@dshaw's Tumble Log

iTunes 11 Logo

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:04:14 -0400

Based on some careful and extremely scientific calculations on the history of the iTunes text, styles and logos; I’ve been able to figure out (with 90% probability) what the iTunes 11 logo will look like:

xkcd: Dependencies “The prereqs for CPSC 357, the class on...

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:19:00 -0400

xkcd: Dependencies

“The prereqs for CPSC 357, the class on package management, are CPCS 432, CPSC 357, and glibc2.5 or later.”

B.J. Novak Opening Monologue at the 14th Annual Webby Awards

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:46:58 -0400

B.J. Novak Opening Monologue at the 14th Annual Webby Awards

RailsConf 2010: Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote (by @garyvee) Very...

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:25:00 -0400

RailsConf 2010: Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote (by @garyvee)

Very inspiring. Great talk.

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:25:55 -0400

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com

jacob: staff: As we’re all aware by now, one of the worst...

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:30:11 -0400

jacob:

staff:

As we’re all aware by now, one of the worst environmental disasters in recorded history is underway in the Gulf.

As helpless as you may feel, you can do something right now by donating to a Gulf protection group like Save Our Gulf, the National Audubon Society, or the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

To get all of you involved this week, we’re replacing Tumblr’s usual ocean blue with a new heart-of-BP-executive black and letting you donate without leaving your Dashboard.

Donating will also unlock the Limited Edition Black Dashboard as an account preference.

Tumblr Black!

Google I/O 2010 - Opening up Closure Library Slides: Google I/O...

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:42:00 -0400

Google I/O 2010 - Opening up Closure Library

Slides: Google I/O session page

Google I/O 2010 - Making Freemium Work VC Panel - YouTube -...

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:15:00 -0400

Google I/O 2010 - Making Freemium Work VC Panel - YouTube - Google Developers’s Channel

xkcd: Worst-Case Scenario To get Vitamin D…

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:53:17 -0400

xkcd: Worst-Case Scenario

To get Vitamin D…

John Underkoffler points to the future of UI

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:25:17 -0400

John Underkoffler points to the future of UI

JavaScript: The Evil Parts from JSConf 2010 by Billy Hoffman

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:59:00 -0400

JavaScript: The Evil Parts from JSConf 2010 by Billy Hoffman

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates...

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:37:05 -0400

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything (via gmosx)

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:30:47 -0400

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything (via gmosx)

A List Apart: Responsive Web Design

Wed, 26 May 2010 10:58:09 -0400

A List Apart: Responsive Web Design

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Tue, 25 May 2010 22:33:55 -0400

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xkcd: Recipes

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:51:01 -0400

xkcd: Recipes

Nothing Insightful: Introducing "Aristo", A jQuery UI Theme

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:08:10 -0400

Nothing Insightful: Introducing "Aristo", A jQuery UI Theme:

For those that arn’t familiar with jQuery UI, it’s essentially a collection of jQuery plugins that try to do for user interaction what jQuery did for JavaScript. Like it’s parent library, jQuery UI does its very best to remain cross browser compliant. It is easy to implement. It is …

Google’s Privacy Principles Great video. Better...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:15:20 -0500

Google’s Privacy Principles

Great video. Better principles.

Google Voice comes to iPhone and Palm WebOS

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:48:30 -0500

Google Voice comes to iPhone and Palm WebOS

"The Danger of Understanding How Things Work When I was 16 years old, I started programming on a..."

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:49:00 -0500

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The Danger of Understanding How Things Work

When I was 16 years old, I started programming on a Commodore 64; I was learning MOS 6510 machine code, interrupt programming and all kinds of crazy low level stuff. In the process I learned a lot of things about how operating systems work - too much for my own good. For 25 years, these learnings has hunted me, because they ruined my abilities to think in many ways. Because I actually understand what is going on one level down, it is difficult to abstract from that knowledge. It seems that because I know the computer is organized in the way it is, I tend to also think that way. When I think of a problem that I need to solve, I tend to jump straight to thinking how is this possible in terms of what I want the computer to ultimately do to solve this. Whereas this kind of thinking can be good from a performance point of view - and I have used this knowledge to that purpose at many occasions - it ruins the resulting program in terms of understandability and maintainability.

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- Actor Thinking - Java to the Limit