Living Code

Living Code is Dethe's blog for talking about code, life, and all the rest.

Black Lives Matter. Defund the police. Free Gaza. End all Genocides.

Dethe Elza • Aug 16, 2010 • Less than a minute read

Fractalism, compost, and open-source

Fractalism Two important trends: personal manufacturing (fabbing) and urban agriculture. “Most people who know about “open source” (including Free/Libre software) understand it as a technological model. A smaller group says no, really it’s an economic model[…] But while both of these perspectives are narrowly correct, they are also both incomplete. Ultimately, open source is a political model.” Jamais Cascio, Technological Self-Determinism (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//004228.html)  Read →

Dethe Elza • Jul 24, 2010 • 6 min read

A Gentle Introduction to HTML5

Getting started with HTML5

For better or worse, the term HTML5 is being used for not only the actual HTML spec, version five, but for a whole collection of related technologies including (but not limited to) CSS3, ECMAScript5 (aka Javascript), and various spin-off technologies like geolocation, WebGL and client-side data storage.  Read →

Dethe Elza • May 29, 2010 • 7 min read

The Complexity of Simplicity

I have been thinking a lot about simplicity recently, and for some time. I’m going to use John Maeda’s book, The Ten Laws of Simplicity, as a jumping-off point, not because I necessarily agree that there are ten laws and these are them, but because when I was reading it they reminded me, for whatever reason, of the ten sephiroth in Kabbalah, leading to the image above.  Read →