Back in June of 2011, Nicole Sullivan and Nicholas Zakas announced CSS Lint, which they describe thusly: CSS Lint is a tool to help point out problems with your CSS code. It does basic syntax checking as well as applying a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of […]
The Myth of Writer’s Block Jon Gingerich writing at LitReactor (tagged: todo essay writing ) Un-Building Blocks: What to Do When You Can’t Do It Ed Sikov writing at LitReactor (tagged: todo essay writing ) The vendor prefix mess PPK at QuirksBlog with a (mostly) reasonable assessment of this week's -webkit prefix fiasco. For what […]
First time ever. Apparently these weren’t even necessarily “easy” ascents either. Had an amazing time. Would definitely do this again.
An Event Apart: CSS Best Practices Luke W.'s notes on Nicole Sullivan's "CSS Best Practices" talk at AEA Atlanta in February 2012. I saw a version of this talk given "at" (it was a virtual conference) E4H's "CSS Summit" in July 2011. (tagged: css ) MIT’s New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional […]
Is it that time already? dirty JavaScript LOLeconomy “Chopped” birthday party “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 […]
JavaScript pattern and antipattern collection A neat little collection of JavaScript patterns (and anti-patterns), collected and curated by Shi Chuan. (tagged: patterns javascript ) An interview with William Gibson William Gibson, interviewed at The Verge: The idea of rarity and value and collectibility fascinates me in an abstract sense. It doesn't particularly drive me to […]
My gift to Amazon: 1 Your review software ought to ask reviewers if they still mean what they said after (say…) 6 months or a year. Think about it: how many reviews are getting posted more/less immediately after the item was received? (“I love it!!!”) Now how many of those folks are equally satisfied after […]
Interview: Neal Stephenson Interview with Neal Stephenson at Lightspeed Magazine: …I think that what science fiction can do in cases like this is provide not just an idea for some specific technical innovation, but also supply a coherent picture of that innovation being integrated into a society and an economy. (tagged: scifi interview Neal Stephenson […]
I am stuck in a recursive Geb functional test closure.