Beyond Farmers Markets: Why Local Food Belongs on Grocery Shelves Kathleen Merrigan (deputy secretary of the USDA), writing at The Atlandtic: When the farmer, the packer, the wholesaler, and the retailer all prosper in the same region, it creates opportunity for home-grown jobs, draws more people into agriculture, and fosters relationships between the people who […]
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 […]
Someone shows me their copy of Infinite Jest. It is a new edition. An annotated edition? An expanded edition. An edition where the main narrative content is intact, but where the footnotes endnotes have been augmented. There are additional notes. Expanded notes. A glossary. Graphs and charts. Tables and figures. Maps and diagrams. An all […]
A New Green Agenda for Commuters Lisa Margonelli writing for The Nation: The cost of owning and driving a car should be a major political issue. Republicans have spent the past decade talking about lowering taxes, while Democrats have put enormous effort into lowering medical costs; but most families spend more on their cars and […]
Wow. I feel so fucking vindicated. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball calls Infinite Jest “the best novel I’ve ever read.” I would take it one step further. This is the most important novel I have read in my lifetime. Gruber cites a passage from the truly glorious Dave Eggers’ forward to the new paperback […]