August 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29) →
Katy Perry (48)
Major Lazer & La Roux (28)
M83 (20)
Glee Cast (8)
Major Lazer (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Cider - A Development Environment for Macs →
Cider is a fully managed development environment for open source hacking on Mac OSX. It’s powered by rvm, homebrew and chef. You only need Xcode to get started.
Cider builds everything up in ~/Developer. It won’t stomp on any of your current installations so you don’t have to commit your entire machine immediately. It’s simple to rollback if you really want to.
On iOS PhoneGap Notifications
The documentation for this in the PG docs are a little anemic when it comes to this topic for some reason, so I’m putting this out there.
Some of the time when you present a modal dialog like ``alert'' and almost always when your present a ``confirm'' you want to perform some action when the dialog is dismissed.
The ``alert()'' and ``confirm()'' calls in normal web development are...
Ask a real musician: 5 classic male metal singers →
Super cool analysis and 5 (or 4) really awesome singers:
If you’re a singer, you should be following Claudia Friedlander’s blog. The classically-trained, New York-based voice teacher provides sage advice not only for singers for all types, but also for musicians and people in general.
Although at least one of her students sings metal, Friedlander knows virtually nothing about it. I wondered...
Hungover Owls →
chartier:
A great new Tumblr blog. Twice I laughed out loud in Argo Tea.
via Cesar Torres
Error QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR DOM Exception 22, iPad... →
If you’re getting this error while trying to update a localStorage record in iOS 3.2 (no idea if this is fixed in 4.0 or later), you’ll just need to remove the key before you store new data there.
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Marak's zztmmo GitHub →
Holy crap! I played this game (ZZT) non-stop as a kid on my 286. It even had its own programming language which I used to make my own levels (ZZT-OOP).
This is billed as: “(a leet ascii text adventure game you play in the browser with hundreds of thousands of other people in real-time)”
(re)Implemented on Node.js and jQuery !
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Ars Technica toolbar Safari extension
Just something I made for fun a few weeks back. I put it in Github and updated it a couple of times, but I never posted about it here for some reason.
You can do stuff like change the update frequency and pick a single section to view. I think it’d be pretty easy to enable combining multiple sections:
The meat of the extension is a toolbar. So the meat of is in toolbar.js, but...
Home-made gnochi and sauce—Saturday night cooking
Jacqui made gnochi from scratch (wow!)
I couldn’t let her just dump store-bought sauce on these. So I went out on the back deck and plucked some deliciousness off my plants. Four black tomatoes and one of my anaheim peppers:
I cooked up some onion, garlic in some olive oil, then peeled the tomatoes and added them to the pan along with half of the diced pepper (it was freaking spicy!)....
When worlds collide
HTML5 Peeks, Pokes and Pointers →
NimbleKit: Smart kit for fast iPhone apps... →
Similar to PhoneGap but iOS only. Also costs $99.
Creating desktop notifications from your web app →
There are a number of applications that can be used to turn a web application into a standalone desktop application. These applications are commonly referred to as Site Specific Browsers, or SSBs. The best way to generate an SSB is with Fluid (for Mac OS X) or Chrome (for Linux and Windows.)
via Lee
When does JavaScript trigger reflows and... →
Gone Parkin’ →
Ugh. Guh.
Several studies have found that cruising for curb parking generates about 30 percent of the traffic in central business districts. In a recent survey conducted by Bruce Schaller in the SoHo district in Manhattan, 28 percent of drivers interviewed while they were stopped at traffic lights said they were searching for curb parking. A similar study conducted by Transportation Alternatives...
Car Jack Planet →
Imagine a rogue, university-funded team of geologists researching ever-lower levels of the earth, forcing themselves downward with separating devices that pin open rocky wounds to split whole landmasses along unanticipated faultlines. Using these tools—terrain deformation grenades gone linear—they create islands in the earth’s crust, like walled castles of geology, carving out new blocks...
CSS/JS/HTML layout frameworks for mobile sites
Sencha Touch: http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/design.php
Slablet: http://github.com/fellowshiptech/slablet
Know of any other good ones?
The First World War, explained as a pub fight →
America waits till Germany is about to fall over from sustained punching from Britain and France, then walks over and smashes it with a barstool, then pretends it won the fight all by itself.
By now all the chairs are broken, and the big mirror over the bar is shattered. Britain, France and America agree that Germany threw the first punch, so the whole thing is Germany’s fault . While...
