Almost two years ago, Jason Kottke published del.icio.us will eat itself. I was intrigued by this recursive process on delicious, and wanted to find out how deep this chain went, so a year later, I decided to write an app to descend the del.icio.us hierarchy. Well, almost twelve months, one OS bug, and one new […]
The cinematography of this movie so far is excellent: great shots, lighting, et cetera. One thing, though, is driving me to drink: most scenes were shot with an anamorphic lens, which, between the lens and later conversion processes, leads to an oval-shaped bokeh for out of focus light sources. I found this out on a […]
Tabs versus spaces is one of the lifelong debates between programmers. “tabs versus spaces” has as many hits on Google as “vi versus emacs”: it’s that big a deal. (VI 4 LYFE!) Arguments on both sides are quite valid. Proponents of tabs defend the flexibility of defining a \t character to whatever width you desire. Proponents […]
The most tragic hardware failure in computing today is the loss of a hard drive. It dies, taking your bits with it, and getting them back is an expensive proposition. I hear about it all the time, from friends, people online in forums, and even in blog posts. Hard drives are tires for your computer. […]
I’ve been looking at geotagging more of my photos lately, either by hand after the fact, or automatically with the help of dedicated hardware. I’ve found a lot of links so far for hardware, but I haven’t found exactly what I’m looking for. In the meantime, I’ve been tagging a few on Flickr, but am increasingly […]
I just watched Minimum Wage on Hulu, linked from Mike Ziray on Twitter. If there’s one thing I learned in school, it’s to take your knowledge and apply it in the real world. We didn’t cover minimum wage in any depth, but we did cover price floors and ceilings, and it’s easy to make conclusions […]
As seen in Woodside, CA on my way home from Safeway one evening. (cropping idea and blog post format shamelessly borrowed from Chris Glass) The last few days have seen me searching for a new place to live. I came out to California with a two-step housing dance in mind. First, find a sublet for […]
Development on CPU History has stalled while I speak with my manager about it. I hope to be able to start back up on it soon, but I can’t make any guarantees. It’s on GitHub, so fork it and start hacking if that’s your style. I’m working on a round-up of advice and improvements stemming […]
A month ago yesterday, I began my first post-college job: working for Apple. I’ll borrow a page from a similar post on Antipode and say simply this: Quite obviously, nothing I say here is speaking on behalf of the company: trust me, they can come up with much more interesting ways to announce things than through […]
I’m writing this on my phone. Not because I have to, but because I can. I just realized that my first day at Apple post never went up like it was supposed to that morning. I guess I can rewrite and publish it late. Way late.
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