The other day I ran across some very old code and decided to push it up to the interwebs. It's a game I wrote when I was first learning jquery. That said, I wouldn't recommend using the code to learn jquery best practices. It works though! Check it…
I saw the image below recently and was intrigued. Unfortunately I saw the image without context so I couldn't figure out what to google to learn more. The other day, however, I ran into it again. Here's the explanation I found: Robert Plutchik…
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It was late at night and I was standing in my kitchen, cooking bacon and crying. I was cooking bacon because I was hungry and I had bacon. When those two conditions are true it's not at all surprising to find me in the kitchen cooking. The crying,…
I was poking around on my desktop tonight because, let's be honest, there's nothing quite like a thursday night spent playing with .oh-my-zsh. Quick Aside: I just noticed that in looking for the most "canonical" link to use for .oh-my-zsh in the…
Sometimes it's good to just hack. Don't worry about scalability or maintainability, don't sweat coding standards, ignore DRY but mutter YAGNI as often as possible - just duct tape things together as you think of them. It's like sketching, but…
I was thinking today about the "soft skills" of business and particularly entrepreneurship. Much is made of the often amorphous "business skills" or "people skills." For technical people those phrases are often heard as a euphemism for either an…
When your livelihood depends on what you can do with your brain, fighting depression and the fatigued fog that swirls around it is a frightening battle. I read a post written by Noah Kagan of appSumo.com tonight in which he honestly and plainly…
I was looking at this Chrome Dev Tools Cheatsheet that was put together by Boris Smus and Paul Irish when something caught my eye: I was instantly excited. This is a feature I've always wished for but couldn't find in firebug - saving your changes…
Adding HTML5 Geolocation to your web applications One of the interesting and useful addition to the HTML5 specification is the Geolocation API. The Geolocation API allows users to share their location with web applications so that they can enjoy the…
One of the reasons it is often hard to explain twitter to someone who doesn't use it is that everyone tweets in their own way. How you use twitter is often closely linked to what device or software you use. I've noticed who I pay attention to in my…
So it is — the life we receive is not short , but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however…
Louis himself is the continuity: his jittery consciousness, floating through the aftermath of divorce, which operates as a kind of second adolescence, this time complicated by kids and the fear of death. From a profile of Louis C.K. in New York…
Driving back to work, I saw a cop car with its lights on blocking the right lane of the expressway. I slowed to a crawl along the left edge of the left lane as I passed, thinking there must be an accident. Instead, as I slowly panned across the…
If you're reading these words and you're not an archiving bot sifting through the digital detritus of the early internet a thousand years from now, you were born as a squishy bag of meat. The fact that you are the particular sort of meatbag that can…
This presentation is a comprehensive look at the ever expanding (and ever innovating) business of Amazon.com.
In The 7 Kinds of Software Developer Wushu , Bob Warfield seven types of software developers and how they contribute to successful products. All of us are a mix of different skills, opinions and passions. Comparing yourself, either positively or…
Chris Brogan wrote a great digital devotional post about organizing your business and time. In particular he talks about how he sets priorities when addressing his daily tasks. Chris recommends a "pay yourself first" system where you first focus on…
ThinkBack, Playing with ThinkUp's New API The newest beta of ThinkUp adds an API to the app for the first time, allowing developers to easily build apps on top of data coming from ThinkUp. The JSON API was created by Sam Rose, a 20-year-old student…
I found myself inadvertently mousing over to the red swoop in this ad every time I saw it today. I realized that my brain was catching the bit of red in the thin band of blue with white letters and impulsively moving the mouse over to click it. I…