A series of articles by Chris Strom on Faye...
Chris is writing a JavaScript game with Faye (HTTP PubSub library for Node.js and Rack) and Raphaël.js. He’s documenting all his steps and is producing a bunch of really cool information during his trial & errors. I’ve noted these here as they pertain to some stuff I’ve been messing around with in my free time:
Faye Extensions 101: Disabling Wildcard Subscriptions
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Djangy - Heroku, but for Django projects →
If its like Heroku, then it will be awesome :) I think the name is a little too close to ‘Djanky’ though ;)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15) →
M83 (46)
Vampire Weekend (26)
DJ X-Rated and DJ Esco (20)
Ra Ra Riot (17)
Lady Gaga (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“In 2010, five of the world’s 10 most global cities are in Asia and the...”
– The Global Cities Index 2010 - An Foreign Polocy Special Report
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The Mosque in Manhattan →
As a guy who has been living less than 2 miles from the WTC for about 20 years, let me say that no one I know in downtown Manhattan is opposed to this Mosque in any way, shape or form. The “outrage” is completely manufactured by forces far from here. Most of us would hardly have noticed such a tiny new building, and those who did, would have simply been happy to see new money being...
Welp! →
Clint Ecker, a freelance journalist, spotted an ad four days after the iPhone’s release. The ad claimed that they were starting a company where women will chat with customers on a pay-as-you-go basis. The women will talk to the clients and “perform various acts as desired by clients.” In exchange, the women get a free iPhone 4 and increased pay as the business grows.
“One that quickly went viral - designed in a lark by Aurich Lawson, creative...”
– AP News: Web embraces JetBlue flight attendant in NY ruckus
paulirish's html5-boilerplate →
This is a set of files that a front-end developer can use to get started on a website, with following included:
Cross-browser compatible (IE6, yeah we got that.)
HTML5 ready. Use the new tags with certainty.
Optimal caching and compression rules for grade-A performance
Best practice site configuration defaults
Think there’s too much? The HTML5 Boilerplate is delete-key friendly. :)
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W3C File API: Directories and System →
Abstract This specification defines an API to navigate file system hierarchies, and defines a means by which a user agent may expose sandboxed sections of a user’s local filesystem to web applications. It builds on [FILE-WRITER], which in turn built on [FILE-API], each adding a different kind of functionality.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →
Lady Gaga (106)
Katy Perry (20)
Air (18)
Boards of Canada (17)
Taking Back Sunday (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
JetBlue Flight Attendant Pops Open Plane Chute at... →
It’s even better than it sounds:
Slater demanded an apology from the passenger, the official said, but the passenger refused. The two argued before the passenger told Slater to “f— off”, the official said. The official said that Slater then got on the plane’s PA system and directed that same obscenity at all the passengers and added that he especially meant it for the man who refused to...
“Because editors are often seen as unnecessary, we at IBM conducted a study to...”
– A Fourth of July lesson in the value of editors
Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned in California →
Cautiously happy, but not surprised at this result. This will end up at the Supreme Court for sure, but I find myself wondering if they’ll hear it. If they do, I’m hopeful that they will make a long lasting precedent that affirms American’s personal rights to create equal unions—in the eyes of the law—between whomever we choose.
A federal judge overturned California’s ban...
FiveBooks: The best five books on everything →
Every day an eminent writer, thinker, commentator, politician, academic chooses five books on their specialist subject. From Einstein to Keynes, Iraq to the Andes, Communism to Empire. Share in the knowledge and buy the books.
“This discovery comes from a study of the iconic dinosaur triceratops and its...”
– Morph-osaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us - life
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How to cook the perfect sunny side-up egg →
Pretty much eggxactly how I cook my two eggs each morning. I skip the butter on all but the most decadent days ;D
Vegetarian for a month: the truths and untruths →
A super cool post by Jacqui about our month of mostly-vegetarianism and what she learned. Touches on subjects such as:
You’ll lose a ton of weight when you ditch the meat!
You won’t have to count your calories, at least.
But, but… vitamins! Won’t you die of lack of B12 if you don’t eat meat?
You won’t get enough protein.
You’ll save money!
You’ll crave meat.
THE GARDEN
and more!
Really,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →
All Time Low (39)
N.A.S.A. (29)
Uffie (22)
DJ X-Rated and DJ Esco (16)
The Starting Line (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Reading on the iPad is a bit of a kludge. You can read on it, and it’s a lot...”
– Marco.org - The Kindle update