August 2011
On holiday...
I’m on holiday in Europe for a bit. Antipodean will resume publishing on Oct 4th.
BinaryParser →
Parsing binary formats in JavaScript. Looks useful.
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Firefox 6 is here →
Tons of great new stuff in Firefox 6.
Whyday is Friday →
:’-(
How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous →
Zach Holman on Github’s work culture (and his hatred of meetings).
As usual—discussion on HN.
Etherpad Lite →
Etherpad Lite is based on node.js what makes it much lighter and more stable than the original Etherpad.
via
Hey, Bethesda! Let's settle this! →
notch:
I am back, and I am excited.
Marriage has been wonderful so far, and nobody sabotaged my computer while I was gone.
The only negative thing going on at this moment is the Scrolls trademark lawsuit nonsense, and I think I came up with the perfect solution:
Remember that scene in Game of Thrones where Tyrion chose a trial by battle in the Eyrie? Well, let’s do that instead! I challenge...
HTML5 Rocks - How Browsers Work →
Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
Seriously good article. In-depth and well written. A must read.
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“Every OS has its purpose. OSX, building webapps. Linux, running web apps....”
– TechScruggs (Aaron Scruggs)
The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization... →
It never actually happens that way. Ever. When performance wasn’t a consideration from day one, inefficiency becomes endemic, corrupting every square mibbibyte of the project. Why not iterate a giant array instead of using hashes? Why not use LINQ everywhere, repeatedly and inefficiently filtering a massively excessive superset of the needed data?
Fluid Simulation for Video Games →
I’m currently reading through this. A really excellent and in-depth article so far..
Edit like an Ace →
Improved inline file editing in GitHub. Hot.
Did the 'Sword & Sworcery' Soundtrack Just Get... →
“apparently without permission from Jim Guthrie; get the soundtrack on Bandcamp”
via Waxy
Getting refunds on open-source projects →
Simple Ruby Version Management: rbenv →
rbenv lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Ruby. It’s simple, unobtrusive, and follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools that do one thing well.
Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging Minified JS... →
YES!
The Definitive Guide To Forms based Website... →
Comprehensive.
Git Streamwrapper for PHP →
Git Streamwrapper for PHP is a PHP library that allows PHP code to interact with one or multiple Git repositories from within an application. The library consists of a Git repository abstraction that can be used to programatically access Git repositories and of a stream wrapper that can be hooked into the PHP stream infrastructure to allow the developer to use file and directory access functions...
Basic Locks and Lockpicking — an online course at... →
“Paid $$$ for a locksmith after locking yourself out of your house? Fuck that. $10 DIY lockpicking course from Learnable.”
via @andrew_k
How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid... →
Great article.. and some great discussion at Hacker News.
What did Stringer Bell do wrong? →
This is why I <3 Quora. In-depth answers on random topics. :-D
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“Use strong, definite language in your writing. Make that sentence your bitch.”
– The Elements of Fucking Style
What Proxies Must Do →
It turns out it’s harder to write a HTTP proxy than I’d first thought..
The Mission to Get Osama Bin Laden →
Wow.. great article.
“DO NOT argue with Lisp programmers, believers in the Semantic Web, or furries.”
– Charles’ Rules of Argument
JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Part... →
Some folks think that saying “JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web” is a totally insane statement. So, I asked a few JavaScript gurus like Brendan Eich (the inventor of JavaScript) and Douglas Crockford (inventor of JSON) and Mike Shaver (Technical VP at Mozilla). Here is our private email thread, with their permission.
"I sent a balloon to space and photographed Venus... →
Pure awesome!! :-D
Stuff Everyone Should Do (part 2): Coding... →
Another thing that we did at Google that I thought was surprisingly effective and useful was strict coding standards.
Stop Using Backbone As If It Were A Stateless Web... →
Client-side MVC is not quite the same as server-side MVC…
The Mother of All Interview Questions →
