Google’s “20 Things I Learned About Browsers & the Web” is an amazing, immersive use of Canvas and other cutting-edge HTML5 & CSS3 technology. It is so beautiful, in fact, that it resembles nothing of a Google product, but has the fit and finish of work you’d expect from the finest web designers. Bravo!
A nice little write-up on the current state of the web. For anyone who wants to know more about how the Internet works, this is a nice introduction.
I used this code in some systems programming work. It actually does something useful.
Stop using autocomplete. People no longer think about what they say, what they type, and how they spell it. Especially for programming, autocomplete is a sin.
I wanted to paste a text file with my homework assignment into Gmail. Unfortunately, said text file was on the school server and I really didn’t want to permanently download the thing to my hard drive. So this is what I did:
This connects to the school server, retrieves graph.txt from my home directory, and copies it to standard out. I then piped the text into pbcopy, which is the Mac utility for manipulating the clipboard. After that, I switched to Gmail and did a paste.
Unix/bash is cool!
One of these is Mark Zuckerberg; the other is of me. Mark Zuckerberg photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
