What is Compass Chris Eppstein lays out what Compass is, where it came from, and what it adds to Sass. (Hint: "Sass is the star.") (tagged: compass sass ) The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah! Rick Ungar, writing at Forbes. (tagged: healthcare obama politics ) the node.js aesthetic James Halliday at The Universe of […]
…or: The most amazing and energizing fun thing that I’ll (probably) never do again. First and foremost: my hat is off to the NaNoWriMo organizers–Chris Baty and Lindsey Grant and everyone else involved (too numerous to mention)–and to all the authors who took time to write encouraging essays and pep talk videos. And more so, […]
My photo “returning from their first loop” (above) is featured in the 2012 Shelburne Farms Calendar (link). Makes a great gift! 1 And no, I don’t receive any additional compensation for this; I already got my five complimentary calendars. I’m just bragging.[↩]
ode to Alien Neuromancer and Cold War launchd watchpaths perms “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 […]
Short version: In my fourth NaNoWriMo effort 1, I have “won” again. Turning in 63,311 words. And I’ve probably got at least that many to go to finish the draft of this novel. That is to say, it’s only about halfway done. There’s a “long version” of this post that I’m thinking of making–some reflections […]
We’re at the airport with A.’s parents and another couple, A.’s parent’s friends. We’re all headed back to Vermont. S. has helped his friend get his (the friend’s) plane ready and now they’re taxing out of the hangar and onto the runway, and about to take off. A. is retraining H. (who wants to touch […]
Delicious Deal at Seven Days — that's our café! (tagged: food Dealer.com ) Pandoc Well that looks… awesome. (tagged: markdown markup haskell text conversion todo ) A reading list for JVM-based developers at Prehensile Tail (tagged: jvm java work todo ) DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s Alan Taylor, The Atlantic; fascinating […]
I just “won” the first Hipster Animals captioning contest. I think I can retire from the Internet now.
Strip Mining the Authors The Passive Voice; filed under: "some of the reasons that I'm taking a serious look at self-publishing." (tagged: writing publishing ) Swagger "A simple, open standard for describing REST APIs with JSON" (tagged: api documentation framework development generator work ) About Pepper Spray At Scientific American Blog Network — short version: […]
It’s an electronics store in a castle. Even the shelves are stone. We are in a rush, so I do not carefully inspect each item. I grab a basket. And I start filling it with parts. The breadboard, resistors… I don’t know what I’m looking for. I don’t even have a plan. I just start […]