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Cosmos 2014 6 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
OMG. A. I trust Neil deGrasse Tyson B. My kids will be strapped to the sofa for this. I remember watching the original with my dad. I hope this sequel is every bit as unabashedly hokey and fascinat...
Comping with Web Fonts (you don’t need SkyFonts) 24 Jun 2013 | 08:40 pm
I wrote about problems downloading web fonts for desktop use when Google’s Web Fonts debuted, but years later it’s still an issue. There’s no way to anticipate the twists and turns a creative project ...
A few workflow links and examples 19 Jun 2013 | 11:43 pm
This morning I had a nice breakfast with a friend where various workflow and technology advances came up. This is really an email to him, but I thought it was worth sharing. Composer and Packagist for...
Undone 11 Jun 2013 | 06:54 pm
That moment when you realize the quickie side project has taken too long and even though it’s close to done, you put it aside to deal with the tasks that have piled up behind it. Knowing the likihood ...
Solving a difficult KenKen puzzle 29 Jan 2013 | 05:04 am
That right there is the hardest KenKen puzzle I’ve ever come across. Maybe I’m just missing a strategy and there’s something obvious I overlooked, but I found the levels of ambiguity in this one to be...
How to Spell Hanukkah 2012 16 Dec 2012 | 10:08 pm
Hanukkah: 53,200,000 hits. Chanukah: 8,860,000 hits. Hannukah: 1,890,000 hits. Hanuka: 1,440,000 hits. Hanukah: 1,170,000 hits. Chanuka: 989,000 hits. Chanukkah: 670,000 hits. Hanukka: 522,000 hits. C...
PHP Composer on shared hosting 7 Jul 2012 | 06:10 am
One of my goals with PHP is to simplify and streamline my workflow as much as possible. Ideally this helps prevent wasting enormous amounts of my time on stupid crap like autoloaders, library dependen...
A more Git-friendly WordPress 7 Jul 2012 | 12:28 am
So a few months ago I mentioned wanting to get away from WordPress and PHP. It’s not going very well. WordPress keeps sucking me back in. A favor here, a quick job there. Next thing I know, I swear I...
Cost of Adobe’s new Creative Cloud vs. Creative Suite 27 Apr 2012 | 02:16 pm
Adobe recently announced their new Creative Cloud software subscription service. While regular paid updates have essentially already made Creative Suite subscription software, I wanted to know if ther...
Lend me your grace and swiftness 26 Apr 2012 | 12:42 pm
“‘O Butterflies, lend me your grace and swiftness!’ I repeated, rubbing the broken wings over my pounding heart. If this would give me grace and speed I should catch many butterflies, I knew. But inst...
