January 2013
4 posts
“I have to say, I’ve done optimization work on lots of projects over the years,...”
– A string processing rant
“Remember those old video games which had the final enemy boss level? Yeah. The...”
– Linode Forum :: View topic - nginx configuration full derp
“The MIME type of JSON is application/json http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt...”
– What MIME type if JSON is being returned by a REST API?
“The key insight I had while wearing my own version of Google Glass is that the...”
– Build Your Own Google Glass
December 2012
1 post
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you...”
– Ferris Bueller (via briancapozzi)
October 2012
8 posts
Steam Linux Beta →
How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Unraveled a... →
Watch(via Jonathan Harris: the Web’s secret stories | Video on TED.com)
Encoding for the iPad and iPhone? Better Learn... →
Romancing the Second Screen →
September 2012
25 posts
“The bot that is scored as most human-like by the human judges is named the...”
– Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing’s centenary
Momentum: "Loom" short film Now Online. By Ridley... →
R they making changes at Yahoo? →
Google Research Publication: Spanner →
What's slowing down Mobile Facebook →
Google Apps update alerts: Supporting modern... →
Brad Stone Plays TaskRabbit →
videlalvaro/gifsockets →
CoffeeScript.sublime-build →
Mozilla juices Firefox's JavaScript with IonMonkey →
Your Plant is Texting You: Please Add Water →
Skeu It! →
Just Because: An Original Zenith A386 El Primero... →
How Qihoo 360 Won the Browser War in China →
Quora, DropBox, Others Made $30M in Job Offers To... →
WebCamMesh →
How Tesla plans to short circuit new-car dealers →
4chan API →
Splitmo Building Apps For The Future Of Dual... →
Anatomy of an interactive: a look at the code... →
Nintendo Almost Made a Knitting Add-On for NES →
August 2012
19 posts
Users love simple and familiar designs – Why... →
“Headliner was a two-week experiment to explore the graphic possibilities of...”
– Guardian Headliner: The newspaper that looks back at you…
“We clearly have to be where consumers are, and we’re very anxious to deliver...”
– Viacom Inc. Plans Television Viewing Apps by End of Year
This American Life #7: Quitting
Great episode with a highlight being a full CD recording of old men arguing, recorded through the walls of a shit hole SF apartment. Ira really drives home the concept that the quitting process is a long one where the first two steps are both thinking about quitting (“you think about quitting, then think about it some more.” Throughout, Ira has a really interesting insight about our...
“The main ingredient to success is sincerity….once you learn to fake that,...”
– Bob Farmer
“I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m smart, and I’m articulate. And that scares the...”
– Admit It, I Scare The Ever-Loving Shit Out Of You, Don’t I?
“An often-repeated statement, usually attributed to Brian Eno or Peter Buck, is...”
– The Velvet Underground on Wikipedia
“Samsung has just released details about its new Exynos 5 5250 SoC for...”
– New Samsung Cortex A15-based chip opens door to “Retina” Android tablets
