Coding Horror: Working with the Chaos Monkey via @JoelAnair (tagged: design software architecture programming coding essay robustness ) Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway via @donniecoleman (tagged: business essay inspiration ) You Owe Me An Apology Despite Never Having Met Me: Douglas Crockford, for JavaScript: The Good Parts A humorous bone-picking with/against Crockford's […]
Super Mario Music (tagged: music mp3 games mario nintendo retro ) Notabilia "Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia" — a fascinating data visualization project (via infosthetics.com) (tagged: visualization design data interesting )
Lessons From the Slush Pile: Your Cover Letter and You at Inkpunks — could have been sub-titled: "the less-is-more approach to writing cover letters" (tagged: writing publishing ) Against Chrome: A Manifesto at 3quarksdaily — An interesting and thoughtful essay making the rounds this past week. Worth at least a look, even if you don't […]
Why ARE Restaurant Web sites so bad? Interesting discussion (especially in the comments) about why the restaurant business seems particularly plagued by poorly-designed, overly-flashy, nearly unusable websites. What's a surprise to me though it that hardly anyone seems to mention the cost factor–most restaurants have such slim margins that it doesn't necessarily make sense (at […]
The Blast Shack Bruce Sterling writing at Webstock.org: Diplomats are people who speak from nation to nation. They personify nations, and nations are brutal, savage, feral entities. (tagged: politics culture hacking privacy technology essay ) Angry Robot to open the floodgates for one month SFScope (tagged: scifi writing publishing todo ) Axe Cop. That is […]
Feature Detection: State of the Art Browser Scripting "You cannot trust host objects. They haven't earned it." (tagged: javascript todo browser webdev ) The hacktastic zoom fix at Stubbornella (tagged: css floats grids hack ) Election Results on the iPad at NYTimes.com (tagged: article html5 design iPad todo )
Netflix CEO: We’re a Streaming Company at Fast Company (via 9-bits) — Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO: By every measure, we are now primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail. (tagged: Netflix future tech business ) The Most Popular Phone in the World at Gizmodo (via Bruce Sterling): In buying that phone, this man was […]
“In buying that phone, this man was joining a slightly smaller club. He became a Nokia 1100 user. Along with a staggering 250,000,000 others, he had traded up in the communications world, from little or no phone access at all to this little brick of …
Managing JavaScript Objects by Nicholas Zakas (at Script Junkie) — a best-practices review of how to keep your objects loosely coupled in JavaScript application design (tagged: javascript design dev essay ) The Taste of Starlight at Lightspeed Magazine (tagged: scifi literature todo ) JSConf.eu Videos at blip.tv (tagged: video JSConf.eu JavaScript todo )
Maximus Clarke talks with William Gibson about his “speculative novels of last Wednesday” by Maud Newton (via B²) (tagged: williamgibson fiction scifi interview writing ) George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay at Binary Bonsai (via B²) (tagged: starwars Chewbacca creativity design film essay todo ) jQuery Regular Expressions Review (Rev:20100921_1700) via @rmurphey (tagged: regex […]