• Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter is amazing
• Twitter released Flight, an event-driven web framework
• Antichamber is one of the most entertaining looking games I've seen lately :) Haven't played it yet though.
• GNOME chooses javascript as the preferred language for building GNOME applications
• vim-session - keep per-project sessions in vim
• Why you should use WebGL
• What sorcery is this
• Sandi Metz - Less - The Path to Better Design from GoRuCo 2011. Like reading POODR but quicker.
• easel.io
• bbq gem - Define acceptance tests in high level language using OO actors to stand in for domain concepts. I've been building integration tests like this the past month or so, and came across this gem. It's a little bit differently-opinionated than I am, but it's a great concept and if you aren't already doing this sort of thing I bet you'd be happier using it than not :)
• backup gem - So I've known of this gem for a while, but only just started using it and holy crap it's great. If you need to define a backup strategy (and you do), use it. Seriously.
• hypermedia api examples - check out haltalk
• HAL Browser - browser for hal+json APIs
• Stark and Wayne covers Cloud Foundry - running apps with a DEA
• Stripe released jQuery.payment - cool cool
• Kent Beck describes the Fun List
• Hexagonal Architecture for Rails Developers
• Axe Cop Action Figures - from the image at the top of the post :)

So a recent article that Seth sent to me had a great quote from Alan Perlis in it:

A language that doesn't change the way you think about programming is not worth learning. - Alan Perlis

This is one of the reasons that I loved Ruby so much when I first came to it. I was developing .net code, and I looked at programming as just a way to get some projects done for the company I worked for. I didn't expect it to be fun or engaging. I was good at what I did, and I took a little pride in that, but mostly I was just doing a job.

Then I came in touch with the Ruby community, and there was all this lore. There was MINSWAN, and there was YAGNI, and there was DRY, and there was a widespread belief that you would get better at programming by sharing code.

Then when the language itself came into play, there were iterators and blocks and functions-as-first-level-objects, and it all was so new and exciting to much-younger me.

The Ruby language changed the way I thought about programming, with its sugar-heavy syntax and its lisp/smalltalk roots. The Ruby community changed the way I thought about programming, in that there seemed to be such a widespread focus on programming as a thing that could bring you joy, in-and-of-itself. Consequently, I feel that Ruby is worth learning twice by Alan Perlis' metric :)

• Implementing Persistence - Further discussion of the raidit learning-project
• Resources to help guide architectural decisions when using Rails - Grant Ammons talks about things you can do to have a more granular design in your rails apps.
• GTK3 Bindings Now Available in Ruby - thanks to David Chapman for the tip
• BPython seems pretty fantastic - Also, the whole python objects-with-attached-documentation concept is just such a good idea. Wish Ruby had that.
• Noel Rappin: Let's Make Testing Fun Again is one of the best videos on programming I've seen in the past year. Highly, highly recommended. I listened to it while driving, so if you don't have time to watch a video you can always do that and get great benefit.
• Push-Button Deployments with Arduino - we obviously have to do this.
• RbNaCl is a thing now. NaCl is a crypto library that focuses on smart defaults, because everyone that rolls their own with OpenSSL primitives and the like leave themselves open to attacks because they don't really understand crypto (like me). NaCl makes getting it right easy, and RbNaCl makes using NaCl from Ruby possible. Also, it's from Tony Arcieri, and he's always putting out great code.
• Speaking of Tony Arcieri, I just started using his http gem in a project and it's pretty pleasant.
• I've seen better_errors before but since I've been heavily involved in a javascript-only app I'd not spent the 2 minutes it took to actually try it out. Then last night I upgraded the version of draper we were using on a project by a major version, and used better_errors to figure out the API changes without reading too much documentation for draper

Links I've found enlightening this week await...

• Squash is an open source bug tracking tool, akin to hoptoad, but it looks nicer and you host it yourself. I've not used it yet but it looks great.
• Kelson is a fantastic-looking free font.
• RubyJS is "A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby core-lib"
• CSS Selectors, Level 4 will, when they are widely distributed, solve some of the problems in raw CSS that we've been (till now) solving with tools like sass. "Parent selector" is the most exciting of those listed here, IMO.
• Learning Ruby - if you want some ruby learning tools, this link's got you covered...
• Dossier is a rails engine for generating reports from sql easily.
• Building Rich Domain Models in Rails. Separating Persistence. This is a great blog post covering using a DataMapper pattern in Rails (without using DataMapper2, since it's noet yet production-ready)
• The guy that wronte the above works for a company with a similarly-awesome blog: Nulogy Engineering. They cover nicely-separated Rails patterns as far as I can tell.
• James Burke: Connections is an interesting look into the various connections between history and modern times across a variety of topics. Not related to programming, but very interesting nonetheless.

Linkdump! To the knowledge:

• git-pivotal-hooks - tie your git into your pivotal tracker.
• Broadway got multi-process support - so Broadway is a rendering engine for gtk that outputs to http/canvas. If you've not seen it before, watching this video will be a treat (if you're into awesome things)
• Wacky is a Rails engine for painlessly embedding a wiki in your rails app. It's very basic. We developed it to be our internal wiki, and we think it would be a good idea for you to use it too :)
• SVG Path Morphing - this is one of the neatest things I've ever seen done with SVG :)
• pelusa - lint your Ruby code to improve your OOP skills.
• 3d printed quadcopter frame - I just got a makerbot replicator2 yesterday, so this is on my list of things to print now :)
• Revisiting JavaScript Objects - an article with lots of nice things you can do in javascript in most deployed browsers today, that you likely aren't taking advantage of (I wasn't, and I write a lot of javascript)
• Obvious is a clean architecture framework. I've not yet built an app with this framework, but I desparately want to. I read through one.
• helium is "a tool for discovering unused CSS across many pages on a web site."
• visual event - see javascript events that have been attached to DOM elements
• On Antifragility in Systems and Organizational Architecture - I've not yet read Antifragile but this post made me really badly want to. Good.
• Awesome table built with pipe
• Rails devops cheatsheat
• Asset Pipeline Internals
• form follows function this is amazing. CSS experiments gone right.
• Android Mini PC RK3066
• The language of languages and hn discussion
• Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
• The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design
• spanish inquisition - simple ruby survey DSL
• 360 degree panoramic video from the stratosphere - You Will Not Be Disappointed.