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because there’s nothing quite as hardy har as other people’s chatlogs… dolapo:...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:56:17 -0500

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 pornography

ztaylor: (via rickyv) aww

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:47:25 -0500

ztaylor:

(via rickyv)

aww

I’m feeling pretty good about the debugability of what I’m working on at work right now....

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:45:16 -0500

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

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:06:04 -0500

Awesome concise explanation of CSS positioning:

(via codeshal)

ztaylor: 3. Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix) - Gucci Mane *Free...

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:45:00 -0500

ztaylor:

3. Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix) - Gucci Mane *Free Gucci MixTape* (via GucciPlanet)

This is not a terrible mixtape. Counter point

Disappointed that I didn’t know or notice this until now.

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:47:54 -0500

Disappointed that I didn’t know or notice this until now.

guillee: I’m done: Star Wars opening crawl, using only HTML...

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:59:58 -0500

guillee:

I’m done: Star Wars opening crawl, using only HTML & CSS. Caveats: It only works in Snow Leopard in Safari 4.0.4 and the WebKit nightly. Nothing else supports the CSS 3D transforms and animations I used, but I just wanted to see if it could be done.

Yes yes, I know, I haven’t seen the full hexalogy but still groovy

ranting at 30k feet

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:35:28 -0500

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 CSS rule, it’s too difficult to determine where the rule is being used or what depends on it. You see, you tend to use css classes to either annotate nodes or style them. You refer to css anywhere you generate or reference html. For web applications this means you end up referencing CSS classes in:

Server side code that generates static html. These references likely live in whatever templates your framework uses. Or maybe you’re generating html by hand.
Javascript. The terrible place. Maybe you’re using some javascript templating system, maybe you’re creating DOM nodes by hand. Maybe you’re doing both. You’re probably also manipulating nodes to change CSS classes dynamically.

The sum is that you’ve got references to class names and parts of selectors all over the place with no good way to tie the relationships together. A quickie solution is to name selectors so you can at least ack your source tree for references to them or parents. For whatever reason, this doesn’t really work in practice… so here I am grepping for ‘title’. Maybe it’s in some ${”) somewhere. Most likely it’s not.

You should know that there’s a pretty decent solution that some Google projects use internally. It requires a certain amount of discipline but gives back quite a bit in return. Someone should open source this. *cough

ztaylor: momoney433 greatness

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:23:31 -0500

ztaylor:

momoney433

greatness

sgtm: This makes me happy shaneblog: A guy on a bike goes...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:15:27 -0400

sgtm:

This makes me happy

shaneblog:

A guy on a bike goes around NYC, high fiving people hailing taxis. I like how half the people are absolutely delighted that this just happened to them and the other half are either indifferent or super pissed off. Good way to separate the nice people from the assholes.

Whoa. Gmail is awesome for doing this. p.s. cherry blossom 4...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:58:51 -0400

Whoa. Gmail is awesome for doing this.

p.s. cherry blossom 4 life

I think the most accurate description of my relationship with...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:42:07 -0400

I think the most accurate description of my relationship with cacti is frenemies

heh, oops

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:19:00 -0400

heh, oops

146!

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:26:44 -0400

146!

Yay Reader! for new awesome features. One of the last TODOs I...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:54:00 -0400

Yay Reader! for new awesome features. One of the last TODOs I left in the Reader codebase, and ~~Mihai~~Devin implemented it! Should be pretty easy to figure out how to trigger it ;)

My bike’s here!

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:30:43 -0400

My bike’s here!

@cw (c dubs) sent me this handy guide to my apartment earlier today. It’s true, I still have...

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:14:07 -0400

@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 buying plants for the roof deck, but decided to worry about it later. I did end up buying lots more cleaning supplies.
Phone numbers are ten digits, not seven. Peoples, please stop giving out seven-digit phone numbers, I don’t know how to call them. xoxoxo.
My first official non-spam, non-philly-cheese-steak-delivery-free-free-free mail was from netflix. The movie? Special. Worthy of a first mail? Unclear.
I almost always want to go to eastward toward Valencia when walking out of my apartment. Even though Liberty runs through Guerrero, the street is broken at that intersection. Specifically, there’s a median in the way and no cross walk. Google Maps doesn’t show this very well, but here’s a street view. This forces me to jaywalk² every single day. Please do not alert the authorities.
Bevmo is kind of incredible. I had no idea. So much selection.
@shellen demoed brizzly today. Sign up if you want in on the ~~beta~~alpha.
Junipero is tasty tasty stuff.
The new Royce EP is also good.
As is @evan’s cassandra overview.
And slaughterhouse.

Exciting is a very very strong word

True story, the word Jay describes an inexperienced person

Untested. Well, because I don’t know where my things are....

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:03:55 -0400

Untested. Well, because I don’t know where my things are. You end up putting so much faith in movers to transport your precious belongings across the country. And then they don’t return your calls. C’mon Oz, you’re supposed to be the wizard of moving! The weather has been — apparently uncharacteristically — awesome these past couple of days. Not quite warm enough to explain all the shirtlessness in dolores park though. It’s not that warm people! I guess it makes it easier to pick out the sane ones (hint: they have shirts on, and, in some cases, sweaters)

I have an apartment! It has a great view, and a roof deck, and is all sorts of conveniently located, and yippee! Settling in after being settled for so long is difficult. I need to paint, and figure out where everything goes, and replace my old routines with suitable (or better) ones. I’ve started on that a little. I joined a gym. Though it’s a bit rickety, the price and location are just right. Hasad, the proprietor, is really big on returning the weights. None of the weights looked out of place to me. Probably because of all the “please return the weights” signage. I hope. Maybe he beats the disobedient. Everything is looking goooood.

From the posts that will be entered as an exhibit department. I can’t help but wonder...

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:43:05 -0400

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 Police, another unwatchable splatter fest. I hate leaving movies unfinished but I only got through 20 minutes of that one. The blood is this watery, continuous stream stuff that sprays every which way like a garden hose out of control. I don’t understand the appeal. It tends to remind me of the vomiting scene from Problem Child 2. You know the one.

Numero dos - I was just watching Die Hard. Action movies from the 80s and 90s always had that thick ketchupy blood. It sort of splurts out in this weird unrealistic way, all goopy like corn syrup.

When is Dexter coming back?

The new times square

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:40:34 -0400

The new times square