Hey, welcome to my collection of why the lucky stiff links. Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here. It works sort of like a museum that sells maps. Many of his abandoned writings are mirrored locally here, and everything else is through external links.
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Code
Thankyou whymirror.github.io.
- bloopsaphone
- blimlimb
- bumpspark
- camping
- 8cpj
- hacketyhack
- hobix
- hoodwinkd
- hpricot
- markaby
- metaid
- mixico
- mousehole
- parkplace
- potion
- redcloth
- sheila
- sandbox
- Try Ruby
- shoes
- syck
- unholy
- chirrup
- skistrap
- fakeplus
- processor
- rb_parse_args
- yown
- dns-zone
- _why's dotfiles
Writings
- Books
- Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby [HTML] (poignant.guide)
- Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby [PDF] (rubyinside.com)
- Nobody Knows Shoes [PDF] (github.com)
- CLOSURE1 (github.com)
- CLOSURE [PDF] (dropbox.com)
- Stories
- Incidents
- 1. The Milkman Who Couldn't Sleep
- 2. Emptiness
- 3. Regrets
- 4. The Berkowitz Manuevre
- 5. Ignored
- 6. Birthstones
- 7. Water
- 8. Waking
- 9. The Man
- 10. Ghosts
- 11. The End
- 12. The Incident
- 13. Duck Typing
- 14. The Man Who Happened to Reach Up
- 15. The Man Who Happened to Have Legs
- 16. The Skier
- 17. Javek and the Candle
- 18. Milk Powers
- 19. The Little Piece of Cloth
- 20. The Tandem Bicycle
- 21. The Queen-Sized
- 22. Wristwatches
- 23. The Advisor
- 24. Speaking of Flutes
- 25. Kimothy's Mouth
- 26. The Jump Wanter
- 27. The Life Guy
- 28. The Story Life Doesn't Explain
- 29. The Grieving Boar
- 30. Jentle and Pailey
- 31. The Hand Which Fell Apart
- 32. A Smart Curtsy
- 33. The Secret Sandwich
- 34. A Magic Milk
- 35. Adventure of the Apple's Mom
- Five-Minute Plays for Twins Who Don't Have Their Other Twin With Them and An Unlimited Supply of Animals
- Quatrains
- Hacking
- The Preeventualist
- Mirror of the website, missing the FAQ page
- "Ashley Raymond's" blog (ashraym.blogspot.com)
- Soccer Riot
- The website (still kicking!) (members.tripod.com)
- An ad-free mirror, hosted here (just in case)
- Transcripts of some stories originally embedded in images
- Blogs
- RedHanded (mirror)
- Hackety.org (mirror)
- My Rails Blob (railsblob.blogspot.com)
- On the Lake by the Snacks (onthelakebythesnacks.blogspot.com)
- Potion: A Short Pamphlet (runciter.net)
Pictures
- Comics
- Holy Bible: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen
- The Open Window: one two three four five six seven eight nine
- Brody Pools: one two three four five six
- Lost Children, Lost Children, Lost Children, See Such Feverish Castles: one
- The Least Surprised (web.archive.org)
- RubyKaigi Wallpapers
- The Ruby Programming Language illustrations (oreilly.com)
- The foreword to Beginning Ruby (rubyinside.com)
Music
- The Thirsty Cups
- The Poignant Guide Soundtrack (poignant.guide)
- RailsConf Chicago 23 June 2006 (archive.org)
- A bootleg of the Why the Lucky Stiff concert at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival [MP3] (web.archive.org)
- Why the Lucky Stiff and the Thirsty Cups, live at FOSCON 2005 (soundcloud.com)
- Lyrics
- The Child Who Was a Keyhole
- Band MySpace (myspace.com)
- In The Faxed Atmosphere [Spotify] (open.spotify.com)
- In The Faxed Atmosphere (Ogg Vorbis provided under Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0) (lubutu.com)
- Lyrics
- moonboots
- Band MySpace (myspace.com)
- elfin princess (files.scene.org)
- Lyrics
- phonequail
Videos
- The Least Surprised
- Time.now.is_a? MagicTime (youtube.com)
- The Red Scared (youtube.com)
- UnboundMyth'd (youtube.com)
- OSCON 2005
- Foxes Tall and Small on Modules (youtube.com)
- Sinking Symphony (youtube.com)
- Noboto
- Why the Lucky Stiff, on Twins and Drawing (youtube.com)
- Art && Code Symposium
- Hackety Hack (vimeo.com)
- Just the Kaxxt portion of the above video (youtube.com)
- Lost Recordings of _why's Last Lecture (web.archive.org)
- _why's original dueling swordsmen script, from 2000 (gist.github.com)
- Hello World, the Song (in Max/MSP) (vimeo.com)
- RailsConf 2006
- Why the Lucky Stiff presents at RailsConf 2006 (youtube.com)
- RailsConf Chicago 2006 Keynote (youtube.com)
- David Heinemeier Hansson and Why the Lucky Stiff chat at RailsConf 2006 (youtube.com)
- Everyone Is Here In The Future (everyoneishereinthefuture.com)
Miscellaneous
- Archived websites and blogs
- whytheluckystiff.net
- whytheluckystiff.net (web.archive.org)
- (.~) what a quiet stiff (~.) (web.archive.org)
- code.whytheluckystiff.net (web.archive.org)
- hackety.org (web.archive.org)
- redhanded.hobix.com (web.archive.org)
- hobix.com (web.archive.org)
- shoooes.net (web.archive.org)
- preeventualist.org (web.archive.org)
- Advogato Blog (web.archive.org)
- whytheluckystiff.net
- Dwellings left standing
- Flickr Account (flickr.com)
- Emails
- An email (reddit.com)
- a letter from _why (aberant.tumblr.com)
- The poignant-stiffs Archives (web.archive.org)
- _why interview by The Setup (why.usesthis.com)
- _why's welcome
Notes
1 On 18 April 2013, _why came back to publish a 95-page book (of sorts) by placing each page one at a time on a public print queue on whytheluckystiff.net throughout the day. The events of the day are captured in this IRC chat log. It's generally thought that this was _why's final act of closure, and so Steve Klabnik put all 95 pages together into a book called "CLOSURE".
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