Fairly Priced Daniel Jalkut, at Bitsplitting.org: The culture of low-priced software is artificially pulling the prices of many apps downward, while in this case Twitter, with its API token-limitation policy, is artificially pulling the price upward. Pricing shit is complicated. (tagged: business software Twitter pricing ) you keep using that word Garann Means: If there’s […]
WebPlatform Docs Looks very promising. MDN has been my go-to for answers like this for the past couple of years, but with all those organizations working together (Mozilla included) it could turn into the new canonical source. (tagged: reference documentation JavaScript SVG HTML CSS web ) Programmer Competency Matrix Some of this seems useful. Some […]
I picked up a copy of Elisabeth Robson and Eric Freeman’s Head First HTML & CSS (O’Reilly, 2012) as schwag at a conference I attended 1; judging this book by its cover, I was pretty clearly not the audience for this book but hey: when have I turned down a book? So who is the […]
The Value of Subverting Authority Sherman Alexie: These religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion. (tagged: religion Sherman Alexie ) President Obama Is an Introvert and So Am I: But that doesn’t mean we don’t like you. Scott Dodd, writing for Slate Magazine ("Obama’s Denver […]
You do not mess with Big Bird Mary Elizabeth Williams, writing at Salon.com: Romney made the error of looking like a man who is not on the side of innocence, whimsy, learning or childhood. Nor did he seem to grasp that Big Bird is an integral part of a show that was created for and […]
The Secret to Good Writing: It’s About Objects, Not Ideas John Maguire, writing for The Atlantic: How should one train students to give good, vivid examples in their writing? Should you tell them, Be more specific? I used to do that but I don't any more, because it's too vague, not operational. Today I give […]
The Flawed Theory Behind Unit Testing By Michael Feathers. My "tl;dr" take-away: testing for the sake of testing is useless unless you're using the tests as an exercise in critiquing and scrutinizing your code and the intent behind it. (tagged: testing Michael Feathers ) Setting Up a Command Line Clojure App Mike Ebert, writing at […]
Bugged Greg Knauss writing at An Entirely Other Day: I don’t normally like to talk politics. Not real politics. I’ll smart-ass on Twitter, but I get uncomfortable as soon as I feel the need to be earnest. I don’t trust myself when I actually care. But the Republican convention just finished up, and tens of thousands of people […]
AngularJS "Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework" I'd heard of AngularJS before today but I hadn't actually checked out their site before. While we're on the subject of "minimum viable snippets"… wow: what a landing page. (tagged: AngularJS JavaScript ) Minimum Viable Snippet @fogus: An important point about #3 is that under no circumstances should the Minimum […]
Getting Bitwise with JavaScript At the Bocoup blog. Rebecca's posts are almost always fantastic, and this one is particularly fantastic in its raw giddy nerdery. (Who doesn't want to gush over bitwise operators?) (tagged: Johnny Five Arduino JavaScript bitwise operators Rebecca Murphey ) Leak Finder By Marja Hölttä and Jochen Eisinger (Chrome team, Munich), writing […]