Ryan Grove

A matter of values

I was raised a Christian. Church every Sunday morning, sometimes again Sunday and Wednesday evenings. Prayers before every meal thanking God for the food we were about to eat and asking him to bless those who had less to eat than we did. Prayers before bed asking God to watch over us and all…

On the Loving and Hating of Text Editors

A programmer’s relationship with an editor is a curious mixture of loyalty and fickleness.

A text editor is to a programmer what a set of knives is to a chef, or a favorite…

The naughtiness score

A simple algorithm to prevent jerks from ruining rawgithub.com for everyone

Update: RawGit (formerly rawgithub) no longer behaves quite the same way as this post describes, but the core concept of the naughtiness…

Add the tools your toolbox lacks

Frameworks are foundations, not straitjackets