Category Archives: documentation

How Does Anyone Work In These Conditions

May 9, 2013 – 10:24 pm

A little while ago, the espresso machine in our office broke down. This doomsday scenario is, and I say this without the least bit of hyperbole, the most catastrophically dire situation that can exist in this or any other possible universe. If the intertubes felt slow for you the last few weeks, that’s probably why. [...]

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Lightweight Notepad In A Bookmark

May 6, 2013 – 12:26 pm

So, this is a cute trick that’s been making the rounds: In Firefox, right-click your bookmarks bar and pick “new bookmark”. Call it “Quick Notepad”, and in the Location box, put: data:text/html,<html contenteditable> and now when you click on that bookmark, your browser window will basically become Notepad, a very light text editor. File -> [...]

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That’s Too Much Machine For You

February 18, 2013 – 11:10 am

Man, how awful is it to see people broken by the realization that they are no longer young. Why are you being cantankerous, newly-old person? It’s totally OK not to be 17 or 23, things are still amazing! Kids are having fun! You may not really understand it, but just roll with it! The stuff [...]

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Baking Bacon

January 23, 2013 – 1:29 pm

You need a Silpat nonstick cooking mat, a baking tray, an oven and tongs. Turn the oven up to 400, but you don’t need to let it finish preheating; this starts from cold. Silpat goes on the tray, bacon goes on the Silpat and it all goes in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes. [...]

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Reading Glasses

December 14, 2012 – 12:22 am

I’ll level with you: I’m not very good at reading code. I had an interview the other day that featured the dreaded read-this-code segment that’s inevitable in modernity, and reading somebody else’s Python without context, with a regex or two thrown in for kicks… I know there are people who can do that really well, [...]

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Fifteen Minutes Of Forever

November 21, 2012 – 12:34 pm

Well, that certainly took off, didn’t it? I’ve had some pretty mixed feelings this week; putting a ton of time and effort into a startup that doesn’t take off and then seeing a tiny little side project blow up has had me quietly making Scumbag Internet ragefaces, but I suppose if Internet Fame was going [...]

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Closing Up Shop

August 29, 2012 – 4:03 pm

I sent this mail today, to the Mozilla enterprise mailing lists: Hi, everyone. Mike Hoye here from Bespoke I/O. As I mentioned previously, I’m closing down BeSDS, the enterprise customization tool and business around it that I’ve been trying to get off the ground for the last two years. In that time, I’ve been quite [...]

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Toolchain

August 25, 2012 – 9:15 pm

I was idly looking over the shooting script for Men In Black the other day. Different from the movie, in a lot of little ways that add up; as filmed it came out a fun, largely harmless sci-fi movie of no particular note but the original script was quietly darker and more introspective than you’d [...]

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Ideas For Games For Gamers With Kids

June 12, 2012 – 9:12 pm

Dear Ubisoft – I’m a longstanding fan of your work but like a lot of long-time gamers my life’s moving ahead. I’ve got a family now, but even so I’d like my kids to be able to share my hobbies as much as anyone who’s ever collected a stamp or oiled up a baseball glove. [...]

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Verily

May 30, 2012 – 12:12 pm

Today I learned that “I did your mom” jokes are the summit of cultured humour. DEMETRIUS: Villain, what hast thou done? AARON: That which thou canst not undo. CHIRON: Thou hast undone our mother. AARON: Villain, I have done thy mother. That’s from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, of all things. I miss Nick; he would have [...]

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