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How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI 37signals: tl;dr: We made Basecamp Next go woop-woop fast by using a fancy HTML5 feature and some serious elbow grease on them caching wheels (tagged: pushState caching pjax 37signals ) The PHP Singularity Coding Horror: If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever […]
Understanding MVVM – A Guide For JavaScript Developers Addy Osmani on the MVVM pattern, and using Knockout for his examples code, no less. (tagged: Addy Osmani KnockoutJS MVC javascript MVVM ) The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth At Technology Review: Their results contain a number of surprises. First, they calculate that almost as […]
Valid JavaScript variable names Mathias Bynens going deep on the sometimes confusing world of JavaScript variable names. (tagged: javascript ) David Foster Wallace: The Big, Uncut Interview (2003) At Open Culture (via @fogus) (tagged: video culture interview politics literature David Foster Wallace ) Is Device-Friendly Development a Responsibility? Some musings from local dev Mike Fowler […]
“The first novel announced very clearly that Wallace wanted to revive the tradition of postmodern maximalism, generally associated with writers like John Barth, William Gaddis, and Thomas Pynchon, but also that he was going to do it in a way that mad…
How We Became the United States of France at Time.com (via Beyond the Beyond): You just know the Frogs have only increased their disdain for us, if that is indeed possible. And why shouldn't they? The average American is working two and half jobs, gets two weeks off, and has all the employment security of […]
Have We Reached the End of Book Publishing As We Know It? New York Magazine: Books, he says, “were like Internet stocks, getting enormous advances without demonstrating any moneymaking whatsoever.” ClimbingVibe Climbing News by the Community As Synthetic Biology Becomes Affordable, Amateur Labs Thrive via B^2: "Deeb, who said he was trying to make safer […]
Hubble Finds a Mystery Object via SkyandTelescope.com (via Gizmodo (via /.) ) Personal Space and Writing Novels in the Internet Era David Foster Wallace (Harper’s Magazine) via DF: Harper's posting a collection of essays and shorts If You’re Not Using It, Get Rid of It: Ten Ways to Declutter and Put Cash in Your Pocket […]
David Foster Wallace – whose memory I trust will live on as one of prodigious talent and unique wit– was found dead in his home by his wife. He was 46. DFW was a hero to me, a young author who moved fluidly with words through our ill landscape of postmodernity. For every grammatical or […]
I would suggest, dear reader, that when considering Consider the Lobster , that you consider it in the same light as David Foster Wallace’s collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again 1. Use that book as your frame of reference for style and content and you can place this collection firmly into the […]