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This is the tale of three really simple and reliable tools, rsync, cron, and keychain, combining to create some confounding emergent complexity. ssh-agent is a daemon that holds onto your credentials so that you only have to enter a password once a sessio…

This is a roundup of miscellaneous things that I’ve found out about (or have rediscovered).

This is a roundup of miscellaneous things that I’ve found out about (or have rediscovered).

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Back in 1902, mathematicians defined a set as follows: A collection of distinct objects, where an object can be anything, including a set.

A while back, a colleague at work pointed out a nifty tl;dr slider on the Parametric Press site.

I’ve made several bots over the years.

I have a web page at which I was rendering 14,000 DOM elements.

Saturday, 11 AM I talked to a friendly manager at a garage in the morning on Saturday.

People were reporting to me that my bot, @linkfinds, was replying to them, and they were getting notifications, but when they went to check their mentions (the “Notifications” tab in web Twitter), the reply was not there.

I’m not much of writer of the fiction kind, but if I were, I’d take a crack at this premise: In the future, humans have the ability and right to put their children into flawless suspended animation.

Here’s an example of inertial scrolling without a lot of elaborate plugin business going all over the place.

While the year’s activities were dominated by Life Events, I did get some projects done.

This was very much a Life Year, one packed with Life Events.

We went on a walk a bit after sunset this Sunday.

I know that DOM manipulation is expensive, but I’ve found it just doesn’t make a difference in a typical web app.

Here’s some stuff we saw while walking around North Cambridge and thereabouts Sunday morning.

I’ve been working on a

An interactive explanation of quadtrees relate to spaces, with some details about D3’s implementation of the quadtree

Let’s say you want to vandalize with a web page that you didn’t author.