The party is over, or at least dying down. A few of us have pulled chairs together into a circle to take in a drink and a few minutes rest before continuing. A woman with whom I had once been close, and whom I hadn’t seen in years, sits near me and seems to have […]
Super Mario Music (tagged: music mp3 games mario nintendo retro ) Notabilia "Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia" — a fascinating data visualization project (via infosthetics.com) (tagged: visualization design data interesting )
Jdrop – JSON in the cloud By the venerable Steve Souders. Anyone doing web development with mobile devices in mind should check this out. The premise is simple: real-world testing on real-world devices, then push your data to a cloud for retrieval and analysis on “saner” machines. (tagged: mobile performance javascript browser webdev Jdrop ) […]
It dives deep. It chases. But it chases to save them from their seaward demise. The whale is gigantic. A sperm whale. First it catches the cat, then the mouse. It goes deep after the others. The submarine (Alvin?), the man (E.M.?), the woman (E.H.?). The narrator is but an observer. The whale never swallows […]
Ever feeling lost in a sea of not-exactly-ordered tags when you enter git tag at the command prompt? It seems that a common tagging idiom in a lot of git repos is to tag important milestones or releases. Some repos use <major>.<minor>, others <major>.<minor>.<version>, still others <major>.<minor>.<version>.<patch> (and so on?). And as those repos get […]
Lessons From the Slush Pile: Your Cover Letter and You at Inkpunks — could have been sub-titled: "the less-is-more approach to writing cover letters" (tagged: writing publishing ) Against Chrome: A Manifesto at 3quarksdaily — An interesting and thoughtful essay making the rounds this past week. Worth at least a look, even if you don't […]
In March 2007, I released the Ortho theme for WordPress, and it has served me well on this blog since then. But times change and technologies advance, and it seemed like a good idea to get familiar with those, and brush up on my skills in the process. Thus, this evening I deployed the Orin […]
Spoiler alert: toString has its mitts in everything. This all started when we saw a candidate put the following into an exercise we had given him: if (arrayToTest == ”) Our first thought was well that seems wrong… And though it seems like something that shouldn’t work, it did–when the array contained a single item, […]
There’s a scene–about halfway through the novel–when Paul says to Maya: “I want you to prove to me that you’re not human yet still an artist.” Right there? That’s basically your thematic thesis. It has been my observation that a lot of folks get introduced to Bruce Sterling by way of the Mirrorshades anthology 1 […]
“Creation requires influence.â€