Somehow you have managed to cut off all of your fingers with a laser. You haven’t lost the fingers because they are still inside of the Stormtrooper gloves that you’re wearing. So to the untrained eye, it looks like you still have all of your fingers (“…just fine, thank you very much”) but they’re just […]
Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown Ben Kamens (bjk5) breaks down the technique behind Amazon's awesome new mega menu, and then how they implemented the same technique for the Khan Academy site. And then he open sources that solution as the jQuery-menu-aim plugin. Awesome stuff. Also (from the comments): don't miss even more of the theoretical […]
“I am shopping for a linear model,” you ask. And indeed you are shopping for equations and statistical models. The shop is dark and over-crowded with esoteric artifacts. In the center of the room, the hideously androgynous shopkeeper (wispy tufts of white hair, green skin, a crooked nose, and pinhole eyes hiding behind thick glasses) […]
Marissa Mayer’s Job Is to Be CEO—Not to Make Life Easier for Working Moms Anne-Marie Slaughter, writing at The Atlantic: So let's withhold judgment for a while and let Marissa Mayer do her job. Let's evaluate her on whether she can turn Yahoo around. I've been waiting for a piece like this, since everything I've […]
Doom Days is an anthology in the same spirit as Larry Niven’s The Man-Kzin Wars series or Robert Lynn Asprin’s Thieves’ World 1 — a “shared world” anthology conceived by one author, but the individual (and loosely-connected) stories written by several others besides. This particular set of stories is set in a post-apocalyptic United States […]
ClojureScript Backbone more essays on Instagram JSHint Github “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, […]
I’ve been using Git as my VCS-of-choice for a few years now. It’s a powerful tool for source control, and like so many other awesome tools: it takes minutes to learn, and a lifetime to master. If you’re new to Git, there’s a fantastic round-up of tutorials and resources over on Six Revisions; or if […]
Work has overflowed and has become like an overcrowded refugee camp inside of an old container ship. Like something out of a William Gibson novel, or part of The Raft from Snow Crash. The offices may still remain, but you don’t know. You have literally been moved onto an old container ship where you are […]
The "Magic" behind AngularJS Dependency Injection Fascinating post by Alex Rothenberg wherein he digs deep into Angular.js to determine exactly why minification broke his application. (tagged: minification Angular.js JavaScript ) An Appropriate Use of Metrics By Patrick Kua, writing over at MarinFowler.com. The first (explanatory) half is a little on the long-winded side, but the […]
The room fills with smoke. There is a vent in the floor and the smoke rises through it. You run downstairs. She set a fire in the fireplace and vented it up into the room. It would make sense (for the heat) if that vent actually channeled the smoke outside. As you close the vent, […]