ben lowery

The Netherlands

2012 Dec 27th

Ever wonder what the difference was between Holland and The Netherlands? Now you know.

Linkage: December 7th, 2012 to December 20th, 2012

2012 Dec 20th
Geeky Fingernails / Doctor Who “Silence” manicure
#DoctorWho "Silence" Manicure #NailArt
A Tale of Animation Performance | CSS-Tricks
On using translate() vs top/left for moving elements around. First I'd seen of using translate() to do designy type motion effects. Pretty neat.
A Seasonal Tipple
Plane's Milk of Amnesia. Basically, make at home Bailey's.
You Are Not Your Code
Thoughts from Sam Stephenson, creator of Prototype
jq
"jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text."

Linkage: November 16th, 2012 to December 5th, 2012

2012 Dec 5th
Level Legs the Easy Way
Neat trick for leveling legs on four-legged objects. Requires a table saw.
ITTEN: The Elements of Color, 1970.
Wonderful book on color
Git Immersion
Good starting point for Git
Save _flymake files in a temporary directory | blog.arithm
How to make flymake behave with javascript using the jshint forumula from EmacsWiki
Using QOS – Tutorial and discussion | LinksysInfo.org
A long, good read on setting up QoS for a SOHO network.

Linkage: October 18th, 2012 to November 16th, 2012

2012 Nov 16th
Setting up Emacs as a Javascript editing environment for Fun or Profit « Deadpan Sincerity
Some good tips on setting up Emacs to edit Javascript. This is where I stumbled upon auto-complete-mode. js-comint is super super handy.
Auto Complete Mode – The most intelligent auto-completion extension for GNU Emacs
Wow, an auto completion mode for emacs that actually seems to work. Worth a shot.
Tom Blomfield: Making something people want – The GoCardless story
"Most startups aren't competing with other startups; they're competing with no one giving a shit".
Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript | Smashing Coding
Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript -
Leaner Programmer Anarchy
Longish talk on programming and using anarchy to get shit done

Linkage: October 9th, 2012 to October 18th, 2012

2012 Oct 18th
Rands In Repose: The Elegant Email
Rands on writing good email.
Escaping Captivity: Social Apes making Software in the Wild
Isaac Schlueter's talk from Node Dublin on emergent structure in NPM
Anarchism at TacoConf
Isaac Schlueter's slides from his talk on Anarchism and NodeJS at TacoConf.
Romney Proudly Explains How He’s Turned Campaign Around | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
"The best part is, it’s really easy to lie." – Mitt Romney
Talarico Hardwoods
Looks like a great source for quarter-sawn white oak