happy birthday, Holden
¶ by Rob Friesel(“Holden: age 3”, on Flickr.) This post is a couple days late, but just the same. You’ve turned four. You became a big brother. And you are become a person that I am proud to call my son.
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 June 22nd
¶ by Rob FrieselAdvice on Learning Joe Conway on learning Erlang (and learning in a more general sense): Knowing all of the wrong ways to solve a problem is just as important as knowing the right way, by the way. (tagged: mentorship learning ) The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) Nicholas Zakas: […]
Linkdump for June 21st
¶ by Rob FrieselThe Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia Who else? Matt Taibbi, at Rolling Stone: That doesn't sound like much. But when added to the other fractions of a percent stolen from basically every other town in America on every other bond issued by Wall Street in the past 10 to 15 years, it starts […]
six weeks with Prismatic
¶ by Rob FrieselAbout six weeks ago, I started using Prismatic and entered it into my daily 1 routine. It’s like your own personal “best of the web” that gets smarter about your interests as you go along. I’m still feeling as positive about it now as I was after the first 24 hours. Ever since that post, […]
Linkdump for June 19th
¶ by Rob FrieselSingle-direction margin declarations By Harry Roberts, writing at CSS Wizardry: I’m not sure how I arrived at this rule, but I’m really glad I did and I would likely never ever change it. The basic premise is that you should try and define all your margins in one direction. This means always use margin-bottom to […]
review: Imagine
¶ by Rob FrieselIn Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer presents a series of experimental findings and narratives, and draws them together into an optimistic thesis on creativity and innovation. But there are two books here: there’s the successful book, the book where Lehrer is a capable wordsmith with a knack for describing and synthesizing these scientific findings […]
Linkdump for June 18th
¶ by Rob FrieselClient v. Server Templating Shootout At Ryan Florence Online. He's asserting that client-side templates are always faster. This was not what I saw. I saw client-side as faster on my phone, but server-side as faster on my laptop. (tagged: performance ) Caring for Your Introvert Jonathan Rauch, writing for The Atlantic: Our motto: "I'm okay, […]
Linkdump for June 15th
¶ by Rob FrieselMy Perception of CoffeeScript Leon Gersing: CoffeeScript sees the world through OO’s eyes. When I see JavaScript, I find beauty in it’s ability to be a dynamically typed Functional programming language. (that’s your TL;DR;, friends.) The post is a few months old now, but I feel like it's still relevant and captures a lot of […]
dream.20120614: at the table again
¶ by Rob FrieselYou are running, but you are running down the middle of the street. Route 7. And it’s morning. Smack in the middle of the heavy traffic. You’re dodging cars and bicycles and other runners. You aren’t slow, but you’re the slower than everyone else on the street. You’re getting passed, and a lot of them […]
review: REST API Design Rulebook
¶ by Rob FrieselIf you’re new to the world of REST APIs, and if you’re looking for a good set of working rules on how to design them, then Mark Massé’s REST API Design Rulebook (O’Reilly, 2012) should live up to its title just fine. It’s a short book (you could read it in an afternoon) and it […]