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Aug 22

A quote from Leo Laporte #

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A little deeper investigation showed that nothing I had posted on Buzz had gone public since August 6.

May 29

Smokescreen demo: a Flash player in JavaScript #

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Smokescreen demo: a Flash player in JavaScript. Chris Smoak’s Smokescreen, “a Flash player written in JavaScript”, is an incredible piece of work.

Apr 29

A quote from Steve Jobs #

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Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice.

Mar 16

Internet Explorer Platform Preview Guide for Developers #

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Internet Explorer Platform Preview Guide for Developers (via). Lots of SVG and CSS3 stuff, no mention of canvas here either though.

Mar 2

Some People Can't Read URLs #

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Some People Can’t Read URLs. Commentary on the recent “facebook login” incident from Jono at Mozilla Labs.

Feb 2

HipHop for PHP: Move Fast #

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HipHop for PHP: Move Fast. Facebook have open-sourced their internally developed PHP to C++ compiler.

Jan 14

jQuery 1.4 Released #

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jQuery 1.4 Released. With comprehensive release notes. Huge performance improvements and a ton of very sensible enhancements to the API—far too many to summarise.

Jan 12

WildlifeNearYou: It began on a fort... #

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[Fort Clonque]

Back in October 2008, myself and 11 others set out on the first /dev/fort expedition.


Dec 20

Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses #

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As you may have heard, the UK government released a fresh batch of MP expenses documents a week ago on Thursday.

Dec 6

EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced #

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EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced. Fantastic news. EtherPad just got acquired by Google and announced the team would be joining the Google Wave...

Nov 23

Node.js is genuinely exciting #

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I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton.

Nov 3

A quote from Mark Pilgrim #

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HTML has always been a conversation between browser makers, authors, standards wonks, and other people who just showed up and liked to talk about angle...

Oct 28

Underscore.js #

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Underscore.js. A new library of functional programming primitives for JavaScript—each, map, all, any, inject, detect etc.

Oct 22

Why I like Redis #

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I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently.

Oct 19

This shouldn't be the image of Hack Day #

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[Hack Girl dancers at Open Hack Day Taiwan]

I love hack days. I was working in the vicinity of Chad Dickerson when he organised the first internal Yahoo!


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