mccutchen

The amount of work that goes into these — being thorough when collecting the data throughout the year and putting it together in a nice package at the end — is too daunting for me to consider, so I like observing and admiring the odd minutiae of the lives of those willing and able to put in the work.

"… as soon as I saw 'the slow web movement,' I assigned my own meaning to it. Because it’s a great name, and great names are like knots—they’re woven from the same stringy material as other words, but in their particular arrangement, they catch, become junctions to which new threads arrive, from which other threads depart."

I thought about doing the same thing as I read through it.

> What we mean by single backend is you can have one backend and you don't need to know whether you are on an Android or iOS platform. You get the same analytics.

I can't fathom why a backend service would ever not work this way.

Chrome 16.0.904.0

I think this is exactly what OP has done. It doesn't feel "native" to iOS to me, but it does feel like a well-made little web app. I don't have an Android device to test it on, but it does seem like it would fit in just fine on one.

http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualPrope...

And it probably would've taken me a little while to realize that I'd need to rewrite CSS files as well, so thanks for that, too!

simonw, if you're listening, how do you solve this problem?

How do you go from, e.g.,

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">

to

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.{current-hash}.css">

?

http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/6840184364/hand-pixelated

"That cover is NOT the original photo, downsampled. It’s a hand-crafted, precisely drawn interpretation of the source. Anyone who’s ever seriously put pixels to screen will tell you that this is an actual artistic method, one with its own challenges, tricks, and yes, an aesthetic."

I've never heard this claim made, and it has been a long time since I've actually used PHP in any meaningful way. Care to expand on this?

I'd be interested in a comparison to Python's support for reflection, which is simple and pervasive.

GitX works perfectly for me in this regard. It's simply `gitx -c` from the current directory to open a nice GUI for staging files (or pieces of files) and composing a commit message or `gitx` to view the history of the current repo. And it's fast, so launching it does not get in my way too much.

All of the other ones I've tried have had poor command line integration and wanted me to tell them about my repos ahead of time. I guess maybe that reflects the needs/workflow of the majority of people who want a nice OS X GUI for git, but it doesn't work at all for me.

Just sort of interesting.

Actually, I do have a concrete suggestion: Lose the orange stripes in the background. They don't serve a purpose and they actually interfere visually with the "log in" and "share a link" boxes, at least at my particular browser window size.

What's the difference between PHP's arrays and hashtables/dictionaries/etc in languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript?

As a Python programmer (who started with PHP years ago), PHP's arrays now seem sort of muddled or confusing. I prefer Python's dedicated list/dict types (though nothing is stopping you from mixing numeric and string keys in a dict).