a trivial public service
¶ by Rob FrieselIn order to right some wrongs uncovered by the most recent xkcd: Whoa, these errors are stochastic as shit. That is all.
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.haiku movie review: The Dark Knight
¶ by Rob Frieseldesperate times call for violating all laws. so much for heroes. I enjoyed the The Dark Knight, but man what a fucked-up story. I feel like it gets the spirit of Batman pitch-perfect, but that just leaves me worked-up and angry. If you think of it as a film that attempts to capture our national […]
Linkdump for September 23rd
¶ by Rob FrieselMaximus Clarke talks with William Gibson about his “speculative novels of last Wednesday” by Maud Newton (via B²) (tagged: williamgibson fiction scifi interview writing ) George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay at Binary Bonsai (via B²) (tagged: starwars Chewbacca creativity design film essay todo ) jQuery Regular Expressions Review (Rev:20100921_1700) via @rmurphey (tagged: regex […]
Linkdump for September 17th
¶ by Rob FrieselIn Search of JavaScript Developers: A Gist Rebecca Murphey: I’m looking for JavaScript developers. If you don’t see the value in knowing more than just jQuery, and if you can’t find your way through relatively trivial non-jQuery code, you need not apply. (tagged: javascript ) Land Ho, Fast JavaScript! at Mystery Bail Theater—JägerMonkey (tagged: JägerMonkey […]
launchd to the rescue
¶ by Rob FrieselIt has been a while since I played around much with launchd, but I ran across a problem recently that it seemed perfectly suited to solve. The challenge was as follows: there is a particular application that I need to run as root. When that application persists files, those files get written with root as […]
Linkdump for September 10th
¶ by Rob FrieselMy experience of dConstruct 2010 at abitgone+ (via DF) (tagged: essay design dev todo ) JavaScript Query Engines at DHTML Kitchen—if you can get past the implied "frameworks/libraries are always bad and you're an idiot for using them" attitude, there is some interesting discussion in there about JavaScript-based DOM querying engines. (tagged: css javascript css3 […]
A Fire Upon the Deep
¶ by Rob FrieselAmong other recommendations, A Fire Upon the Deep appeared on io9’s “Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life” post and after Newton’s Wake 1, I thought it would be a chance for that list to redeem itself a little. Though far from life-changing, this story is strong and plays with a number of […]
Linkdump for September 7th
¶ by Rob FrieselDirectDraw Hack via /. — my hat is off to this guy (all for the love of the greatest "combat space flight sim" of all time) (tagged: graphics hacking windows DirectDraw WingCommander ) Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star at Bad Astronomy (Discover Magazine) (tagged: astronomy space science weird ) Zombie Pandemic Tracker (tagged: […]
H. in the wood
¶ by Rob FrieselMy favorite photo from our Moss Glen hike today: