Cucumber JS
WebStorm program arguments
a summer flower
“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, I do need to follow the rules.
Dorian Taylor, Toward a Theory of Design as Computation:
There is an idea prevalent in our culture that if we just find the right system, we can ride it out in perpetuity. We can gamify social interaction. This idea is manifested most prominently in the departments of psychology, sociology, law, political science, and economics. Moreover, there are now actual game designers who have expressed an interest in tinkering with public policy. I want to suggest that the very idea of trying to define an all-encompassing system, no matter how fair you try to make it, will always produce systems whose rules benefit the makers, and whose externalities they can at best benefit from, and at worst ignore.
Baron Schwartz, The Root Cause Fallacy:
That’s why the search for a root cause is usually a witch-hunt in disguise, trying to find someone or something to blame. If you think there is really a single cause, you eventually must identify a single person. If you stop short of that, everyone knows the process was a farce. But blaming a person is also a farce. Everyone knows that someone’s being thrown under the bus and that wasn’t the real problem.
“Fallacy” might be a little strong, but yes, a dysfunctional post-mortem will descend into a witch-hunt and someone can wind up on the horns without any real solutions being proposed. Not that no one ever deserves to get strummed out, but it can’t be your first reaction.
Neal Ford, Why Everyone (Eventually) Hates (or Leaves) Maven:
I suspect that even the designers of Unix shells are often surprised at the inventive uses developers have wrought with their simple but powerfully composable abstractions.
A post on composable systems (vs. contextual ones). It’s a thoughtful post, and worth a slow and careful read.
Make a list of the activities that give you energy and strength. Make these a priority in your life.
scope. In a nutshell: before AngularJS 1.2, attributes were not placed on the scope until the post-linking phase for the interpolation — which is itself a directive, meaning that those attributes might not be available on the scope for the post-link functions of other directives on the same element. This now takes place in the pre-linking phase, meaning that those interpolated attributes are available to all post-link functions for all directives on a given element — which is what I think we all expected in the first place. That said: you'll still want to be watching those value changes with $observe.
I gave a talk on AngularJS directives recently and a good portion of that talk focused on defining the types of scopes that those directives can have. As something that the talk’s attendees could refer back to, I decided to put together this short blog post. It captures the spirit (if not the exact words) of what I presented that day. So without further ado… Continue reading →
WebStrom Compass watch
goals that J.K. Rowling had
fuck in the aircraft
(Yes, the typo actually did show up in the Google Analytics data.)
“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, I do need to follow the rules.
Real quick before I dash out on a hard-earned vacation.
PhantomJS Cookbook — it’s a thing. A real thing. After 6+ months of hard work, I got to hold the book in my own two hands.
And you can, too!
The inline JavaScript solution has a subtle, but very important (and an often overlooked) performance gotcha: inline scripts block on CSSOM before they are executed. Why? The browser does not know what the inline block is planning to do in the script it is about to execute, and because JavaScript can access and manipulate the CSSOM, it blocks and waits until the CSS is downloaded, parsed, and the CSSOM is constructed and available. A hands-on network waterfall is worth thousands words, consider this example:
Object.observe() before and I'll repeat what I said then: this is going to be one of the most important things added to the JS standard library in a long time.
ebony browser
cherry-pick merge strategy
ode to Alien
“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, I do need to follow the rules.