Tuesday, January 21, 2003
- T Bryce Yehl:
mod_rewrite considered harmful. Use pixels. People with vision problems that require on-demand font resizing ought to be using a browser that respects their needs. Upgrade, switch, or fuck ‘em.
People with mobility problems ought to be using a wheelchair that can climb stairs too, but I don’t see you buying them for everyone. I don’t see you offering to help install alternative browsers either.
- Eric Meyer:
Considered Harmful
Essays Considered Harmful.
- Dave Winer: The
You Know Me
Button. I forget, are we for or against centralization today? If we’re for it, why aren’t we using existing digital identity infrastructure?
- Mac OS X Hints: Use Speakable Items to navigate Safari by voice. In 1996, I wired my entire apartment with X-10 devices, hooked them into my PowerMac 8500 with a serial port controller, hooked that into Applescript with the X-10 Scripting Addition, and controlled it all with Speakable Items.
Connie, I’m home
would turn on the lights, the air conditioner, and the stereo, check my email, and read me summaries of my unread mail. Connie, goodnight
would turn off all the lights and appliances, turn on the hall light, say Dream not of today
, and put the computer to sleep. I am not in the slightest way making this up.
- Paul Ford: The McKee Recursion.
The next day McKee came in with a crate of books he planned not to read, a pen with no ink, and a pad of black construction paper for a notebook. He was trying to pioneer a theory of non-discourse.
- My site is now gzipped for supporting browsers, which would be pretty much all of them except Safari. My RSS feed is now gzipped for supporting aggregators, which would be pretty much none of them except my homegrown one, which has supported it for months. Completely free decompression libraries (patent-free, royalty-free, open source, commercial use allowed) exist for every platform. Here is a 7-line Python script that retrieves and decompresses both normal and gzip-compressed web resources.
- Stuart Langridge: Vellum is a new personal publishing system written in Python.
- Doug Adams knows more than you do about scripting iTunes.
- William Gibson: Influences Generally.
Influences are things to have, and then to get over.
- Hinsdale How-To TiVo Upgrade. Now that I’ve successfully connected my TiVo to my wireless network, the next logical step is to screw it up completely by attempting to upgrade it myself. On second thought, maybe I’ll just pay someone to do it for me.
- Charles Miller: Filesystem Sacrilege.
I no longer want to know where my files are stored. I no longer care.
- Paul Ford: Late-Night Thoughts from West Chester, PA.
It makes me almost pity the town, which can claim its fame only from those it exiles.
- Jonathon Delacour: To shit or not to shit.
Where I come from, functional is sexy, if you’re functioning properly. … My main problem is this: I don’t really need another computer. … And I’m already a Grand Master at Using Computers To Avoid Doing Any Real Work.
If you’ve read this far, so are you.
Filed under accessibility, applescript, automation, gzip, htaccess, linkdump, muse, python, rss, webservices, x10
