Shell scripts, JavaScript pedantry, CSS fixations, Java debugging, and the rest of the polyglotism.
An experiment (in part to settle something of academic debate); what is faster new Array() or [] 1? The function for the test case: Yes, I realize that test #2 and test #5 result in an array with a length of 2,000,000 (vs. 1,000,000 for the other 4 tests). Now for some chart porn; results: […]
On a regular basis (talking “daily, all day” here), I run n tabs in an open Terminal window where n > 1 (and usually n > 4). And so each time I open up on these tabs and cd into the directory I need, I’m hitting ⇧⌘i to set a custom title on that tab; […]
It started simply enough. A simple 1 question: “Is it a button?” Referring to this: This is (of course) the “All Sizes” button for any given photo on Flickr. And (also “of course”) depending on how pedantic you want to get and/or how technical, it’s arguably not a button at all: …it’s an <a> masquerading […]
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is here, and that’s plenty exciting. All the refinements–in the UI and under the good–are getting their due play 1. One of those refinements: all of Java’s roads lead to 64-bit Java SE 6 2. If you’re not panicking (or at least a little alarmed) then don’t bother reading onward. […]
Mostly for Pete, a follow-up to a thread on Facebook today… The co-worker’s terminal font (click to make big): Now I used to have a big fat crush on Andale Mono but how could that be easy on the eyes? The painfully mucky tilde, the one digit and the lowercase L practically indistinguishable! And at […]
Partly for my own enjoyment and partly to respond to Tweets from two friends of mine, I’d like to write a little bit about my experience with the Git source control manager. Before we get too far in this process though, let’s get one thing out in the open. I’m probably the least technical developer out […]
While banging through the home-stretch of Ortho 1.0, I decided to give MacRabbit’s Espresso editor a try. I’m “between” editors right now – feeling no special love or loyalty to any one text editor – and noting Espresso’s public beta, I decided it was worthy of some exploration. THE SHORT VERSION: I liked it alright […]
Almost exactly two years ago, I first unveiled Ortho, the home-rolled custom WordPress theme that you see here. It is named in part after the character Ortho Stice from David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest and is also a vaguely tongue-in-cheek, slightly punny nod to the squared-off corners that graced the original design. With this […]
I spent a little time this past weekend trying to wrap up my “for Ortho 0.5″ to-do list. Fixed a few obscure bugs, polished up a few items that had bugged me, deferred a few others to the Ortho 1.0 to-do list. And I was basically ready to close the book on Ortho 0.5 if […]
F_D was hit pretty hard since Sunday by a major outage in the Spacey cluster in the Dreamhost network. In a nutshell: shit was down for days. Where do we stand? As of this evening, and after lots of unacceptably bad best case scenarios described, the damage is relatively minimal. Mail has been back solidly […]