Max Lielje

A little rant about having phone calls and losing the connection in the middle of one.

How to make Transmit set custom headers for files uploaded to Amazon S3.

As you may know, I'm currently learning more and more Ruby and also started working with Rails. "Metaprogramming Ruby" is a book that really helped me (and still does, I'm not quite finished yet) understand Ruby a whole lot better. Things like the object model and how method lookup works are essential to understanding the language.

I highly recommend checking it out if you are interested in mastering Ruby. You can also have a look at the table of contents (PDF) to see everything that's covered.

In which I explain how to work around GitHub's limitation for custom plugins and how to create a sitemap with Jekyll.

This literally took me ages to figure out. I had my SSH keys set up and thought I did everything right, but when doing git push it still asked for my username and password (that I always had to find in 1Password).

The solution:
You have to change the remote origin URL to the SSH version GitHub provides at the top of your repository page, like so:

$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/repo.git

As always, StackOverflow to the rescue!

Great list of things to go through before launching a new project. I think not all of the points are always important, but a lot of them definitely are.

In his latest screencast, Chris talks about the big mystery that favicons are and shows the best way to integrate them into your website. Worth watching!

This is one of the cooles things I've seen in a while.

Joshua Gross:

Twitter Bootstrap’s success has turned it into the Times New Roman of design. It has a time and a place, but you wouldn’t use Times New Roman on your startup’s website, would you?

This.

I really can't stand seeing Bootstrap anymore. I understand that it's convenient to quickly prototype things and what not, but please don't use it in production, or at least customize it (a lot) and take only the parts that you really need.

Maybe v. 3 will bring some cool new features as well.

In which I share a little ruby script for quickly generating a new file, preformatted for a new Jekyll post.

Little Inferno is now available for iPad and if you haven't already, go buy it. It's only 99 cents and worth every single one of them.

I watched Simon and Lewis from the Yogscast play the PC version and really liked the kind of weird story and the gameplay itself.

Also: the graphics are made by the creators of World of Goo (which you should've played as well).

A picture of a snowy garden after I came back from Thailand.

In which I explain how I created a search for this blog, Google Instant style.

In which I share my thoughts on static file generators and the new engine behind this publication, Jekyll.

I finally bought one.