Twitter OAuth authentication in Ruby

The hardest part of building this Twitter bot was getting it authenticated via OAuth. This is partly because the Ruby twitter gem is really easy to use. But this is mostly because the documentation and blog posts talking about authentication that I found were all incomplete or out of date. Therefore, I would like to present: how to connect to a Twitter account in Ruby, as of July 2011.

Inform 7 full game source code

Inform 7 is a programming language for interactive fiction games (modern descendants of Zork) that emulates nautral language. I've had that knowledge filed away in the back of my head as a novelty for a while now, even marveling at its extensive physics modeling capabilities. But I never fully appreciated how a program written in a language like this reads without an example.

So I was enthralled by the source code for Bronze, a full game written by Emily Short, a notable IF author. Some sections are simply beautiful to read (despite probably still being hard to write). The making of notes also helped me get a good sense of the thinking behind the game's iterative development. Spoilers abound throughout the source and making of, of course.