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GroupOn 21 Feb 2013 | 06:27 pm
My startup got acquired by GroupOn (where I shall be used for Good, not Evil :-). I started this Monday. So far, it is a little disorienting to work in what is best described as a huge confederation o...
Beliefs as Era Indicators 18 Jan 2013 | 01:32 pm
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. A common Gibson quote, but have you reflected on how many levels it applies to? It is not just about technology, for instance – whi...
iOS app search engine definitions 2 Jan 2013 | 10:13 am
To have chrome search for iOS apps from the url bar by typing "iapp app-name", add a search engine definition (Command-, type "search", click "Manage search engines", scroll to the bottom of the list ...
Surprise is data 31 Dec 2012 | 10:43 pm
One of the best ways to leverage subconscious data about myself, my experiences, assumptions and otherwise, is to notice and write down what I get surprised about – especially when traveling, or in ch...
View rendered source bookmarklet 26 Nov 2012 | 07:16 am
I haven't made a bookmarklet from scratch in a long while, but after writing this codepen I wrote a while ago to demonstrate copying one javascript document into another, it occurred to me that it cou...
Absolute url from a relative url and base_url 19 Oct 2012 | 05:28 am
Today I needed a javascript url resolver to get absolute urls for urls mentioned in css files - resolved against the url of the stylesheet, not the current page. Fortunately, your browser already impl...
Facebook and the Human Mind 6 Jul 2012 | 11:11 pm
I am seeing more of Facebook these days, from an indirect angle, lending a point of view on the phenomenon that lets me observe the behaviour it is driving in its subjects at large, rather than partic...
Github TV ad 25 Jun 2012 | 09:28 am
This is a transcript of the Github TV ad. If you haven't seen it, think "Apple commercial", Jonathan Ive's dreamy narrative, British accent, the whole jive, and you'll have it about right. Okay, you'r...
Death and IE 9 Oct 2011 | 04:42 am
This post is a brief celebration of succession on the web. Not Mosaic begat Netscape begat Mozilla begat Firefox succession, but Firefox 4 begat Firefox 5 begat Firefox 6 begat Firefox 7 and Chrome N ...
Running an old rails 2.3.8 with rvm 30 Sep 2011 | 07:36 am
I was helping set up a local (legacy) rails 2.3.8 server on a macbook today, autonomous from the system ruby installation. This was a bit messy, as modern versions of rubygems conflict with the old ra...
