This year
amoffat/pbs - GitHub
PBS is a unique subprocess wrapper that maps your system programs to Python functions dynamically. PBS helps you write shell scripts in Python by giving you the good features of Bash (easy command calling, easy piping) with all the power and flexibility of Python.
2011
Moving The Web Forward « Paul Irish
DramaHi, Paul. Actually, I tweeted about "Move the Web Forward" on Blue Beanie Day the moment I saw it, and I linked to it from Facebook and Google+, but carry on with the character assassination. I tweeted about it without knowing who was behind it (doesn't matter), and without being *entirely* clear what it was about (you have some copy problems I would have been glad to help with). I was pleased to discover this blog post as I thought, "Ah, now I can reach out to the people behind that site and help them publicize it more" but then, a few paragraphs in, I saw your shitty little whiney character assassination of me (quoted above) and thought, oh, well. Why do you do this to yourself? Why do you create something nice and then shit on someone else? What kind of behavior is that? You did the same thing when you complained about A List Apart even though we've reached out to you for *three years* asking you for content and input. Calling something on the web crap is always a childish move, particularly when that thing is open and your feedback and content have been solicited for it many times. I gather you have some unexplained grudge against me. Or against the young dude in Ireland who created some web standards buttons for fun. If you think my help of his project is how I earn my living, you need to get out of the cubicle more. I'm usually polite to everyone, even very rude people, but you're being both whiney *and* a dick, which is a hard combo most people to pull off (fortunately most people don't try). Your project looks cool and could benefit from outside help, but I won't be helping because you are an asshole. You are, I think, the only asshole I've met in 20 years of doing web work. Fuck off.
Business Card Composer
California Library Association: Legislation -- GOVERNOR RELEASES 2011-12 BUDGET - LIBRARY FUNDING DECIMATED
This morning newly elected Governor, Jerry Brown, released his 2011-12 Budget proposal, calling it “painful” and one that “requires sacrifice from every sector of the state, but we have no choice.” The plan recommends a whopping $12.5 billion in cuts and $12 billion in revenue options in order to address the staggering $25 billion Budget, as well as a “vast and historic restructuring of services,” as part of the Governor’s realignment proposal.
2010
John's Phone | The World's Simplest Cell Phone
An Event Apart | The Survey for People Who Make Websites 2010
20.1. webbrowser — Convenient Web-browser controller — Python v2.7 documentation
The webbrowser module provides a high-level interface to allow displaying
Web-based documents to users. Under most circumstances, simply calling the
open() function from this module will do the right thing.
Hacker News | Yes, and that's why it's dumb to call articles about exercise and nutrition "hac...
Are You a Chronic Meta-Enabler? - The Awl
Fighting the @font-face FOUT « Paul Irish
Fighting the @font-face FOUT « Paul Irish
iTravel: Apple's Future Travel Centric App for the iPhone - Patently Apple
RESTAPIRules - implementing-rest - API designers, please note the following rules before calling your creation a REST API - Project Hosting on Google Code
API designers, please note the following rules before calling your creation a REST API
Google Kills SearchWiki, Replaces It With Starred Results
Episode 3 of the Final Season of LOST « The Final Season of LOST as Seen by Someone Who Has Never Seen LOST
Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet? « Boy Genius Report
That’s right, y’all. We’re back at it, and this time we’ve received some exclusive iPhone OS 4.0 details from one of our trusty Apple connects.
2009
Cool Websites, Web Applications, and Mobile Tools
russell davies: ruricomp
a. This is only just true, in the last few years. So for almost all of human history, most of us have not lived in cities. This would suggest that we're pretty well adapted to not living in cities. I'm not calling for a retreat to a bucolic paradise, but I'm saying this is worth thinking about.
REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled
API designers, please note the following rules before calling your creation a REST API:
PJF's Pages - Journal - Dark Stalking on Facebook
However like dark matter, dark users are observable due to their effects on the rest of the universe. If a dark user comments on a stream entry, I can see that comment. More importantly, I can see their user-ID, and I can generate a URL to a page that will contain their name. I can then watch for their activities elsewhere. Granted, I can't directly search for their activity, but I can observe their effects on my friends. For want of a better term, I've been calling this "dark stalking".
The Art of zen-coding: Bringing Snippets to a New Level - Monday By Noon
The biggest calling point for zen-coding for me is its implementation of HTML selectors as snippet triggers. zen-coding includes an entirely new angle to writing markup, and it facilitates the feature by letting you write HTML based on CSS selectors
Exists for a wide range of editors, if you like snippets.


