February 2010
1 post
because there’s nothing quite as hardy har as other people’s chatlogs…
dolapo: have you considered that we could use this technology to build the ultimate porn sniffing device?
dolapo: s/could/should/
zack: i don’t like the words ‘porn’ and ‘sniffing’ together
shellen: the chrome extension?
ben: i’m not interested in your scented...
January 2010
8 posts
I’m feeling pretty good about the debugability of what I’m working on at work right now. A combo of
python. code.interact and pdb for the win.
no frontend server state. er, excessive memcachery.
some quality abstractions. back pat, back pat.
means I can just hop on a prod box and just debug away in python.
Awesome concise explanation of CSS positioning →
(via codeshal)
ranting at 30k feet
I hate code cruft. The remnants of code that might have been used at some point but are no longer in operation. It’s not just some weird OCD thing, the maintenance pain is quite real. As are the effects on development time. For many languages you can use static analysis tools to detect and remove unused code, but not for you Mr CSS. Maintaining CSS is the opposite of awesome. For any random...
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
2 posts
July 2009
7 posts
@cw (c dubs) sent me this handy guide to my apartment earlier today. It’s true, I still have nothing. Hopefully this will no longer be the case come, um, two weeks from now. But there are exciting1 developments so allow me to enumerate.
Zipcar rocks my world. It allowed me to drive all over Oakland today. Getting furniture upholstered as well an espresso-fueled Target run. I came close to...
From the posts that will be entered as an exhibit department.
I can’t help but wonder about the correct consistency of blood splatter. Two things make me wonder this.
The first is the trailer for Robogeisha. Seriously, don’t watch this trailer. I have a pretty strong stomach, but it’s a bit much for me. Robogeisha is brought to you by the minds behind Tokyo Gore...
June 2009
5 posts
Years later, when the children are grown and leaving for college, the grandmother robot explains to the children that she knows her job is done. Although she will return to the factory and be recycled into a new robot to look after other children, she will share with the other electric grandmothers the experiences she has had with Anne, Karen, and Tom.
I Sing the Body Electric
and use the...
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
13 posts
Pre-emptive apology for ze dupes. Changing flickr feed URL to a specific tag…
A race of aliens known as the Kanamits lands on Earth and promises to be nothing but helpful to the cause of humanity. Initially wary of the intentions of such a highly advanced race, even the most skeptical humans are convinced when their code-breakers begin to translate one of the Kanamit’s books, with the seemingly innocuous title, “To Serve Man.”
Episode 89 (To Serve Man) is...
8 years later and I’m not convinced it’s possible to sit still through this song. No one Ever Really Dies.
Suddenly, the sound of a bomb detonation shakes Radin’s shelter. He takes the elevator to the surface and sees that a nuclear war really has occurred, and the world is in ruins. This twist ending is given another twist, however, when we learn that Radin, devastated by his hoax’s failure, has lost his mind and is only imagining that the world has ended. One More Pallbearer
Surprise!...
March 2009
9 posts
Wow, it’s been 5 years since Madvillainy...
February 2009
22 posts
“Albums produced wholly or partly by the Soulquarians:
1999 The Roots - Things...”
– Soulquarians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There should be an easier way to grab HD content from the Tivo. As best as I can figure:
Download data and tivodecode. (Simple thanks to Now Playing, a… dashboard widget… for reasons I don’t really understand. Remember when everything was a dashboard widget?)
Stream the mpeg2 through vlc to make a more normal mpeg2 ts file. This part is especially silly. The tivodecode output...