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No, I've never been to Maui. You can reach me at joe@joehewitt.com

Vast acreage was planted in sugarcane until the mid 90's when the industry completely left Hawaii. That land was sold off cheaply and many new owners bought it to hold and have not…

I'm a farmer in Hawaii and I'm happy to tell you the climate here (Hilo, Big Island) is fucking great. I can't speak for the rest of the islands, but here in Hilo the weather is sp…

YES. Every time I see a new language come out without first class event support it is obvious the creator never wrote a lick of front end code in their life.

Well if the Atom developers are reading this I want to encourage them not to waste energy optimizing startup time due to Hacker News complainers who are using the product for a use…

Have you considered that Atom is not an editor meant for "quick jobs"? It's a workhorse for programmers who are coding all day every day.

> I don't use my computer exclusively for editing text, and therefore my text editor is not open all the time. Ok, well if I was developing a programmer's text editor I'd consider …

Don't get all the gripes about slow startup time. How often do you launch your editor? We're programmers - the editor stays open all the time!

I used to feel that social networks were a waste of time (even when I worked for Facebook) but in the last couple years that has changed. My social life has been dramatically impro…

French Prune and Italian Prune are the names of some European plum cultivars typically grown for the purpose of being dried, however they are also quite good eaten fresh.

The article tiptoes around the issue of "stealing" referenced by the headline, as if the "stolen" fruit is only taken from public property. As you will learn if you plant fruit tre…

Yes, mulberries are worth it. They would be a very popular fruit if they could handle the rigors of transport. If you can track on down in the UK I'd feverishly recommend Pawpaw (A…

I used publicly whine quite a lot in favor of open web standards. When the specs were simpler, this made more sense, but as they grew more and more complex I felt overwhelmed with …

On Memorial Day I walked outside and did a double take - my quiet street, tucked away many turns from any main road, was backed up with cars from end to end. I'd never seen that be…

There was a book written on Engelbart's work and his philosophies which I enjoyed reading many years ago: Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal…

My guess is that most people who hit a performance wall with canvas are using overly complex vector graphics and not caching bitmaps as often as they could. While things like OpenV…

See also, another look at David's work: The Making of John Mayer's 'Born & Raised' Artwork http://vimeo.com/60647216

Sorry, I'm doing some experimental stuff here. I do UA sniffing to decide whether to render the page on the server (with Node.js) or on the client with Ajax. Crawlers and old brows…

Here's an example of the problem it solves. I never log into Facebook in Safari because the Facebook app is a much better experience on iOS. Often I tap on links in native apps whi…

I'm just now learning about how Android solves this problem. That's great, but the problem remains on iOS. Protocol handlers in browsers don't help here because the problem has to …

I'm using a fairly experimental JavaScript-driven system right now. It's totally overkill for a blog, but it's my blog and I can do stuff like this for fun. No offense, but if you …

Touch scrolling has become a fundamental interaction on mobile devices and I'd like to see it be leveraged more on the web. That has nothing to do with how the web looks.