There is a lot of interesting stuff happening in Javascript land these days, even to the point of other languages targeting the browser as a runtime, but running on top of Javascript. You can run Scheme right in the browser, and by now everyone has probably heard of Objective-J (open-source coming soon), an Objective-C-like language used by 280 North to create their 280 Slides web application, inspired by Apple’s Keynote.  Read →

Daniel Gordon had the first hand-written website that I am aware of, existing unchanged from 1999 to 2007 (via Wayback Machine). The invention of photography and gas stoves in 2007 allowed Miranda July to update the concept. And today, of course, there are handwritten social networks. That is all.  Read →

Just for fun, and because I’m trying out two things:

1. Using Ecto for posting again
2. Blogging more often

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head

139 ls
87 cd
54 python
43 /usr/bin/python
38 less
21 vim
16 clear
12 mate
11 rm
10 ssh