Last night, I opened a pull request (my second) on the JSHint project. I created a wrapper for Apple’s JavaScriptCore (JSC) engine, which ships with (effectively) every Mac that’s out there. Why JavaScriptCore? That’s the obvious question, right? Why even bother creating a wrapper for JSC when JSHint is already out-of-the-box ready for Node.js, and ships with […]
octopodes vid Hyperspeed Jot Broodmasters “stochastic as shit” “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 haiku poems, […]
Markdown is the new Word 5.1 By Kevin Lipe at Stephen M. Hackett's "Forkbombr" blog — A great (if a bit tangential) essay about writing on a computer and (thus?) what it's like to write on a computer. A lot of this is pretty close to my own feelings on the subject. (And yes: I'm aware […]
Back in February, I wrote a little Ruby script to deal with sorting version numbers as they’re dumped out of the git tag command. The problem (in a nutshell) is that “1.0.2” < “1.0.10” — except that git returns these as strings which sort alphabetically. Hence the original Ruby script. Now: if you’re behaving yourself, and following […]
Lexadecimal (tagged: webdev design css art geek ) The People vs. Goldman Sachs Matt Taibbi should get an award or a medal or carte blanche to start kicking these guys in the balls or something: The legal definition of financial fraud may be murky and complex, but everybody knows you can't lie to Congress. It's […]
As Mike Fogus described it: I think this book is more important than it’s good. And I’m somewhere in that same vein: I like the idea of this book more than I like the book itself. That is difficult to say without feeling as though I am coming across harsher than I mean to be. […]
Vermont In Speculative fiction at Geek Mountain State (tagged: scifi Vermont ) JavaScript Strict Mode Angus Croll at JavaScript, JavaScript with (almost) everything you would want to know about ECMAScript 5's "strict mode". (tagged: javascript ecmascript strict_mode )
Sarah Sharp’s COUCHES OF DETROIT at/via Warren Ellis: I am in the process of creating a calendar of 12 Detroit landscapes, each featuring a discarded or abandoned couch. To you, it may signify the apocalyptic tidings of an empty city, but for some people, Detroit allows a great deal of freedom for reinvention. Municipal services […]
Deadwood opium po-mo maximalism you cannot trust cats “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 haiku poems, […]
Shit My Students Write (tagged: writing blog humor education ) Mozilla jumps into Node.js server project (tagged: javascript Node.js mozilla ) Groovy 1.8 release notes (tagged: groovy ) Translating Dropbox at Dropbox tech blog (tagged: i18n dropbox translation )