Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22jan2008
Webolodeon, a GreaseMonkey extension: “Once installed, you will be pestered every 5 minutes to make a case for your further web browsing. If your work is done, just cancel the dialog box and quit the app; if you’re not finished (and you really need to keep zipping around the Interweb a bit longer), insert a virtual nickel by typing a summary of what you’re working on.”
CMPH: C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library, which was conceived to create minimal perfect hash functions for very large sets of keys.
You said Clapton wrote that song for you
But you don’t look wonderful tonight
With wet eyes and black mascara on your cheeks
At least they’ll notice
— You Will Get Well Soon, I’m Dreaming Of A White Wedding
Nachtrag Weihnachtskartenkritik, was für eine geniale Karte.
Aguri: Coolest Data Structure You’ve Never Heard Of, can be used to heuristically find netmasks.
HTML 5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML is now a working draft! Yay.
The Design and Implementation of Typed Scheme, by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and Matthias Felleisen. “This paper presents Typed Scheme, an explicitly typed exten- sion of an untyped scripting language. Its type system is based on the novel notion of occurrence typing, which we formalize and me- chanically prove sound.”
Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8, by Aaron Gustafson at A List Apart. “Two key factors, working in concert, have made the DOCTYPE unsustainable as a switch for standards mode.” Icky.
Don’t you think you’ll never be loved
I hold your hand till the bleeding stops
I hold your hand till you fall apart
And you dream your endless dream
— You Will Get Well Soon, Your Endless Dream
From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey, by Eric Meyer at A List Apart. “The version-targeting mechanism Aaron described was just wrong, completely backwards, the exact opposite of what we ought to be doing. Every one of my instincts, honed over a decade-plus of web development, was in opposition.”
Welcome to the Flat Earth Society!, “Thanks for taking the time to go through this FAQ. It was created in light of the realization that for someone with a “round-Earth” (RE) background, the FE theory would appear at first glance to have some glaring holes.” Stunning.
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