Two this month. First, the nerd edition: JSHint Git hook 10 things I love about Sass insert disk 7 Then the weirdo media edition: airline foot fetish DeLillo and “The Simpsons” “The Dark Knight” haiku Enjoy! “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku […]
Three months to go in 2011. How am I doing on my various personal goals? Let’s check in and find out!
CSS3 tools by Lea Verou (tagged: css3 tools webdev ) A survival guide for Unix beginners (tagged: unix CLI ) 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer At The 99 Percent. The common theme: find what works for you, stop making excuses, and put the goddamn pen to the goddamn paper. (tagged: writing creativity ) […]
Fiore Olive Oils (tagged: food todo gifts ) Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern at BBC News (via /.) — "I knew it!" (tagged: science physics research )
Every so often, I get into a friendly disagreement (usually with this guy) about whether Alien or Aliens is the superior film. Now to a certain extent, this must be simply a question of taste. But as science fiction usually attracts pedantic nerds with a strong urge to be “right”, I felt compelled to defend […]
Git Reference (tagged: reference git ) Scala School Nice work, folks. I especially like the bit about teaching Scala as a new language and not as "Java, improved". (tagged: tutorial programming Scala development learning ) Don’t Get Fireballed at brown blog (via D. Howell) — filed under "I'm already doing this but it's worth the outbound […]
SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web at The Chromium Projects — Maybe I'm a little late in looking into this but… better late than never? Got about halfway through it; looks interesting and promising and I need to finish reading. (tagged: webdev tools google performance SPDY todo ) Optimising your Application with Grails […]
This week, I helped give a little 1 bit back to the GitHub community from which I seem to have forked so much. About a year ago, I noticed that the Sass/SCSS support was… not quite right. When I wrote the original “10 things I love about Sass” post back in August of 2010, I […]
Code camp offers tech advice to local professionals The mention of me is basically just a copy/paste of the bio that I submitted to the conference… but hey: for some reason I got called out. (Maybe I made an impression?) (tagged: Vermont tech ) What teachers really want to tell parents Ron Clark: This one […]
Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method Matthew Bailes: …I suspect we’d find a lot of commentators, many with no scientific qualifications, pouring scorn on our findings. People on the fringe of science would be quoted as opponents of our work, arguing that it was nothing more than a theory yet to be conclusively […]