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Ted Blackman (one of the Urbit developers) recently posted a puzzle on Twitter, asking people to describe what a piece of code (written in this phonetic representation) does. [1] I…

Velvia makes people look far too red in the face.

Whoa, do you have a link to that Atkinson talk?

Ah, I didn't realise that was Puffin's use case.

Quite sincerely, they should just look into running WebKit server-side. That said, in my experience if Apple has secretly decided they don't like you, they tend to move the goalpos…

Imagine if we nationalised Uber.

A pox on people that make me add closed source binaries to my apps! Adtech companies are the worst for this.

It also seems like they were trying to abuse/repurpose OS level functionality (the power button). I imagine that was difficult on Android, and the article completely fails to ackno…

We ran some casual benchmarks on this at work once, and it's important to note that the performance of AutoLayout dramatically improves based on the degree of nesting you employ. I…

A long time ago I put my Snapper Card (NZ equivalent) in a cup of acetone to get the chip out. I then stuck the chip in the back of my Nokia bar phone.

> It’s no secret that I really like Clojure and as a lisp, it was the easiest language for me to start the prototype with, but there’s no reason this couldn’t be done for any langu…

"Design hubris" is such a common problem for mobile/front end developers and the source of so much wasted time I'm surprised it's not talked about more commonly. Shit's expensive, …

I find this 'Facebook = cigarettes' meme fascinating and hope it continues to propagate

Ostriches... is that up by that bizarre castle house that's been turned into a dog kennel?

As I remember, an early CSS proposal included the Cassowary constraints solver engine, but they decided not to go with it because either a fast implementation didn't exist at the t…

Man, imagine if you could compose chinese characters out of radicals like this. I'm not sure if that would be a good thing or a bad thing.

I once built a calculator app where you could two-finger swipe to undo/redo: https://appsto.re/nz/oxLx3.i Previous/future states simply appear adjacent to one another so you can sc…

I suppose sonar could be an alternative worth considering.

I sometimes wonder what technology would look like if it were developed by an alien culture with no sense of vision.

You must have read about Urbit, right? Their VM's underlying language/bytecode/thing, Nock, is based on nested pairs of natural numbers, which is perhaps only slightly less unwield…

Wow. I hope that didn't kill your project? I wouldn't mind seeing the UI, if you have any pictures, it sounds way ahead of its time!

I've also been thinking about this for about as long (read this same article about 2-3 years ago), and came to pretty much the same conclusion. I actually think defining the gramma…

I've never really seen breakfast the same way since I read Bukowski describe it as 'force-feeding'...

I kinda have a soft spot for ol' Joe Rogan and I see him hosting moon landing theorists on his show as not unlike Louis Theroux doing a show about UFO nuts. Interestingly enough Ro…