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Time#parse changed a bit in Ruby 1.9.2. This change fixes jekyll.

When bundler first came out, I really wanted to like it. It promised a clean way to declare dependencies for your application in a single and definitive place, regardless of what kind of box your app was running on. Unfortunately, bundler has not lived up to the hype, and I’ve had plenty of headaches from bundler problems. Read on for a list of tips I’ve pulled together to save you some headache.

This makes me sad that I’ve got only one year of studying left.

(via TUAW)

Finally a clean way to browse github repos. Built in JS, under 10K compressed, so qualifies for the 10K Apart contest.

(via The Changelog)

Attribution and acknowledgement of sourcing are not only the right thing to do, the honorable thing to do, they are the very strands in the thing we call the web. They are what connect it all together. They help to explain how I got here from there and why. They also help you navigate back down that thread and, hopefully, onto other places filled with wonder, curiosity and delight.

There are other cool features built into Less.js. For example, there’s a “watch” feature available in development mode. This feature will refresh the CSS on your page whenever your .less file is saved with new changes. The best thing is, it won’t refresh the whole page, just the right bits of CSS, live.

How awesome is that?!

I was asked a few times by some very nice people at WWDC this week how I manage my time between Instapaper and Tumblr, and how I write essays here that occasionally make sense. If you’ll forgive my auto-back-patting, here’s the answer I gave, and I think it’s worth sharing with you because you can…