Browser Debugging Flowchart
Phil Nelson This in-depth flow chart could be very helpful for people in IT Departments world-wide.
The Little Things: LinkedIn Forums Edition
If you, like I, have been spending some time on the LinkedIn developer forums trying to hammer their API into something that works for your client, you’ll notice a couple things: 1) Their forums keep you logged in for about 30 seconds per session and 2) Nobody there pays attention to anything. Case in point, the wording that appears beneath each forum post, where the “click here to reply” link would appear if you were logged in, which you aren’t because it logged you out after 30 seconds:
Keep in mind this appears in every forum post, of which there are (as of this writing) thousands. And this isn’t a new thing, it’s been like this for quite some time. Either someone’s asleep, they don’t care, or their software is so gobsmackingly complex it would take more time to change one text string than it is worth. The real question is, though: Who accidentally the rest of that sentence?
love2d 0.6.0
Released on Dec. 24th, great news for small-time game makers.
Silent Mode Engaged. See You In 201X.
Posting will be light-to-non-existent here on EFHQ until around Jan 3nd. Be excellent to each other.
Thanks to everyone who has ordered T-Shirts, I love you all with both my bodymeat and also my headmeat. Shirts should start shipping mid-Jan. You’ll be the coolest kid on your internets.
PHP OAuth for LinkedIn WITHOUT Using PECL or Zend
Work-related plea: Has anyone gotten LinkedIn’s API to play nice with PHP5 without the use of the PECL OAuth library or Zend’s?
To the non-coders here: These are all Things, I promise. I did not make them up.
Wired on the Duke Nukem Forever Saga
Death by lack of restraint. Andy is right, DNF is similar to The Phantom Menace in that they both failed in large part due to the lack of constraints on time and money and “vision” of the creators.
70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Okay, this sounds stupid, but my god it is glorious. It is not merely a “derp Phantom Menace sucks derp” thing.
Tumblr Joins WordPress.com In Implementing Twitter API Features
The new features allow users to post and read friends posts via Twitter clients such as Tweetie and Twitteriffic. This is very clever.
Last-Minute Amazon Shopping + Extra Future Support = Love
Hit up Amazon using this link to do your scandalously last-minute gift scavenging, and I’ll get some cash. If you loved me you’d do it.
FapMapper, An Android App For Public Sex Acts
This is the true future that mobile ubiquity and unfettered app creation brings us. Welcome to Now. Welcome to the Sticky Sidewalk Future.
Price of The One True Google Phone?
According to this: “$199 unlocked in stores. $100 rebate online if you have an active and old Google account.”
Sounds like the gloves are off.
The Survey, 2009
A List Apart’s 2009 web worker survey is up. It’s the closest thing we have to a census.
Batman: The Animated Series Writer’s Bible
Brought you by the magic of the internet (PDF). Of personal interest to me:
NO STORIES ABOUT BATMAN’S ORIGIN
If only Hollywood would’ve listened. The document itself is full of reasons why Batman: TAS is still the best Batman-related media outside of the comics-sphere, but the above rings truest to me.
Jason Louv: Is 4chan the Future of Human Consciousness?
He seems to think so, and it’s hard to argue with points like this:
Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we’re headed. The Chans aren’t the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet.
via Waxy
The Extra Future T-Shirt
Buy one today. Available in light blue or asphalt for a limited time only: One amazingly comfy t-shirt, one awesome logo, at the cost of $22.
My Entry For The TIGSource Assemblee Competition
… is called Pies & Problems, and it was inspired by Monte Cook’s “The World’s Shortest (Yet Technically Complete) Adventure“. You can follow development in this forum thread or grab the code from github as your leisure. It is written in Love2d, which is lua-based. I have no idea what I’m doing.
Bad JooJoo
Sounds like a racial epithet in multiple ways, birthed from a massive controversy on one of the most hated/read tech blogs on the planet, costing $500 with unproven software and hardware from a company nobody’d ever heard of until Michael Arrington started yelling “rip off”.
Google DNS Will Probably Be Fine, Guys
I have a feeling Kottke’s analysis is pretty spot-on: every tenth of a second longer a site takes to load, Google is losing revenue from ads. That might seem nuts to you or I, but Google isn’t exactly in the same ballpark, scale-wise, the stuff you and I work on:
Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
For the Google behemoth .5 seconds is a serious problem, and with Google DNS they’re trying to whittle that down as much as possible. Do I trust them? Not really. Do I need to? Not really. I can change my DNS whenever I want, and so can you, and Google’s DNS privacy policy seems, as Gruber put it, utterly reasonable.