January 2012
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June 2011
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“There may still be some developers who say there’s no place for style and...”
– Brent Simmons in Daring Fireball: The Future of NetNewsWire: An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel’s Daniel Pasco
Jun 5th
April 2011
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Apr 5th
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LaunchBar Search Templates for AllMusic
I made these search templates for LaunchBar this morning for performing quick searches on AllMusic. Because AllMusic displays different output for their search queries depending on whether or not there is a unique match, using these templates to spoof a POST request from their search box will give you much better results than using the GET-based URL scheme for their search result list pages. To...
Apr 4th
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March 2011
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February 2010
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“But Casual Victim Pile isn’t any sort of manifesto or template. To quote Cosloy...”
– I have to admit that I’m as guilty as anyone of lamenting the loss (and impending loss) of places like Armadillo World Headquarters, Liberty Lunch, and the Cactus Cafe, but at the same time this kind of enthusiasm for what’s going on now and how it lays foundations for Austin’s...
Feb 7th
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November 2009
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October 2009
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July 2009
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Jul 23rd
“Be not ashamed to study the astronomy and terrestrial philosophy of the...”
– Peter Severinus, 16th c. Danish Paracelsian physician
Jul 23rd
March 2009
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Mar 24th
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Pavement - Gold Soundz
Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
– Horace Walpole (via quote-book) (via afternoontea)
Mar 10th
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Mar 8th
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Mar 8th
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“So if Twitter is not a threat to Google, is it a threat to Facebook? That case...”
– Farhad’s redeeming himself from whatever the hell that piece on Gmail was a few weeks back. The above is precisely why Twitter is the only explicitly social network I participate in. Basically the Web 2.0 equivalent of Gruber’s Untitled Document Syndrome. (Quoted from Twitter’s not...
Mar 7th
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In the Details: Distinguishing Form Labels
designaday: A question was posed to the IxDA discussion list about whether or not colons should be used between a label and a form field. The answer is no, and the reasoning is very straightforward. Colons have been used to separate labels from values because there does need to be something to distinguish one from the other. In black and white print, the colon serves this purpose quite well. On...
Mar 6th
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February 2009
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“Although Linnaeus had many disciples, only one ever located any cochineal. In...”
– This anecdote is one of my new favorite history of science stories. The production of scientific knowledge is always, and always has been, contingent on many unpredictable and uncontrollable variables; however, the engagement with physical specimens and great distances that defined the work of...
Feb 3rd
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The technical story of Muxtape
tlvx: … Originally Muxtape was written in PHP, about a year ago. PHP is a fantastic language for gradually turning static pages into functional ones in an ad hoc way. However, PHP as a language is a clusterfuck of bad design decisions because it lacks a clear vision. With the new Muxtape we have an amazingly expansive (and yet minimally focused) vision and needed a better foundation to...
Feb 1st
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January 2009
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“Why do I get so tangled up in the speaker decision? I’m as dumb about ohms...”
– @hodgman
Jan 9th