January 2012
3 posts
Picaro: Say Hello to Picaro →
From the Picaro blog:
I’m really excited to tell you about our new project: Picaro.
Picaro is a way to make and play small adventure games. They play a bit like interactive fiction with the control scheme of an old Sierra/LucasArts adventure game. If that was gibberish: the games are completely text-driven, but require no text input. You don’t type “use the key on the door”, you tap “Use”,...
An Attempt at Real Empathy: Lana Del Rey on SNL →
Cokemachineglow, in an uncharacteristically sensitive move:
It’s the breathless, and less-than-substantial, analysis of what makes her music great that alienates me. The equally breathless but also pitiless criticism now being heaped on her comes from the same place, and should be equally alienating. Hype is the megaphone for our basest tendencies. We can’t just “like” something. It needs to...
December 2011
20 posts
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God. I am getting so fed up with Wolfram Alpha. This is this morning’s comparison. I experience this at least once a day now for a variety of things.
I may not be done with Wolfram Alpha yet, but I can see the day I will be on the horizon, and I am looking forward to it.
(re: this)
My grandmother was immutable →
“she persisted with her interrogation of the single line of code, buried inside the very first program she had ever seen: how could “X” be “X plus one”? It just didn’t make sense to her. If X is 0 then X is 0.”
Python Ecosystem - An Introduction →
This is pretty sweet. It outlines a standard, modern Python development environment, including how to get Python itself set up as well as a package manager and other such things you’d want if you were to start working with Python. There should be simple, canonical, well-organized, community-driven, periodically-updated guides like this for all modern languages.
Difficulty and the Neoclassical Era →
[difficulty as a shorthand for worth] is like arguing War and Peace is worth reading because it is long and boring, but once completed gives one a sense of both accomplishment and nostalgia. It’s true, but it’s not a reason to celebrate the book. We celebrate the form and function of art because it prompts us to discover new ideas and feelings in ourselves.
Cokemachineglow Review of Justice's _Audio, Video,... →
I offer that Audio, Video, Disco sounds essentially like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra callously interpreting the ELO library…
How To Get Me To Start Using Tumblr Again
Install dotjs
Add the following to my ~/.js/tumblr.com.js:
$('#post_state').val(1);
That’s it! Now both the Tumblr bookmarklet and the post page default to “save as draft”, which let me write what I want when it’s on my mind without worrying about how it’s formatted, then go back and fix it up later. dotjs is the best.
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
I think this article is a bit ablist— I get that the hand fetishising is part of the breezy tone of the article, but it could be offensive to some people. Still, some interesting thoughts and I like the format of the article with the illustrations mixed in.
Cokemachineglow Review of Drake's _Take Care_ →
Drake’s gifts as an executive producer guide the pace and structure of the album, and in the end not a track feels out of place. I believe it’s possible to be given too much of a good thing, but I can name a dozen shorter records which feel longer than Take Care by virtue of how they’re paced. Maybe it’s a simple consideration, but it makes the difference between an arbitrarily grouped...
Black Friday →
If you work in retail during this time of year, it’s difficult for you to place yourself in Normal America. You get this feeling similar to the feeling experienced perpetually by servers, bartenders, nurses: that you, for reasons literal and abstract, in moments great and small, are not them.
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Regarding TheNextWeb's Shit-Ass Website →
One article at TheNextWeb weighed in at over 6 MB and required 342 HTTP requests. 73 different JavaScript scripts alone. Absurd. I did a reload on the same page a few minutes later and it was up to 368 HTTP requests but weighed “only” 1.99 MB.
This is the most astounding thing I’ve read all week. A case of CMS Gone Mad.
Netflix: Fireplace for Your Home →
FINALLY ON INSTANT
Gilt Technologie: Gilt APIs →
gilt-tech:
Over the next few months, Gilt will be exposing its data model via a new suite of public APIs. We’re excited to make our data available to a broader audience of hackers, and we can’t wait to see what people do with it.
Our first API is a set of Atom Pub feeds, which let you see our active and upcoming sales, either en masse, or store by store.
For example,...
FLUXBLOG 2011 SURVEY MIX →
Every year Fluxblog makes a collection rounding up the most noteworthy music of the year. If there are artist names you’ve heard dancing around all year and are curious who they are/what they sound like, this can be a great source for that sort of information!
November 2011
16 posts
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Friday Night Magic: My First 4-0
I went to my fifth or sixth Friday Night Magic booster draft at my local shop tonight and won with a perfect match record, 4 matches won! I only lost one game the whole night in my REALLY close second round (all three games went very long and both of us were at risk of dying).
I owe some significant portion of my win to the fact that the first card I got tonight was Olivia Voldaren, which is...
TWO SHOES WEEKEND BEGINS →
It’s Friday pretty much everywhere now! Let’s all make two things with Shoes*! Come chat with Shoes-ers if you need help! Email me when you’ve made your projects and send me either links to a blog post about your projects or, if you’re okay with it, your programs’ source code and I’ll try to take some screenshots for you!
*or with something else if...
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“How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How...”
– Neal Stephenson, REAMDE
Dummy content you can type with your left hand
irondavy:
So you can keep clicking with the right hand.
I’m so proud to have been a part of this. Make sure to scope them all, but I believe that my contribution will really make you think:
Caged rats get free water!
TWO SHOES WEEKEND REMINDER
Two Shoes Weekend starts this Friday! Feel free to start thinking about your projects if you haven’t already! Email me if you have any questions! Come to the Shoes chat room if you have questions! Can’t wait to see all of your awesome projects!
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This is a really special
inky: Horse ebooks @Horse_ebooks is now following you (@inky)
inky: this is the greatest day of my life
nostrich: congrats, a spam bot follows you now
inky: :D
inky: not a spam bot
inky: the spam bot
Redundant URLs →
The Internet’s Dr. Drang:
The idea behind the popular page is that it counts up repeated bookmarking of the same page. Pages that have been recently bookmarked by many users show up on the popular page, presented as a single entry with a count. The eulogy shows up repeatedly because Pinboard collects links according to their URLs, and the Times doesn’t have a single canonical URL for...
October 2011
23 posts
Missing Tumle
johnholdun:
Inspired by Casey who was inspired by my tribute, here’s some javascript that will replace all the “blog” URLs you encounter on tumblr with those lovely “tumblelog” URLs.
history.pushState("what do these", "parameters even do", location.pathname.replace("/blog/", "/tumblelog/"))
Plop this in your tumblr.com.js file and sleep soundly.
Thanks, friend!
“Put Ron Swanson on Burn Notice, and it’s instantly the best thing on TV. That...”
– Chokeules (via rljd)
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Email In My Inbox
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Sounds like the real deal! Thanks, “Sherley Mcgovern”!
WatchI didn’t know this was a thing, but Joel Hodgson performed a magic act on Saturday Night Live in the 80s. This is so awesome! (via Davin)
