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Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
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Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either
Monet’s paintings evoke a sense of energy and life, they leap off the canvas with color and contrast, but Monet somehow managed to avoid using the color black for nearly his entire painting career. By avoiding black in your own designs, you can replicate some of this dynamism. Monet and Other Impressionists Explored…
Why node.js excites me
Today, on Hacker News, an article named “Why node.js disappoints me” appeared – right on the day I returned back from jsconf.eu (awesome conference. Best days of my life, I might add) where I…
Bouncing Beholder: JS1k winner explained
I gave a talk on this at the November Berlin JS user group. Slides here. Though they might be hard to follow without commentary.
Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
Microsoft have released a beta of Internet Explorer 9. This much is good, they’re back in the game. The engine supports modern standards—and for the first time Internet Explorer now renders this website (which has been HTML5 since early 2008 ).
Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product
By leveraging the web in creation of rapid prototypes for testing business model assumptions, and using customer feedback to develop them, companies will be able to advance in its’ search for…
Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid
I’ve written dozens of event loops for network services, in C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, Lua, Go and probably other languages at this point. They all make me reinvent handling of events, none of them are perfect, some are faster than others, but in the end, it is a waste of my time to rewrite them.
Careful when hosting 3rd party apps on subdomains, or how I hacked Facebook
In the past few years it has become common for site owners to run 3rd party tools on their site. A good example would be Wordpress or other ...
DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need
DOS on DOPE is the modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of Batch scripts .
The sad evolution of wikis
I set up my first wiki in 2001, in preparation for hiring our very first software developer employee. Until then, software development at N...