An implausibly illustrated introduction to HTML5 Web Workers (tagged: javascript workers html5 webdev ) A Man, A Plan And A Sharpie: ‘The Great Typo Hunt’ at NPR (tagged: writing awesome english funny grammar npr ) The Self-Publishing Novelist: Report from the Trenches at SXSW 2011 PanelPicker (tagged: writing publishing sxsw ) 10 web revolutionaries at […]
What Google Could Learn From Pixar Harvard Business Review (via DF): Despite an unbroken string of 11 blockbuster films, Catmull regularly says, "Success hides problems." It's an insight Google should acknowledge and act on. Google's leadership admirably tolerates failure on side-projects (and big projects as well), but what Pixar has that Google does not is […]
Is this a book about the Internet? Or about neuroplasticity? Is this a gadget-lover’s dirge for “his old brain”? Or a sensationalist portrait of a technological and cultural paradigm shift that lists strongly toward the catastrophic? The Shallows is all of these things, and quite a few more — some of which marry well with […]
No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas Whitney Hess at A List Apart: My client says, “I want to build a spaceship!” I say, “No, we need to make a kite.” (tagged: design ui ux leadership usability article todo ) FBI says mastermind of botnet nabbed at msnbc.com (via B²) (tagged: crime […]
Following up on the Google JavaScript Style Guide that made the rounds recently: I did a couple of passes through the document and absorbed as much of it as I could 1. After discussing the style guide with a few peers, I thought that it might make sense to provide some annotations–in part for personal […]
40 billionaires pledge to donate half their wealth at msnbc.com — Let's check back in annually, shall we? (tagged: blog business news politics society charity ) My Biggest Fear as a Developer… at Beautiful Interfaces (via @rmurphey) (tagged: design ui ux ) HTML5 Fuzzies Zeldman on "HTML5": To encourage what should be encouraged, yet not […]
Perfection kills » How ECMAScript 5 still does not allow to subclass an array at Perfection kills (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: article javascript arrays todo ) HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page at Spoiled Milk ApS (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: HTML5 pushState javascript navigation url ) Diffable (tagged: javascript diff ajax performance […]
dessert foot fetish better Chrome icon in ’10 Deadwood sets destroyed “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 […]
In the realm of technical, programming-related, computer science-type books, The Joy of Clojure is a bit of an oddity. And this is a very good thing. WHAT THE BOOK IS NOT: The Joy of Clojure is not a beginner’s introduction to the language. The Joy of Clojure is not a glorified appendix of methods and […]
“What took you so long to pick it up?” I did not believe the hype. Before The Windup Girl, my exposure to Bacigalupi’s work was through two short stories: “The People of Sand and Slag”–which seemed to pop-up everywhere 1 for a while; and then “Yellow Card Man”–which was in the same milieu as this […]