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 […]
CoffeeScript Another one via @fogus… (tagged: javascript programming language todo ) The Best Ruby Books via @fogus (tagged: programming Ruby books resources todo ) YUI Doc A New Tool for Generating JavaScript API Documentation » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (at YUIBlog) (tagged: javascript yui documentation tools generator todo ) Why I’m An Atheist A Holiday […]
The Word "Hacker" Why have I never seen this before? Hacking predates computers. When he was working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself by breaking into safes containing secret documents. This tradition continues today. When we were in grad school, a hacker friend of mine who spent too much time around […]
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 )
Head JS "The only script in your HEAD" (tagged: browser framework javascript webdev todo ) Functional vs. Object-Oriented JavaScript Development at Script Junkie (tagged: coding javascript dev todo ) Bash Reference Manual (tagged: bash documentation ) Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times at /.: Avast noticed that a license for its paid-for security software, sold […]
TSA Glass Box Mother Over Stored Breast Milk at X-Ray Nation (via DF; emphasis added): My patience wears thin and I start crying. It is hard to see on this video, but real tears wouldn’t stop streaming down my face. About 10 minutes into all this, a Phoenix PD comes to calm me down. I […]
Homebrew "MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!" or "The missing package manager for OS X." (tagged: homebrew git Apple Mac OSX terminal ) Tower Alleging to be "[the] most powerful Git client for Mac". So if the CLI isn't enough for you, I guess you could try this GUI. (tagged: git todo ) CSS […]
TSA Success Story blog at izs.me—glad to see that someone is having some success resisting (tagged: TSA politics ) Browser CSS hacks by Paul Irish—a comprehensive list of browser-specific CSS hacks: I don't use CSS hacks anymore. Instead I use IE's conditional comments to apply classes to the body tag. ¶ Nonetheless, I wanted to […]
CSS Positioning 101 by Noah Starks, at A List Apart (tagged: CSS position webdev ) EPIC v. DHS (Suspension of Body Scanner Program) at EPIC: Searches are reasonable if they escalate in invasiveness only after a lower level of screening discloses a reason to conduct a more probing search. EPIC argued that the TSA’s body […]
1.0 Is the Loneliest Number Matt Mullenweg: Usage is like oxygen for ideas. (tagged: Apple essay innovation ) John Scalzi’s You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop at Writers on Writing (at Tor.com) (tagged: writing essay )