- I just learned that the W3C has an unofficial Semantic Web wiki. (There are so many hot-button buzzwords in that sentence, I don’t even know where to start.) They are apparently, and rightly, peeved that their wiki software doesn’t generate valid markup by default. I ran into this problem while designing Dive Into OS X. I’m not sure if the latest MoinMoin release, dated May 9 2003, addresses this, but I don’t see any reference to it in the release notes. I poked and prodded and made a few improvements on my local copy of MoinMoin 0.11, but the entire program is macro-based, not template-based, so it’s difficult to customize the output.
- Michael Barrish: Dressing Room.
I am a lunatic and I am my own worst client. If I were hired by me, I would quit long before I had a chance to fire myself. Then I would bitch about myself to friends.
- Michael Barrish: Hire Me.
Hire me. I know what I’m doing. I am not a jerk.
- Adam Kalsey: CSS Tabs with Submenus.
- Simon Willison: CSS ain’t Rocket Science. Excellent ongoing tutorial on real-world CSS design, warts and all.
- Anthony Thyssen: ImageMagick hints. Mostly accumulated from mailing lists and newsgroups and therefore stripped of potentially useful context; also mostly unattributed, which bothers me, but I haven’t found a similar resource, and many of these are really quite good.
- David Mertz: Advanced OOP: Multimethods. As with his previous column on metaclasses, I have no idea what he’s talking about, but it’s just spell-binding reading, and it gives me something to aspire to.
- Mac OS X Hints: Using zsh to emulate ksh. Um, ditto on this.
- Noah Spurrier: Pexpect: a pure-Python Expect-like module. [via Daily Python-URL]
- Dave Shea: A PNG Review.
PNG may gain dominance sooner or later, but despite it all, the 16 year old GIF file format is going strong.
- Simon Willison: Using bookmarklets to experiment with CSS. The
edit styles
bookmarklet is absolutely amazing. Design your CSS-based site live, while you type. - Luke Hutteman: Sharpreader 0.9.1 released. New feature #1:
Change feed URL on 301 (moved permanently) HTTP-response.
Yay. - Aquarion: Things.
So the problem appears to be that I don’t have the self-disipline to seperate Work from Play when they are in the same place.
I have that problem too. - Leslie Harpold: Lesson Two.
Next time, punch the guy in the face.
- Mac OS X Hints: Use basic HTML files to navigate notes on the iPod.
- Stuart Langridge: Python Bayesian classifier.
- XML.com: Regular Expression Matching in XSLT 2. I remember a time when I performed complex string matching and manipulation without them. It amazes me to think of that now, and even more so to think that many of my co-workers from that era are still there, at that same company, and are still laboring every day without regular expressions.
- Jamie Zawinski: Re: perl and XEmacs.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.
- Brian Alvey: A Conversation with Jeffrey Zeldman on Web Standards.
- A List Apart: Typepad: A standards-compliant publishing tool for the rest of us?
- Stuart Langridge: The war over templating.
Is it chilly up there in that ivory tower?
Yup. - Jason Kottke: The Matrix Reloaded: the neverending thread. 589 comments so far. And it’s fascinating. The last time I saw a weblog discussion thread this long was when Dave Hyatt asked what feature people most wanted in Safari Public Beta 2. (Answer: tabs.)
- Cameron Barrett: Trinity’s Hack from Matrix Reloaded. That’s real UNIX, baby, and it’s a real hack too.
Michael Barrish: The Fudgy-Wudgy Guy.
It’s funny too, because my father and I would get the same thing in a sense, while in another sense we would get something very different. I mean, I know my father and there’s no way that he would have gotten a fudgy-wudgy, it would have embarrassed him too much to even say the word fudgy-wudgy, to be the kind of person who ate things with names like fudgy-wudgy. All of which makes him sound like an idiot, which in truth he was, although that’s not at all what I’m trying to say. What I’m trying to say is that my father was just like me, or that I was just like him, that were we both just like everyone else, which is to say that the name fudgy-wudgy probably had a lot to do with why I chose fudgy-wudgies over, say, creamsicles. Because let’s face it, had the fudgy-wudgy guy come down the beach calling out,
Creamy-weamies! Creamy-weamies! Get your creamy-weamies here!
I’m not so sure that I would been so crazy about fudgy-wudgies, that I would have been such a fudgy-wudgy fanatic. In fact I consider it likely — admittedly this is that kind of thing you can never really know for sure — but I consider it likely that had the fudgy-wudgy guy come down the beach calling out nothing butCreamy-weamies! Creamy-weamies! Et cetera!
that I would been a creamy-weamy fanatic, that creamy weamies not fudgy-wudgies would have been my ice cream of choice — which believe me seems weird considering how I almost never chose creamy-weamies, given the choice. But of course the point is that I never had that choice — creamy-weamies didn’t exist back then, I made them up just now to explain something about fudgy-wudgies.Naturally I realize I’ve made this point several times now, but as it turns out it’s a rather important point, because you see Muffin views the whole thing in a totally different way. Not that Muffin and I have ever discussed creamy-weamies, we haven’t, I just happen know how Muffin thinks, and how Muffin thinks is that a creamsicle is a creamsicle, whatever name we give it, that things have a certain reality independent of our thoughts about them.
… This is what our fight was about, it was about whether or not I saw the fudgy-wudgy guy fucking my sister.
mmmm…. nmap.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/18/1416213
http://insecure.org/
Comment by kami — Wednesday, June 11, 2003 @ 4:07 pm
To add to the reign of “holy crap, there’s a lot of comments!”, my personal best is 486.
Comment by Morbus Iff — Wednesday, June 11, 2003 @ 4:42 pm
And it’s at http://gamegrene.com/rants/the_demise_of_dungeons_dragons
(sorry about that - Mark, if you want to merge these two, have a blast).
Comment by Morbus Iff — Wednesday, June 11, 2003 @ 4:43 pm
“Excellent ongoing tutorial on real-world CSS design, warts and all.”
Simon Willison’s tutorials are indeed excellent. http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/05/21/stylingBlockquotes (styling blockquotes) is a must read… really cool!
Comment by MikeyC — Wednesday, June 11, 2003 @ 7:05 pm