Is this a book about the Internet? Or about neuroplasticity? Is this a gadget-lover’s dirge for “his old brain”? Or a sensationalist portrait of a technological and cultural paradigm shift that lists strongly toward the catastrophic? The Shallows is all of these things, and quite a few more — some of which marry well with […]
No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas Whitney Hess at A List Apart: My client says, “I want to build a spaceship!” I say, “No, we need to make a kite.” (tagged: design ui ux leadership usability article todo ) FBI says mastermind of botnet nabbed at msnbc.com (via B²) (tagged: crime […]
Following up on the Google JavaScript Style Guide that made the rounds recently: I did a couple of passes through the document and absorbed as much of it as I could 1. After discussing the style guide with a few peers, I thought that it might make sense to provide some annotations–in part for personal […]
40 billionaires pledge to donate half their wealth at msnbc.com — Let's check back in annually, shall we? (tagged: blog business news politics society charity ) My Biggest Fear as a Developer… at Beautiful Interfaces (via @rmurphey) (tagged: design ui ux ) HTML5 Fuzzies Zeldman on "HTML5": To encourage what should be encouraged, yet not […]
Bob: i really hope my over-analysis hasn’t “scared you off” from using quotes. i really do appreciate them.
Rob: “you” have not “scared me off”. I’ve just been “over-thinking” my “uses” lately. I’m not sure if that’s led to an increase or decreas…
Perfection kills » How ECMAScript 5 still does not allow to subclass an array at Perfection kills (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: article javascript arrays todo ) HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page at Spoiled Milk ApS (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: HTML5 pushState javascript navigation url ) Diffable (tagged: javascript diff ajax performance […]
more on JavaScript type quirks: A good companion piece to “why you should basically never use the Number constructorâ€, arriving at many of the same conclusions by many of the same methods.  However, I would disagree that the issue is with the equa…
dessert foot fetish better Chrome icon in ’10 Deadwood sets destroyed “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 […]