December 2007
103 posts
“ If you personally write 500,000 lines of code in any language, you are so...”
– Size Is The Enemy
Evan's Book Site →
Andy Rutledge’s son wanted a website so he could talk about the books he’s read. So Rutledge went and built him one. And it’s awesome.
WJW.
Turn a Sphere Inside Out →
Just try to ignore the dialog & watch this whole thing. You need the beginning to understand it, but the real fun doesn’t start until about halfway through.
Diagnostic Styling →
Meyer, FTW.
Just like Zeldman’s Understanding Web Design article, this shows why Meyer, the guy who basically invented CSS, is still the master.
“The more you hype coming features, the more you talk about what isn’t yet, the...”
– A Gift Idea For Your Users: Respect, Yo
How true it is. Without fail, every site or software I can think of that was all hyped out of control fell short of expectations. The best ones that I use day in and day out? Those that I heard about after they were launched because they are actually good.
“Confusingly enough though, the link actually goes to a higher numbered page...”
– This brings up a good point: Why are tumblr pages indexed like this? It means that /page/2 today looks nothing like /page/2 last week nor /page/2 from a month ago. Things that hurt my brain: check.
WatchMy god, people are dumb. It hurts my head just to watch this. (via shawnblog)
“Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage...”
– Understanding Web Design
Zeldman, FTW.
The best music of 2007 →
travors:
Out of 25 albums, I only have 2. I’m soooo uncool.
Well I’ve got four: Infinity on High is surprisingly good for a Fall Out Boy album. Icky Thump is just brilliant. We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank was my first Modest Mouse album (thanks Will. A Weekend In The City I just came across on iTunes one day, which was a good thing.
WatchThe Holiday Sweater Song (via justin)
“The MIT CS grad students’ handbook used to say something about how you...”
– Mark Dominus (via dailymeh)
“The next time you’re knee deep in arcane language geekery, remember this:...”
– Nobody Cares What Your Code Looks Like
“We only do well the things we like doing.”
– Colette
Dark Knight Trailer →
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CTU Ringtone for iPhone →
Zero Punctuation: Guitar Hero III →
Best GH3 review ever. NSFW … but hilarious.
Some Inspiration
Patrick Haney
Andy Budd
Lisa McMillan
Manuela Hoffmann
and … me
“Ten years ago, we counted on vendors introducing new and awesome things into the...”
– from The W3C Cannot Save Us
It’s a good point. Alex Russell is spot on here. As much as I believe that standards are a good way to keep us web developers from having to write stylesheets for each individual browser, the future does not look to filled with shiny new things, and that’s a...
“What’s the difference between regular Twitter and Twiiter during scheduled...”
– Gruber
Remote Buddy →
Wow. Just. Wow.
I don’t know if I would use this program enough to justify 20€, but I might just buy it anyway. It’s that good.
in omnia paratus
in all things prepared
Natural Sort
module Enumerable
def sensible_sort
sort_by { |key| key.split(/(\d+)/).map { |v| v =~ /\d/ ? v.to_i : v } }
end
end
from Labnotes
Fluid →
Like Mozilla Prism, ‘cept WebKit. And pretty.
Pixar in-jokes and cameos →
Apple Holiday Ad →
So. Amazing.
1 tag
Domain Name Hackery
I wanted a way to make the Apache on my local machine respond to any directory within my webroot as if it were a subdomain on my DynDNS host. For example, if I have a folder called tumblr-theme that I would normally get to with my.domain.tld/tumblr-theme, I want tumblr-theme.my.domain.tld to point to that folder. Here’s what I came up with, courtesy of the Apache Documentation on Dynamically...
Iconize Textlinks with CSS →
Gives a nice little icon of what kind of file you should be expecting. Sure I could write this myself, but now I don’t have to!
That's PHP for you.
Why PHP should never be taught and Part II.
Hah. That’s what you get when your language essentially uses strings and hashes to represent everything.
Homemade Whiteboards →
Good listing of what to make a good/cheap whiteboard out of and how to clean it when it gets messy. I’ll be keeping this in mind. My dream: a whiteboard wall I can’t fill. We’ll see about that.
“Whenever you complete a page, put the page number in an index on the inside...”
– How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek
I will be indexing my notebooks like this from now on.
Roses are #ff0000
Violets are #0000ff
All my base
Are belong to you
“Why Guitar Hero > DDR, Reason number 28: You don’t feel like a tool...”
– Elliot
Works out of the box!
(1..5).inject &:+
→ 15
Fun with Symbol#to_proc
Add your own post types in Tumblr
Tumblr’s recent update to version 3 of the service has made it possible to make your own post types with the custom theme tag TagsAsClasses and some fancy CSS, as I did with my review post-type.
read more …
— camh
Duelity →
Watch -> Duelity
“In a surprising twist, research reveals that the earlier kids become sexually...”
– Early Sexual Activity Curbs Teen Delinquency, Reduces National Debt, Increases Lollipop and Bonbon Production
LOL!