Qu [§]

Qu is a new Ruby queuing and background job-processing library from Brandon Keepers, one of the maintainers of delayed_job.

Experiment in Extreme Schooling [§]

Fascinating article about a New York Times writer who moves to Russia with his family, and immerses his kids in a Russian school.

What really resonated with me is just how resilient kids are. I often catch myself thinking that my own girls aren’t ready for something, that it will be too hard for them, but that’s a dangerous attitude to have. Much better to believe that they can do anything, because chances are, they can.

See also the postscript.

Storm [§]

Storm is a distributed “realtime” computation system from Twitter.

The Kid Should See This [§]

A great collection of “off the grid-for-little-kids” videos. “It’s most likely not stuff that was made for them…But we don’t underestimate kids around here.”

Time [§]

Must-read–especially for programmers–notes about time.