Quixotic Bravado by Josh Babetski

• fun time at @barcampdc yesterday. great job and thanks to the crew for having us. more pizza next time. <grin>
• @jrishel jQuery is very sweet. sorry I’m missing cposc08; I just got back from DC.
• So Safari/Webkit now chews up the CPU as soon as I fire it up. Yanked plugins and ~/Library/Safari Directory. Neither fixed it. Thoughts?
• The answer to the runaway Safari process seemed to be “Empty Cache.” Why I didn’t try something basic like that sooner remains a mystery.

Over the past few weeks Safari started chewing up the CPU and causing my MacBook Pro to sound like it’s going to take flight. This of course chews up the battery as well.

At first, I thought there was Flash running in one of the pages I load regularly since Flash has a number of issues running well on a Mac. My other thought was that one of the sites I visit regularly has some weird JavaScript bug. The CPU usage would just start climbing at some point; I couldn’t pin down what the cause was or the exact steps to recreate it.

So today I fire it up and Safari immediately starts to devour system resources. Fed up, I do all of the usual things: disabled plug-ins, moved the contents out of ~/Library/Safari, watched the Console for odd messages. Nothing seemed to do it.

Then in occurred to me to try something as a web developer I do all the time: Empty the Browser Cache. (Safari > Empty Cache…)

Disco! It seems once the cache gets to a certain point in Safari, it begins to struggle.

Sometimes the answer is simple.

Hope this helps.

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• OpenID Best Practices - Yahoo! Developer Network
• Pathfinder Development » Elements of Ruby Style
• Yo Rails: Easy-to-find Quality Rails Links
• How to use Photoshop's Lens Blur tool for tilt-shift fakery (Part 1 of 2) - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

• Will hopefully wrap up some business dealings today. Then again, I’ve thought this before. Bummed @tracibabe will be out-of-town today.
• http://www.mapquest.com is now optimized for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Awesome job @mhusson, @graham310, @larrymyers an non-twittering MQers!

• Check out @Current posting locations on Hack the Debate. Very cool! #current
• This just in: Plumber’s Union being heavily lobbied by both candidates for endorsement. Tie vote to be broken by guy named “Joe.” #current
• @mhusson ohhhhh… shiny new toy. Congrats! You forgot to mention that new electronics smell.
• Upgraded to FlashPlayer 10. Let’s hope Adobe’s learned to love the Mac and my MBP will stop trying to take flight when Flash is running.
• Just found http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ via @gruber. My brain just exploded from all the election data on this page.

• mmm… grilled us up some marinated chicken.
• Great idea from @barackobama: http://Taxcut.BarackObama.com/ My cut is $0, but I’m not in a demo that needs it. Great way to fight GOP FUD.
• Cool: The Taxcut calculator can be embedded, brought to you by the cool cats at @clearspring http://cli.gs/QHg3Qr
• Palin as President: http://palinaspresident.com/ Funny stuff! Not really on a political kick today, just working out like that.
• @Hicksdesign Had opposite issues, jumped from CVS to Git, then had projects using SVN. Prefer Git; some helpful links: http://cli.gs/uBAtmE
• Lot of drama swirling around today. Full Moon?
• Just saw some really cool MapQuest dev work from @mhusson, @graham310 and @larrymyers. You will too — soon!
• Why are dogs happy to chase their ball you’ve taken and thrown? If I sat on the couch and you threw my remote, I do believe I’d smack you.

• Someone jacked the Obama sign out on the lawn last night. Either new GOP strategy or bored neighborhood kids — maybe both.
• @AprilRox Amazing how quickly people descend into a mob mentality. Villagers with torches kind of mob, not Italians in track suits.
• @tlberglund In their defense, what teenager could resist having a sign that says “Vote for Bush.”
• @AprilRox Maybe they took my sign. I’ll have to interrogate the plastic frogs guarding the flowers tonight.
• @lilitroy 1PM Eastern. You can expect Twitter to light up, geek tech sites to start crashing and IT productivity to slow to a crawl.

• RESTful routing in Ruby on Rails is really wrecking my … umm … alliteration.
• Article 151: A Bro will purchase a copy of “The Bro Code” for his closest Bro and spend the morning reciting passages. http://cli.gs/1GEXmh
• User on 43Places asked for Chicago recommendations. My response: go to Weiner’s Circle by Wrigley, bring $20, order a Chocolate Shake.
• @kmueller62 I use http://twitterfeed.com/ for the blogs I manage.
• something potentially exciting is about to happen, but I’ve been forbidden by @tracibabe to talk about it yet.

• Took @brightkite out for a serious test drive yesterday during corn maze adventure with @tracibabe. Have a few invites. Want one? Ping me.
• Lots of deals on the market so went looking for a decent discount broker — made my head hurt. Don’t do many trades/year. Recommendations?

• @antthelimey recommended this show called “Top Gear” on BBC America. Even if you’re not a car freak, it’s a very cool program.
• Deciding if I want to work on the “coding” to do list or the “research and correspondence” list. Rather be on the “play outside” list.
• I’d love to get to the new Banksy exhibit in New York: http://thevillagepetstoreandcharcoalgrill.com/
• @larrymyers Make sure you post pictures. Can’t wait to see your drunkenly carved pumpkins