November 2009
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Tons of updates to Webkit's Web Inspector
Joseph Pecoraro is a god amongst men! He’s spent the past three months adding nearly every missing feature I’ve ever wanted in the Web Inpsector you get in Safari and Webkit. In some instances he’s gone above and beyond. Here’s a sampling of what he’s added and fixed:
Dynamically add and edit attributes on nodes in the Elements section
Create and tab through...
nice_find - asynchronous project searching for... →
Really neat plugin. Replaces the existing “find in project“ function and lets you use “git-grep“ if you like. Best part is you can continue working while a hairy search is progressing. However, you might not get a chance; this is a lot faster than the built-in project search:
In the beginning you had to stare at the beachball while TextMate searched synchronously...
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"People read more than books" and they do it on... →
Kottke says:
all these e-readers — the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, et al — are all focused on the wrong single use: books. (And in the case of at least the Nook and Kindle, the focus is on buying books from B&N and Amazon. The Kindle is more like a 7-Eleven than a book.) The correct single use is reading. Your device should make it equally easy to read books, magazine articles,...
Ruby "Newbie" Feedback →
Chris Strom summarizes a good portion of the feedback he gave to entrants in this year’s Ruby Programming Challenge for Newbies:
I recently had the privilege to supply the challenge for the second ever Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies. I thought it pretty cool that the challenge provoked 40+ “newbies” to submit responses. As one might expect, there was some rough Ruby,...
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What I've been reading lately
Just a short list of the books I’ve read in the past few months (since the end of June):
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet Classics)
The Big...
McSweeny's: YouTube Comment or E. E. Cummings?
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[zfs-discuss] Apple cans ZFS project →
Jeff Bonwick, Sun’s lead ZFS developer, on what is undoubtedly the exact reason ZFS did not make its way into 10.6: bureaucratic red tape (emphasis mine).
> Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it > (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a “private > license” from Sun (with appropriate technical support and >...
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Broadway performing “I’m on a...
“Back in the days of black radio stations and white radio stations (i.e....”
– Don McLean on “Cover Artists” and “Cover Songs”
Why Simon Willison likes Redis →
Redis looks really neat. It was released about 7 months ago and there was an initial burst of news and then it went away. In the past week, I’ve been seeing it pop up all over the place, though :)
Betanews: Apple declares war on the entire PC... →
Excellent illustration about why other companies are digging their own graves with netbooks and why Apple is one of the most successful companies around these days:
Apple’s new product release timing is clearly deliberate, designed to pull attention away from Windows 7. But Apple also is looking to pull away Windows PC sales at the high end, where Macs are strongest and PCs are weakest....
Apple goes live with HTML5 video →
Pretty neat how they’ve made it look almost identical to Quicktime X
How GitHub Was Made Fast →
Really awesome article about Github’s backend architecture. Not that I’d ever really put any thought into it, but it makes the site sound all the more impressive :)
Microsoft Ajax Minifier VS YUI Compressor →
I like how Microsoft’s tool can recognize if you’re using something as a string multiple times and it’ll assign it to a variable.
JavaScript Programming Patterns →
Klaus' JavaScript Coding Guidelines and Standards →
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Django 1.2 is coming (in March 2010) →
Work has begun on defining the scope of the next major release of Django, version 1.2.
Here’s a list of feature proposals that may or may not make their way into 1.2.
If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on most of the Summer of Code projects making their way in:
i18n improvement
Model validation
Multi-database support
What would I like to see in 1.2? Well I think the...
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Marco's ideas for new Democratic party slogans
marco:
The Democratic Party: Depressingly Ineffective.™
The Democratic Party: We Won’t Put Up Much Of A Fight.™
The Democratic Party: Wait, We Won?™
The Democratic Party: We’ll Forgive Our Opponents Repeatedly So You Don’t Have To.™
The Democratic Party: Defeat You Can Believe In.™
The Democratic Party: How Much More Of A Majority And Public Support Do We Need To Get Anything Done?™