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Author Archives: Rob Friesel

About Rob Friesel

Software engineer by day. Science fiction writer by night. Weekend homebrewer, beer educator at Black Flannel, and Certified Cicerone. Author of The PhantomJS Cookbook and a short story in Please Do Not Remove.

Linkdump for July 15th

by Rob Friesel

Balance Your Work and Personal Life Like a Pro Kevin Daum at Inc.com: Make a list of the activities that give you energy and strength. Make these a priority in your life. (tagged: work-life balance ) Looking At Attribute Interpolation Workflow Changes In AngularJS Ben Nadel with a breakdown of a small but important change […]

Linkdump for June 6th

by Rob Friesel

JavaScript Memory Profiling Oriented toward profiling in the Chome Dev Tools, but the underlying principles hold true across browsers. Lots of detail in here. (tagged: JavaScript performance memory garbage collection profiling ) Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful Ilya Grigorik: The inline JavaScript solution has a subtle, but very important (and an often overlooked) performance gotcha: […]

search term haiku: May 2014

by Rob Friesel

ebony browser cherry-pick merge strategy ode to Alien “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 haiku poems, […]

Incredible Cross-Sections

by Rob Friesel

I was just talking about this book the other day, and then I saw this tweet: Incredible Cross-Sections simplifies complex things by bisecting objects on super-size pages http://t.co/AIcw7jH5T1 pic.twitter.com/tBgjfWcRly — Wink Books (@WinkBooks) May 29, 2014 As I was telling my friends, I totally remember this book, and/but… @winkbooks @frauenfelder as a kid, the thing […]

Linkdump for May 3rd

by Rob Friesel

Google Web Fundamentals I see this and I can't help but think Could we please get WebPlatform Docs out of alpha before embarking on any new comprehensive resources? (tagged: WebPlatform Docs Web Fundamentals Google webdev documentation ) Programming Sucks Peter Welch: The human brain isn't particularly good at basic logic and now there's a whole […]