John Resig, creator of jQuery, rips Google Groups a new one. Not using Gmail’s awesome anti-spam technology in Google Groups only creates problems for Google Groups users who aren’t also Gmail users. Google has become so enmeshed in (and is profiting so much from) their own monoculture that they no longer need to care about how their products interface with the rest of the world.
Category Archives: blurb
10/GUI
Pretty cool proof of concept video for 10/GUI, combining multi-touch and a new approach to window management.
10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
This feels like something Apple might ship with OS X if they didn’t have to worry about alienating existing users. I already tend to arrange my windows (and OS X’s Dock) horizontally, with application drawers on the left and the right for constant visibility when other windows are on top. Two hand, ten-finger multi-touch is definitely on the horizon.
Like wide-screen or two-monitor desktops, the primacy of the horizontal axis in 10/GUI takes full advantage of the human field of vision being much wider than it is tall. But I wonder how (and if) you can change a window’s width, and also how it would deal with smaller windows (like preferences dialogs).
(Via Dustin.)
Free Electrons
Jason in a Nutshell talks about Rands in Repose’s Free Electrons. I’ve never worked with someone who fit the description of a Free Electron perfectly, but I see characteristics of past co-workers, and myself, in their descriptions.
Hypotrochoid gears
Via Virtox.
The Dollar ReDe$ign Project
Perhaps a down economy is precisely the right time for an overdue idea like Dollar ReDe$ign Project. The designs range from silly to serious, from niche, like Nate Castiglione’s A Giant Leap for Mankind to equitable, like, Jeff Harris’s Cocktail Anyone? (including The Gipper and Mt. Whitney), to Michael Tyznik’s pretty, practical, and plausible designs.
JavaScript closures
This article on JavaScript Closures is a must-read for anyone writing even moderately complex JavaScript. Contrary to popular belief, JavaScript is not just a toy scripting language just for validation and UI special effects; it has complexities and subtleties on par with the big guns.
Descriptivist Statistical Semantics Rex
The Anglo-Zanzibar of Computer Science
Ted Neward’s The Vietnam of Computer Science enumerates in depth all the hard problems in Object-Relational Mapping. The state of the art has changed enough since Neward published the article in 2006 — SQLAlchemy tackles all, and solves many, of these problems now.
PHP bug #48669
Dating and demographics
Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco vs. Where Are The Men in San Francisco explore both sides of our particular dating scene. I’m sure both sides could find something to lament in this National Geographic map from a few years back:
After helping one friend usher random drunk belligerent frat boy douche-bags out of her housewarming party last night, and talking to another friend at three A.M. while she waited for San Francisco General Hospital to treat her Australian houseguest for injuries sustained in a North Beach bar brawl, I’m thinking that purple dot is quite a liability for our fair 7×7.