“Fail Fast” is the trendy alliterative buzzword version of “have small feedback loops”, just less accurate and more prone to undesirable misinterpretations.
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Emil Björklund:
#PHP folks: when fetching from an API, would it be wise to use function_exists to check for cURL, and else fall back to file_get_contents()?
Emil Björklund:
#PHP folks: when fetching from an API, would it be wise to use function_exists to check for cURL, and else fall back to file_get_contents()?
@thatEmil that should work fine — one thing to bear in mind is that by default they both treat redirects differently. IIRC, cURL doesn’t follow redirects by default whereas file_get_contents will.
I helped write a thing which crunches multiple millions of numbers, do I get to call myself a Big Data Scientist now?
SIP/WebRTC call-via-personal-site #tabdump:
When using the display: table trick to move elements around, beware that Opera+FF require the fake-table element to also have table-layout: fixed set in order for descendant img { max-width: 100% } to work. As pointed out by Scott Anderson #css #responsive
Having a go at making Sumendi’s leche frita (fried milk). Just put the mix in the fridge, pretty sure the consistency is perfect, but I’ll find out for sure tomorrow!
Friday’s #wondermark strip perfectly expresses point-scoring as unproductive nonsense cc @brennannovak:
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Sandeep Shetty:
@BarnabyWalters Any chance you might share the "~210 lines of code" with me? If not publicly, maybe a private gist?
Sandeep Shetty:
@BarnabyWalters Any chance you might share the "~210 lines of code" with me? If not publicly, maybe a private gist?
@sandeepshetty sure! gist.github.com/barnabywalters/7863676 — included the basic functions plus the convenience class I use and a little demo. Very specific to chronological post storage/indexing, and very much in flux. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts about it.
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Sandeep Shetty:
@BarnabyWalters Very cool. What's the use-case though? Also is this coming of the doctrine based indexer that you had?
Sandeep Shetty:
@BarnabyWalters Very cool. What's the use-case though? Also is this coming of the doctrine based indexer that you had?
@sandeepshetty thanks! I’ve wanted to plot tag usage over time for a while now to see if there are any interesting patterns. I’m not using doctrine any more, in fact I’m not even using a SQL database for indexing until I really need one — data stored in yaml files, indexed by a csv file in ~210 lines of code — see also waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4TQNY2
When I post a note, #taproot adds one to the week counter for each tag, then I have an endpoint which makes that data into an SVG.
New in #taproot: tag listing page waterpigs.co.uk/tags with sparklines of per-week usage over the last year
What’s the highest-order parody (parody of a parody of a…) ever created?
Lots of good, if a little bizarre, #gurdy playing in this video (fr):
New in #taproot: latest 3 articles and location of last checkin/location post on the homepage — hopefully some useful/interesting context.
Next: mobile-focused homepage design.
Chloe Weil@chloeweil great article and great work implementing #POSSE! Interested in your choice to use a database for performance reasons, was that prompted by actual experience or just the cited help thread? fwiw I’m having no performance problems storing >2000 notes in flat files with a CSV file index
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Ben Werdmuller:
@barnabywalters Getting that sauce right is tough, but totally worth it. Love the idea of @doublebill!
@benwerd any sauce-making tips you’d care to share? And yep, @doublebill is great — met some new friends and seen some interesting/bizarre films at previous ones, hoping to continue the trend!
Second attempt at satay chicken tonight — peanut sauce was too watery (coconut milk was less thick somehow) but the marinade was much better. Need to get it (and maybe chocolate mousse) up to scratch for when I host my #revolution themed @doublebill!
Unsure whether you’re using the <article> element correctly? Wonder no longer, there is a tool to help you out: waterpigs.co.uk/services/test-article #html #web #dev
New in this version of #taproot:
- Improved styling (still WIP, as always)
- stream on homepage, currently just notes but will add other things too
- content creation/editing UIs publicly viewable (take a peek!)
- profile photo as the icon
- complete code restructure, now using silex for HTTP routing
- removed tonnes of nonsense framework code, replaced with small number of ≈200 line functional libraries. Clearer, easier to navigate and much more fun to work with
- no more SQL databases — content is indexed using a custom built 209 LOC CSV index which is surprisingly speedy, and suits my needs perfectly
- no more support for rendering content in many forms using content negotiation (HTML, JSON, ATOM etc.) — now only HTML+microformats2 representations of content are given
- ATOM feed shimmed with microformats2 to ATOM converter
- Pingbacks no longer natively accepted (though they are sent), using webmention.io to shim them into webmentions for easier handling
The local maximum has been overcome, for now. There is still much to do.
And with that, a new release of #taproot was unleashed upon the web.
Which restaurants serve delicious food, freely give out their recipes and link to their guests’ personal URLs from a beautiful website?
Trick question: there is only sumendi.is
If you get the chance, go!