas] incorporate a number of flawed assumptions. The first of these assumptions is that programmers are fungible. The SMFs assume all programmers will contribute roughly the same amount to a project and […]

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