April 2011
3 posts
WatchWatch
Steve Souders talks about web performance (of course) at Webstock 2011.
Apr 7th
Paul Irish tells us about requestAnimationFrame →
If you let the browser set your framerate, it can tune well for performance and stop animating background tabs. This is just starting to get implemented - not out there yet.
Apr 7th
Logs Are Streams, Not Files →
Apr 1st
February 2010
2 posts
Faye: a Comet client and server for Node.js and... →
Feb 3rd
Feb 3rd
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January 2010
2 posts
Fetch as Googlebot | Carsonified →
Google Webmaster Tools lets you see your page as Google sees it.
Jan 13th
Easy statistics for AdWords A/B testing, and... →
An easy rule of thumb to determine how many data points you need.
Jan 5th
December 2009
5 posts
“The story goes that Babbage was inspired to create the Difference Engine one day...”
– A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself : NPR
Dec 10th
HTML Paragraph-ize in Vim
:100,150 s/\s*(\S.*\S)\s*/<p>\1<\/p>/ A little vim command to surround lines in <p> tags. It says to take lines 100 to 150, strip whitespace at the start and end of the line and then add the opening and closing tags. You should change the line numbers to fit your situation. If you want it to apply to the whole file, replace the 100,150 with %. It leaves empty lines or...
Dec 9th
Chromium Blog: Technically speaking, what makes... →
Dec 4th
Dec 3rd
Google Code Blog: Google Analytics Launches... →
New way to load GA that is faster and less error-prone.
Dec 2nd
November 2009
9 posts
Chromium OS →
An OS that is only a browser. I love the purity of the concept.
Nov 19th
Software is hard | Eventbug (alpha) Released →
See all registered event handlers in FireBug - hooray! Unfortunately we’ll have to wait for Firefox 3.6 before we can use it.
Nov 11th
“Strangers who randomly email me crazy proprietary shit with an “implied...”
– Merlin Mann
Nov 11th
Bilski
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Mr. Stewart, I thought I understood your argument up until the very last footnote in your brief. And you say this is not — simply the method isn’t patentable because it doesn’t involve a machine. But then you say but it might be if you use a computer to identify the parties that you are setting a price between and if you used a microprocessor to...
Nov 11th
Underscore.js - a library to make JS more... →
“functional” as in “functional programming”
Nov 5th
DailyJS: A JavaScript Blog →
Nov 5th
The Complete Guide to Google Wave →
Nov 4th
Paul Graham - Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule →
I have two meetings today, which made me think of this essay.
Nov 3rd
Robby on Rails : Tracking Google Analytics events... →
Nov 2nd
October 2009
14 posts
Coding Horror: Revisiting "The Fold" →
Nowadays, users know how to scroll.
Oct 30th
Carsonified » Dan Rubin on Web Typography →
Fonts - that’s like when your letters have little pointy edges, right?
Oct 28th
ListenWhile My Keytar Gently Weeps
Oct 22nd
hurl →
Make HTTP requests and see what comes back. (Created at the latest Rails Rumble)
Oct 20th
A Deeper Look at mod_rewrite for Apache - Nettuts+ →
Oct 20th
Video on the Web - Dive Into HTML5 →
Oct 16th
danieltenner.com — What problems does Google... →
via Gruber
Oct 16th
Stack Overflow Careers →
This will probably be a great place to find programmers.
Oct 15th
github Behind a Firewall →
Oct 14th
Wired - The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s Hacker... →
Oct 14th
Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard... →
Once more I hear the siren call of awesome hardware advances.
Oct 14th
30 years of failure: the username/password... →
Oct 14th
Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and... →
SEO is a scam.
Oct 13th
@font-face and performance →
Short version - don’t use @font-face.
Oct 13th