Opera Developer News – 300 million users and move to WebKit Big news from Opera. I can't decide if this is a relief, or a disturbing trend toward a kind of WebKit monoculture. These were my mixed feelings, and I had a hard time articulating them. Fortunately, Robert Nyman and John Resig expressed it all […]
You are trapped inside a hollow sphere. A fluorescent glowing white all around you. Except for dashes of color and black smudges. Not smudges. Text. Everywhere you turn, an R REPL follows you. And it vomits a never-ending cascade of commands. A convoluted combination of sapply and gsub. svd. plot. table and summary. plot, plot. […]
Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again Mat Honan at Wired.com's Gadget Lab blog: And that’s the thing: Flickr feels like a permanent home. Pretty much how I've felt about it all along. (Via DF.) (tagged: Flickr ) What’s new in CSS 4 selectors Dr. Axel Rauschmayer with the CSS4 selector "highlights". Specifying the […]
“Just give me a list of the URLs of all the scripts on this page, OK?” For those times when you’re not sure of all the things getting loaded on the page, but you need to know those things, and you need some quick and convenient way to just get that damn list.
Prince George’s considers copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post: A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app […]
evergreen Jasmine Agile for the introvert a cartoon whale mouth “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 […]
Or: an almost certainly incomplete but hopefully accurate enough (and succinct) front-end developer’s guide to charsets and character encoding. Before we begin, I will summarize the problem with the following picture: Do you see those funny diamonds with the question marks in them? That’s about the size of the problem, right there. 1 You have […]
Quinoa bad for Bolivian and Peruvian farmers? Ignore the media hand-wringing. Ari LaVaux, writing for Slate Magazine. tl;dr: It's OK to buy quinoa, just do everyone the favor of looking for Fair Trade, sustainably cultivated quinoa. (tagged: politics food economics sustainability quinoa ) Writing Testable Frontend Javascript Part 1 – Anti-patterns and their fixes Shane […]
She returns unexpectedly. Unannounced. She is laden with some package, something wrapped and concealed. A burden. She has been gone for years — almost as long as you have lived here — and not a word from her in all that time. Your son, who was just a baby when you all found the caves […]
Solving Problems The Square Way Austin Carr, writing for Fast Company: "We try to keep everything related to each other across our products and videos and marketing–they should all speak to each other," [Robert] Andersen says. "We hold each other accountable for designs that seem arbitrary at Square." (tagged: collaboration Square design ) AngularJS is […]