Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
Still, 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
Read ArticlePreviously, I’ve mentioned that I’ve written a script that will show a Twitter user who they and another Twitter user both follow.
Read ArticleApparently I think of myself as some sort of web-type-person. Well, that’s a bit hard to maintain without my own home on the web. So, now I have one.
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