Near-realtime Marine Traffic marinetraffic.com #bookmark #mapping #geo /via @briansuda
Near-realtime Marine Traffic marinetraffic.com #bookmark #mapping #geo /via @briansuda
My new theory: adding “unexpectedly” to the middle and “in real time” to the end of any given sentence is guaranteed to improve it.
Unexpectedly guaranteed to improve it in real time, that is.
Guess what I’m #baking (clue is in the flour and purple splats):
Loving Django’s prefetch/select_related
— that, along with a few small changes, reduced a task which was taking > 500,000 queries to 4558
#iceland is green, white and blue:
One wonderful project which could really use some design work is www.gutenberg.org, especially the distributed proofreaders system — I can’t imagine just how many people want to contribute but are put off by the incomprehensible #ui
left-arrow.net ⇦ ⇤ ⇠ ↩ ⇶ ↣ ⇰ right-arrow.net #bookmark #typography
Jovian Salak looking good!
@karltryggvason thanks for the suggestion, we listened to it at work — amazing stuff! I need to listen to more radiolab now :)
@wilto what, like this:
Erin Richie which company is that? I’m doing some research on the UX of data export at the mo and they sound like a good bad example :)
What is it with facebook games being called “xyz saga”? They barely qualify.
This is a saga: youtube.com/watch?v=Jisqle37uWI
(I hope you’re taking notes, facebook game developers)
I’m thinking the time might have come to write a wrapper around #php DOMDocument which actually makes it usable. Thoughts:
querySelector
and querySelectorAll
are implemented for both the document and individual elements via Symfony XPath → CSS converter and relative XPath queriesinnerText
, innerHTML
for consistencyI seem to have a private little klezmer concert next door tonight #music
Please forward this new @edXOnline course to any creationists who cite lack of evidence as proof evolution is wrong: Introduction to Human Evolution
#listening to Ravel’s Bolero, after learning the first part on the #gurdy yesterday
Aral Balkan heh, that in itself is a good (if diluted) example of how surveillance and record keeping can be used against people
@benwerd okay, on hindsight it was a mistake. But I giggled every time they said “positronic brain”