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Tenth of December author George Saunders in conversation with his Random House editor, Andy Ward. At Slate Magazine. I wish I had an editor like this. (tagged: editing writing ) Are People Being Unfair to the House Republicans? Over at The Atlantic, Molly Ball interviews the recently resigned Rep. Steve LaTourette (R) about the House […]
Testing Grails – A Collection of Useful Resources Compiled by Tomás Lin. Some familiar, some new, some practically useless, some awesome. (tagged: testing Grails ) What We’ve Really Lost to the Fiscal Cliff: A Sense of Form Nancy Scola, writing for The Atlantic: But the approval of the Sunday-night resolution suggests that, no matter what […]
First ‘Alien Earth’ Will Be Found in 2013 Mike Wall, writing at Space.com with a prediction for 2013. Please read it hand-in-hand with Caleb Scharf's post: "'Earth-Like' Planets May Be Anything But, Astronomer Argues". (tagged: exobiology astrobiology astronomy ) Debunking Responsive CSS Performance Myths Ilya Grigorik. tl;dr: not all stylesheets are blocking, and here's how […]
Huddle/PhantomCSS More awesome stuff you can do with PhantomJS: CSS regression testing. An integration of js-imagediff with PhantomJS and CasperJS for automating visual regression testing and test coverage of Website styling to support refactoring of CSS. (tagged: testing CSS PhantomJS JavaScript ) Complexity Analysis of JavaScript Code Ariya Hidayat, on the JSComplexity tool. The briefest […]
IE10 CSS Hacks Louis Lazaris at Impressive Webs. I'd somehow missed this — that Internet Explorer 10 was not going to support conditional comments. (Probably because I don't pay enough attention to IE-related news?) Conditional comments were only ever "the least hacky" way of dealing with ID's quirks — and though "a hack is a […]
Using Google Spreadsheet as a database At dataist. tl;dr: Here's how to set up your Google Spreadsheet. Here is how to publish the data as ATOM. Here is how to transform the ATOM data to JSON. Now go ahead and feed that into your data visualization library of choice. (Albeit, you may need to munge […]
Joy of Clojure: Annotated Bibliography (tagged: bibliography programming Clojure ) Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 (Windows) In case you need to worry about this sort of thing: here's the MSDN doc that breaks down the differences between "real IE10" (on Windows 8) vs. the Windows 7-compatible IE10 "Release Preview". tl;dr: Unless you're dealing with […]
jQuery.Deferred is the most important client-side tool you have Matt Baker, writing at the Wealthfront Engineering blog. The title is a little bit linkbaity, but I'm pretty close to agreeing with it: if you're using jQuery in your web project, the Deferred object is one of the most powerful tools that the library offers, and […]
The HAR Show: Capturing and Analyzing performance data with HTTP Archive format Ilya Grigorik and Peter Lubbers on Google’s “Make The Web Fast” show, talking about HAR and tools that you can use to analyze the data. (At GoogleDevelopers YouTube Channel.) This is great. Here are their notes, and Ilya’s associated blog post. (tagged: HAR Google http […]
Why Washington needs Joe Biden Alex Seitz-Wald, writing at Salon.com: Regardless of whether you agree with him [Biden] or not, or if history has proven him right or wrong, he is one of the few figures in the most senior echelon of foreign policy thinking in Washington willing to give voice to unpopular views on […]