Mibbit is an awesome example of a guy who found a niche, really thought about what it was missing, and filled it expertly. Every time I see this app, I’m secretly jealous I didn’t write it.
Github — social media meets coding. Instantly makes rubyforge look like tucows.com circa 1996. A good example of filling a need you didn’t know existed. Getting insight into others’ development projects via ‘following’ developers and projects — or via RSS — turns out to be oddly addictive, and turns up neat little things like this and this, which couldn’t have really existed before the github model except as a fractured melodramatic irc log somewhere. I don’t have a pressing need for any private repos anytime soon but am compelled to upgrade my account out of sheer gratitude.
Lastly, I’ve finally checked out jQuery, and can now say: I get why all the fuss.
Theoretically here to serve as a Google magnet so people can find me, though this also serves as a place for me to gather interesting things I mean to work on later when I find time. It is undistinguished in any meaningful way from the trillions of navel-gazing blogs out there and I am in no way recommending you actually read it.
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