Inspired by some recent entanglements with a vendor’s API: The type coercion will ultimately work in your favor but the main point is that the type coercion has to take place in the first place. Granted, it is probably an edge case 1 to do something like: …but you never know. There’s some strange code […]
JavaScript needs modules! by Dave Herman (via @slicknet) (tagged: javascript code ) Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X at Super User (tagged: Apple bash osx terminal todo ) Preview: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald at Tor.com — skimming it, I must say it looks great (and/but McDonald is one of my favorite's […]
A race against the clock. A battle against a violent fiend. The villain is badly hurt. But his mutations have given him an uncanny strength. It is difficult to say if he is rejuvenating, but he is definitely growing. Taller. Thicker. Strong? He is visibly, viscerally deformed. Snarling. He pounds down steel doors. Smashes through […]
Regex Syntax Highlighter at Flagrant Badassery (tagged: regex todo ) OpenSocial at Google Code (tagged: ajax api code documentation opensocial webdev javascript google framework todo work ) Sass "Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets" (tagged: code css sass framework generator Ruby tools webdev work todo ) Fresh SF Futures by the always fabulous Rudy Rucker (via B²) (tagged: […]
The Empire State Building is on fire. Engulfed in flames. Beautiful, symmetric, dancing, diaphanous Hollywood flames. Chemical flames. Tongues of flames. Flames that want to lick the inky night sky. They fire fighters have all come out to fight the fire. Ladders. They are stacking ladders up the side of the building, consecutively up the […]
ad hoc reporting JavaScript static methods Chrome “top sites” feature “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are […]
Fogus and I 1 decided that July would be a great month to co-re-read House of Leaves. So that’s what we’re doing. As you can see, my copy has made the rounds a few times. But I’m equipped: one (1) well-worn copy of the novel; one (1) notepad for notes/quotes/@todo items; one (1) Pilot Precise […]
I’ve been doing the “goals” thing on this blog for a couple years now and up until now, the check-ins have been quarterly. I missed 2010’s first quarter check-in. Why? Partly because I got so damn busy. Partly because I felt like I had nothing to show for my efforts. And I still don’t have […]
If you happen to be unfamiliar with Haruki Murakami: he writes these delightfully weird, surrealist 1 novels that are somehow simultaneously indecisive yet utterly certain of their subjects. Declaratively ambiguous dreamscapes that are half-hatched out of unimaginable futures. So with that in mind: Kafka on the Shore is like a bizarrely Oedipal Catcher in the […]