Don’t Give Your Users Shit Work

Simplify. Don’t give your users the shit work.

Improving Yourself is Easy

Being Ready is only accomplished after you’ve done something. Before you’ve done something, it’s daunting. After you’ve done something, it’s easy.

So do something.

Matt Swanson - Making a commit with the Github API

Make a commit in just five easy* steps!

Audio Fingerprinting with Python and Numpy

After a few weekends of puzzling through academic papers and writing code, I came up with the Dejavu Project, an open-source audio fingerprinting project in Python. You can see it here on Github: https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu

Queue everything and delight everyone - 0xDECAFBAD

And, in the end, that’s really the purpose of a web-based content creation interface—accepting something as quickly as possible to make the user happy enough to continue submitting more. The other part of the user interface, retrieval, serves simply to get the original content distributed as fast as can be reasonably expected.