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Retweet of xeni

2015 Mar 29, 11:10

1. House 2. Dressed as house 3. Listening to house 4. Rendition of Brick House 5. While painting house 6. Onto House http://boingboing.net/2015/03/30/deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep.html …

Retweet of indiecom

2015 Mar 26, 1:33

"The best cyber film of the year!" -- Which year? Every year. #HackThePlanet #BeKindRewind pic.twitter.com/ZNCigxXgds

Retweet of RottenTomatoes

2015 Mar 24, 8:35

#iZombie is Certified Fresh at 91% ---> http://tmto.es/KsHyX @iZombieWriters @RobThomas

#Tomatometer

Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Mar 20, 10:30

VHD in PowerShell: easy. Find drive letter: hard. Mount-DiskImage $vhd; Get-Partition -DiskNumber (Get-DiskImage -ImagePath $vhd).Number

Retweet of dveditz

2015 Mar 19, 6:56

The joys of bug bounty programs: someone reported that port 21 was open on http://ftp.mozilla.org

Retweet of paulcbetts

2015 Mar 15, 9:55

@DrPizza Holy shit, they finally caved and added the search bar to the ribbon

Retweet of stshank

2015 Mar 14, 10:42

Mobile developers flocked to iOS and Android, but @dontcallmeDOM says the Web is fighting back with new standards. http://cnet.co/1MDx2vh

Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Mar 13, 8:43

Self driving cars, or remotely driven cars. Which will catch on first and how will you tell? http://www.openwebrtc.io/blog/2015/3/12/driving-an-excavator-using-openwebrtc-and-oculus-rift-video …

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2015 Mar 11, 8:47

Join the Mayday v2 Thunderclap? @ThunderclapIt // @MAYDAYUS http://thndr.it/1Eyi2Ow

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2015 Feb 24, 6:31

Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken http://envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-sorting-algorithm-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/ …

Retweet of DrPizza

2015 Feb 11, 12:38

btw, @fxshaw, if Microsoft wants to rebrand with my new logo, I'm sure we can come to a suitable arrangement. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cool-microsoft1-300x150.png …

Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Jan 28, 3:09

Speedrunner Stephen Kiazyk demos Psychonauts bugs to dev team incl Tim Schafer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDc1YVxHA0 … Funny reactions from the game's devs

DrPizza: <- my reaction when there are new hats.

2015 Jan 27, 9:00

Peter Bright ✔ @DrPizza :
http://fat.gfycat.com/ShadowyUnimportantHorsefly.gif … <- my reaction when there are new hats.

randomdross: UA string with a shortlink to moar UA string

2015 Jan 21, 9:12

David Ross @randomdross :
UA string with a shortlink to moar UA string

ericlaw: It's not impostor syndrome if you really are an impostor, right?

2015 Jan 21, 1:05

Eric Lawrence @ericlaw :
It's not impostor syndrome if you really are an impostor, right?

JenAshleyWright: Every time you get dressed remember that, if you die, that's your ghost outfit forever.

2015 Jan 20, 8:58

Jennifer Wright @JenAshleyWright :
Every time you get dressed remember that, if you die, that's your ghost outfit forever.

Quadrilateral Cowboy gameplay video “Quadrilateral Cowboy...

2014 Oct 6, 2:41

Quadrilateral Cowboy gameplay video

“Quadrilateral Cowboy is a game we’ve been watching with great interest ever since Thirty Flights Of Loving creator Brendon Chung first debuted it last year. It’s about hacking, but not via irritating minigames or jargon-your-problems-away Hollywood magic. Instead, you learn basic (albeit fictional) code and take down everything from laser grids to gun emplacements with a twitch of your fingers and a wriggle of your brain. It’s already an extremely clever game, and it’s quite empowering despite the fact that you play as someone who probably couldn’t even heft an assault rifle - let alone fire one. Basically, it’s a wonderfully novel idea - more Neuromancer than Deus Ex - but words only do it so much justice. Thus, I’ve decided to play it for your enrichment, in hopes that you will understand why Quadrilateral should be driving your radar haywire.”

A high-profile fork: one year of Blink and Webkit Some stats...

2014 Jun 3, 9:10

A high-profile fork: one year of Blink and Webkit

Some stats and analysis at a very high level of the Blink fork from Webkit.

technology browser webkit blink apple google

gitfiti - github contributions pane pixel art

2014 Jun 2, 8:07

gitfiti - abusing github commit history for the lulz

A script that abuses github submissions to draw pixel art in your github contributions pane.

technical humor github pixel art

location.hash and location.search are bad and they should feel bad

2014 May 22, 9:25

The DOM location interface exposes the HTML document's URI parsed into its properties. However, it is ancient and has problems that bug me but otherwise rarely show up in the real world. Complaining about mostly theoretical issues is why blogging exists, so here goes:

The location object's search, hash, and protocol properties are all misnomers that lead to confusion about the correct terms:
- The 'search' property returns the URI's query property. The query property isn't limited to containing search terms.
- The 'hash' property returns the URI's fragment property. This one is just named after its delimiter. It should be called the fragment.
- The 'protocol' property returns the URI's scheme property. A URI's scheme isn't necessarily a protocol. The http URI scheme of course uses the HTTP protocol, but the https URI scheme is the HTTP protocol over SSL/TLS - there is no HTTPS protocol. Similarly for something like mailto - there is no mailto wire protocol.
The 'hash' and 'search' location properties both return null in the case that their corresponding URI property doesn't exist or if its the empty string. A URI with no query property and a URI with an empty string query property that are otherwise the same, are not equal URIs and are allowed by HTTP to return different content. Similarly for the fragment. Unless the specific URI scheme defines otherwise, an empty query or hash isn't the same as no query or hash.

But like complaining about the number of minutes in an hour none of this can ever change without huge compat issues on the web. Accordingly I can only give my thanks to Anne van Kesteren and the awesome work on the URL standard moving towards a more sane (but still working practically within the constraints of compat) location object and URI parsing in the browser.