Nodeload2: Downloads Reloaded at GitHub (tagged: performance architecture git Node.js github ) Fastersite: Finding memory leaks Useful reading on a useful exercise in JavaScript profiling and how to identify and mitigate memory leaks. (Short answer (as usual?) is "be careful with the DOM".) (tagged: javascript web google performance programming essay ) Easy Hikes Around Lake […]
Beer Can Chicken Recipe at Simply Recipes — So simple; so delicious. (tagged: recipe food cooking beer grill ) ClojureScript Brings Clojure To The Browser via Javascript Werner Schuster writing for InfoQ on the introduction of ClojureScript — some of its hows and whats and whys. (tagged: javascript Clojure clojurescript essay todo ) An Ode […]
$ cheat git (tagged: tutorial reference git ) Pro Git – Reset Demystified Scott Chacon writing at the Pro Git blog; consider this post to be "part one" of the otherwise missing chapter on git reset. Good stuff. (tagged: tutorial git ) Processing.org (tagged: design visualization tools art software todo ) SwimmingHoles.info: Vermont Swimming Holes […]
How to run an effective meeting by Kevin M Hoffman (writing in .net magazine) – a good piece but I would add two other pieces of advice: [1] never underestimate the value of a clock or stopwatch (e.g., “You have five minutes to explain starting… now.”); and [2] structure the meeting so you can dismiss […]
The Maisel vs Baio Incident In case you haven't been paying attention, Duncan Davidson on the court case that never was: Maisel vs. Baio: Should Jay have the right to claim the derived image isn’t fair use and ask for a cease and desist? Yes. He’s not, as many are saying, a dick for his […]
Sass cheat sheet (tagged: PDF sass css webdev system:filetype:pdf system:media:document ) Delegation vs Inheritance in JavaScript by Angus Croll at JavaScript, JavaScript… (tagged: javascript interesting essay todo ) The Pros And Cons Of JavaScript Micro-Frameworks A good and even-handed overview of the subject and some of the practical considerations one must have when entertaining the […]
Markdown is the new Word 5.1 By Kevin Lipe at Stephen M. Hackett's "Forkbombr" blog — A great (if a bit tangential) essay about writing on a computer and (thus?) what it's like to write on a computer. A lot of this is pretty close to my own feelings on the subject. (And yes: I'm aware […]
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 […]
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education. at TechCrunch: He [Peter Theil] thinks it’s fundamentally wrong for a society to pin people’s best hope for a better life on something that is by definition exclusionary. “If Harvard were really the best education, if it makes that much of […]
Ready for Contact at Smithsonian Magazine (via Boing Boing) — interesting article about first contact and the preparations for its eventuality (tagged: seti first_contact astronomy politics research essay todo ) Stranger than fiction: The search for habitable exomoons at BoingBoing (tagged: astronomy research ) How ‘OK’ took over the world at BBC News (via DF) (tagged: […]