Chips and dip
Month: September 2018
📺 “Crimson Tide (1995) | Hollywood Pictures
Directed by Tony Scott. With Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza. On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny, to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles, before confirming his orders to do so.
👓 The debt metaphor in software development | Andy Sylvester
In a new post, Ward Cunningham shares his thoughts on the “debt metaphor” in software development. One of the points he brings out is that programming can be thought of as making decisions now on the functionality of the program and deferring others to a later time (debt), with the understanding...
🔖 WordCamp for Publishers 2018 Videos Now Available on WordPress.tv
WordCamp for Publishers 2018 Videos Now Available on WordPress.tv
👓 Sami Keijonen’s Foxland Themes and Plugins are Now Available for Free | WP Tavern
WordPress theme designer and developer Sami Keijonen has made all of his theme and plugin products at Foxland available for free. Keijonen’s WordPress.org-hosted themes are active on more tha…
👓 Caught mid-flow: the “Baldwin effect” | The Economist
While most side-blotched lizards living in the Mojave desert match the colour of its sand, those
👓 The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s his Republican enablers. | Vox
Trump’s flaws lie in plain sight. It’s the GOP that pretends blindness.
👓 Perspective | At U.S. Open, power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is overshadowed by an umpire’s power play | Washington Post
Sally Jenkins (Washington Post)‘A career of pushing boundaries': How Serena Williams has rewritten rules for women in tennis
Chair umpire Carlos Ramos managed to rob not one but two players in the women’s U.S. Open final. Nobody has ever seen anything like it: An umpire so wrecked a big occasion that both players, Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams alike, wound up distraught with tears streaming down their faces during the trophy presentation and an incensed crowd screamed boos at the court. Ramos took what began as a minor infraction and turned it into one of the nastiest and most emotional controversies in the history of tennis, all because he couldn’t take a woman speaking sharply to him.
Testing out the new Omnibear interface. It is really slick looking! I like some of the small UI tweaks to the authentication process as well. Much more intuitive than before.
I’m spending some time this morning unliking/unfollowing corporate accounts in Facebook in lieu of following their websites via RSS. Since Facebook’s algorithmic feed isn’t really helping them, prioritizing them, or presenting them to me the way I like (without inordinate work) it just feels so useless. For the most part I’m reading most of them elsewhere anyway.
Omnibear · keithjgrant/omnibear
A Micropub browser extension. Contribute to keithjgrant/omnibear development by creating an account on GitHub.
Space separated tags not appropriate for WordPress multi-word tags
A Micropub browser extension. Contribute to keithjgrant/omnibear development by creating an account on GitHub.
WordPress installs will frequently use multi-word tags/categories, thus there is no way to send those tags when Omnibear defaults to space separated tags. Comma, semi-colon, or other separators may be better in these situations.
👓 Zip codes vs census tracts | Nelson’s log
A lot of digital maps use zip codes as a binning feature. Election maps, property value maps, pollution maps. But while zip codes are convenient and familiar there’s a much better set of poly…
📑 Standard Notes | Nelson’s Log
I love the voice of their help page. Someone very opinionated (in a good way) is building this product. I particularly like this quote: Your data is a liability to us, not an asset. ❧
👓 Two factor authentication overview | Nelson’s log
Bit of kerfuffle this week around Reddit, which had a security breach despite having two factor authentication enabled. Some basic introductory notes for folks wondering what’s going on. Two-…