Requiem in the Key of Prose By Jake Kerr, at Lightspeed Magazine. Read this. 100% A+ ★★★★★. Seriously, one of the best bits of short fiction I’ve read all year. (tagged: fiction ) The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns Kevin Drum, writing at Mother Jones: Still, Republicans argue, anyone can obtain a […]
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part II: Working with strings Nice round-up by Peteris Krumins, with good explanations. (tagged: bash ) Shall we use Clojure A presentation by Andrew Jones. Have you heard all these points before? Hear them again. (tagged: Andrew Jones Clojure ) Guide to CSS support in email At Campaign Monitor. Looks handy. (tagged: […]
I was intrigued by this recent post by Elisabeth Hubert, “Agile is Wrong for UX”. I was curious what her thoughts were on how to best fit the user experience role into an Agile project, as I haven’t seen anyone write much about this. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm waned when I came to this: Most of […]
You’re hurrying. You have somewhere to be. You need a shower first. You run into the bathroom and slam the door. You hop into the tub and turn the knobs. Someone comes into the bathroom after you. (Hadn’t you shut the door? Locked the door?) You wait for them to leave. (Are they taking a […]
I thought that I might be the target audience for this book, but I was mistaken. In the preface of Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod (O’Reilly, 2012), author Michael Snoyman describes this book as “for” two groups: The first group is long time Haskell users–already convinced of the advantages of Haskell–who are looking […]
buy Russian whiskey Clojure and Backbone.js vinyl microscope Which, to me, is funny because: (1) I don’t recall ever blogging about Russian whiskey, (2) I’ve definitely never blogged about Clojure and Backbone.js in the same breath, and (3) there were three searches for “vinyl microscope”. 1 “Search Term” Haiku is a series wherein I examine […]
How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI 37signals: tl;dr: We made Basecamp Next go woop-woop fast by using a fancy HTML5 feature and some serious elbow grease on them caching wheels (tagged: pushState caching pjax 37signals ) The PHP Singularity Coding Horror: If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever […]
Recently, while working my way through a strange issue with my shell’s $PATH, 1 I had the chance to take a (semi) deep dive into how OS X constructs the $PATH. I’m jotting these notes down here in part for myself, and hopefully so someone else won’t have to do the same amount of… archaeology. […]
Someone is Coming to Eat You Rands: …the future is invented by the people who don’t give a shit about the past. (tagged: essay innovation ) the recruiter honeypot By Elaine Wherry. A bit long and Silicon Valley-centric, but an interesting read about recruiting and recruiters. (tagged: essay essa LinkedIn hiring recruiting ) Asgard: Web-based […]
With Alien Contact, Marty Halpern presents us with an anthology of science fiction short stories predicated on (what else?) first contact with alien species. I was looking for exactly such an anthology, and in my desperation to find such a thing, I decided to start a rumor that John Joseph Adams 1 was going to […]