Mentioned previously, O’Reilly’s Open Feedback Publishing System is a great resource for developers, and a brilliant move my O’Reilly to get early feedback and corrections on their books before they go to print.
Qu is a new Ruby queuing and background job-processing library from Brandon Keepers, one of the maintainers of delayed_job.
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.
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.”