The trailer is looking a lot more promising than the teaser. I quite enjoyed the book for the 80s references. But if you peel away the nostalgia and geekery, it’s a really hollow, uninteresting piece of writing. (I just want to watch the movie to see the effects.)
If you look through design history and you see something that looks really radical, that’s what you’re going to be doing now. If you think that’s nice, that’s what you’ve already been doing. If you think it’s tired, that’s what you were doing five years ago. But if you think it’s ugly, that’s what you’re going to be doing in five years.
Ghost is an open source, extensible platform for building and running blogs online publications. I did a quick local install and it made me feel… happy. (It really makes WordPress look and feel really ancient, cumbersome, and slow.)
I think we know that Facebook is turning us into trained dogs. We know we’re being trained. We can feel ourselves being turned into trained circus animals. And we long for that independence that cats show. So when you look at a cat video, what you’re really seeing is this receding identity that you want to cling to and find again.
If you want to get up to speed real fast on using the CSS Grid, Rachel Andrews’ Grid By Example is the place to go. (Also, I learned from Rachel’s Codepen that @supports (display: grid) is a thing!)
almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
— Graviscera! (@gravislizard) November 6, 2017
Life is like a box of noodles.
…if I think I understand because the people around me think they understand, and the people around me all think they understand because the people around them all think they understand, then it turns out we can all have this strong sense of understanding even though no one really has any idea what they’re talking about.
Flylo is awesome and all but this video… ermahgerd! Winston Hacking is a stop motion collage puppeteering genius.
We have to ask permission before linking to a publicly accessible website that exists on an information space that is built on the idea of hyperlinks?
While installing Sass on new OS X machine with the bog-standard sudo gem install sass, I’ve only had fat finger errors until today. Failed to build gem native extension.
, I was told.
Turns out I had to update Gem first with sudo gem update --system to make that go away.
That cleared things up and I could install Sass, enabling me to make more fat finger errors in CSS.
When the spiritual teacher and his disciples began their evening meditation, the cat who lived in the monastery made such noise that it distracted them. So the teacher ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening practice.
Years later, when the teacher died, the cat continued to be tied up during the meditation session. And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery and tied up.
Centuries later, learned descendants of the spiritual teacher wrote scholarly treatises about the religious significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice.
(Also read: How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 and then this to re-calibrate your breathing.)
Back in the day, I learnt JavaScript by using view-source: and copying code. JavaScript is growing up now with package managers, transpilers, and task runners. If you want to make the jump from old-world JavaScript to new, you’ll appreciate this primer (and also remember Gina Trapani).