Coding

Essays that reflect on how code creates the future

PHP Confessions

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Last night on twitter I started this series based on the hashtag #PHPConfessions I’ve never...
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How To Do It

Coding • One Comment

Perl There’s more than one way to do it Python There is one way to do it PHP I found a way to do it but it didn’t work....
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Dreamhost is incompetent

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This site was offline for three days due to the unbelievable incompetence of Dreamhost. There is no excuse for a company in the business of...
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Online Audio Is A Poor Format For Learning Code

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Saw a link to a “radio show” about Advanced OO Patterns. I thought that was an odd...
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PHP Gravatar Class

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I was recently working on a small side project when I ran across a need for a php implementation of a class that would produce Gravatar...
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Débrouillard

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Débrouillard is what every plongeur wants to be called. A débrouillard is a man who, even when he is told to do the impossible, will se...
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How To Stand Out

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“At each creative decision, ask whether you’re doing it a certain way because...
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Explanations are a UX Smell

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Have you ever added someone as a “Contact” on Flickr? It’s a confusing experience. The core of the problem is the word...
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There is something magical about describing something into existence

Coding, zen • One Comment

It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t done it. She asked me how I can take the boredom of just sitting there writing...
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CSS, Forms, Borders and Biographies

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This is just a bit of internet mix tape of interesting things I’ve read recently: Little CSS...
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