Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
So, if you're going to manage to convince the world to change the way it does something, it had better have an benefit that's immediately obvious and take no more...
Read ArticleWatchmen Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Read ArticleStill, there's nothing technically preventing you from using [mouse button] chording in your program. If you want to code it up, then more power to you. Why is there no...
Read ArticleGeorge Orwell’s 1984 is rightly a hugely famous novel of the twentieth century. His depiction of a totalitarian future was so griping and compelling that the words and phrases he...
Read ArticleThe Complete Polysyllabic Spree Nick Hornby
Read ArticleThere is currently some discussion about the dangers of URL shorteners. Joshua Schachter points out that shortened URLs damage the web - the ‘hypertext as engine of application state’ part...
Read ArticleRFC 2806: a URL scheme for describing phone numbers. A URL looks like tel:+1-312-555-4589. Cute. I didn’t know this existed. But Mobile Safari on the iPhone does. It seems more...
Read ArticleSlumdog Milionaire Vikas Swarup
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