I had a notion to put together a lightning talk based on a thread in the socialz from a long while back. The talk never formed and the thread is on a site that I don’t care to link to anymore, so I’m dropping it here. The thread started with a bullfrog and it ended in Star Wars.

A garlicy white sauce suitable for pizza or a really think kind of alfredo.

Ben’s Chili Bowl is an icon in the Washington D.C. community and cuisine. If you’re in town, you should visit. Until then, this gets you pretty close.

By Raghavan Iyer, via Dr. Urvashi Pitre

Makes 1/2 cup

I have been poking around inside RubyInstaller, the venerable package for installing a Ruby environment on a Windows host. I became entranced by the magical incantation that appears at the top of the Ruby binstubs installed by RubyInstaller. The incantation is what makes these binstubs work in either Windows Command Shell or in UNIXy sh/bash or even processed directly by the Ruby interpreter. It is a marvel, though it took me a while to work out how it does its magic. I thought I would pick it apart here, for my own memory and for anyone else lost wondering what’s going on in there.

Sometimes when packaging a thing in Habitat, the plan really should not have the version hard-coded if the plan is packaging something from which the version could be computed.