August 2009
19 posts
The reason most people want to program for the web is that they’re not smart...
– Michael Braude’s Technical Blog: Why I’ll Never Be A ‘Web Guy’
I often find myself loathing Flash and preferring standards-based web development, even though my daily work is just the opposite, but reading this is a good reminder that having programming knowledge is a big plus.
(via couch)
I...
Outside Lands Schedule
Stoked about Outside Lands this weekend. Planned schedule so far (probably will only hit 60% of this, haven’t looked how far the stages are from one another)
Friday:
Built to Spill
Silversun Pickups
Incubus
Thievery Corporation
Saturday:
The Dirtbombs
Mastadon
Os Mutantes
TV on the Radio
The Mars Volta
Sunday:
Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Modest Mouse
Ween
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goddammit i accidentally 14 hours of drinking
– thedaniel
The mass populus of Tumblr should be embarrassed... →
Myself included. He’s just on a whole different plane. And I wish I was there too.
No, let’s not have rules. I don’t feel comfortable with...
– And this, is why _why rocks. Not because of the code, art, music, or anything else he created. But because of why he created it.
AE Crash Reports →
Always On
lonelysandwich:
My hypothesis: from the moment you launch the Camera app, data is not only streaming to the viewer, but being cached to memory at full resolution, much like a TiVo with a live broadcast. Where there’s been latency in previous versions of the iPhone hardware/software due to processing limitations, those limitations have been overcome in the iPhone 3GS, closing the gap between...
Similarly a 2004 article in the magazine San Francisco estimated that unmarried...
– Why there are no girls in San Francisco
Arrrrg, this drives me INSANE when people use statistics like this. 12,000 sure seems like a lot of people. Except the population of SF is around 800,000. And the daytime population near a million. 12,000 people out of a million is a little more than 1%....