Requiem in the Key of Prose By Jake Kerr, at Lightspeed Magazine. Read this. 100% A+ ★★★★★. Seriously, one of the best bits of short fiction I’ve read all year. (tagged: fiction ) The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns Kevin Drum, writing at Mother Jones: Still, Republicans argue, anyone can obtain a […]
Someone is Coming to Eat You Rands: …the future is invented by the people who don’t give a shit about the past. (tagged: essay innovation ) the recruiter honeypot By Elaine Wherry. A bit long and Silicon Valley-centric, but an interesting read about recruiting and recruiters. (tagged: essay essa LinkedIn hiring recruiting ) Asgard: Web-based […]
Dynamic Languages Strike Back Steve Yegge: slides and transcript of a talk he gave at Stanford. (tagged: Steve Yegge dynamic languages ) *JS : Low-Level JavaScript *JS is a typed dialect of JavaScript that offers a C-like type system with manual memory management. It compiles to JavaScript and lets you write memory-efficient and GC pause-free […]
JavaScript Study Guide By Chris Shiflett (via my Prismatic feed). I'm working on a similar list myself, and was glad to see something else like this out there. Shiflett's is an interesting list with some great choices. Three things that came to mind while browsing it: [1] “That’s a lot of PHP…” [2] I’ll ding […]
Flexibility: A Foundation for Responsive Design Emily Lewis (writing at Script Junkie) with a discussion of fluid grid techniques (practices and pitfalls) for building responsive designs. (tagged: Emily Lewis fluid grids media query responsive design ) Tolkien’s 10 Tips for Writers At writingishardwork. It took him 7 years to write The Hobbit. (117) The thing […]
The cost of privacy James Coglan writing at The If Works: However, encapsulation does not need to be rigorously enforced by the machine, and using this style has all sorts of annoying costs that I’ll get to in just a second. Encapsulation is something you get by deliberately designing interfaces and architectures, by communicating with […]
Grails Best Practices Amit Jain writing at InfoQ. Good round-up on (title says it all…) Grails best practices–regardless of whether/not you agree with them all. (tagged: grails ) Remembering Project Gemini At The Atlantic: this "50th anniversary" retrospective of the Gemini missions is stunning and captivating. (tagged: history astronomy space ) Groovy Goodness: Magic Package […]
Vernor Vinge Is Optimistic About the Collapse of Civilization Interview at Underwire at Wired.com. Always fun. (tagged: research future Vernor Vinge ) Saucer Country Written by Paul Cornell, art by Ryan Kelly, published by Vertigo. Looks amazing. (tagged: comic aliens scifi science fiction ) Self-Publish a Novel At Wired How-To Wiki. (tagged: publishing writing ) […]
Thoughts on a (very) small project with Backbone and Backbone Boilerplate Rebecca Murphey on Backbone.js: My biggest complaint about Backbone is probably how unopinionated it is about the view layer. (tagged: Rebecca Murphey JavaScript Backbone.js ) Dan Awesome’s Rage Maker And as long as we're raging out with Rage Face memes… (tagged: weird internet humor […]
In case you missed it elsewhere: 1.5 hours, +946 words becomes 3.5 hours, 3,021 words Plus… we call that a draft. I was closer than I thought to the end of my notes. And when I saw that, I decided to just put my head down, pour more whiskey, and finish. It certainly puts the […]