Linkdump for July 3rd
¶ by Rob Friesel-
Kevin J. Lynagh on building the Weathertron app:
…do the semantics of the library complement your application design? Or will build a Dr. Jekel / Mr. Hyde abomination of ClojureScript code doomed to emit painful, prototype-twiddling, mutation-happy JavaScript?
Some cool solutions they came up with for some interesting problems.
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Ryan Lambie, writing at Den of Geek:
Akira is unusual, in that it features none of the exotically-hair-coloured ladies or outlandish mecha commonly associated with anime. It’s also violent in a way most other animated pictures are not; less bloody and orgiastic than something like, say, Fist Of The North Star, it’s nevertheless utterly brutal – possibly one of the most brutal animated features ever made. I mean brutal in filmmaking terms: every bullet, punch, kick and explosion has weight and impact, imbued through beautifully-drawn animation, sound and editing.
I loved this movie as a teenager and in a lot of ways, I still do. I can't wait until H. is old enough for this one.
UPDATE: that reminds me of this weird shit that I saw recently.
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Nicholas Zakas:
For the first time in a long time, Microsoft has actually removed features from Internet Explorer. The user-agent string has also changed. It seems that Microsoft has gone out of their way to ensure that all existing
isIE()code branches, whether in JavaScript or on the server, will return false for Internet Explorer 11. The optimistic view of this change is that Internet Explorer 11 finally supports enough web standards such that existing IE-specific behavior is no longer needed. -
The abstract from this recent talk by Nicholas Zakas:
After consulting with several companies on performance related issues, it became clear that one of the biggest performance issues facing websites today is the sheer amount of JavaScript needed to power the page. The demand for more interactive and responsive applications has driven JavaScript usage through the roof. It’s quite common for large sites to end up with over 1 MB of JavaScript code on their page even after minification. But do today’s web applications really need that much JavaScript?
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Paul Venables, as interviewed by Adam Bryant for NYTimes.com:
Find something your boss is doing that he hates doing — it’s difficult, painful, time-consuming — and say, “I’ll take that,” and make it great. Too many people ask for the choice assignments. Do the dishes really well and you’ll be a very valuable person.
Emphasis added.
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