Comments for Infotropism

Comment on A realisation about working for myself by Maandy

Maandy — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:50:10 +0000

It’s not only about the performance review. It’s also about peer review. I seriously sometimes think I am the only person how has the balls (or is stupid enough) to admit to not know something. Especially in the start-up community where apparently everyone knows everything.

Comment on A realisation about working for myself by Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:26:02 +0000

Excellent point. In corporate environments if often feels unacceptable to admit you don’t know something.

Comment on A realisation about working for myself by Yatima

Yatima — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:25:44 +0000

“the pressure’s off, I don’t have to pretend to be what I’m not, and I can learn and get shit done at my own pace…”

Oh God how I want this.

Comment on Fed up with meetups by Vass

Vass — Fri, 31 May 2013 12:59:51 +0000

The nothing to drink but beer thing… I’m not sure where on the line between public and private gathering a Meetup falls, but I’m very sure you’re not meant to do that at a public gathering where you’re serving alcohol. It might even be illegal. At the least it’s a bad idea.

Comment on Rails controller specs: matching on redirect URLs by Steve Klabnik

Steve Klabnik — Fri, 31 May 2013 02:34:18 +0000

For anyone not following both of us on Twitter, I just wanted to leave a link to the Response docs here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Response.html

That way, if someone finds this because they’re looking for these docs, there’ll be one more link.

Comment on An interesting documentary by evening

evening — Thu, 30 May 2013 18:46:41 +0000

agree – this was interesting. thanks for the mention

Comment on Why Growstuff is Open Source by Skud

Skud — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:54:05 +0000

Oops, that should have been http://blog.growstuff.org/newsletter … that’s what I get for copy-pasting across! Fixing it now.

Comment on Why Growstuff is Open Source by Serene

Serene — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:47:20 +0000

I’m getting a 404 on http://infotrope.net/newsletter/

This sounds like such an exciting project! I’m swamped at the moment, but I’m going to read through it all this weekend.

Comment on No resolutions this year by pozorvlak

pozorvlak — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:00:22 +0000

My resolution is to make more things – preferably physical things, but also software. You’ll be pleased to heat that work on Growstuff counts towards this resolution :-) I’ve made some progress already – I’ve finally joined my local hackerspace and have been messing around with the machines, I’ve cooked a bunch of new recipes, and I’ve deployed an old coding project that I’d been meaning to finish for ages.

Comment on No resolutions this year by VMB

VMB — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:57:09 +0000

As a general rule I do not make resolutions. The only time I ever broke that rule was back in 2007 when I resolved to see at least one live music show every month of the year. It was a pleasure to keep that resolution.

That said, I *have* just started a series of self-improvement schemes. It’s an unfortunate accident that the timing coincides with the turn of the year. This has made me self-conscious and feel like I need to explain, “No, this isn’t a resolution thing, honest,” as though it would be bad somehow (cliché, doomed to failure) if these schemes *were* resolutions.