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Monthly Archives: August 2013

dream.20130826: ghost ceiling

by Rob Friesel

It’s a large house in… New York City? It’s mansion-sized. Whatever the city is, it’s a large city. You don’t live here, you’re just visiting. But you also haven’t come to this house as a tourist. You’re not sure why you’re here, but you know as you assume your position in the line that you […]

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Linkdump for August 23rd

by Rob Friesel

“One Murder Is Statistically Utterly Unimportant” Molly Crabapple interviewed Warren Ellis for The Paris Review. The title is a quote from the interview, but this one was much better: There is no such thing, I believe, as a killer who sees themselves as the villain of their own story. (tagged: Warren Ellis ) Stop reinventing […]

(over) a year with Prismatic

by Rob Friesel

Well, if I had been paying attention, I would have run this piece back in May. As it is… I’m running it now. I continue to love Prismatic, and at this point it has completely replaced the RSS reader(s) that I used to use for aggregating. ^^More accurately re-phrased: a combination of Prismatic, Twitter, and […]

Linkdump for August 14th

by Rob Friesel

Why mobile web apps are slow Drew Crawford (Sealed Abstract) wrote this a few weeks ago and I finally (finally? finally!) got around to reading it start-to-finish. The best part about it is that (as he says in the first paragraph) his discussion is entirely fact-based. And where possible he is also illustrating his methods […]

Linkdump for August 10th

by Rob Friesel

5 Myths About Mobile Web Performance Michael Mullany, Sencha CEO, writing for the company's dev blog: Every mobile browser has a feature area where it outperforms other browsers by a factor of 10–40x. The Surface outperforms the iPhone on SVG by 30x. The iPhone outperforms the Surface on DOM interaction by 10x. There is significant […]

Linkdump for August 4th

by Rob Friesel

Building large apps with AngularJS Outstanding post by Jason Dobry about using AngularJS to do non-trivial UIs and about some of the latent challenges that you'll encounter when doing so. He's got quite a few interesting things to say, in particular about the common misperception that $scope is the model, some points about how to […]

dream.20130804: sinking

by Rob Friesel

The buildings are sinking. Not collapsing. Sinking. The ground beneath them becomes liquid. It does not melt, it simply… stops being solid. And so the buildings begin to sink. Almost everyone is able to escape in time. Leaving everything behind, and fleeing quickly across the skyway. There are a few that didn’t make it and […]

Linkdump for August 2nd

by Rob Friesel

AngularJS Pain Points A write-up by Jaco Pretorius. I agree with him on the documentation, and I (admittedly, sadly) don't have enough experience with the testing aspect to have an opinion there, but I'd be willing to split hairs on the "overall complexity" complaint. Given my experience so far, I would say that the trivial […]