cyoa Amazing look at Choose Your Own Adventure novel data. "CYOA as Finite State Machines." Fascinating. (tagged: books cyoa visualization ) JavaScript module loaders: necessary evil? Ruben Verborgh presents some arguments re: why you might want to take a pass on AMD. It's worth going through the comment thread as well to see the discussion […]
Conrad Shawcross Via Joe Stump's Tumblr. Conrad Shawcross is making some interesting sculpture. (tagged: artist art ) The Darkside of the JavaScript Filed under "edge cases, but interesting edge cases". (tagged: JavaScript ) Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus Steve Yegge: It's possible to write in a liberal language with a conservative accent, but it's […]
Getting Bitwise with JavaScript At the Bocoup blog. Rebecca's posts are almost always fantastic, and this one is particularly fantastic in its raw giddy nerdery. (Who doesn't want to gush over bitwise operators?) (tagged: Johnny Five Arduino JavaScript bitwise operators Rebecca Murphey ) Leak Finder By Marja Hölttä and Jochen Eisinger (Chrome team, Munich), writing […]
You do not actually enter the bar until afternoon. Technically there is no rule, law, or custom violated. The bar itself is in an old converted factory. Other businesses flank it, but it sits nestled quietly between them. Entering, you notice that it has a speakeasy feel to it–all dim red lights and smoke and […]
Inspired by @fat’s @angustweets’ 1 “If Hemingway wrote JavaScript”: if Mark Z. Danielewski (author of House of Leaves) wrote JavaScript: // The narrator leaks globals but we cannot know if he intends this; we are // forced to trust him. There is no going back. stairs = this[‘stairs’] || {}; stairs[‘0’] = null, stairs[‘1’] = […]
Introduction to RequireJS Jack Franklin, writing at The JavaScript Playground, gives us this decent introduction to RequireJS. It doesn't go into too much depth, and I wish he'd spent a little more time to discuss using it in a larger project–but it's enough to get you off the ground if you're new to RequireJS. (tagged: […]
Haskell and Yesod concatenate Sass files ClojureScript backbone “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, […]
Sass Tutorials A video series on YouTube re: using Sass. (tagged: video SCSS CSS Sass ) Dad and The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming By Stephen Wyatt Bush. Good advice, no matter what field you're in. (tagged: essay advice programming ) Prismatic Architecture: Using Machine Learning on Social Networks to Figure Out What You Should […]
When I posted my review of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine, I also posted a copy/variation of that review to Goodreads. Today, I received a question in the comments: If he made up some of his sources, would you still respect his message? Given Michael C. Moynihan’s article and Lehrer’s own admission and resignation (see Julie Bosman’s […]
Service-oriented Songkick James Coglan writing at the Songkick blog re: the migration of their monolithic Rails app into modularized components and a service-oriented architecture. Interesting case study, and definitely worth the 10 minutes. (tagged: service-oriented architecture Rails Songkick James Coglan ) Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing Colson Whitehead, writing at NYTimes.com: Most people say, “Show, […]